Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-03-22
STATE MEWs

- brass band is about to
be organized at Round Il ak.
Six candidates are running
for the office OF city Marshal ~
Marlin.
The Waco Telephone has
begun disqualification OF \ week
ly paper.
- The first story of the new
court~house at Georgetown is
cow up.
Col Geo. P. Finley has
been elected city attorney Of
Galveston.
- Flatunia has brass band
and brewery. The Argus
man is happy.
! Bolton continues to i'm
prove, five new cottages are now
under contract.
= Twelve dollars is the price
in Round Rock TOR having
''high lonesome"
= Several parties have been
ut Round Rock seeking real
estate investments.
Bolton is to enjoy the pleas
ure OF "a city" election on the
first Tuesday i'll April.
Fort Worth l. nearl, bank
rupt and city script scarcely has
amy market value.
The Columbus Citizen
notes the arrival OF some i'm
prove breeds OF swine at that
place.
The Columbus Citizen
makes a strong argument in
favor of a county or poor farm
tor Colorado county.
= The robbers, after doing
the train ut Hutchins. started on
foot tor Dallas. A large posse
from Dallas is in pursuit.
&C. L. Miller and Jacob
Schmidt, had difficulty at
Navasota. Miller rec, ived a
lead of No. 5 in the neck.
= Some miserable and
graceless scamps desecrate the
graves OF the Bolton cemeteries
by roabing them of shrubs.
Bolton has been visited by
several suspicious looking Char
acters. They are said to have a
keen eye for a good horse.
The Caldwell Eagle is now
under the management of Z.
W. Billings, whose name APP
pears as editor and proprietor.
- A young man named
Crason Crandle has been arres-
ted at Depison on a charge of
forging Il draft tor fifty dollars.
The knife was successfully
used at Dallas by a small boy
who cut a playmate's arm very
severely. They were only quar-
reling.
Il NEW paper to he called the
Bellville Aryus is soon to be
started at that place by New
nam & Farr of the Hampstead
| Courier.
Up to the 18th inst. there
had been five deaths from small
pox ut Bremnnd. Ont OF to-
tai of twenty cases, four were
varioloid.
The Temperance movement
is meeting with great success in
Marlin. About one hundred
persons have signed the "iron-
clad" pledge.
! Green Duffield. of Gal
weston. has bought Mr.. A. B.
Palms farm, in Williamson
county, containing SAT acres,
for So, 900 cash.
The argus with its manifold
eyes has discovered that there
are a lot Of lazy, ioafing negro
men lying around the streets
and depot in Flantonia.
Every man in Burleson
comfy is offerd the Caldwell
Eagle for eight months, provi,
ded, however, that he brings
the editor three bushels OF corn.
The Fort Worth Standard
says prominent St. Louis Mer-
chants have made arrangements
with the railroad lines for the
transportation of vegetables at
reduced rates.
Several sharp Dallas mer-
chants were taken in and done
for by sharper, who played the
forged bill OF lading game so
successfully that he raised a
500 or so and skipped the
town.
The Dallas Fair Associa
ton has been rcorganized and is
now preparing for another an
nual exhibition. The CONNER
caal remarks that the public ex
poets something else besides
horse racing.
Last week the depot at
Welder, on the Sunset
route, was fired by an incendia-
ry and burned. The telegraph
operator succeeded in saving
his Instruments and part of his