Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-10-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The stock market is dull.

crowds,
GEoRG1A's cotton crop is reported
short.
FOSTER predicts the coolest win
ter for sixty years.
The government estimate, lowers
the cotton averaged points.
A SYNDICATE has agreed to buy the
Washington monument for q shot
tower.
MEXICAN and Federal troops are
still searching for CARA down on the
Rio Grande.
THE remains of Parnell the great
deceased Irish reformer, arrived at
Kingstown Sunday.
FRANCIS, Florence or Elizabeth is
to be the name of the little lady at
the Cleveland homestead.
The alien land law was decided
unconstitutional, by Judge Good
rich at Waco Saturday
The decrease i'll the Wall street
speculation has had the effect to
slacken the demand for money.
The cultivation of the castor oil
bean is among, the grand and pay
ing industries of the near future.
AT St. Louis General Beauregard
was rendered an informal reception
by the daughters of the confederacy.
TIE Boston has followed the
Yorktown to Chill. She received
ammunition from Fort Wadsworth
Monday.
NAPA CALIFORNIA experienced a
severe earthquake shock Sunday,
shaking down chimneys, and shat
tering houses.
MELBOURNE has made it rain again
in Kansas. The experiments up
there seem to be more satisfactory
than they were in Texas.
A SERIOUS attempt at revolution in
Montevideo was squelched by the
prompt killing of few OF the ring
leaders of the movement Sunday.
The reports of an agreement with
Germany respecting grain are pre-
mature, but there are excellent pros
poets of an early arrangement.
Col. JNo. A. CockEREL1 of the
New York Advertiser erected beau
tiful monument in st. Louis. It is
to make the burial place of the Elks
FRosT has visited this country as
low down as Northern Texas and
the weather prophets who predicted
an early winter are consequently
happy.
HoUsToN has held a mammoth
Worlds Fair mass-meetine and good
results are expected. What is Wash
iDgton county going to do for the
Worlds fair?
Ar Shakopee, Mimi, freight trains
on the Minneapolis and st. Paul
railway collided Monday, killing the
fremen, Thos. Rogers and Albert
Lee. Both engines were badly
wrecked,
At West Superior, Wis, the night !
switchman at the Eastern Minnesota
yards struck because fifteen men
we're peremptorily discharged. The
day swltchmen will not take their
places, but have not struck.
IT is unoffcially stated that the !!
United States has concluded an
agreement with Germany by which |
all cereals are to be admitted free.
The present rate of duty on Ameri-
can wheat is % 1 5 cents per bushel.
A CIGAR trust is on the tapis in
New York, which it is said viii ad-
vance the prices to such an extent
that 5 cent cigars will be much
poorer than now. We hope not, in
fact they can't get them much
poorer.
Ar San Francisco three children
named Fernandez were locked in q !
room by an elder sister, who went
out to play They knocked over a
lamp and set the house on fire. Two
we're rescued and the other burned
to death.
The British steamer Phidias from /
New York has arrived at Liverpool
with the crew of the Dutch bark
NicolleGte. abandoned at sea, on
board. When the crew left the
Nlcolette she was sinking and had
lost all her sails. A heavy sea was
rolling.
THIS is the season of cyclones and
recently the Atlantic Ocean has been
swept by a hurricane, and ocean
steamers arriving in New York ere
sll overdue and report rough wealth
or Tho stnamar Davonshira had n