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

EDITOR GEORGE JONES of the New
York Times is dead.
TIE New York State convention
will be held September the 18th, al
Saratoga.
An English company has organ.
lied fleet to transport Southern
negroes to Africa.
! The Pastuer Institute of New
York is treating two Texas victims
of mad dog bite.
THERE has been discovered two
cases of leprosy in the Chinese
quarter of San Francisco.
An aged minister of Van Alstyne,
IGrayson county, is under indict.
ment for criminal assault on an is
year old niece.
II is said that the legislature of
Kentucky, while democratic, has
strong Farmers Alliance affiliations
and tendencies.
PRESIDENT BALMAoEDA, of the
Chillian republic, has offered to buy
the United States man-of-war Balti-
more for 100000.
DURING the past seventy-three
years the American bible society
has distributed over 52,736,000
copies of the scripture.
A BILL is to be INTRODUCED in the
Cherokee council to sell the Chero-
kee strip and divide the proceeds
among the people of the Nation.
New YORK paid over SS,000,000
for the 500 acres of land where
Central park has since been created,
at an expense of many millions more.
GoD said let there be light and
there was light. The nearest ap-
proach to this accomplishment is
the man in West Texas producing
rain.
TIE coast of Cheguamon bay for
seven miles north of Ashland, Wis,
is strewn with the wreck of yacts
and fishing boats lost in Saturdays
cyclone.
The cruiser Charleston has left
San Francisco for Mare Island navy
yard, where her bottom will be
cleaned if no urgent orders are re-
ceived.
AT the recent session of southern
manufacturers and dealers in lum-
Der it was proven by actual tests
that yellow pine was the strongest
wood in the world.
The Pensacola has brought news
to San Diego, Cal, that the steamer
Malito, believed to have foundered,
arrived at Iquique with cargo of
arms and ammunition.
TANK KEE gives Texas University
a complete collection of all kinds of
copper ore, and promises at no dis
tant day to give the State com
plete collection of books on China.
one hundred high power guns
have been ordered of the Bethlehem
iron works of Pennsylvania, and the
contract approved by the secretary.
The contract is for over three and a
half millions.
AT Port au Prince an epidemic of
pernicious fever, as bad or worse
than yellow fever, is raging. A num-
Der of the crew of the French man
of-war Diora are down, and one death
has occurred.
AT Lima, Peru, the remains of
Francisco Pizarro were removed
from the vault under the altar of the
cathedral to the viceroys chapel in
the same building. They were
found admirably preserved.
It is said that President Harrison
is now sadly in need of a man that
can control the Illinois delegation in
his behalf two years hence, and init
mates that seat in the cabinet is
to be his reward for such services.
LIE Peoples party of Maryland
are holding a secret session at which
the won't even admitreporters. This
will insure a full report, as it will
make the reporters more anxious to
secure the reports, and furnish every
thing to the public.
SENATOR SQUIRE is seriously con-
sidering the acceptance of the
Chinese mission rendered him by
the President. With the present
unsettled state of affairs in China
mission there is not as desirable as
some other offices.
The Nationed Capital Building
and Loan Association of
Chicago, which is said to have
swindled 81, 1000 people made at least
S150,0O0 which was stolen by the
Mortimers. 1t was one of the most
gigantic swindles recently permit
ed.
The democrats and farmers al
lance of Louisiana are waging a
relentless war upon that gamb. ing
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