Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-10
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The New York stock market is
dull.
CHICAGO had a 100000 blaze
Tuesday.
TnIY DICKINSON has not resigned
the secretaryship of the Worlds
Fair.
ADvlCEs from Brazil are conflicting
and the true situation there is hard
to determine.
SAMUEL PoLLAoK, restaurant pro-
prietor at Philadelphia, shoots his
wife and suicides.
GEO. SNYDER the San Marcos wife
murderer went up for life. If guilty
that was light sentence.
AN English Tribute to Lowell"
by Archdeacon Farrar, is announced
for the October number of the
Forum.
LAGRIPPE, or Russian influenza is
having another immense run in Eu
rope and is causing many deaths in
Paris and London. 1t is hoped that
it will not cross over to this side of
the ''pond."
The Texas exhibit cars are now
enroute through the Southern states
east of the Mississippi, stopping at
the PRINCIPAL cities, and are dong
excellent service in advertising the
products and resources of this state
The latest thing in fre-fghting
tool is a gun which will fire metal
cap carrying a small piece of strong
cord to the top of the highest build
ing. The cord is used to pull up a
rope, and the rope to pull up
ahose.
The residents of the country
around Bismarck, Dakota, are just
now being treated to a genuine
blizzard. The people of this section
who are enjoying spell of weather
which makes sitting by open win
dows pleasant can hardly realize
this state of things.
TIE Geographic announcement
last week of the sudden death of
Col. Enoch Ensley at Memphis,
Tenn, was u shock to the many men
of affairs with whom he maintained
intimate business relations, and to
many thousand others who held in |
the highest regard his splendid |
achievements as one of the foremost |
pioneers of the South's industrial |
progress.
The Railway Register says: The
Morgans' Louisiana and Texas Rail
road and Steamship Company met |
and voted to increase the capital |
stock of the company from S5,000,-
600 to S15,000,000 When the COM
pany was first organized it was Tot
capitalized at its full value, and this
is given as the reason for the in
crease. New stock will be issued.
but one of the officers said signif-
cantly that none of the stock will be
on the market.
STRANGE as it may appear, the
price of wheat has fallen in the face
of the Russian ukase prohibiting
further exports of wheat, showing
that the effect of the prohibition has
been discounted. Additional offset
is found in an increased total of
wheat afoat for Europe, enormous
quantities bound for the seaboard
by lake and raj! in the United States
and choked rail facilities at the
northwest, owing to free offerings Of
wheat for transportation.
NAVAL officers in Chill advise our
government that representatives of
the new CHILEAN government are
studying the latest war equipments
in Germany and there is talk of
making war service in Chill compul- |
sorry. CHILEAN officers are studying
and procuring modern small arms.
A special agent was sent to France
to hurry the completion of the battle
ship Capt. Pratt. With Chill pre-
pairing for war, the United States is
justified in continuing work on her
war vessels.
A MONUMENT is to be erected in
Georgia in commemoration of the (
services of Eli Whitney, the inven- !
tor of the cotton gin. 1t is the
proper thing, indeed, for the citizens '
of Georgia, which state is represent t
alive of a section of the country that f
was peculiarly benefited by the ad- q
vent of the cotton gin, to raise a c
monument to the memory of Whit c
ney. Yet it is impossible to resist 7
the feeling that some substantial c
recognition of his services while he c
was yet alive would have been more I
acceptable TO him, and more encour-
0ging to others. Il