Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-01-31
STATE NEWS.

Up in San Saba the small boy
are in the habit of carrying dirk
knives.
The Texas and Pacific railway
will soon build II large round-house
in Dallas.
Galveston is overrun with fes-
tive and aromatic goats; the police
are taking them in.
Fields & Jenkins safe at Tenn
pic was blown open Sunday night
and 500 distracted.
About twenty-five immigrants
from Alabama arrived at Blum,
Hill county, last week.
Now the little city of Luling
is severely discussing the question.
of erecting water-works.
Brentwood is improving fas-
ter than any town off of a railroad
IN the state says, the Banner.
1t is claimed that BurEet
county is in a state of anarchy and
that neither life or property are
safe.
| The Corsicana oil mill will
give employment to forty persons
and spend $1,000 per month for
labor.
Several car loads OF stone have
lately arrived at McGregor for the
block being erected by Brennan
parties.
Measles prevail at Austin in
almost epidemic form. Several
members of the legislature are
down with them.
Cat esville had destructive FIRE
on Thursday night; nine business
houses were burned involving
loss of about $50, 900.
Five pasture fences were cut
in Hill county last week. The
pastures were all small, ranging
from 20 to 200 acres.
Thomas H. Howard, aged up
wards of seventy years, special
writer for the Express, suicided
at San Antonio last week.
San Saba like all other towns
has its picayune men says the
News, but it thinks the picayune
man is a necessary evil. san
Nearly one whole page of the
Brownwood Banner is taken up
with detailed statement of the
financial condition of the county.
1t seems that DIR. Burleson,
the eminent divine of Waco and
the ex-reverend Mr.. Shaw are en-
gagged in bitter personal discus
sion,
-Seguin has three boys aged
from IL to Is years who go to the
graveyard and use the tombstones
for targets, firing pistol balls at
them.
The suspicious characters who
were selling pinchback rings In
Columbus for lSk gold, were ar
rested by the sheriff as suspicious
characters.
An enterprising boy some II
or IA years old burglarized brakes
store at Troupe and got $50; he
also got arrested and is now re-
penting in Jail. err-
| The assessment roll of San
Antonio for 1883 foots up s12, $780,
500, showing an increase of up
wards of 10000 900. The city has
9645 tax papers. < .5
The city council of Hemp
stead held a meeting and asked
Ethe marshal to resign. He refused
and will be impeached for NAL
feasance in Office.
They are having cooking
main at Decatur and lots of fun.
A match for $500 between Decatur
and Fort Worth is the leaning
feature Of tho sport, r. -
Tho Dallas postoffice is in such
an unhealthy location that all the
employees are sick the postmaster
was carried home with a conges-
tive chill the other day.
The Cowboy Saloon in Fort
Worth is a hard place. 1t is own
ed by two men who 'fell out and
fit" one beat the other nearly to
death and was arrested.
"A number of prominent citi-
zens of Denton have been indicted
for gambling, but they assert that
the only witness is a boy noted as
an economiZer of the truth.
The Gonzales Inquirer cites
two instances to prove that all the
negroes are not dishonest. In the
cases mentioned money that had
been over-paid was refunded.
Palestine pays her city Off
GERS the following salaries: Mar
shall s125 per month; city attorney,
$50; collector, SIS; city secretary
and treasurer each $500 a year.
The cornerstone of the new
Baptist church, at Bryan, was laid
by representatives of the Masonic
Grand Lodge of the state, on Mon
day. Bryan will soon telephone.
A citizen of Temple is erect
ing q $4,000 residence. The tele-
lphone has thirty subscribers and
by the LIST of March the Templeto-
mans will be calling one another
hello.
q. u. and John Fleming,
brothers living near Junction City,
quarreled while settling some .ac-
counts. A knife was used and
John was killed. The slayer made
his escape.
The Navarro county grand
jury appointed three gentlemen TO
investigate the county finances,
but owing to the small compensa-
ton and pressing private business
they declined.
The west-bound train of the
Texas & Pacific railway had two
stones thrown through the win
dows of passenger coaches, near
Arlington, Saturday night. The
miscreants escaped.
Tho Galveston News of Mon
| dsy confains nearly a column re-