Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-01-10
STATE NEWS.

"A large excursion of Chicag,
business men are doing San An
tonic.
Several families from Ken
lucky lately arrived in the Elm
Greek settlement, Bell coenty.
The fence cutters were arrest
ed and locked up in the Karnel
county Jail by Capt. Shelly of thu
rangers.
The streets of Waco are soor
to be remembered, and the Phila
delphia plan is suggested as being
the best.
1t is said that there is an exc
dus of gamblers from San Antonio
many of them fearing indictment
have left the city.
In the vicinity of Temple
dogs killed thirty-fve of Ed
Flints eheep last week. The tax
on dogs was repealed some time
ago.
j. c. Ford's gin house al
Hearne was burned on the 5th
inst. About ten bales of seed cot
ton and 500 bushels of corn were
lost.
j. n. Gardner, who was shot
some weeks ago near Bonham, died
at Paris the other day. His re-
mains will be taken to North Car
olina.
-Grapeland is the name of a
new town being established four
miles south of Navasota. The
starting of the town will be signal
lied by the opening of a store.
The town of Whitney and its
local paper, the Messenger, seem
to be prospecting. The Messenger
is doing good work for its town
and gives all the local news of its
vicinity.
- There was skating on the ice
in the Brazos river for three days,
during the recent cold snap, at
Waco. Such an occurrence is very
unusual and does not occur once
in life time.
u The Wooten Wells company
is making arrangements to build a
railroad from a junction with the
Central about two miles south
from Bremond TO the wells, dis
tanoe of about one and q half
miles.
I'm San Saba on Saturday
morning the mercury registered
SO, which is extremely cold for
Texas. Everything was froze up
and business was suspended, it
taking all the time to make fires
and Keep wasm,
Tho fence around DIR. r. L.
Boyd's pasture near Howard, Bell
county was totally destroyed last
week. No water was fenced in
and there was enough outlying
range to support twenty times the
stock running at large.
The wells now being sunk at
Temple show that water enough
to supply town of ten thousand
inhabitants can be obtained with
out any difficulty. The machinery
and piping have been ordered and
the work will be completed as soon
as possible.
Mrs. Anna Irion, whose home
when girl was in Bucks county,
Penn, was the young woman who
buckled the sword of Gen. Hous-
ton around that veteran just before
the battle of San Jacinto. She
died, it is stated, not many days
ago in Bryan.
-Fhe town of Baird on the Tex
as and Pacific railroad was totally
destroyed by fire, on Monday, all
the BUSINESS part of town being
gone. The losses amount to $780,
900 exclusion of Williamson, Cam
eron 4 Cos extensive lumber yard,
which was on fire at last reports.
-Rufianism will soon be at a
heavy discount in Texas. At
Gainesville a few days ago a mob
attempted to take the town; by a
mob is meant half a dozen of Wild
and woody boys. Pwo of them lost
their lives at the hands of citizens
who turned out and restored order.
Kirk Gum, Bell county
farmer, lost his residence on Big
Elm by fire last week. A number
of his neighbors and the merchants
OF Pemple made up a handsome
purse as a New Years present.
The people of Texas are probverb-
ial for their generosity and
worthy man who meets with mis-
fortune is not allowed to suffer.
"A special to the Houston Fost
from Sheldon, says that great ex-
element was created there by the
discovery of cave on the banks of
the San Jacinto river near that
place, and the unearthing ofan un-
told amount of treasure. The writ,
er of the special..announced that he
would go out, make personal in
vestigation and report.
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