Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1877-05-04

Many varieties OF garden veg
etables grow during the entire
year. Irish potatoes, English
peas, ETC., are ready for the ia
bic by the LIST of April. Toma-
toes, cucumbers etc., are album.
dant by the 18th of May.
Roasting ears, sweet potatoes,
yaterlnelons, peaches. etc, are
in market by the 1st of July.
Strawberries, dewberries and
blackberries are abundant in
April and May. An industri-
Gus farmer can live lnxuriously
on the products of the orchard
an ! garden, with no expense,
other than the labor expended
in the cultivation of the soil.
The use of manure in field Gull
ture is unknown and seldom re-
CURED for the garden.
BRENNAN
the County Seat, with a popu-
Luton of 1000 inhabitants, is
situated upon the Western
Branch OF the Honston and
Texas Central Railroad-96
miles east of Austin, the Capital
of the State, 20 miles northwest
from Houston, 125 miles from
Galveston, the principal sea-
port of tbs State, and 500 miles
sortn from St. Louis, having
I com munication by rail with
each of the places named by two
daily trains. The railroad
facilities will soor be increased
by the completion to this place
of the Galveston and Santa Fe
Railroad, which will connect
the Pacific Railroad with Gal
weston. The Methodist, Baptist.
Episeopalian, Presbyterians and
German Methodists, have places
Of worship. The Public Free
School, with graded classes, a
corps of teachers, and an average
daily attendance OF 800 scholars,
is in successful operation. A
school building, with all Of the
latest educational impro, ements,
is about TO be erected at cost
of $4,000. Several accom-
plished musicians instruct class
es and at private rooms. Il
literary society meets weekly for
reading, music and conversation
and extends a cordial invitation
to visitors. A public library is
| about being founded under the
auspices Of several enterprising
citizens.
The Masons, Odd Fellows,
Knights of Pythias, and Sons OF
Mars, each, have regular meet
ings. A temperance organiza-
ton, numbering 225 members,
meets weekly. Sunday schools
and Bible classes, upon which
there is large attendance, are
attached to each of the churches.
There are resident in the city
twenty lawyers and elgh
physicians, many of whom are
eminent in their professions,
with regulations eo-extensiye
with the State. The business of
the city is represented by three
banks, two insurance offices,
about eight dry goods and pro-
visions stores doing a wholesale
and jobbing business, and about
twenty-six dry goods and pro-
visions stores doing retail
business. There are in addition
one crockery store, three hard
ware stores, three furniture
stores, three drug stores, two
iewelry stores, one book store,
two establishments dealing ex-
tensively in wagons and ma
chiuery, one planning mill, one
iron and brass foundry, four
blacksmith shops, 4 wagon
shops, one carriage factory, four
or five lumber yards, one mar
Bile yard, seven or eight paint
ers, four tailor shops, five shoe
maker shops, three or four sad
die and harness makers, about
six milliners and dress makers.
Four hotels furnish accomnoda-
ton to the travellers and a large
number OF boarding houses en-
terrain numerous permanent
guests. A well conducted city
market with eight stalls sup
plies beet at five Cts. per pound.
mutton at ten cts, pork at 124
cts, fish at 121 cts, and vegeta-
bles of every variety at reasona-
Bile prices. Two newspapers are
published here, the BANNER,
daily and weekly, and the Texas
Iogksbote, German, published
weekly.
An Opera House built at a
cost of $4,000, and fitted up
with all the modern stage APP
planes and abundant scenery,
furnishes a a popular place OF
amusement, and a large and
handsomely fitted up lecture
room supplies the public want
in that respect.
WASHINGTON
is situated upon the Brazos riv-
er, 20 miles east of Brenhan
and six miles from Nayasota, on
the line of the Houston & Texas
Ceatral Railroad. The popula-
ton OF this place is about 800,
and its business is done by sew
eral lawyers, physicians and
merchants. The Baptist, Meth
od;ct and Preshctariap olurohar