Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-31
EDITORIAL NOTES.

! size of Yelasco.
! B. B. PADDOCK is general manager
. and President of the Fort Worth
+ Gazette publishing company.
DURING the past ten months there
S has been an increase of 1870 cot
e ton spindles in the northern and
! southern states.
, PUT your farming implements in
condition for tie approaching farm.
ing season, for the season to COM
mence work is drawing near.
. Gov. CAMPBELL, of Ohio, is IN
clined to the opinion that the nomi-
nee of the Democratic National con-
vention will be Western man.
TIE total number of clergy of the
church of England is about $4,000.
If we include the clergy in the
colonies and those engaged in mis-
siouary fields tho totals are swelled
to 27,000-
BELvA LOCKWOOD, it is said will
again be a candidate for president in
1892. Belva should take tumble
to herself and come off the track.
A woman can't run, for she amt
built that way.
A CHICAGO Judge has decided the
alien land law passed by the Illinois
Legislature at its last session IN
constitutional. This looks as if the
Illinois Legislature and the law
makers of Texas were in the same
boat.
The usual movement on the part
of both commission merchants and
leading planters at this time of the
year to discourage the planting of
too much cotton has been Inaugural
ted, but the small planter is very
liable to do as he always does and
plant all that he can possibly work.
One hundred citizens of Milwau-
Ike, Wis, representing a capital of
81, 100000, signed their names to a
guarantee fund of 100000 to pay
the expenses of the democratic ma
tional convention, should it be Sc
cured for Milwaukee. If money
makes conventions go as it does
mares, Milwaukee will get it.
THERE is some little discussion in
some of our exchanges as to wheth-
er Cleopatra was Yirtuous woman,
all of which seems rather a lack of
more lively subjects, than because
there is any doubt about it, Tor if
the evidence of history is worth
anything Cleopatra was anything
but virtuCus woman. I
The bond given to the United
States government by Jefferson Da-
Wis to answer to the circuit court at
Richmond, Virginia, for treason, is
from the court records. The
paper bears the signatures of Hor-
ace Greedy, Jno. Minor Bolts, Gar
rett Smith and other prominent per-
sons. 1t is not known who par
Joined the document, but there are
as to who the guilty par
ties were.
HERE is BIZ of philosophy from
the Atlanta Constitution that is
worth much fine gold to him who
needs: with rare exceptions, a
fortune is thing of slow growth.
To most of US it will never come.
The prizes of life within the reach
Of the majority are a good name,
living, modest home, {
and little money laid by for a
rainy day. Strive for those through
hard work and economy and be con- I
tent. A genuine man is fit for bet t
Ter things than piling up riches any '
nowm 7
THERE are terrible scenes being {
enacted over in Alabama in the i
vicinity of Mobile, A war of exter- l
nination is being waged against the t
5imses. Last Saturday night four
Of them were lynched One of the =,
brothers threatens to :
lvenge his brother Bob's death. :
The scene of the conflict is in Choc- !
Jaw county and the village of Wom-
mack Hill is greatly stirred up. :
The police are greatly excited, and !
III Sunday were massing at Womack =
Hill to defend the place. The ell I
aged people on Saturday morning,
Ifter lyuching Bob Sims and four of =,
lis followers. wrecked Sims house :
md buried it to the ground, and a
hen killed every living thing on the 4
place except the members of the
amily, who escaped to neighbours
house, and who will move as soon as {
possible to another state. The b
bodies of Bob Sims and three of the I
'avages were taken down Saturday b
nd thrown over a wall into the /
The body of John I
Savage still hangs suspended. K
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