Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-22
STATE NEWS.
Houston is now having build
ing boom.

/ Houston is now having a build
ing boom.
East Dallas has potitioncd TO
be annexed to the city of Dallas.
Crop prospects in the vicinity
of Temple are regarded as bright.
Fully 1000 people attended
the Galveston Mai-fest last Sunday
night.
There is general complaint
of too much rain throughout the
state.
AT San Antonio the boom for
a military company is slowly
booming.
-Bastrop wants public park
and there is some talk of supply
ing the want.
The rain of last Sunday night
was general, extending up to Cal
vert and Marlin.
At Columbus the city officials
sanitary condition
The increase in taxable values
than Sion 0Oo Ioyro ~ tha MI ia ~ w"or
-bastrop has had a revival I'M
der the auspices of Rev. Il. 5.
made
The Columbus Meat and Ice
company is now making and sell
nonnd
AT Texarkana L. b. Moore
shot and fatally wounded a negro
tbroots ~ '
-Revlval meetings are gong
on IN various portions OF the state
and 1t appears that many converts
-Grave fears are entertained,
says the Fort Worth Gazette, that
crops have been badly damaged by
the recent excessive rams
Joe W. Hill has gone to Hills
boro with a printing office to start
paper. hlllsooro now mas an
excellent paper, the Mirror.
A Grccnback convention was
held at Sherman on Saturday ;
there was but little interest taken
and no business was disposed OF.
Fort Worth is now wanting a
frst-class modern hotel building,
and it would be safe to bet that
she has one within short time.
Tho f,noroI ofcoIL Ed
wards which took nIace at Anstin
on Tmosdar, ras IorroIy, at,andod
He was buried with military hon
ors.
, pa ,,.
MMaJor rem a!tGr TWO Woeks
p gaIIle WIN !hc !"'heI VI SIN az
converts and hos now Ief, fSr otbcr
nostnrcs
AT Granbury SO, 900 has been
tor building the new
,rnrL u 80 ho oomn :" = "a III r,.h;I
tb;rt, d.vs
''' o
-Rev; DIR: +. I: Mitchell, form
eriy OF BRENNAN, is holding . pro
cbnrob IN ErSon ~ onJ ;s maxine
manr converts ." " s
r.. a.. -.
Lh We PreP"ra'lons Is pelng
.r ,aue W ene Nv various eoainli'te s .. NJ
third anniversary of that town on
the 9th of June.
Chi. Tom Bowers Dronoses tn
a Manor mill Of ,mnosos
If he does he will, truly, SUPPLY a
long felt want. There is not pa
per mill in Texas.
The Advertiser saws the grow
ing corn in Bastrop county looks
much better than in adjoining
counties, and prospects are fare
for heavy yield.
Ramon Corronado &c wonted
in San Antonio for attemntinr IN
murder his divorced wife. He emit
her with a knife inf,;ct,no II Is
thought, a mortal wound,
o. z,
Ta' uaiee:ton' oInuay hlsn., a
pau negro wont 70 cnaren ana got
70 cutting up, II .he a1'el!Pt 70 Pus
hlih 1ut nc u[opPeu u Pis'ol ana
Colorado City has closed a
contract with the Holly Manufact-
erlng company of New York for
the construction of water works to
be completed within SIX months,
"A Ppsaue county man announ-
,ed that he would not announce in
he Meridian Blade. tho county
paper. The Blade has a present
nent that he will not be elected.
AN effect is being made at
Navasota to have connection by
telephone with Anderson, Grimes
county and independence in this
The prospects are fiattcr-l
ng.
At Richmond some ,veels ooo
'hree negroes wounded an Irish
nan and threw his body INTO a els
ern. The discovery caused great