Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The Republican National Conven
ton will be held at Minneapolis.

ton VIII be neld at Minneapolis,
PRESIDENT FoNsEcA's career as
President of Brazil was brief and
inglorious, for he was never more
than dictator.
Pork is better than politics; and
the removal of the embargo on
American pork in France, largely
through the efforts of the American
minister, will be welcomed by all
Americans.
WALLACE G. ANDREWS, president
of the New York Steam company
has confscated 100000 worth of
the company's stock, and resigned
his position.
DURING the coming winter and
spring some twenty or thirty valu-
able silver mining properties will be
opened in Montana. Two or three
million dollars of capital will be in
vested in rich mines in Northern
Mexico and Lower California.
IT is to be sincerely regretted if
the reports of unpleasantness and
quarrelling between Stanley and his
wife, pretty Dorothy Tenant, are
true. The blame is all put upon
Stanley. Has he perhaps been at
tempting wild African methods with
a high spirited English woman
The mechanical engineers are the
busiest engineers at present, devils
ing new machinery for steam and
electric power. Atno time has there
been as much anxiety and necessity
for power machinery tor heavy work
as now. The founders are turning
out the heaviest castings ever made.
Hon. Lock MCDANIEL, of Grimes
county, Texas, stalwart republican
in an interview with a Galveston
News man expresses the opinion
that Harrison will be renom1nated on |
the Republican ticket and Cleveland |
on the Democratic ticket. He furth-
er predicts that Harrison will snow !
Cleveland under on the tariff issue.
but that's where he is not so wise as
he seems.
When Georgia editor gets ready |
to move he will move and the little
matter OF walking seventy-fve miles
will not deter him as will be seen by
The following; A Georgia editor
who had boycotted railroad for re-
fusing him a pass was not prevented
from moving his paper to another
town. He shipped his hand press
by another road and walked the
the whole distance, a matter of
seventy-fve miles,"
J. H G1RARDEAN tells the readers
of Farm and Ranch how to effective
ly protect trees from cattle, at small
expense. He says:
I TOOK barbed wire, cut it into L
lengths of five feet, stapled one end
to the tree about two feet from the
ground, and taking the other end
with claw of the hammer. I wound
the wire firmly around the tree to
point about four and a half feet
from the ground, fastening the up
per end also with staple.
The New York Daily Indicator {
very tersely and forcibly remarks: I
eve have stopped building useless
railroads; ceased capitallzing proper
ty at the rate OF SIS to 81 of value: :
ceased dealing frantically in holes in ;
the ground; given up piling in the :
United States Treasury money that :
was required in circulation, and in a :
hundred ways improved our man
ners, methods and conditions" {
TIE News of Fonsecas resignation
as President of Brazil will be re-
ceived with gratitude, as everybody
knows that his reign has been that ;
of dictatorship, abruptly dissolv-
ing congress because he could not
carry it all his own way. Fonseca's }
resignation would be tardy recog- {
milton on his part of the fatal mis- l
take he had made, as well as a happy !
termination of the trouble that his ::
stupid ambition has brought on his :,
country. I
The Democratic legislature of Ohio t
found the state gerrymandered in a
the interest of the Republicans, and u
recast the districts so as to secure a D
of the members of congress Il
at the election last fall. The incom d
ing Legislature IS decisively Repubh- p
can and it is reported that it will b
return to the former arrangement o
Of the districts so as to secure as O
many Republican congressman as b
possible. Thus an election for mem {,
bers of the legislature in that state Il
s 4 matter of interestest to the CT
Ohio congressman. il