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The Weekly Banner
SUPPLEMENT.
The Corpus Christi Caller is to
have a new dress which it will don
on the occasion of its illustrated
trade edition Oct. the 1st.
In all probability the Force bill
would have passed the senate had
not the shoe pinched other feet be-
sides those of the south.
A fatal wreck occurred on the
through Kansas City express twen-ty-seyen
miles west of St. Louis in
which one passenger was killed fif-
teen injured four fatally.
The Republicans in Washington
dined Speaker Eeed upon his re-
turn to the capital recently. If he
lost any flesh OTer election work
they propose to replace it and mako
the sash fit again.
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A Napa (Cl.) paper tells of a
clergyman who has grafted into a
pecan tree on his place different
varieties of stone fruit until now he
.gathers from it almonds plums and
three kinds of peaches.
The present store of silver in the
United States Treasury is 900 tons
a trifle of 450 carloads. What
loot this might prove for a foreign
fleet iho next time hostile guns'
should be brought to bear on the
national Capitol!
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If Speaker Eeed continues to
speak in public and the press con-
tinues to publish his effusions of
wind and buncombe the next house
of representatives wijlbe demo-
cratic by a good majority.
It is said that the time is coming
when hotels will print their bill of
fare in English. It is to be hoped
that such a time will come for the
average business man cannot fell in
lrench what he -wants at the leading
gieis now-a-aays..
j
is now playing "a lone hand
ail-EPksb. Too
State
the i:li;ctokai coi.i.ixn:.
According to tho reapportionment
bill introduced by Mr. Bunnell tho
house of representatives elected in
1892 will consist of 351 members.
This is an increase of twent3--four.
One member is given for 180000
population. On this basis the dis
tribution is made to tho states. The
electoral vote in 1S92 must change
to correspond.
Mr. Bunnell is chairman of the
committee which will report the
electoral bill at the next session of
congress. This fact tends to give
considerable importance to his plan.
If this basis of one member of con-
gress for 180000 people is adopted
the electoral college to be chosen in
November 1892 will number 442.
The successful candidate for the
presidency will have to receive at
least 222 votes. Tlie electoral votes
of the states as they will be if tho
Dunnel basis is adopted aro given
below. The classification as Demo-
cratic and Republican is based sim-
ply on the way the states went in
1S8S:
Republican states Electoral vote
in 1892:
A Present To Our Subscribers.
California 9 Neacla 3
Colorado 4 new Hamp.-liire 4
Illinois 24 New York 36
Indiana 15 Ohio !.'
Iowa 13 Oreeon 4
Kansas 11 Pennsylvania 32
Maine G Iihode Iiland I
Massachusetts H Vermont 4
Michigan u Wisconsin 12
Minne.-ota in
Nebraska t Total 219
Democratic states Electoral vote
in 1S92:
Alabama 11 Msonri.. -. 17
Arkansas 9 New Jersey 10
lAmutcuciH b ioriii Carolina n
Delaware... 3 Snntli (Inmlms o
rionda 4 Tennessee...... 12
Georgia 12 Texas i
rwenmcKy 13 irsruna 11
LOGisiaua s west uremia 6
.Maryland s
Mississippi 9 Total ITS
New States Electoral votes in
HwBrrar. weo. xuerpan c&rry the presidency
..expBrieneed typographical -artiat an.UIbral votes to spare
journalist. . . j?'?
1S92:
Idaho 3 Washington 4
Montana 3 Wyoniius 3
honth Dakota 4
North Dakota 4 Total 20
The most significant deduction to
be drawn from these figures is that
New York ceases to be the pivotal
state. The thirty-six votes' trans
ferred to the Democratic column of
1888 gives only 209. That is thir
teen less-than the number necessary
to elect. Indiana and 'New York
added to the Democratic column
jc&rry the presidency with two elec-
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Haemony gro.ws apace in the Re-
publican party. A Republican State
Senator named Matthews has been
making a speech in 'which he cor
dially approved of Mr. Kennedy and
hauled Matthews Stanley Quay and
ine otner ann-iorce bill Republican
Senators over the coals in wild Wes-
tern fashion.
"God made woman beantiful"
said Ella Wheeler Wilcox. "He
fashioned her in a divine mold. Her
beauty does not belong to her. She
has no right to selfishly keep it to
herself and rob others of enjoyment.
And what is more lovely in woman
than her throat and shoulders!"
Answer Her eyes and 'lips.
The Senate has voted to put bind-
wg iwine on me iree list ior tne re-
lief of tho farmers of the Republican
States in the Northwest and at the
same time it refused to put jute
bagging on the free list for the re-
lief of the farmers in the Democratic
States of the South. This tariff bill
is for politics only.
Duringi tho war Wm. R. Johnson
an Indiana soldier injured his leg
while crossing the river on a log
near Munfordsville Ky. He had a
pass and was on his way to church.
Recently Assistant Secretary Bus-
sey ruled that he was entitled to a
pension his attendance at church
being ia "line of duty."
Couuercial failures have been on
a big scale during the last few days.
The Boston bankers and note brok
ers who closed their doors last week
are in for about 5000000 liabilities
and the New York commission house
that has just gone under has losses
above assets of nearly 82000000 it
is said. These concerns evidently
went on the principle that if you
have got to fail you should fail big.
The Banner has received the re-
port of the International American
conference relative to an intercon-
tinental railway line a plan of ar
uiuubiuu recommendations on pos
tai ana cable communication with
central and faouth America and a
umiorm system of woights and
measures with tho message of the
Presidents message recommending
the international conference.
BItUTAI HUSSIAJfS.
Barkentine Catherine Sudden has
arrived at Port Townsend from Si
beria. Her commander Capt. John
Thomas has sent to San Francisco
a description of the Russian exile
system as witnessed by him. He
describes the brutal scene which he
witnessed on Laghalien Island a
famous Russian exile prison. A
party of exiles of all ages heavily
manacled were being taken to the
island. A few old men whose
strength gave out fell from exhaus
tion. The brutal driver acting un-
der the orders from his superior
shot the unfortunate men and re-
moved their chains. No mercv or
Discrimination was shown. Wives
saw their husbands killed before
then: eyes; mothers saw their daugh-
ters outraged and insulted. The
exiles were driven like cattle a heavy
whip being used to urge them on.
The prison cells were filthy and the
treatmenn barbarous.
Till! KIVKItS ANIJ IIAKIlOItS HILL.
The conference report on the
rivers and harbors bill has been
adopted and it now goes to the
President for his approval. It is
thought m Washington that he will
approve it but he has his own pecu
liar views about river improvement
and may veto the bill because some
of its provisions does not meet with
his favor.
Thereis this satisfaction however
that should he intervene with a veto
there is time enough for Congress to
take up the bill and pass it. This
fact is likely to have a deterrent ef-
fect on him and secure his signature.
Vegetable Intelligence.
An illustration of apparent intelli-
gence in plants is the behavior of the
Egyptian lotus in this climate. In tho
warmer countries whero it is at homo
the roots of the lotus spread laterally
close to the surface. In this country
the plant learned after a single year's
experience of a New Jersey winter to
prepare fortius freezing season by aban-
doning its surface lateral roots in early
autumn and sending out a crop of roots
lower down so far down tliat they
wero below the reach of frost. In this
my the plant kept up its life continu-
ously over winter and when spring re-
turned the deep level roots were aban-
doned in their turn and tho surface
roots once more sent out.
Then there are certain minute plants
somo of them quite microscopic which
grow in wayside pools and which
move continually in whorls or spirals
without any moving influenco in tho
water. In the myriad forms of this mi
nute life tho erudition of tho pro-
fonndest men of science is required to
determine whether they aro animal or
vegetable in their nature. And then
who knows whether the scientists are
quite right? The moral of the whole
matter is that lifo in tho two forms ia
identical. But what have you said
when you havo said that? Does the
fact of tho identity prove that there is
spirit in matter or that animal human
intelligence is merely a phase of mat-
ter? You pay tho money of your edu-
cation and take your choice of the two
horns of tho dilemma. Boston Transcript.
HERMANN FISCHER.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
STMEilFilYEffiEBIi
Imported and Domestlo
Western and Texas Produce
WDTBS LIQUORS CIGARS TOBAOOO
Delicacies Candies Preserved Vegetables Fruits Meal
Fishy Piokles Canned Fruit Kuts etc.
BRENHAM TEXAS.
Sole Agent of Anhauaer's Celebrated St. Louis Beer
W ICE IN QUANTITIES AT LOWEST RATES -a
W-Lowest wholesale prices to the trade 1 Pair J; .
price for Cotton and other produce
1VOEK THK CONVICTS ON TIIK IIOAl)
"It would pay everywhere to con
struct the best micadamized roads"
says the JNew lork Journal of Com-
merce "and the work should be un-
dertaken by the state where long
thoroughfares are required. We
have often suggested that it need
cost very little if the convicts and
criminals who cannot be given their
liberty because of their unrestrained
depravity were employed at the task
This would effect a double object.
It would build splendid roads at
small cost throughout the lentrth
and breadth of the land and it
would tend to restrain prime. It is
little hardship to the burglar or
highwaymen to keep him in a prison
where he is well-fed and clothedand
better cared for on the whole than
the average of honest laborers who
support themselves."
Some people aro born with an un
happy disposition and some culti
vate one. Some are never happy ex
cept when they stir up strife and
make everybody around them miser
able. Some are so constituted that
they are always thinking that every-
body else is trying to wrong them
and abuse all the rest of the world
for being mean. Such characters
are the most miserable of all creatures
on earth: their own hearts are living
mirrors in which they are continually
seeing the reflection of their own
evil images and imagining that it is
somebody else.
Oxe point says Bradstreet
which the Tariff bill as it stands
present will almost surely
changed is that fixing October 1
the date on which the bill will
into effect and nrovidinjr that
goods in bond deposited prior to
August 1 must be withdrawn before
November 1 or come under the p'ro-
visons of the new law. Strong pro-
tests against the retention of these
dates have been received 'from New
York the reason given for the pro-
tests being that the locking up in
the Treasury of tho money re-
quired to take out the large amount
of goods now in bond would create
a demand for funds which it would
be difficult if not impossible to
meet and that financial distress and
business failures would result.
Bible Significance of Stones.
The Jews it will be possibly remem-
bered by many liad a tradition that
when on the day of atonement the
high priest asked of the Almighty for-
giveness for the sins of the whole na-
tion if they were forgiven the stones
in the Urim and Thummim shone most
brightly; if the contrary they became
black. The breast plato of tho liigh
priest contained twelve stones each
one of which represented tho tribes of
Israel.
Coming down to a later time there
were certain stones which symbolized
the twelve apostles. Peter is represent-
ed by the jasper or gamet Andrew by
tno sappmre James by tho chalcedony
John by the emerald Philip by the sar-
donyx Bartholomew by tho cornelian
Matthew by tho chrysolite Thomas by
tho beryl .Thaddeus by the chryso-
prase James tha lesser by the topaz
Simeon by tho Jacinth and Matthias by
the amethyst. It is scarcely nrobable
that these humblo'men of Galileo fol-
lowers of the meek Nazarene knew of
the existence of tins symbolism but it
shows in wliat valued estimation they
wero neld by those who had been led by
their teachings.
It is not to be wondered at since
theso stones were used by divine au-
thority to beautify and adorn tho office
of tho high priesthood that something
of their virtue should be held to belong
to the holy men who taught such beau-
tiful trutlis to humanity. Sally Joy
White.
Opera House Saloon!
Sandy Street Srenham Texas.
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My bar is always supplied with the finest assortment of
Liquors Wines Cigars and
C- H. SVIum's Extra Dry Champaign.
A. Werner's Lillian Ciiar-Best 5-cent Cigar in tne City.
Polite attention to all. Call and see me before buying else-
where; iny prices are as cheap as the cheapest canbe.
Xj- 3J1. Grrassmuck Proprietor.
LOUIS BRONENKARIT
WA I UH MAKER AND JEWELER
.dealer in. CZjOCICS
WATCHES JEWELRY AND PLATED-WARE.
SnPPfaolfcT SH F0E EVERYBODY. THif
ViCULalICbi BEST "DIAMANTA GLASSES-
TOR THE EYES. t& Best attention giveni o all .Kepairfns
Watches Jewelry. Clocks and Regulators b
Y ork and Goods Guaranteed. West side Court House Square. BREHHAM. TXS
aafr-&X.
JS&ZrVm&a
Santa Fe Saloon
OPEN DA7 AND WIGHT
Finest Liquors Wines and Cigars
ALWAYS ON HAND
Cold Fresh Boor always on- tap. .Responsible for all baffffasre or
valuables left in my care.
&-JLiuncn at all hours. Special attention
lunch ior travelers.
Brenham Texas. M. HAMELMAM Proprietor.
given to prepaiing
Saturday evening an Indian living
a few miles from Juarez Mexico
locked his two little children a giri
and a boy between tho ages of 3
and 7 years in a box to prevent
them from jetting into the orchard
during his absence in Juarez whero
he went on business. On returning
Sunday evening and opening the
box ho found his bov. Ivinrr
ueuu a mo oottom oi tho
box and his little girl in a dyin"
condition. Tho suffocating close-
ness of their prison combined with
thirst and hunger had dont? its
work. Tho father was arrested
tho authorities.
Kaili!Oad3 are not such heartless
creatures after all. Take for in-
stance the action of the Santa Fe
toward tbe poverty-stricken farmers
of Oklahoma whoso entire crop was
a failure thi3 year. The Santa Fe
has offered to supply them with
810000 worth of seed wheat and
wait until the crop is harvested for
their money. Could anything bo
more humane more liberal?
by
Dallas will convey visitors to the
fair grounds by means of electricity
anu aiter iney are in tne grounds
they will enjoy seeing the sights
from an electric railway which is
being constructed inside of tho fair
grounds inclosure. There was not a
single electric road in operation in
Dallas during the fair last year and
now her entire street railway system
is to be operated by the subtle fluid.
Verily Dallas is a driving pushing
city and the fair has contributed a
large per cent to the city's prosperity.
i ive hundred of the persons who
paid fifty cents fare on the New
Haven road in order to reach the
Westchester track from New York
City when that course was firHf.
opened aro now sueing the railroad
lor bU each. They claim that the
fare paid by tbem was excessive
they having been charged fourteen
cents above the legal rate.
persons Have brought individual ! detectives. Up to dato the detec-
suits and recovered 50 in each I tives have succeeded in evading cap-
case' 1 ture by tho train robber3. I
Texas republicans in state conven-
tion refused to indorse the Fraud
and Force election bill. It only de-
manded fair elections and specifically
approved the Australian ballot sys-
tem. Even those whom it pretended
will specinlly be the beneficiaries of
this infamous measure nnd scant
virtue in it. The Fraud and Force
bill has no friond outside the Hoar-
Kesd-Lodge gang at Washington
and their subservient followers.
In 1874 the Republican party went
to the country on a record of proffi-
gaey and a force bill and they were
beaten out of sight. They aro ao-
ing to the countrywith tho same re-
cord in IS90. It is the same coun-
try and wo anticipate confidently the
same results.
j sor Goldwin Smith in Forum.
The news comes that the train
robbers. Burrows and Bunch are
Several j surrounded near Mississippi City by
Why the Dreamers Fall.
Utopists and communists are set at
work by the belief that equal justice ia
tho natural law of the world and thit
nothing keeps U3 out of it but the bar-
rier of artificial arrangements set up by
the power and in the interest of a
class. Breakdown that barrier by revo-
lutionary legislation and tho kingdom
of equal justice they think will come.
Would that it wero so! Who would be
so selfish and so ignorant of the deepest
Bource of happiness as not to vote for
the change whatever his wealth or his
place on the social coach might be?
Unhappily neither equal justice nor
perfection of any kind is the law of the
world as tho world is at present toward
whatever goal we may be moving.
Health strength beauty intellect
offspring length of days are distributed
with no more regard for justice than
are the powers of making and saving
wealth. One man is born in an age of
barbarism another in an age of civil-
ization. No justice can bo done to the
myriads who have suffered and died.
Equal justice is far Indeed from being
the law of tho animal kingdom. Why
is one animal the beast of prey another
the victim? Why does an elephant live
for two centuries and an ephemeral in-
sect for a few hours? If you come to
that why should one sentient creature
be a worm and another a man? In
earth and skies in the whole universe
so far as our ken reaches imperfection
reigns.
The man who in "Looking Back-
ward" wakes from a magnetic slumber
to find the lots of all men made just
and equal might almost as well have
awakened to find all human frames
mado perfect diseaso and accident ban-
ished tho animals all in a state like
that of Eden the Arctic regions bear-
ing harvests and Sahara moistened with
fertilizing rain tho moon provided with
an atmosphere and tho solar system
which at present Li so full of gaps and
wrecks symmetrically completed. So
ciety like the frame of the individual
man isanimperfectorganism. Youniay
help and modify its growth but you
rannot transform it by revolutionary
violence and if you try to do this the
result will only be laceration. rrofes-
F. KRENTZLIN
AGENT FOR W. J. LEATP'S.
Keg and Bottled Beer !
DEALER IN
Choice Family Groceries.
Wines Liquors Tobacco; Oigars Crockery and Glassware
GBABEB BUILDING. BRENHAM. TEXAS.
figy-Orders for Keg or Bottled Beer promptly filled. Goods delivered
in an parts oi tne city ireo ot charge.
New Fall and Winter Goods.
TTe have now in Stock an elegant line of Dress
Goods in all tbe new styles of Wool Fabrics witb
trimmings to match.
LARGE LINE OF MEN'S YOUTHS AND CHILDREN 0L0THIN6
Stetson Hats all shapes. 0. P. and other popular
makes of Corsets.
Our Line of Carpets is ITow Complete.
Have just received a large shipment of the popular
John Kelly Ladies Masses and Children Shoes.
TTHOLXSAUC AND I IT AIL DKALU IN
Furniture and Carpets
-? TnvriT a ivr
m TTT!
TtiB "WIm Tltlrjty.
A little girl of seven or eight yea
lectrified the congrpgation hi one ot
our large churches Sunday morning by
coolly walking up the pulpit stairs just
before the ervios began and drinking
tho water which had been placed there
by the sexton for the minister. Spring-
field Homestead.
WParlor Seta Chamber Seta House Furnishing Goodg.e
CAHPBT IHS OIL CLOTHS HATWHG
HIRHQRS HMTRBSSBS FURHITDRE POLISH
We ara prepared to raxaUh your house from top to bottom at short notice. Carpot
sawsd and put down. Call sad see as. Goods deuvared m the dty FKE2.
SOUTH SIDE OF PUBLIC SQUIRE BRESIAM. TEXAS
City Market.
FISHER &d WEIS
liliers Steam Sausage Manufacturers.
AND D3AZSSS XI? Z.XVE STOCK
Corner St. Charles and Quitman Streets
BKENHAM TEXAS.
fits- All orders for either SAUSAGE or 3LEATS will receivo our
prompt attontion. Highest market price paid in cash for fat BEEF
CATTLE HOGS and SHEEP.
FISHEB & WEIS.
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