Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-06-19

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The Citizen reports the crop
prospects of Colorado county as
favorable.
The city assessor and collcc-
tor of Laredo is defaulter to the
tune of 5000.
James Galloway, an old and
esteemed citizen of Courtney, died
on Saturday last
A new town is being laid off
In Greer county and lots are said
to be in active demand.
The editor of the Hill Coun-
ty Visitor is rampant free grass
advocate. Poor fellow!.
Two patients were discharged
from the lunatic asylum at Austin
on Monday fully restored.
The oat crop of Smith county
is reported as being the largest and
best raised for many years.
There are upwards of sixty
divorce cases on the docket of the
district court of Bexar county.
After going through seigc of
the measles, the whooping cough
haa now broken out in Hampstead.
Col. Joe Durham, citizen of
Grimes county since 1912, died at
his home near Courtney the other
day.
= The Gainesville Register
wants Fourth ofJuly celebration
and says the people must have
one.
Tho railroad track on French
Prairie, three miles west of Liber-
ty is being raised above highwater
mark.
Alexander Quincy, a French
man, suicided at Dallas by drown
ing himself in the Trinity river
last week.
I'm Neuces county pasture lands
are assessed at two dollars per
acre and stock at twelve dollars
per head.
-Mexicans in San Antonio re-
gard the newly arrived Italians as
formidable rivals in the labor
market.
Col. Plato, collector of GUS
toms at Corpus Christi, lately ar
rested, has gwen bond in the sum
of $4,000: a=
Dallas will have cheap sausage
for day or two. Tweenty-four
worthless dogs were shot at the
pound on Monday.
-Cropprospects in Waller coun-
ty are not near as bad as at first
and farmers have gone
to work with q will.
Quite q number of white and
colored tenants in Smith county
have abandoned their crops since
the late heavy rains.
Charley Gee Hop, heather
Chinese, was fined $40 in the re-
corder's court at Bort Worth for
keeping an opium den.
Hampstead has organized a |
base ball club, and soon Novasota,
Brennan and Bellyille will have
to look to their laurels.
There was fine rain at Paige
on Monday, which assures good
corn crop. Prospects for an aver
age cotton crop are tair.
There has been planted in
Fannin county this year $4,000
acres of cotton, 10000 acres of
wheat and $1,000 of corn.
Pupils residing outside of Fort
Worth are admitted to the high |
school of that city upon payment
of $3.50 per month tuition.
Six thousand FIVE hundred
dollars was subscribed at Fort |
Worth on Sunday toward building
a s25, 900 Methodist church.
Local option was carried in
Llano county by very small ma
iority some weeks ago; but the sa-
looms have not yet found it out.
The Comanche county farmers
were so pushed for time last week
that they found Unnecessary to run
their moving machines on Sunday.
Better crops of grain than are
now being harvested in the viclnl-
ty of Temple were never known in
Bell county. Cetten is looking
fine.
"A Hill county man who was
bitten by water moccasin while
bathing, hurried home, took large
quantity of "snake medicine" and
was cured.
Jesse sea, q young man living
in Fort Worth, had some family
troubles and to end them took a
lose of morphine. Medical aid
saved him.
The Houstpn Evening Jour
nal has been awarded the contract
or the city printing, its bid being
over than that of the Post: Thu
Age did not put in any hid: Il
The ice factory at Aavasota is
lbout completed apd will soon be
urning out ice. The poles for the
are being put up be-
.ween Navasota and Anderson.
A negro woman 80 years old !
applied for admission to the Tar
ant county poor house. She says c
he was brought from North Caro-
ina "befo' de wah by niggar
radah."
B. F. Hardcastle, for many
-=ee faEEs connected with the press of
fell from the sceeHd story
# the county hospital and hurt
himself severely. He had been ON
drunk: :
A shooting scrape 9ce9rr e
It LlanO a few days ago hetWee
;. S. Stoudcmire and Billy Swan
on, deputy sheriff. Both emptie
heir pet pistols and Stoudemire
ras wounded.
Abe Lincoln. n railroad man. r