Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.
SPEAKER CRISP has the lagrippe.

JNo. L. SULLIVAN recently went on
a big drunk at San Francisco.
A PARTY which depreciates the
standing of the Nation by classifying
and diminishing its census returns
for partisan gain is not a patriotic
party.
THREE or four cases of leprosy in
Kings county, Wis, have been dis
covered, and the discovery has
caused panic among the people
there.
The remains of Senator Plumb, of
Kansas, who died at Washington
Sunday, have been taken to Kansas,
the body to lie in state at the Kan
sas capital.
SENATOR CoLoUITT, of Georgia, de-
MES the truth of the report that he
had any idea of resigning his seat in
the Senate,
GARRISON, chairman of the Repub-
can Executive committee of Iowa is
urging Iowa to free the party of
that state from the issue of prohibi-
ton which he says is too heavy a
load for it to carry.
The Austin Statesman finds time
from its political palaver to occas-
ionally have an editorial announcing
the progress of the dam there,
which it says is to make Austin the
greatest manufacturing city in the
South.
FROM all over the State comes
communications of regret that Hon.
R. @. Mills was defeated for the
speakership, accompanied by the as
sertion that they are in favor of his
being sent to the United States
Senate.
A SANTIAGO correspondent of the
London Times says in consequence
of the delay in the trial of persons
concerned in the Baltimore sailors
riot, the Chilean congress proposes
to abolish the Anticipated secret
Spanish proceedings for a system of
open trials. The delay causes irrita-
ton here.
GEN. CLARKsoN said in a speech at
Des MONIES, Iowa, few days ago
that the next Republican campaign
would be made on the issue of pro-
lection to the negro in the South.
That is dead issue and can never
win for the G. o. p. again. The color
ed people have been fooled so long
and so often by the Republican part?
that they are beginning to open
their eyes.
The italian government is said to
be making vigorous efforts to dis
cover how Prince Borghese sue
ceeded in getting the picture of
Caesar Borgia struggled through to
Paris. If the culprlts who allowed
the portrait to pass the frontier are
found 1t will likely go hard with
them. Baron de Rothschlld is said
to consider the portrait cheap at
100000.
The surface of any given guam
tity of gold, according to the best
authorities. may be extended by the
hammer 310,814 times. The thick
ness of the metal thus extended
appears to be no more than the
566,020th part of an inch. Eight
ounces of this wonderful metal
would gild a silver wire of sufficient
length to extend entirely around
the globe.
A GUTHER1E special of Saturday
says: The widest excitement pre-
vailed all night over the Noble de-
cision giving $50 acres more to the
town site Thousands of people
staked lots and slept on the cold
ground all night, and this morning
5000 people are on the ground. |
Many quarrels are taking place be-
tween the old settlers and the new
claimants and serious trouble will
ensue. Five hundred negroes, many
armed, are now jumping lots and
stealing fences, and unless it can be
stopped at once there will be some
shooting.
MILLS, Culberson and Chiffon have
all pronounced in favor of free coin
age of silver; in fact Col. Mills de-
clares that he has always been an ad-
vocate of free coinage, but does not
believe that free coinage at present
is the most essential measure of re-
form; the tariff being our greatest
grievance demands attention first.
The forcing of the silver question to
the front in the next presidential
contest, he thinks, will lose New
York, New Jersey and New England
from the democratic column, giving
US in 1898 a republican house of
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