Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-07-24

THE WEEKLY BANNER.
j. G, RANKIN, Proprietor.
Oh. P. GARRETT. Editor.
Thursday, July "a, 1890
SNAKE stories are growing more
numerous. 1t is no doubt because
it is too dull and hot for people to
transact much business and they lie
up in the shade and drink beer and
whisky.
HoN. j. P. BUCHANAN, president OF
the farmers alliance of Tennessee,
gets the democratic, nomination fol-
governor of that state. He will be
triumphantly elected and will make
a good governor.
THERE is big time in store fo1
the denizens of Paris. There are to
be five persons hanged at that place
on October 10 unless executive
clemency or providential hindrance
of some sort is interposed-
The farmers of Illinois refuse to
make reports of the condition Of
their crops to the state authorities,
on the ground that they are used
for the benefit of spectators and
dealers in options and futures.
FRANK HATToN, staunch republi,
can, who occupied the portfolio Of
postmaster-g general while Arthur
was president, says that the force
bill comes fifteen years too late and
that neither democrats nor republl-
cans will submit to negro rule.
S. B. PACKARD, who figured in an
odious and Infamous light in Louis
lana politics during reconstruction,
turns up after these many days In
Iowa, where he is farming in Mar
shall county, and is an applicant fol
a republican nomination for con,
gress.
The state democratic convention
at San Antonio will be an immense
affair. The Alamo City has never
had the honor of entertaining the
convention before, and those who
have been honored by being elected
by their county conventions as dele
gates may feel fortunate, They will
be royalty entertained.
JUDGE Cook is represented as bid
ding his friends to be of good cheer,
that the campaign is not yet over,
and that he proposes to keep "a stiff
upper lip until the convention Sc
lects the gubernatorial candidate.
The Judge has played the role OF
Don Quixote long enough to satisfy
the most exacting of his friends.
The Nashville Banner is an op-
timist. 1t says: s'1,he South is
not bit scared by the republican
threat of force election bill. The
time has passed for reconstruction,
and the passage of the federal cleo
ton bill would harm the party
which forced it upon the country
more than it would harm the South.
nro.r nou-p Ca,,II
they are talking of an educational
qualification as a means of practical
ly DISTINGUISHING the negro. Won
der what our Massachusetts repub
lican friends will say to that. They
can't call it a Southern outrage,
exactly, because we have just that
kind of an outrage right here ii
Massachusetts.
JUDGE Cook addressed the native:
of San Antonio last Saturday night
OH Main plaza The Galveston
News correspondent says a crowG
of 5000 turned out to hear him
while the Gazette correspondent
puts the number at 800 or 400. Tht
Gazette's political news has general
Iy been found to be the most relia
bic.
Mrs. PENDLEToN, of Fort Worth
has instituted divorce proceeding
against her recalcitrant husband
She ought not to have done it. o
course Is is humliating now to b
yoked to such a man. But she alon
stands between him and Addie Cutler
as an impeachment to their lust. H
could not procure a divorce and sh
ought not to give him chance t.
legalize his adulterous intercours
with the Cullen woman.
One of the heaviest real estat
transactions reported in severa
weeks in Texas was the purchase @
sixty-fve thousand acres the othe
day at Arkansas Pass by Capt. J. f
ElgiD, formerly of Waco. The Ian
is fine bay front and agriculture
land and the purchase price wa