Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-11

j. G, RANKIN, Proprietor.
Thursday, Sept. IL, 1890.
TIE report on the river and har-
Dor bill taken up Saturday passed
the house. Galveston is happy.
GoRMAN's amendment to reduce
the duty from 16 to S cents per
pound on hops was rejected in the
senate Saturday.
TEXAS republicans declare their
confidence in President Harrison S
administration, but don't mention
any great or good thing he has &C
complshed.
The Chicago Globe thinks that
Pinkerton men should fill the penl-
tentiaries and the convicts be let out;
the Globe overlooks the men whose
demand has created the Plnkerton
supply.
No labor organization represent
ing the millions of toiling bread win
ners in the country, nor any branch
or section of the Farmers Alliance
has urged congress to pass the Nc
Kinley bill.
WHEN you get into tight place
and everything goes against you till
it seems as if you couldn't hold out
a minute longer, never give up then,
for that is Just the place and time
the tide will turn.
A GERMAN paper has collected
statistics showing the railway mile
age of the world. The United
States not only heads the list but
has seven times as many railways as
any other country.
The republicans in the State con-
yention declared for protection.
They perhaps want government pro
lection for the ''infant industry Of
making republicans in the State.
The g. o. p. needs something to keep
It alive.
THE republicans oppose the rail
way commission and say that it is
contrary to the theory and genius of
of the government to clothe with
Legislative and judicial powers
railway commission. The democrats
in convention favored it. Choose
We this day whom We will serve"
AUGUST SUMMERF1ELD, a thrifty
German near Mernardville, suicided
recently. He had been on pro-
tracted spree and told his wife that
any man who would get drunk ought
to die. 1t does seem that a man
having nerve enough to take his
own life ought to be able to keep
from getting drunk.
THERE are one million more intel
igent white citizens in the Demo
cratic party than there are IN. the
Republican party.
Can there be any doubt, says the
National Democrat, as to which
party viii prevail in this country
whenever the so called war issues
shall be finally buried.
INTEREST in the reported discovery
that leprosy is not an incurable dis
ease will not be confined to the
medical fraternity. There is no
scourge with which humanity is af-
ficted that is regarded with deeper
feelings of horror Fortunately its
scope is restricted, but the suferings
of its victims arouse the universal
sympathy of mankind.
THIRTEEN minutes is rather
short interval of time by which to
break the record for crossing the
Atlantic, but this is just the time by
which the 1eutonic of the White
Star line-so it is claimed-beats
the best previous record-that of
the City of Paris. Five days, nine
teen hours and five minutes is now
the best record-that of the leu
tonic The log showed 2,S06 miles.
SISTER ROSE GERTRUDE, who re-
censly went to Hawaii to devote her.
self to serving and nursing the
lepers, is badly disgruntled because
the authorities won't allow her to
have her own way in the manage
ment of them, aud she will probably
return to England. Her mission
has been personal success in that
it has brought her a big return in
notoriety.
BRIGHAM YoUNG's daughter will lee
ture on Mormonism. She ought to
understand the subject and if the
country had to be afflicted with such