Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-04

Observation-Disclosures
The Brennan Banner.
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Obituary notices and tributes of respect in
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OUR AGENTS.
JOHN F. WEIBUscH, Burton, Texas.
F. M. GRIFFIN, Lyons, Texas.
10 MIKEsKI, Wesley, Texas.
The Chicago directors are still ag-
itating the question of site for the
Worlds fair.
The Providence journal suggests
as an epitaph for the federal cleo
tion bill: Born twenty-five years
too late"
The democrats of Idaho in con-
vention assembled nominated Hon.
Ben Wilson, of Boise City, for
governor.
The Buffalo Times suggests as
motto for the next congress: fDrop
a nickel in the slot and draw out a
pension"
LET the Galveston-Dallas News
keep on harping and there will be
no anti-commissionists in the state
by election time.
The Pittsburg Post says: The
G. o. p. seems to be breaking to
pieces. In the words of Uncle
Remus," it is mighty poreIy.''
The New York Tribune has be-
come the laughing stock of the
press by referring to Boss Quay as
"a raw and inexperienced subaltern."
TIE democratic factional war in
South Carolina is about over, and |
Tillman will meet with no serious
opposition for governor within the
ranks of his OWE party.
n. W. CUNEY, the shrewd negro
political boss of the republican party,
has a rod in pickle for the lily whites
at San Antonio. He intimated as
much in a speech at Houston.
The anti commissioners are not so
Soud now as they were in boasting
about what they were going to do
and not do. They will be as meek
as lambs by the ides of November.
The New Orleans New Delta says:
''There is not theatre in any town
in Louisiana outside of New Orleans
they are all opera houses" 1t is
the same way in the Texas towns.
The Waco Day says it is an open
secret that the friends of Hon.
George W. Tyler, of Bolton, expect
70 see him a member of the lower
house of congress before he is much
older.
SOME OF the papers recently start !
ID in new towns ought to have at
he masthead the name of the coun-
y as well as of the town in which :
hey are published. Otherwise it is :
liffcult to locate them.
The Oswego Palladium suggests {
hat in the event of the failure of the i
lodge bayonet bill, Speaker Reed q
nd MIR. Clarkson could employ the !
'inkerton guards to carry out their =
-esigns. ]
The wires announce the death of !,
Heneral Milledge Bonham, who serv- y
d with distinction in the confeder- .
te army, and was afterwards a :
lember Of congress from South v
iarolina, I
The national greenback convention a
let at Indianapolis the other day.
he convention almost consisted of ,
he chairman by himself. The green D
ackers are scarcely more than Il
cry faint "Reminiscences now. is
Waco and Temple both offered g
1000 for the discovery of genuine n
ase of smallpox in their midst t.
tate Health Officer Rutherford Wis If
ed the places and found genuine tt
nallpox. Who is to pay the re- ST
ard? ia
GEo. W. PECK, mayor of Milwau- IL
ee, has been nominated by the fo
amOcratS for ornVarupr Of UT;.oo,, -,