Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-03-02
STATE NEWS.

= The electric light com
panyyare putting up their wire
at San Antonio.
= Hon. w. K. Homan, ha
been appointed road oversee
IN Burleson county.
- The Williamson count,
grand jury found GO indictment
at the last term of the distric
court.
= The commissioners scour
of Williamson county, at lthei
last term, allowed claims u thu
amount of $4,000.
= Martin Piertle, a farmer
living eight miles north of sar
Antonio, suicided last Fridy
by taking arsenic.
- McLennan county alreaoj
has a full line of county candl
dates in the field. They ar
commencing early.
The people of Comanch
want a railroad and they are BY
no means particular what lim'
comes to their town.
Jacksonville has b
into a city and now
full set of city officers
mayor down to marsh
The Paris Nd
says that prohibitd
in Lamar county, BID 1
Texan is a prohibitN
= Peaches on So
trees in the vicinity o.
are as large as quail
Strawberries we're rips
ago.
: While Washington
is talking about building
house, Navarro county h J.
one and put a $4,000 eli
the tower. ~|
Joseph JacksoY
home near Caldwell
inst, aged about o3
was a Texas vetera r
teemed citizen. {
= Between Navaso1
Anderson FIVE gin HOY
large dwelling and a lard
Der of cabins were blowl
by the wind last Monda
Stealing is a good,
English word, but it apr
be going into disuse. Il
ton Journal tells of a neg
lifting" a hat from a
keeper.
The Caldwell Register 2
petrates a grim joke. 1t says$
certain Colonel was in tow
looking unusually happy-hi
esteemed mother-in-law diet
last week.
"A few thoughtless youns
men at Bellville hanged one 0
the county commissioners il
effigy and succeeded in raising
a nice little excitement. NJ
harm was done.
Two precincts in Bel
county, Nos. 2 and 6 are goins
to hold elections on the loca
option question. There seem
to be a local option craze ii
some sections of the state.
Two men riding horse.
supposed to be stolen were ar
rested in Bolton on Saturday
One horse is branded M. J. boil
hind feet white, the other is ;
black horse branded B. S. oil
left shoulder.
= At Austin a snipe hunting
party were taken in by the vic.
tim, who got back before they
did and left them to walk home
The victim knew as much as the
victimizers. 1t occasionally
that way.
The Caldwell Registel
carps about German carp anc
seems to intimate that there i:
a considerable amount of hum
bug about the culture of carp
We do not agree with the Reg
lister in this opinion.
= The Comanche Chief man
has been presented with a cent?,
pede eight inches long. He
says he will keep it and wher
the exchange iend visits hi:
office the centipede will be
turned loose down the fend:
back.
The Hampstead Review
its intention to live
awhile longer in spite of floods
droughts, smallpox, potato.
bugs and cotton-worms, and
delinquent subscribers. Toe
of the latter have proved
fatal to many county newspa-
pers.
= A smart Alex got on the
cars at Temple and as seats
were scarce he announced that
he had the small pox. This
created a breeze among the
and the joker was
put ashore in the prairie. He
will not try the small pox dodge
again.
Jim Williams, a thrifty
colored man living in Brazos
bottom Burleson county, has
bought and paid SI25o in cash
for 100 acres of improved land,
A colored man can make money