Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-08-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.


fused a joint debate there last Fri
day.
The withdrawal of the Morgan
line of steamers from Galveston is
viewed with alarm by the tlmid, but
not much significance is attached to
it by most people.
The United States Behring sea
commissioners have returned to
Nanaimo, having concluded their
labors. The Bristist commissioners
return in few days.
The situation in Berlin says a
special is dreary. September prom
Uses small failures by the score. The
substitution of wheat for rye in the
army will not be easy.
The Burlington and Quincy strike
of freight handlers is still on, and
as usual when other men were put to
work to move the freight they were
set upon by the strikers.
The president, cashier and direc-
tors of the Citizens bank of Nevada
have been arrested at Kansas City
for receiving deposits after they
knew the bank was insolvent.
''WHAT fools these mortals be-"
Another man, Arthur GLASGOW, of
Indian Territory, shot and killed
himself Saturday with a pistol that
he ''didn't know was loaded"
GEN. EzETA, president of San Sal
vador, has telegraphed the secretary
of foreign affairs here to use good
offices in preventing a new war be-
tween Guatemala and Salvador.
QUEEN Victoria now rules q popu-
lation of 377, 200, 0O0-a greater num-
Der of people than ever acknowledge
ed the sovereignty of any other one
person, in either ancient or modern
times.
The crop reports from Germany
are quite gloomy, and the prospect
for trying winter confronts her
people. The government policy is
universally condemned by the radi-
cal press.
QUEEN VIc's graciousness to Adj
miraI Gervais is greatly appreciated
in France. The old lady might
have been giving him taffy; better
not presume too much on her gra-
ciousness.
AN explosion in New York Satur-
day tumbled the walls of two build
ings, killing many people, burying
them beneath the debris, mangling
some, burning others and drowning
some in celler.
HoN. Thos. Bocock, for fourteen
years a member of Congress from
Virginia, and for four years Speaker
of the Confederate Congress, died
recently at his home in Appamattox
county, Va, aged 68.
ROME threatens to exclude the
Pope from the vatican. The pope
has ordered all station bishops to
report the number of Catholics in
each diocease entitled to vote who
are opposed to monarchy.
The papers are now giving Blaine
a rest on his alleged illness while
they carry Emperor William through
the various stages of various com
plants, because he accidently hurt
his knee some time since.
The San Francisco Examiner says
that Balmaceda offered the United
States government S4,0O0,00O for
The cruiser Baltimore, which was re-
fused. It was pretty good price,
put this country does not build war.
hips for sale.
MAJ. Rathbone, of Ohio, the new
Fourth Assistant Postnaster-Gener-
i, is just 43 years old and one of the
most experienced men III the service. :
lie is handsome fellow, a thirty
econd degree Mason and a WIDE
wake business man.
THE Arkansas Pass Railroad has
'een completed to Rockdale, and by
he last of this month will have
cached Cameron, the capital of
Iilam county. The contractors ex-
'ect to have it finished to Waco by
r before the LIST of October.
ENGLAND notifies China that here
fLer no British officers will be al
owed TO serve in the Chinese navy.
his is due 10 the refusal of China
0 explain the insult of Chinese
ficer who hauled down Admiral
Iang's flag while he was In COM
land of the Chinese north coast
quadron in 1890.
The details of the Martinique hor-
Or, which was recently cyclone
wept, bring the intelligence of an
arthquake. So severe was the dis
ster that many thought the world
as coming to an end and to hum
reds it amounted to the same
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