Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-18

By requirement of law all county
collectors should settle with the
state by the LIST of May, yet there
are still eighty-six counties to re-
port. 1t is impossible for the col
lectors to comply with the law says
Austin Statesman in their settle
ments, inasmuch as the comptroller
cannot allow their settlement pa
pers until approved by the commits
sioners courts and those courts do
not sit until May. 1t is foolish to
allow such slap orders" to exist on
the statute books, and the law build
ers should chisel them into shape at
their next session.
The special business edition of the
Austin Statesman recently issued
has been received at this office. 1t
is an eight-page illustrated paper
with parallel red and blue ruling
running with the columns, which
may or not may have been intended
to give it a still more business" ap-
pearance. It contains q review of
Austins industries actual and pros
pective, with short sketches of Aus
tins business houses, together with
a page write up of Arkansas Pass.
TRE Navy Department will, in a
few DAYS. make one of the most ex-
haustive tests of armor plate ever
made in any country, the result of
which will determine the armor to
be used for our iron-clads, and
which will also largely settle the
guns and projectiles to be adopted
by US.
The Fort Worth Gazette says DR..
McCune in his lectures has been
telling the people of Mississippi
that there were but SIS per capita
in circulation in this country. That
is but S315,OO0,000-not much more
than the farmers of Texas lost
through their confidence in the Al
| nance eNcnaDRe.
FEARLESS and independentnewsp
per work was triumphant a few days
ago in Utica, New York, when in a
suit brought by Myron ". Van
Auken, a lawyer, against the OBJ
server of that city decision was
rendered dismissing the action on
the ground that 1.-The truth is no
libel"
The postal service must be badly
demoralized, for even the Boston
papers are complaining. Postmaster
Hart, of Boston, has been in Wash
ington for same time TO make COM
plants and to show how the service
can be greatly improved if certain
things are done.
AT the coming meeting Of the
delegates, the Australian government
will propose a large increase of the
military budget for new barracks,
and to increase the artillery in
Gallicia. The step is due to the
massing of of Russian troops on the
frontier.
GRAND Russian military maneuvers
are projected for 1892, to take place
in the presence of the car. They
are to include the investment of
Moscow by an army corps, the occu-
patton of Volhynia and the repnlse
and pursuit of a corpse to the
frontier.
SIR WILLIAM GORDON CUNNING ca
bles the New York Herald, Lady
Gordon Cumming did not consult
any member of her family on the
subject of her engagement to me,
nor was there any necessity to do
So"
MURAT HALsTEAD thinks that Sena-
tor PETERS remark that 1.-The peoples
party will sweep the country like a
cyclone" is a bad smile for the lat
ter's interests, as these tornadoes
usually do more damage to farmers
and their property than to others.
SAYS the New York Journal of Fl
nance: The less popular and less
forceful successors of Sir John Nc
Donald will not be able to stay the
tide demanding commercial union
between Canada and the United
States"
II is said that Thayer, the usur-
ping governor of Nebraska, is tired
of the position he is holding. He
is not one-half as tired of it as
majority of the citizens of that State
are of seeing him in it.
A CENSUS of Ireland shows that
the Methodists are the only religious
body that has not lost ground in the
noct Iaoo5a Tho Catholics foil off