Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12
STATE NEWS.
San Antonio needs more
tenement houses.

S"PPiJ'
The Houston Gazette, asa
German paper, is now issued a
daily.
Hill county is to try vote
on local option sometime in
March.
AT Gonzales during the
holidays the young men held
their prayer meetings as usual.
The Gonzales Inquirer
publishes its carriers address
4 little over two columns in
lingth.
The courthouse at Colum-
bus is being repaired and will
be ready for business by Feb
ruary Ist.
Eagle Pass is beginning to
experience a railway boom and
will, it is said, be a rival of La
redo soon.
Marshal Thompson, Of
Austin complains that the
police force now allowed him is
insufficient to do the duty re-
CURED.
They had no egg-nogg in
Bastrop Christmas-not be-
cause they didn't want it, but
because they could get nc>
eggs.
The Reporter is the name
of Maj. Denison's paper lately
issued at Bolton in place of the
Courier that was burned oy
| last fall.
The grand jury of Gong
county has been quite
having found SO indictme
80 for. felonies and 50 for
demeanors.
Col. John T. Flint was inH
ton the other day in the intsl
est of the Missouri Pacific rat
way. Bolton still has hopes q
getting the branch.
"A writer in the Fort Wort
Democrat suggests that I'll
city authorities of that tow
employ a physician to vaccina1
all corners free of charge.
William Jones, a farmer,
living near Cleburne, was
robbed last Friday night. while
going home, OF SI5o in good
cash. Two men did the job.
Austin had a fashionable
Hebrew wedding last Sunday,
the occasion being the wedding
of Mr.. Max Cans, Of Giddings
aud Miss Cecilia Seelig, of
Austin.
I'm the vicinity of Laredo
the grass onthe prairies is green
and so luxurious that it is being
cut for hay. This is remarka-
BILE considering the season of
the year.
B. Studer, was recently
tried in the district court at
San Antonio on the charge of
numbering his son, some two
years ago. The jury was una
BILE to agree.
Prohibition having been
carried in Bosque county the
next thing will be to enforce it.
The county commissioners will
issue an order for the law to-
take effect.
"A man named McCombs
blew the top of his head off
with a double-barrelled shot
gun, at Scyem, Dallas county,
last Saturday. He had been
an invalid from infancy.
Moses Cloueh, a merchant,
attempted to commit suicidaso OF
Columbus last week by jump
ing out of a second story win
dow and afterward trying to cut
his throat with piece Of Class.
The DR.. John Herff, who
died in San Antonio last week,
was not the surgeon of that
name, but a young man, his
son, who had but Htely COM
menced the practice of medi-'
cine.
Temple continues to grow;
the Santa Fe railway is build
ing a large round house and re-
pair shops, and a new passen-
ger depot is being erected to
accommode the increasing bus
mess of the place.
-Weatherford had a very
destructive fire on Monday
night, involving a loss of about
$4,000. The fire originated in
the store of S. Lapowski &
Bros. and is supposed to have
been of incendiary origin.
= Raising hay is a very i'm
portant industry in the neigh
borhood OF Sherman. One firm
there runs seven hay presses,
and has bought baled and ship
ped I23 car loads of hay this
season. The average price paid
has been $3.50.
Antoine Nelson, a Swede
we'll known in Brennan where
he worked as bricklayer for
several years, was found dead
in the rear of a saloon in Bell
vile Christmas night, Coroners
jury verdict, died from excessive
use of liquor.
The Bastrop Advertiser says |
that the county jail is "chuck"
full of prisoners, and charged !
with petty ofienses, and that
other lazy and good-for-noth-
ing blacks and whites are try