Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-08-06
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EDITORIAL NOTES.


AUSTIN Is to have new military
company to be known as the Gov
ernor's Guard.
The Sinner Courier come to US
this week enlarged to five column
quarto and much improved.
A HEAVY tide of money is expected
to set in towards the. West to move
the crop. Let her roll high.
TIE Texas Exhibit cars are said
to be immense. Old Washington
county should be represented.
The statement of the general land
Office at Washington shows over
114,000 patents for agricultural
lands received during the past year.
CONSIDERABLE alarm is felt in Rome
over rumors of the closing of the
Bank of Rome. Pope Leo advanced
100000 francs and averted the
threatened disaster.
AT Logansport, Ind, an insane
patient named Hasa became posses
sed of a club and fatally beat DR..
Reed, another patient, on the head
and badly beat two others.
SPEAKER REED is at home again
and says while abroad he tried to
forget all about politics and sue
ceeded. He ought to forget some
of his ruleings in the last congress.
The low price of cotton is an OBJ
ject lessen to the farmers of the
South. 1t teaches them that their
hope of success must come through
diversity of crops. The all cotton
plan has played.
The Democratic ticket in Ken
lucky will probably be ratified. The
plurality for Brown and the Demo-
cratic ticket will be between three
and FIVE thousand, the proposed
constitution will be ratified.
A DESPERATE battle took place
Monday on the Texas and Louisi-
ana State line 20 miles north of
Lake Charles, between Texas
gang and half-breed COW thieves. /
Nine men were killed and sixteen
wounded.
TRE Georgia Alliance have passed
resolutions to the effect that their
only hope of relief must come
through a reduction of the acreage
in cotton in 1892, the reduction to
be made in made in all the cotton
growing states.
An appeal has been made to
Secretary Foster in behalf of the
homeless Hebrews in reference to
the subject of immigration, praying
that they be not classed as paupers
or assisted immigrants when hands
of help and welcome are outstrech-
ed to elevate them to the exalted {
position of American citizenship
without demanding any contribution ,
from internal of local taxes" etc. I
He replies that the statutes will be I
enforced effectively, but humanely.
IT is learned that the Congress of t
the Republic of Venezuela has de- 5
clined to negotiate reciprocity !
treaty upon the basis proposed by e
the United States government. The $
main reason given is that the treaty 1
stipulations would result IN seri-
GUS loss of revenue to Venezuela
without any compromising advan- I
tage to her own producers in the '
shape of increased prices for the ag- f
rlcultural products which they =
would be permitted, under the pro '
posed treaty, to export to the United q
States free of duty. The refusal, g
which is given in statement in an
swer to communication from the
President of the Republic request {
ing the advice of the representa- q
tiyes as to the propriety of negotiat- =
ing the treaty, Is softened by COM n
pliment to the Secretary of State :,
and an expression of good will to-
wards the United States, and of the
hope of future reciprocity upon the q
basis of conditions more acceptable :,
to Venezuela. =
A COPY OF TIE annual catalogue of A
the Sam Houston State Normal
School at Huntsville has been re-
ceived. 1t shows an enrichment for W
the last session of 800 students, b
representing lis countries. Of this W
1877 were the sons and
daughters of farmers, and 800 native
Texans. Tuition is free to all +
students, and on the deposit of a b
small library fee all text books are
furnished Scholarship students, in
addition to this have two-ffths of
their board paid by the State. For IL
next session, beginning Sept. %, Il
1891, scholarship students will be o.
admitted as follows: One scholar
ship student from each senatorial fc
district, to be appointed by the fo
One from each represen s
-ative district to be appointed by
5he representative; forty from the We
State of laro,a (tan bv ooob ,,oovnloo,