Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-18

corn in England instead of bar
ley to make malt. If the ex-
pertinent proves satisfactory It
will cause an increased demand
for American corn, and farm
ers will always have place to
put their surplus corn. In En-
gland and on the continent the
people have a prejudice against
using corn meal for bread.
Or the 70 members of the
next house OF representatives
all have professions except B.
R. Plumby, OF Galveston, who
is put down as a gentleman, the
remainder of the members are
farmers, lawyers, merchants and
editors, of the latter calling there
are six. In the state senate
there is one editor, J. M. Mar
tin, of Cook county.
The Wilmington, Del, Every
Evening says nobody need lie
awake at nights over the'possi-
bility that New York may yet
be counted for Hancock. 1t
cannot be done unless it is
shown that over 10000 fraudu-
lent votes were polled for Gar
field, to do this, the work. of ex-
aiming witnesses would not be
completed during Garhelds term
of office.
JUDGE DAVIS has rendered an
elaborate decision i'll the case
of kenward Philip-in the Gar
field Chinese letter-in which
he holds the letter to be an I'M
questionable forgery, and not in
the handwriting of Gen. Gar
field. Philip is held to answer
the charge of criminal libel
Hewitt OF the national demo-
cratic executive committee is
also censured.
Tue directory of the Texas
and Pacific railroad headed by
Col. Tom, Scott, accompanied
by the principal officers of the
Iron Mountain and Southern
were in Dallas on Friday. They
go over the T. and P. to East
land and then back to Marshall.
1t is thought they are looking
at the country with view to
building railroad from Fort
Worth TO Laredo.
GEN. ScHoFlELp, commander
at West Point, in his report in
dulges in a lengthy disquisi-
ton on the respective merits of
white and colored cadets. He
says the outrage on Whitaker
was committed by himself. His
opinion is that colored cadets
at West Point are a complete
failure, and that it is an utter
impossibility to educate them
up to a standard Of usefulness
as army officers.
Miss CARRIE M. PLANT, living
with her uncle at Kingston, N.
J., and being his sole heiress to
an estate of $4,000 fell desper-
ately in love with a negro, and
by the STACEY of blackening
her face with burnt cork, sue
ceeded, last week, in getting a
clergyman to marry her to her
African adorer. Her uncle in
stantly disinherited her, and yet
she is happy, living in a negro
colony not far from her uncle's
home.
The Beaumont Enterprise
says it has heard a few people
commend the present road law,
and that it may be a good insti-
tuition in the rural districts. In
Beaumont the law is a nuisance
and is unjust. A mill man from
a distance engages to work at
the saw mills and before he has
earned half enough to reimburse
him for his trip, he is summoned
to work on the roads. The road
law is knotty question. Work
on the roads must be done.
How it is to be done without
being burdensome in some re-
spect is a question that legisla-
tive solons must decide.
AN unusual phenomenon is re-
ported as having occurred at
San Antonio last Thursday.
Fred Bader, aged II years, was
sitting down at the gate post
of his parents house eating
bread and butter, when he was
enveloped in a fame which
passed around the house to an
irrigation ditch and was lost.
His little sister who saw the
fame describes it as a ball of
fire. The boys face and eyes
are badly burned. The burn