Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-01-18

eNs-~ %'-'s "A'O iSS'N>-s' j
across the line IN Travis county,
believes silver can be found il
paying quantities on his place.
tie thinks he has discovered ev-
licences Of mining years ago.
- Hampstead Messenger:-
The negro prisoners eoabued in
the Hempsteadj ,iI tried to burn
their way out-oil Saturday night
They didr'tA succeed. District
conrt began on Monday. :. Many
farmers in our county are going
to try sugar cane in small way.
= Rockdale Messenger: Hog
killing time is at hand, People
are now finding ont that it pays
better to get ffue blood hogs and
keep them where they can he
watched. :. A Touring mill is
wanted near Lexington, Lee
county. Wheat would be raised
il it could be ground.
Bolton Journal: Shuckman
and Crawford, charged with
numbering the Mexican found
in the slough, have, aftera weeks
preliminary examination, been
held in bonds SIS, 900 each. They
repnsc in Jail. We learn that a
distilieryi5 to bestarted near here
Cheap corn, COOL water and a
reasonably good demand for the
"critter is said to be the III
ducements offered.
= Bastrop Adrerti,er: Plant
less cotton. raise more wheat,
corn and hogs, and he happy
and prosperous. :. Millions of
pigeons are said to be at the
pigeon roost. two and half
miles east OF town. =. LoateFs
are requested TO find other
places besides the printing office
to do their loating. The
burnt district at McDade is
being rebuilt.
= Round Rock has been
city Just about three weeks,
and the citizens not yet having
become accustomed to city WAYS
have been arrested for violating
city ordinances. The Mayor is
doing a fine business, having
already had no less than thirty
"cases" before him. Whether
they were hard or soft cases is
not stated. Bv the time every
man in town has beer arrested
and fined they will begin to get
tired of city doings.
The San Antonio e press
says in Western Texas the wa
termelon crop never fails. From
about the first OF June until
frost they are brought TO market
by the hundreds of wagon loads.
1t is said that experiments made
in California demonstrate that
fine quality of sugar can BE-
made from watermelons, at a
cost of two cents less per pound
than from sugar cane. During
the war sugar was made from
watermelons By people in Bexar
county. 1t only remains to be
tried whether with proper ma
chinery and appliances the man
ufacture OF sugar from wafer
melons can be made profta-
bic.
= Colorado Citizen: Colum-
bus is ont of debt, and has a
few hundred dollars in the
treasury. Her paner is at par
-. Bad weather and bad roads
has made trade very dull -.
Colorado county is out of debt,
and has money in the treasury.
This has been brought about by
the good management of her
county officers. 1t would be
good idea to go in debt again
to buy poor farm so that Jail
fees may be lessened, and the
prisoners help obe selt-sustain
ing. =. The big hoc weighed
ASS pounds net. ;. There is
much sickness in the neigh
borhood OF Weimar.
GENERAL DIX, the lively cen
tenarian, does not .agree with the
family of Mr.. Thomas Lord in
the view they take OF that gen
ilaman's marriage. Il do not
regard Mr.. Lord as such an idiot
as people are trying to make
him out, "'he remarks, "as it was
not often that a man of his age
got chance to marry a fine
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