Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-05-21

tween the eyes.
TIE farmers are all right, the al
lance is all right" says the Nash
vile American, ''but the designing
alliance leaders are going to Civ,
them the devils ride before they ar
done with them" That is putting
the case in nutshell.
SECRETARY NOBLE, it is given out
will resign two months hence ant
Thos. 81. Carter. of Helena, Mon
tana, appointed in his place. Secre
tary Noble and the administration
have never got along well togethe,
in the political household.
The Galveston Evening Tribune
wanted the Texas Press Association
to meet at the shores of the raging
deep next year and soak their heads
in its briny waters. But San An
tonic was elected as the next place
of meeting. The Press Association
prefer beer to salt water.
AT the organization of the mem
bers of the newly created commits
sion of appeals at Austin, Tuesday
Judge G. G. Garrett, OF this city
was selected as the presiding Judge
His friends here congratulate hin
upon this distinguished honor.
OWING to the dangers run by fish
ermen in Newfoundland waters from
large ocean steamships, Admira
Vallont of the French navy thinks
they should be compelled to avoid
passing the banks by making a de.
tour, which would delay them only
for four hours.
The Mark Lane Express in its
weekly review in grain says: ''En,
glish wheats are lower, excepting in
finer wheats, which are quoted at
As; foreign wheats are depressed
prices fell Is, subsequently recov.
cred on prospective reduction of the
French wheat traffic.
RIGHT Hon. Henry Campbell Ban,
herman, first lord of the Treasury in
the English house of commons, and
Liberallst, secretary of war in Glad,
stones third administration, has
been expelled from parliament for
conspiring to procure young gov
erness for immoral purposes.
The cashier of the Georgia Pa
cifc freight depot was knocked
down and robbed in Birmingham,
Ala, recently and the depot set on
fire with the intention of burning
him up. A false fire alarm sum
moned the department to another
part of the city, hence the depot
burned.
CHAs. b. DIXON is the crank who
went from California to ask Jay
Gould to give him $4,000 or he
would kill him. He will need no
other evidence to establish his in
sanity than to prove that he wanted
Gould to 'igive' him anything. He
was very properly arrested and is
now in durance vile.
STRIKING street car drivers are
preventing the cars from running at
Grand Rapids. Michigan. There
was found on the track a gas pipe
filed with enough nitroglycerine TO
blow brick block to atoms. Such
as this to force demands
is what Injuries the cause of strikers.
The insurgents of Chilli seem to
be getting the best of the Gillian
war A Chillian man -of-war was re-
Gently worsted by an insurgent
cruiser, and now the Etata is on her
way to the insurgents with a ship
load of arms, though Uncle Sam
says she must not carry them.
A TRAIN load of Cinnamon en-
route from Europe to China passed
through Texas Tuesday in closed
cars guarded by officers. They
were bonded like dutable goods
passing through the country and
we're guarded in locked cars by Off
GERS. Guess these Cinnamon had a
poor opinion of the boosted land of
the free.
THE New Orleans Daily States
says: There was a time when the
South was disposed to envy the
North and the Northwest, because
of the fact that the immigration
from the countries of Europe poured
into those sections, but now our
people are beginning to realize that
what they once regarded as a. mis-
fortune, was in reality a blessing.
To-day the North and Northwest