Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-03-06

The Park hotel is being enlarged
as are also the bathing pools.
Parties getting married at the
; various railroad towns in Texas
seem to take special delight in
/ having the particulars of their
, nuptials telegraphed to tho metro.
politan papers for publication.
The strike in the Galveston
telegraph Office did not amount to
as much as was anticipated. Out
of nineteen men in the Office eight
continued to work. Other men
have been telegraphed for to take
their places.
Mike Brennan, city marshal
of Corpus Christi, is an exemplary
officer, he went on a hurrah with
his friends and having his pet
revolver with him he fired it pro-
mlscuously. He and his friends
were fired by the mayor.
"A hunting party from Dallas
has gone TO the wilds of Van
Zandt county. The commissary
department had extensive refresh
ments. The snakes are bad in Van
Zandt county, hence the necessity
for extensive refreshments.
According to the Hillsboro
Mirror a negro woman is now Nv
ing on Judge Abbott's farm in Hill
county, who is l25 years old. She
gives a vivid description ofthe re-
evolutionary war and described the
uniforms of the British officers.
Over two hundred indictments
for gambling were found by the
Mcclellan county grand jury; the
cases will come on for trial in the
county court and lively term is
looked for. The court will grow
rich on trimmings lift makes many
convictions.
The city council of Austin fail
ed to pass resolution deeapitat-
ing the chief of police force, It re-
quiring twO-thirds vote. They
did, however, pass a aesolution i'm
peaching the chief and force. The
impeachment case comes up at the
next meeting.
The commissioners court of Bell
county has awarded the contract
for the erection of the new court
house to Ben Lee, of Bolton, for
s54,945. 1t begins to look as
though Bolton would have a new
courthouse before Brennan begins
building one.
One of the largest stock sales
OF the season was consummated at,
Colorado City on the I'd inst. The
Sterrett & Sherwood's cattle and
ranch, in Tom Green county, was
bought by Messrs. Wyren and Pea.
cock, of Colorado City, the price
paid being 100000.
Prohibition got dreadful
black eye at Hampstead on Mon,
day when q local option election
was held. The vote was: For pro-
hibition, s6a; against prohibition,
ago, The people did not want a
total drouth during the long and
dry summer months.
-Sheepmen of the Laredo dis.
trict report no loss in their fioeks
from the last eold spell. In about
four weeks the wool clip will com
meRee arriving in Laredo and /
business will be as brisk as at the
opening of the cotton season in
other parts of the state.
Judge Noonan, of the Bexar
county district court, again charges
the grand jury to find plenty ofin.
dictments against the gamblers.
He has thus been charging for sew
eral years and the grand jurors
have been finding indictments; the
gamblers when arrested plead gull
ty, pay their fines and resume
business.
Col. Sam Davis died at his
residence near Greenville ON Mon
day last, aged IS years. Col. Davis :
was printer and learned his trade
some 90 years ago. In 1876 he
was guest at the golden wedding .,
OF couple at whose wedding he
was present, and set up the type :
announcing their marriage in
Florence, Alabama.
Every town of any impor- q
tanee in Texas except Brennan S
either has water works or is pre-
pairing to have them. Gonzales, n
town of one-third the size of Byea.
ham, is agitating the subject of I
water works and IL would proba- {
bly, he n safe bet that Gonzales !
has them before we do. Is there
a lack of enterprise here, or what
is it?
Mr.. Ross, formerly North
Texas correspondent for the agri-
cultural department at Washing
ton has returned to Dallas from
an extensive trip in North Texas.
He says a large percentage of the
peach crop was badly injured dur
the winter. The oat crop gener-
ally was killed, and farmers have
in many instances resown their
oats.
The San Antonio Light ought
to he authority on matters pertain
ing to the Republican party. 1t
says that news is flashed from
Washington that Tom 0ehiltree
favors Arthur for president, and it
adds: General Logan bids fair
to capture the delegation from the !
south, for to as We can judge"
M&aF 0chiltree always tries to be
on the strongest side and if he ia
vors Arthur he certainly thinks I
Arthur's chances are the best.
"A couple of sharpers appeared
in Bellville last Saturday and az
Ter procuring licenses as seventh
class merchants praceeded to bust r.
aess. Ono opened up a wheel of :
fortune game and also a ball and
pin game. The sheriff also open
ed up "A game by arresting the two
on the charge of exhibit,
ing gambling device, They were
aiken before the squire and by
he advice of their attorney plead Ii
guilty to gambling. Their fines S
md trimmings amounted to s42.45, 7
which they paid and moved on to =,
,iSit some town where they are /