Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-03-13
STATE NEWS.

Hogs in and near Giddings are
dying of cholera.
Rain is much needed at Lare-
do and on the Rio Grande in that
vicinity.
Tho Waco Examiner calls the
Day, tho organ OF the city admini-
stration.
1t is reported that Col. Bur
CESS, of SeGuin will be n candidate
for congress.
Major Penn, the evangelist,
gave the people of Weathertord
sermon last Sunday.
Henry Washington. Il negro,
is now on trial at Marlin for tho
murder of his wife.
AT Weimar they have had
plenty of rain and the farmers are
satisfied and happy.
Advertisements are out for
proposals for water works at Vic
toria to cost $4,000.
! Cure and comfort centre in st.
Jacobs Oil, the great pain-relieving
and healing remedy.
At Lampasas the ice factory
talk about beginning to raise steam
and cook ice next week.
1t appears that narrow-gauge
railway is being built from Mont
gomcry to the saw mills.
-Denison already has FIVE can
didatcs IN the field for mayor. and
there are more to come out.
Two candidates for represen-
tative from Austin county have al
ready announced themselves.
james W. Hall, a well known
character and florist of Austin,
suicided by taking morphine.
Large quantities of corn arc
being shipped from Bell county to
Laredo and thence into Mexico.
The Taylor water-works have
again been tested and are pro-
nounced to be entirely satisfac-
tory.
Geo. W. Davis, an old settler
OF Travis county, was found dead
in the woods, having died from ex
posure.
A country editor saysthat the
borrower of newspaper has no
right to grumble about the lack OF
news in it. .--r-
On Monday the first strawber-
ries of the season were offered for
sale at one of the fruit stands in
Houston.
CLEVELAND, OHIo.-Chief Supt.
Schmitt of the Police Force, re-
commends st. Jacob Oil for the
cure of pain.
In Galveston the municipal
canvass is waxing warm and tho
election for aldermen will be close
ly contested.
Every warm pleasant day the
papers announce that spring is
here. A norther then comes and
spring is gone.
-Blotting brands is the latest
phase of lawlessness in tho west,
Free cattle and free grass are very
close relatives:
The Marshall "
70 '' conspicuous for its lack of
local news. Marshall must be
very dull town.
Bill Northeutt, ST., was disem-
bowelled by his nephew in a fight
at Bolton on Monday. The. young
man made his escape.
The Corsicana Daily Courier
gives q four-column account of the
hanging of Harrison Williams, a
negro, on Friday last.
The Baptist church at Lam
pasas has, by a unanimous vote,
invited Rev. Major W. Z. Penn, to
come and hold ten days meeting.
i In Houston. the Y. NJ. C. A.
decided that it was improper for
Christians TO indulge in social
games of cards in the home circle.
Frank Slaney, who was muir
dered in the Brazos bottom near
Bryan, was young man who was
well and favorably known in Aus
tin.
"A couple of prisoners broke
out of Jail at Montgomery on Sat
urday night. The Jail was long
since condemned by the grand
jury.
"A free bridge across the Bra
EOS at Richmond is the absorbing
question of the town. Rosenberg
is not killing Richmond to any
alarming extent.
District court is in session at
San Marcos, the docket, civil and
criminal, are the largest ever
known. A large number of law
yers are present.
San Saba talks of putting up
an ice factory this season; the peo-
pie want their mint juleps and
cherry cobblers refrigerated DUR
ing the coming summer.
The old courthouse and bat
dormitory at Bolton is being vaca-
ted preparatory to its being torn
down to make room for new and !
modern temple of justice.
The. Waco Day denies the
charge of the Examiner that the |
city council has a scheme on foot
to saddle an enormous debt upon
the tax payers of the city.
I'm a barron brawl in East
Dallas, Jack Williams, hotel
cook, knocked down Patey O'Day
a carpenter, with billet of wood. |
O'Day is mortally wounded.
The Houston Journal is in IA |
vor of good and clean streets; 1t |
says tramp and vagrant labor is
plenty and is to be had for forty |
cents for board and lodging