Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-11
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dogs as well as Brenlam.
The Bastrop Advertiser
patented again last week.
The greenbackers Of Cooke
county are only 500 strong.
WelIborn, for congress, got
5000 majority in Collin county.
= Flatonia win ship about
Iz,cao bales of cotton this
year.
Last Saturday morning.
there was a light snow at Corr
sicana.
: VIM. Pullaim, at Waco, at
tempted suicide by taking NOR
phlne.
: Hampstead has shipped
only 1000 bales OF cotton this
season.
The Flatonio Argus has
been presented with IL
pound turnip.
Mr.. Longino, of the Cald-
well Register, is going TO move
to Eastland city.
= The town of Paris give
Hancock 434 votes, Garfield
26z and Weaver SO.
Complete returns in Bas-
trop county gives Jones 1863
majority over Shepard.
= Navarro county polIed a
vote OF about $500. of which
Hancock received 1900.
LIN Fort Worth the republic
cans fred 529 guns in honor of
the election of Garfield.
In San Antonio the can
vass for the city elections in
January has already opened.
Mrs. VIM. Goh, of Dallas,
was fatally burned last Saturday
by her clothing catching IRE
--0ut of 1896 votes in Gram
bury, Hood county, not one
vote was polled for Garfield.
= The grcenbackers of La
mar county made a complete
failure with their county ticket,
At a saloon opening in
Fort Concho the boys got full
of fun, free lunch and whiskey.
"A Mexican lady living
in San Antonio was bitten on
the hand By mad dog the 9TH
er day.
- Hampstead must be the.
dullest town in Texas judging
by the local columns OF The
Courier.
The price of a plain drunk
atAustin, is S. and costs. An
ornamental drunk is much more
expensive.
= A number of so-called,
democrats in Cooke county de-
veloped into republicans on Ell
ection day.
Citizens of Corsicana are
called upon to subscribe'money
towards the completion of the
artesian well.
= The grand jury at. Dallas
has indicted twenty-four non
tax-paying drummers; they are
to be arrested soon.
= Ed Terrell, contractor on
the Central extension near Dub
lin. robbed of.sIooo in sill
yer the other day.
= On the 1st of December
the newly elected county Off
GERS throughout the state viii
assume their duties.
w. NJ. ScheIl, a brakes
man on the International road.
was killed at Rockdale on Sat
urday, while coupling cars.
The telegraph Office at
San Antonio was SO crowded
lately that all the messages
presented could ot-be sent.
- The San Antonio Express
says the epizootic, called for
short the "pazoot," has reached
that city and several horses
have it.
= Major Penn has closed up
his arrival in Dallas. He made
exactly 500 conversions. of
whom 81 joined the first Bap-
fist church.
The San Antonio Express
got hold Off state paper con-
tanning the announcement of 81
men for the Office of constable
in one beat.
: On Friday night the Their
mometer at Dallas fell to 2S de-
grees. The freeze has cut off
the unopened cotton bolls one
half.
A Coryell county farmer
was robbed of fifty cents by
highwaymen near Waco. He
had SIoo with him, but the rob-
bers did not know it.
Gainesville Is TO have a
daisy of an opera house by
Christmas. Theatres seem to
be thing of the past, al thea
tres are now opera houses.
: Election returns take up
considerable space in last weeks
papers. When the official re-
turns are published the election
excitement will entirely subside.
AT the town of Paris, La
mar county, the vote polied was
large and the count was not fin /