Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-12-05

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Office would not pay.
- Much complaint exists in
Galveston at the filthy condi-
ton of the street car tickets.
- Enterprise must wilma
Goliad boot black advertisers
his business in the local paper.
= The Meridian Blade re-
grets the absence Of privates in
Texas. Everybody has a title.
- Thanksgiving day was
celebrated at Mexia by the
schools only; they took holiday.
John Ollie, Jr., of Gonzales
was carelessly handling an old
pistol; he has a bad hand now.
The whole of Concho
county is owned or leased and
is no longer the resort for hun
tiers.
Bellies from the Indian ma
ton attend society balls in Den
ison and the News says they
are charming.
- A norther at Austin the
other day had the effect of
making many wood haulers
happy.
One William Smith has
been arrested at Dallas for hav-
ing in his possession noulds for
Is and 50 cent coins.
The druggists of Dallas
have petioned the city council
to the remove the tax On the
sale fspirituous liquors.
- MeXia Polytechnic Insti-
tute is in a most flourishing
condition now, there being
about I4o pupils in attendance.
= Marlin is improving very
rapidly. so says the Ball. Every
Texas town is improving. so
there can certainly be no hard
times.
The Paris North Texan
says that Tom Clark, indicted
for the murder Of ]. J.. Wheeler
in that city has not yet been
tried.
- Receipts of cotton at
Rockdale have been so excess
i've that the Messenger deems
it necessary to explain the large
receipts.
- Young people are advised
to eat oysters in the months
that have RS and to drink whis-
key only in those that have ks
in their name.
At Palestine the other day
the case of c. c. Rogers came on
to be heard upon habeas cor
pus by Judge Edwards who re-
fused bail.
John Loller, a boy recent
ly pardoned out of the peniten-
tiary, has been reconvicted and
sent back. He will probably
stay his time out now.
- The immense amount of
freight arriving at Denison from
the north has caused the NJ, K.
and 7. company to double its
freighting capacity.
- At Bolton one or two pris-
oners escaped from the jail. In
the attempt to recapture them
an innocent negro was shot and
wounded.
AT Bryan the other day
five negro prisoners attacked
the sheriff and his deputy. The
sheriff has a black eye and the
a head as big as a su-
gar hogshead.
The Navasota Tablet
thinks that Grimes county will
ship I2,oco bales of cotton this
year and that as much money
will be received for it as for the
crop of the year previous.
The mayor of Denison was
so ove1oyed at the array of
before his court on
last Saturday morning that he
fined himself fourteen dollars
and fifty cents before he knew
it.
"A small feed and grocery
store at Austin, owned by Nor
is & Crawford was burned on
night. w. B. Watson,
clerk in the store was burned |
% crisp. Foul play is strong
y suspected.
On Friday night last. the
body of a Mexie an was diseov-
red lying near the Austin road
lear San Antonio. An inspec-
ion of the body revealed the
act that the man had been shot
o death.
- A fearful difficulty occur
ed at a ball some six miles
rom Waco. Some twenty-five
n thirty persons gathered at a
arm house for a ball; every
nan brought his pistol and
was abuntant; a row
nsued, one man was killed and
wo wounded.
- Caldwell IS now much cx-
tied as to the location Of the
Id and the new town. The
ANITA Fe railroad company
ought several hundred acres
{ land and has laid it out in
own lots which are now rapid
disposed OF, with a probabili-
7 of the railroad addition be-
u the chief business center.