Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-05-14

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= In Jackson county corn
and cotton crops ale doing
splendidly, prospects are favor
able for the finest crop in many
years. fs'ii ~
= Black scurvy or some SIM
liar disease has been quite fatal
among the colored population
in the Durango neighborhood,
Falls county.
- Maj, Addison the soap
man, who was in BRENNAN last
winter, is now in Henderson,
Rusk county. and is highly
spoken of by the local paper as
an "amoosing cuss."
care you a householder
was the query propounded to a
Bell county juror. mo sir,
l am married and my moth
er-in-law lives with me-" was
the reply. He was excused.
= The Austin Statesman
learns that the recent rains have
been the salvation of San Saba
county. Since the rain all the
crops have been looking well
and prospects are cheerful.
= Fairfield man has a fd-
die that he says was built by
| Maggini, an Italian fiddle build
or, in the year 1904, which date
together with his name is stamp
ed on the inside Of the instru-
mcnt.
= Huntsville Item r. c
McFarlane, who killed Clas.
Rivers, a negro, near Phelps a
few weeks ago, has concluded
to stand his trial and with that
object in view came in and sur
rendered.
Excursion trains are now
run on Sunday from San
Antonio to the San Marcos.
Sunday excursions are becom-
ing pnpular, those from Calves
ton to Houston are generally
well patronized. e
= The Mexia Ledger reports
that ten car loads OF creosoted
cross ties passed up the Central
road last week. The company
are using a good many of these
ties; they are said to be much
more durable than without it.
"A negro girl 10 years old
was killed by a train near Round
Rock. The coroner's jury re-
turned a verdict censuring the
engineer. The railroad COM
pany settled the claim with the
parents for damages before the
verdict was rendered.
"A lieutenant and squad, of
the frontier battalion, arrived in
Burnet with two Llano county
convicts and alsa ten med ares
ted in Llano and San Saba
counties for wilfully killing 500
sheep, and twenty others for as
sault to murder in Llano coun-
ty.
= Last week the store Of J.
A. MCGEE, at Milano, Milan
county, was entered by burglars;
the safe was chopped open with
an axe and SISooin cash stolen;
after which the store was set on
fire. MCGEE is a cripple and
indignation prevails. His in
surance policy had expired the
day previous to the robbery.
The case of Jack and Tom
Jones, transferred from Robert
son to Milan county, was called
at Cameron and continued be-
cause of the absence of two
important witness" 1t viii
be remembered that some time
ago that the Joneses killed a
man in a saloon at Calvert.
= Whitney Bee Rain came
in the very nick of time it
made a sure thing for the small
grain crop, and jerked right up
what cotton there was in the
ground. Contracts have been
made by some of our mer-
chants for the erection of eight
brick buildings on Brazos street.
- drunken tramp secreted
himself in box car at Marshall
on Saturday morning and was
hauled to Bonham where the
car was left en- the side track.
At q o'clock on Monday alter
noon he made his presence
known and was released nearly
starved and as dry as a powder
house.
= Since the new towns of
Whitney and Morgan have been
opened up the jobbing trade of
Waco has increased. The mar
row gauge railroad will draw
trade from remote sections,
says the Telephone. Its like
ly that the merchants Of Corsi-
caua will sit still and let the
trade go on to Waco.
Corr. BellviIIe Times: Sea-
ly is a fourishing little town
IS miles below Bellville on the
Santa Fe road. Its located in
a gently undulating prairie
country; the soil is fertile and
covered with luxuriant vegeta-
ton; its merchants and business
men are active and enterprising,
building is progressing steadi-
ly and everybody has great
expectations" of the future of
the town.
: Waxahachie Enterprise ;
The joke of the season was per-
petrated the other day upon one
of our young men whom a coll
ored youth had asked to write
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