Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-02-06

The following are the receipt:
for the week ending. Friday
Jan. go. 1880.
Ne, receipts, balss............... al
Shipments. -. 29i
| Stock on hand. 49,
Total receiptslhis season.......-..i7,Sst
Total ShiPmenls...... -..'...'. ihi5!
IN THE FALL Negroes
about Ghappell Hall are work
ing earnestly to make big crops
so as to get otto Kansas in the
fall. They now have a kink in
their heads that darkey after
he gets to Kansas can get an
education in two weeks.
THE matrimonial epidemic
continues to rage with unaba-
bated fury. Weddings are TAX
ing place in all parts ofthe coun-
ty; the fact is, our devil has
been attacked with the malady,
and actually entertains serious
intentions of commisti n,atri-
mony.
New ORGAN.-The new or
gan for the Baptist church at
Gay Hill arrived on Friday. It
is a cabinet organ, chapel
style, made by the New Eng
land Organ company, Boston,
Mass, and was ordered through
Mr.. Geo. W. Moore, music
dealer, BRENNAN,
The first one hundred miles
of the Santa Fe railroad has
been completed. On Monday
at noon the road was completed
to Deadman's creek 100 miles
from Galveston and about six
miles from Bellville, which city
will in all probability become a
railroad town this week.
CoRsIcANA, with a population
of only about 5000 souls, has a
$4,000 cotton compress yet
Brennan, with a population of
5000, has not the spirit and en-
terprise with which to erect a
compress of any kind, though
her business men are posses
ee of any quantity of capital.
LARGER quantities ofagricul-
tural implements and improved
labor-saving machinery have
been sold by hardware dealers
this season than ever before,
which goes to prove that our
farmers are beginning to under
stand and appreciate improved
methods in agriculture.
Run OvER.- Tuesday when
the Bucket. company's truck
was on the way to the fire a
small boy named Robertson,
who was riding on the truck,
was thrown off and run over.
Fortunately he was not injured
beyond being slightly bruised.
He was soon out on the street
ready to be run over again.
Bell. PuNcH.-The city in
adopting the bell punch did a
wise thing-for the saloon keep
ers. The entire revenue to the
city from the bell punches for
the month of January was S3S.
Under the old occupation tax
ordinance it would have been
from SI75 to 5000. The bell
punch is a great institution.
THANKs.-Ye senior acknowI-
edges the receipt of handsome
supply of backbones and spare
ribs from his esteemed friend,
Mr.. P. H. Barnhill, who resides
four miles north of town. A
four years service in the Con-
federate army as mess-mates.
enables Pleas. to have a pretty
fair conception of our fondness
for Sehapeinefeisek.
ANOTHER. Friday afternoon
colonel Will Garrett, duputy
sheriff, arrested one Moses Lee,
a black negro, on a capias from
Harris county. Nose is charg-
ed with stealing a horse. He
says he is not the gentleman
wanted, but sheriff Noble, of
Harris county, was here on
Thursday and recognized the
"coon." Nose is in jail.
SHOT a NEGRO Mr.. Frank
Whitney, master of the wreck
ing train en- the H. and T. c.
railway, on Friday, up the road,
shot a negro wounding him in
the fesby part Of the arm. The
colored gentleman was not so
severely damaged but that he
could come to town and make
a complaint against Mr.. Whit
ney. charging him with intent
to kill.
SANTA FE RAILRoAD.-Tbe
BANNER is informed by a gentle
man who is just from the end
of the track, that work is pro-
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