Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-11-21
STATE NEWS

- Good rains fell in north
Texas last week.
= Rev. DR.. Chaplin, of Aus
tin, is at Tyler conducting re-
vival.
a San Augustine wet gro
Ger advertises Texas oranges
for sale.
= Col. Pierce, of the Sunset
route, talks oferecting large
hotel at San Antonio,
= Under its new manage
ment the Montgomery Journal
is quite a newsy paper.
- The Gonzales Inquirer has
come down to first principles
two dollars year in advance or
no paper.
- Kansas corn retails at 70
cents a bushel in Waco and the
supply is not one-third enough
to meet the demand.
= Married, at Lagrange, on
the 18th inst. Mr.. J. NJ. Moore,
Of Columbus and Miss Annie
Killough, of LaGrange.
= Saturday is a big day wirh
the darkies at Gonzales-they
come to town from every di-
rection and do without dinner.
= Bryan is not increasing
rapidly in population, but is i'm
proving steadily. a new hand,
fire engine is wanted very bad:
- There is a lady in Waco
who is the mother of fourteen
children, and yet no one would
take her to be over thirty years
of age.
= Philip Golden, who came to
Texas in 1886; died renently in
San Antonio. He lived on
Onion creek, Travis county for
thirty-two years.
"A man with a. wife and
six children passed through
Waco the other day bound for
Arkansas in an OK wagon. He
had only one dog.
= Pecans are sold at Waco
at S2.5oper bushel by the wag-
on load. Several wagon loads
have been brought a distance
of three hundred miles.
= Flatonia is troubled by a
rush of negroes to the depot ev-
cry time a passenger train pas
ses. They have been doing the
same thing here In BRENNAN.
= The sancti6cationists have
received a supplemental mes
sage and will dispense from Dali
las. They have pulled up
stakes and started for Navarro
county.
= The Bonham News thinks
majority ofthe people of Fan
min Comfy favor the Sunday
law with few amendments.
1t is opposed to the whole
thing.
: A car containing d bales
of cotton was burned at Gid
dings on Tuesday. The fire
was started by sparks from a
passing train-Car and cotton
total loss.
Two prisoners escaped
from the Oakville jail recently;
the jail there is no account.
while the county is said to need
a good Jail as badly as any
county in Texas.
Now that the railroad is
nearly completed to Montgom-
cry the Journal thinks a tele-
gragh line should also be built.
1t wants to take the associated
press dispatches.
= Gainesville is soon to be a
city, she will appoint two po-
licemen and erecta workhouse.
Her people are very rich and
very thirsty-the saloons take
in from 5000 to $500 a day.
Waco's free schools are well
attended, and may, this year
run six months. Last year they
only run four months. Here in
Brennan the public free schools
are run the full scholastic year
of ten months.
= The Comanche Chief
gracefully retires from the po-
litical arena. Itsays it will have
plenty to do to attend to the
farming, stock-raising interests
and such other enterprises as
it may deemed of importance.
= Norton, Jones and Goody, I
three prisoners confined in the
Dall2s jail, overpowered two of
the guards, captured their pis-
tolls and escaped. Sixty-three
prisoners were in the jail at the
time; some others tried to es-
cape, but failed.
"A Dallas beergarden open
" sets the Sunday law at def
ance; it advertises an instru-
mental and vocal concert, dance
nall and dance and, last but not
east, ice-cold beer. All of this
On Sunday. No doubt it was
veil patronized. SSH
= A cargo of oats, 1900
was shipped from Gal
1eston for Mobile, Ala, on
Tuesday. The export of oats
rom Texas is comparatively
lew thing and may, if railroad
ariffs are reduced become a
'ery important item of trade. :
= A Milan county man is {
aising what he calls the Over
on or Florida cotton. He took
$50 pounds of seed cotton to
he gin and got bale weighing
4S pounds after paying the
oil. He has five or six bales
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