Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-08-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The San Marcos Free Press Office
is offered for sale.
OVER 1000 cloak makers in New
York are on strike.
THERE are sixty vacancies in the
National academy at West point.
The movement of grain in Kansas
has not amounted to much so far
this season.
ARIZONA will knock for admission
into the Union at the Next Session
of Congress.
IT is said that Blaine's book
Twenty years in congress" netted
him S45O,OOO.
The Alliance convention meets in
Dallas to-day. VIII they repudiate
the third party scheme
MAX ISAAC REICH, a christianized
Hebrew, is preaching to large con
gregations IN Washington county,
Ark.
A LIFELONG republican and farmer
of Ohio is out in card advising all,
farmers to vote the democratic ticket
Straight.
HE Worlds fair promoters have
fixed the assessment for each coun-
ty, but we doubt if Washington ever
raises hers.
WITH the rain producers agricul-
ture will be reduced to a science,
and vast areas of the dry west will
be turned into fertile fields.
INGALLS, indorses the idea of white
supremacy in the south. Just as
well, old boy, for white supremacy
in the south will be maintained
WITH a split in the Georgia dele
cation Mills ought to have a walk
over for the speakership. Crisp can
not hope to win when the delega
ton of his own state is divided.
TIE steamer, Majestic, of the
White Star line, has broken the
record from Queenstown to New
York, making the~time in five days,
eighteen hours and eight minutes.
SENATOR Chiffon is capturing his
hearers wherever he has an oppcr-
tunitY to display his sky-scraping
eloquence, but such chaff viii not
choke off the Mills of the Gods, or
Texas.
: DURING the past fiscal year 1896
applications for patents were made,
of which 25,3O7 were granted. The
bureaus receipts amounted to
S1,3O5,794; the expenditure was s
81, LAG, 500.
GEN. S. B. MAxEY, of Paris, has
declared in favor of Cleveland fer
President. He fa7ors him on ac-
count of his tariff views, which are
of infinitely more Importance than
the silver question.
IF one is to Judge by the number
of reunions of old soldiers, old set
tiers, and other social organizations
this summer the people are getting
more social and desire to become ac-
quainted more extensively.
The New York Worlds efforts to
get Cleveland to run for Governor
of New York won't work. But who
will run. Every man that is COM
petent to fill the position thanks he
ought to be elected President.
SENATOR WALTHALL will go back
to the Senate from Mississippi, not
withstanding his pre-emptory refusal
to stand for third term. He viii
go back at the demand of the Dem
ocratic party with Senator George.
The London Times, in a late re-
view of the Exposition, says there
can be no doubt now that the Expo
sition will surpass in many respects
ali expositions previously held.
English manufacturers are urged to
make large displays.
A FEW leading papers in the State
are hitting the alien land law Ell
time they can think of anything 70
say about it, and loudly clammeri
for its repeal, but its dollars TO
doughnuts that when tn a.
ture convenes the most ey
can be induced to do is ~
the law.
The next legislature of
will be as follows: DEM
10, peoples PAD
democrats 5. q ke
viii show: Democrats 27,
cans 10, peoples party l. g
give the democratic joint
members out of possible 3
a house caucus of 20 membs M
a possible 100, and still they
of Kentucky ara ng
ground.
A NEW Castle garden is about to
take the place of the old. Ellis
island, in the New York harbor Rin !
hereafter be devoted to passing bon
the qualifications of immigra to