Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Chicago and worked fairly well.
THERE is some talk of st. Paul
and Minneapolis being united as
one municipality. There is hope
for the millennium.
EX-SENATOR Joseph E. Mcdonald,
of Indiana, is dead. At 11:30 o'clock
Sunday he breathed his last at his
his home in Indianapolis, Ind.
Ex-Gov. BARNEY GIBBS offers a
hundred dollar prize for the best
plan for getting legal tenders from
the treasury into the channels OF
trade.
ANOTHER embezzlement of 1924.
900 of State funds by Bardsley has
been discovered in the Philadelphia
investigation, making a grand total
that he stole of S669,000.
The jeff Davis monument fund is
growing rapidly and.the committee
appointed to see Mrs. Davis and de
termine his final resting place will
do so now in a short time.
The National flag, from July 4
will have six rows of stars. In the
first and sixth rows there will be
eight stars each, in all the others
seven each, making forty-four.
IT is now announced that the
Cherokee cattle men who are said to
be intruders on the Chicasaw lands,
are to be bounced. This has beer
definitely settled by Secretary
Noble.
MINNESOTA editors are greatly ex-
ercised over bill which has passed
the senate providing that all articles
rejecting upon any body living Oh
dead shall be signed by thefu name
of the writer.
The Westlake News Office OF
Westlake, La, was struck by light
nlng Sunday, knocking one of the
printers and the editor prone upon
the floor and melting the type in one
of the cases.
J. NJ. LANGsToN, the negro ex-
congressman, says the force bill is
to be made the principle issue of
the presidential campaign. The
democrats will not ask any easier is
sue to win on.
WESTERN roads are beginning to
call loudly for empty cars, prepare
tory to moving the wheat crop, and
indications are that 80 per cent. of
these cars will be loaded for Balti-
more and Philadelphia.
SENATOR COLON, of Illinois, is a
candidate for the presidency if the
state delegation sticks to him. He
is quoted as saying that you can
bet if the nomination is rendered me
1 will not throw it over my shoulder.
ONLY two reserve agents for Texas
National banks were approved Mon
day. They were the Fourth Ma
tional bank of Taylor, and the
Hanover National bank of New
York and the First National bank of
Brennan.
By an act of the Legislature in
Nebraska all grain elevators were
made public warehouses and the
law has Just gone into effect, and
the enormous wheat crop will go to
the elevators and be held for advance
in prices.
The Quintana Times, published at
Quintana, Brazoria county, is a new
paper, the first issue of which made
its appearance last FRIDAY. It is a
seven column folio edited by J. L.
Goodman, and will be devoted to
the interest of Brazoria county.
The indefatigable and persistent
Phoebe Cousens is claiming her
salary for May, as secretary Of the
board of lady managers of the
Worlds Fair asso citation. No action
will be taken until her status has
been determinedby the courts.
Dow PEDRO would doubtless like
to end his days as the returned en-
peror of Brazil, but like the rugged
old patriot that he is, he declares
that the experiment of Brazilian
self-government will prove a success
They will not hold their place
among nations is his terse com
ment upon his countrymen.
A REVOLT of Balmaceda's troops
at Coquimbo killed four officers.
Eight hundred men are said to be
marching to Caldera to join the con-
gressional army. The Esmeralda
the wharf and railroad at
Sabos island, preventing fhe ship
ment Of guano by Calmaceda. She
is expected to arrive at Iqueqe Mon
day.
The Richmond Zephyr is the name
of a new four column quarto that
has recently waited itself into the