Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-06-20
Local Intelligence.

appearance in market. S-kEl
The engineer corps of the
Santa Fe road arrived yester-
day.
STocK cATTLs, on the prai-
ries aye said to be suffering for
want of water. - 49,
The sweet potato crop will
prove failure unless we have
rain very soon.
FINE English grapes are in
market, but rather dear at five
cents bunch.
SEVERAL carloads Of new
wagons have been received by
BRENNAN merchants.
WATER is becoming an item
with some Of our citizens. whose
wells have begun to fail.
LARGE quantities of peaches
are being preserved by the
good ladies of BRENNAN.
CHEAP.-Fine, lusciousp peach
es can now be had in this mar
ket at so cents per bucket
SOME talk of celebrating the
4th of July by the Fire depart
ment and military of Brenham.
VEGETATION is being COM
pletely parched up from the ef-
fects of the continued drouth.
SEVERAL new mercantile
houses will be opened in this
city on or about the list of Sep
TENDER.
HoP.- The BRENNAN Greys
will give a hop at their armory
on next Friday evening, the
goth inst. ~
MUSTANG grapes are now ripe
and wine-making is being vig-
orously prosecuted by our
country cousins.
The dry weather is not only
injuring the corn by preventing
its filling out, but it is burning
up the fodder on the stalk.
Hon. THOMAS JEFFERSON is
now following the occupation
of an ice cream peddler. He
is much colored, being black.
ANOTHER B. B. CA num-
Der of colored boys from ID to
is years old have organized a
base ball club and named it the
Lee. !,
TUE matrimonial market is
remarkably dulljust now, though
there is considerable sparkling
going on among the young peo-
pie.
]. /. & S. LEVINE have open
ed new dry goods and groce-
ny store in the Hosea block, on
Sandy street, with a neat assert
ment in their line.
VEGETABLES are getting to be
rather a scarce commodity; the
continued dry weather is liter
ally parching vegetables of all
kinds to crisp.
J. w. SAYLEs, county survey
or, leaves this evening for New
York; his deputy. Judge o. H.
P. Garrett, will have charge of
the surveyors Office.
The colored people of the
Burton neighborhood are max |
ing extensive preparations for
their emancipation celebration
on the 10Th inst.
UNDER WAY Brick work
has been begun on the walls of
the new Methodist church, and
the work is to be pushed for
ward as speedily as possible.
WATREMELoNs.-A wagonload
of watermelons wasbrought in
on Saturday. The wagon was
soon surrounded by an anxious
crowd of colored citizens. e
PEDDLERs. = There were a
number of peddlers in town
Friday, their business SEEM
ingly to be the replenishing of
their assortment Of goods and
notions.
The prevailing drought has
its effect on the average bum
mer. He finds if difficult to
obtain a full supply of fluid
nourishment in spiritual
shop.
The darkies are holding Kan
sas meetings in town almost
every night. They keep very
dark on the subject, probably |
expecting to make a big strike
about cotton picking time.
Mr.. F. A, ENGELKE has just
had a wire barrier put up in his |
banking house. reaching from
the counters to the ceiling. 1t
is a very neat job and adds to
the appearance Of the Office.
Observation-Disclosures. Ste