Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-01-13
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On the 10th inst. there was
sleigh riding on the Avenue in
Austin.
Many of the citizens of
Bonham went skating last week
for the first time in their lives.
- The trustees of the Austin
free schools have determined to
employ home teachersas far as
possible.
- Telegraph operator at
| Bonham went over to Paris dur
ing the holidays and won SSS
on chicken fights.
A fire on Monday morn
ing destroyed F. w. Brosig's
fine residence at Navasota.
Loss about $4,000.
The city election in San
Antonio on Monday passed off
| quietly. French, independent,
was reelected mayor.
- The citizens of Comanche
are talking of organizing stock
company for the purpose of
starting a wooden mill.
- In Brown and neighboring
Counties the present winter has
been very severe on cattle, and
a good many sheep have died.
AT Cuero the Wizard oil
men endeared themselves to the
public by giving concerts for
churches and charitable pupoS-
eS.
DIR. ]. Z. Griffith, indicted
in Parker county for procuring
abortion, has been acquitted.
His case was reversed and re-
mandcd.
- The engineer corps Of the
International railway started
from Palestine on Monday to
survey the line from Laredo to
the city Mexico.
| There were FIVE hundred
marriages in Grayson county
last year, so Washington coun-
ty has to take a back seat in the
marrying business.
- According to the George
town Sun, Nat 9. dropped into
town to spend the holidays and
has gone back to Washington
to help run congress.
- The only claims against
the estate of John Koop, the
Houston miser, are for medi-
cines, doctors, a dish of soup
and funeral expenses.
Two hundred laborers ar
rived at Denison the other day
from St. Louis and will go to
work on the extension of the
Missouri Pacific railway.
- A Bellville man tried the
arsenic route last week; a stom-
ach pump manned by an able
bodied doctor pumped the
deadly "pizen" out of him.
= A skating party of three
young people are reported to
have been drowned by breaking
through the ice in Palo Pinto
creek, six miles from Gordon.
The Caldwell Register says
the Baptist church, recently
burned in its town, was one of
the best buildings of its kind in
the state, and cost over $4,000.
Taylorsville has beenhigh-
ly honored, representatives La.
bait, of Galveston, and Todd,
of Jefferson, each drank a cup
of coffee there, en- route to Aus
tin.
up in Denison they call it
bulge" AT Dallas the. same
thing is called"tanglefoot" while
in Brennan it is "bugjuice."
After all there is little in a
name.
= According to the Bellville
Times that young city wants a
public free school and a church
building or two, at present it
has neither free schools or
churches.
= The city editor of the Den
ison News has lost sixteen
pounds in weight in the past
month and is still losing. He
will in course of time dry up
and blow away.
= A party passed through
Denison the other day en- route
to join Payne's Oklahoma ex-
petition, whereupon the Deni-
son News remarks: "The fools
are not all dead"
Ell Paso fever is breaking
out in various portions of Tex
as. Many who pull up stakes
and leave an established bust
ness will be glad to get back, if
the walking is good.
"A few days ago the Waco
Telephone was presented with
a large and seemingly perfectly
preserved watermelon. 1t was
pulled last October and packed
away in cotton seed.
- Immigrants are arriving in
Cherokee county almost daily
in search of homes and work.
All are supplied. There is con-
siderable unplcked cotton in the
fields in this county.
= The Bellville Times re-
ports the capture of two and the
killing of one escaped convict
in the lower part of Austin co.,
last week. The convicts made
desperate resistance.
- Farmers in the Taylors-
vile settlement are certainly
haDO,,. thew have raalizeJ