Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-07-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

PRESIDENT DrAz, of Mexico is still
quite i'll.
The seventy-year locust are play
ing havoc with the ranges in New
Mexico.
The entire business portion of
Lynn, Mass, was burned Friday
night.
SAM SMALL is to start an afternoon
daily in Atlanta. Sam is an cratic
genius.
The greater portion of the Mis-
souri, Congressman will support
Mills for the speakership.
A TERRIBLE smallpox epidemic is
reported to be raging throughout
the state of Tabasco, Mex.
The Railroad commission Is hold
ing its session at Dallas and 81 ami
mated discussion of rates is in pro-
gress.
FIVE men seining in the Tennessee
river Sunday were swept in to the
swift current near Murray and
drowned.
ALLIANCE campmeetings are being
held throughout Georgia, and Gov.
Northen's absence from them is
creating comment.
The BANNER acknowledges the re.
ceipt of handsome map of Abilene,
sent out by Messrs. Carter & Carter
to whom we return thanks.
The coffee planters of Mexico have
petltioned the government to renew
the contract with the Spanish trans
Atlantic steamship company.
A MIXED mob in Arkansas City,
Ark, recently hung John Farmer
for the assassination of DR.. G. G.
Buckner a prominent citizen.
The Partisan railroad strike con-
tinues. The strikers are trying as
usual to prevent others who don't
want to strike from working.
TRE old settlers of Texas have
been in session at St. 10 for the
past week getting up evidence to
procure Indian depreciation claims.
The Sisyeton and Wahpeton In
dams of Minnesota are being paid
off. Each man, woman, and child |
in the tribes will receive S213 each. |
DEEP water at the. Mouth of the
Brazos has been secured and larger
vessels can now enter the Brazos
river than at any other place on the
Texas coast.
The Dallas Times Herald has.
started a scholarship contest, Just
like that of the Houston Post, save
that the scholarships are at Emf
nence college, Frankfort, Ky.
The English Bank of the River
Platte, of London has suspended !
South American securi-
ties the cause. The failure caused |
a depression in all kinds of stocks
The Hutchins printing company
who were awarded the contract for
printing the supreme court reports
have allowed the time within which
its bond should have been fled to
expire.
The Ft. Worth Gazette scholar
ship contest is becoming interesting,
the vote having reached in the
of 5000. The second
girl gets brick house and lot in
Dublin.
AERoNAUT Bartholomew made an
at Jackson, Mich, recent
" with his new improved suction
wheel air ship The ascension was
all right but the result has not been
learned.
TwENTY-FoUR foreign nations have
now officially accepted the invita-
ton to participate in the EXPOSE
ton. Russia. Turkey, Denmark,
Persia and Egypt are among the re-
cent acquisitions.
SARA BERNHARDT will come to
Texas, but not to San Antonio. Sara
is too thin, and nothing goes In
Santone that is not of the requisite
thickness.-Light. Can't she com
pare with the frejolies?
The Chattanooga Times says
''that in Tennessee fourteen out of
fifteen democratic dailies and more
than go per cent of all the weeklies
in that state are aggressively sup
porting Mr.. Cleveland. "
IT is said that McKinly has been
east after soap with which to grease
MS way to the gubernatorial chair Of
Ohio, The righteousness of Camp
bells cause is all he can claim to help
him beat the tariff Baron.
Wuur Tho orrapariae of tho Amor;