Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-07-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The French are taking up the
Panama canal scheme again.
HILL has announced that he will
be candidate for the Presidency.
WANAMAKER has been called upon
to testify in the Philadelphia bank
swindle again.
The next meeting of the knights
of Labor will be held in Toledo, O.,
in November.
BLAINE it is said is not so sick as
! reported, only suffering from slight
nervous relaxation.
I The rice crop of Louisiana is re-
ported doing well, with the prospect
of an abundant yield.
News from San Salvador is to the
effect that the popular feeling is
against the new loan.
W1GeINs is under the weather and
Foster is in the ascendency as a
weather prognosticator.
The low price OF cotton is causing
great dissatisfaction IN South Caro-
lima among the farmers.
PREsIDETT Barillas states that
Guatemala will be well represented
at the Chicago Worlds fair.
Mrs. JEFF DAVIS wants a year in
which to decide where The perma-
nent resting place of her husband
shall be.
GRAsHoPPERs are swarming in the
eastern part of Colorado and de-
stroying every green thing above
the ground.
UNCLE DANIEL McGARY of the
Houston Age declares that corn in
Houston grows taller than the trees
in Galveston.
WILL L. SEARGEANT, the pugna-
cious editor of the Rayner Lasso is
to be married on July the 18th, at
Crawford, Miss.
MAYBE the experiment with the
rain machine seemed such folly that
it made the angels weep, and there
by appeared successful.
The law against pugilistic en-
counters in this State goes into eff
feet Monday, the 18th inst, as like
wise the separate coach law.
The alien land law is looked upon
with much favor in Tyler county,
and American for Americans, is
the feeling in that section of the
State.
A STEAM launch at Beaumont has
been christened 'tEugenia B." in
honor of the winner of the Houston
Post scholarship, Miss Eugenia
Brahan.
A KANSAS City Judge, in a suit
for damages on an accident policy
by the holder, who was struck by
has ruled that it was not i
an accident.
GALVESTON had a big jubilee cele-
brating the receipt of a milan bales
of cotton in one season, and well
she might, for few cities can rejoice
at such receipts.
The recent storp in Louisiana
was phenomenal one in several re-
spects. Its severity was phenomenal
and the direction, going north as it
did was strange freak.
The sentiment of the people of
Tyler county is decidedly against a
called session of the legislature, and
they do not want to see the Govern
or bulled into calling it.
A VESSEL drawing seventeen feet
of water has crossed the bar at the
mouth of the Brazos, the heaviest
draft vessel that ever entered Texas
harbor. Deep water there seems
assured.
The reason that the people of
Texas are not all rich. with it's vast
advantages over other States, is be-
cause the people can make living
so easy that they don't try to save
their earnings.
BRovNwooD is to have electric
lights. Every city in Texas of any
ways near the size of BRENNAN has
electric lights. If Brennan couldn't
lead why don't she follow the en-
ample of some of them.
HoN. ]. ". BAILEY, of Gainesville
addressed the voters of Wise county
at Decatur on the sub-treasury
question Saturday. He completely
the arguments in favor
of government pawn-shop-
The law prohibiting sparring
matches and prize fighting went into
effect Monday, and is punishable by
q fine of not less than $500 nor