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


1 Kyle has been beset by lectur
ers during the past week.
-Bellville wants a good hotel
bank and an opera house.
, Peach and plum trocs were il
full bloom at Goliad two weeks
ago.
Nearly five hundred pupils are
attending the graded schools al
Bryan.
-Bcllvillc now has a shoemaker
shop, but still needs jeweler and
a tailor.
Temple now boasts of whole
sale trade in groceries and western
produce.
1t is expected that there will
be several candidates tor marshal
at Temple.
Last week couple of pasture
fences, eight miles from Temple
were nipped.
Candidates in Dallas county are
beginning to come out of their
hiding places.
Harris county's grand jury
had busy session and returned
1877 indictments.
In Waco when gamblers plead
guilty in the county court they are
fined $40 and costs.
-Bastrop wants a public libra
ry. The Advertiser says all live
towns should have one.
-Cowardly scoundrels cut the
fences of c. W. Schill and Kunkal,
on the Travis and Kenney road.
The contract for paving in
Dallas was awarded to n Dallas
contractor, the total amounting to
s125,00O.
Colorado City now rejoices in
new brass band the people who
are compelled to listen to it areSo
be pitied.
Dallas had two successful fires
on Tuesday, both supposed TO be
the work of incendiaries. Loss
about $4,000.
Sam Davis, of Grapeland, was
accidentally shot by a barkeeper
whose pistol was accidentally dis
charged in another room.
AT Ell Paso the Grand Con,
trail, four-storY brick hotel, cost
ing sllQ,000, was opened with a |
grand banquet on Monday.
San Antonio wants an effective
system of sewerage, Tho sooner
she has it the hotter it will be for
the general health of the city. |
1T is thought that he taxable
values of Austin county will ex-
coed those of last year by at least /!
a quarter of a million dollars.
Dallas is about to let con.
tracts for the paving of Main and
Elm streets and other streets in
the business portion of the town,
AT RoekdaIe the public free |
school term has closed, but the
school is being continued on pay
ing basis in order to complete the
term.
Green Stone, large farmer
living near Troupe, blew bis |
brains ont with 3 rife while under
q tHee near his field. No cause
assigned.
"A special law should be enact
ed for the benefit of wife heaters, |
John Heineke was arrested in |
nlasillss fRr whipping his wife I'M
mercifully:
"A black man suicided at Fort |
Worth the other day because |
black lady refused to mary him.
So says an item gong the rounds
of the press.
Fourteen crap shooters-a
game played with dice mostly byl
negroes-plead guilty to gaming
in the county county court at Waco
and were fined.
The hody af newly born
white male child was found float
ing In the river at Gonzales. No
clue was discovered to the identi-
ty of the body.
In Galveston recently the
bride furnished tho money to pro-
cure the marriage license and also
paid the squire for tying the ma
trimonial moose.
1t is again asserted that there
has been only one fence ont west
of the Nueces river since the fence
traHhias began, end that was about
six months ago. !
"A big fire in Bell county, orig
mating in a cedar brake eight |
miles north of Beltan, last week,
destroyed upwards of $4,000
worth ofproperty.
On Friday night there was
heavy frost at Corpus Christi in
juring vegetation severely. 1t is
not often that they have frost as
far down the coast as Corpus.
Preparations for the cattle.
mems convention at Dallas an the
18th inst, are going on rapidly
aud oxtpnsivcly. The young la
dies will decorate the banquet
hall.
About l o'clock Sunday morn
ing in barrOom in Waco, Charley
Powers, who was drunk, stabbad
Ed Serley in the neck with a pack
ct knife: Powers was arrested
and Jailed. +
Tho warm spell and the recent
cold snap has b1ghted the pros
poets for good fruit crop in many
sections of the state. A good crop
of peaches is only made aboBt
once in five years:
-Ehe Bellville Standard learns
that Col. J. H. Gardner, who has '
been there several weeks prospect i
ing for location, is making ar
to lease the Mcintyre t
house at Brennan,
-Chgs: Hesser was killed by
lack Curtis at Patterson, Waller '
county, on Sunday last. The muir '