Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-02-03
STATE NEWS.
= Schulenburg is soon to
have a new railway depot.

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have a new railway depot.
There is already a scarcity
OF tenament houses at Bolton.
- Wash Hearn, one of the
weallhiest planters Of Robert
son county is dead.
- VIM. Blauvet, carpenter,
suicided, at Mexia, by cutting
his arm with razor.
- There are 81 convicts in
the penitentiary under Is years,
and 5 over 70 years old.
= One of the rooms in the
Huntsville courthouse is rented
out for an insurance office.
= The ninth street public
free school in Galveston has
been closed-funds exhausted.
- The Galveston oil mills
will resume operations at once,
having secured supply of seed.
"A negro named Burleson
has been arrested at Palestine
on 4 charge of wrecking
train.
- About thirty Bohemian
immigrants arrived at Schulen-
burg last week; they go on the
farms.
= 1t is stated on good auth
ority that there is a large
amount of gambling going on
in Huntsville.
Five car loads of cotton
were burned at Dodge last
Friday on a freight train, caused
by sparks from an engine.
Longs lake, three miles
from Dallas, is to be enlarged
and beautified so that it will be
an attractive pleasure resort.
"A meeting was held at San
Antonio last Saturday to take
steps to offer inducements for
the establishment OF a state nor
NAL school.
Milan Hubby, who was to
have been hanged at Cameron
on Friday the 4th inst. has been
respited by the governor until
the 18TH inst.
- The Bolton Journal says
there is great rejoicing among
the bondsmen of Fay at his re-
capture; his arrest has cost them
about $1,000.
"A petition is being circu-
lated at Concho for the pardon
of Crazy Roberts," who was
lately sent to the penitentiary
for two years.
= A chiropodist is soon ex-
pected in Pleasanton. The corn
doctor, the sewing machine
agent and the lightning rod man
are ubiquitous.
Eugene Hill, sentenced to
the penitentiary for eleven
years from Georgetown for the
murder OF a woman, has been
sent to Huntsville.
A Bell county man owns a
hen that produced last year I25
eggs and in addition to that
performance Matched and raised
five -broods of chickens.
= S. A. Dean, of Mississip-
pi, suicided at Hearne, Tues
day. The act was caused by
remorse, he having murdered a
man before leaving home.
Burglars made a personal
inspection of the banking house
of Garrity, Huey & Co., Corsi-
cana. They ransacked the desks
but didn't tackle the vault.
: Jafersom Miles, a william
Gus mulatto, known in San An
ton as the Hindoo doctor, goes
to the penitentiary for two
years on a charge of burglary.
"A dispatch from Fort Elliot
says that two men were found
forty miles from the road with
their legs frozen to the knees;
they were lost from the Tascosa
stage.
= An obelisk, of wood. has
been arceted in Schulenburg.
An artist will paint and stripe
It, after which it will be an ODE
isk no longer, but BARRIERS
pole.
= The "knife ringer" who
vas fined in BRENNAN for keep
ng and exhibiting gambling
levice, was in Sherman a few
lays ago, pocketing dimes by
he score.
= The philosophical local
,ditor of the Meridian Blade
avs that cursing the weather
will relieve a mans mind, but it
las no effect whatever on the ,
thermometer.
= Anton Gottleich was shot
nd killed in Dallas last Sunday ,
venihS by august hlopp. The T
:illing was iustiGable as Gott- :
eich was at Klopp's house rails /
ng old cain.
- The price of drunk in :
he mayors court in San An !,
onio is five dol ars;. in BRENNAN :,
is only one dollar, but it may =
e worth four dollars more in +
ian Antonio.
= The physicians of Paris + /
snder their services to the poor " y,
f their town free of charge. :;
doctors do more work for Moth =
lg than any class of men eX-
ept newspaper men. p