Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-29
STATE NEWS.

Gonzales county will have 81
terms of the county court.
-Henrietta had fire last Sa
urday night; loss about $500.
Mr.. Chas Tinsley is announce
as candidate for mayor of Hou:
ton.
Greenville is figuring on ge'
ting a branch of the Central raj
way.
Bolton is about to make a
extensive addition to her coporat
limits.
Rains county is about to cree
a new courthouse at cost o
s11, 900.
Dunn L Galy's stable AM
buggy house at Bryan was burned
last Frieay.
"A stock company has beer
formed at Bryan and new hote
is to be built at once.
j. NJ. Frszell, charged Will
numbering his wife died in Jail a
! Denton last week.
The Dallas Herald contain!
the announcements of six aspirant
for municipal honors.
There was drummer all thu
way from Paris, France, doinI
Laredo the other day.
Active measures are beinI
taken at Richmond to secure FIRE,
bridge across the Brazos.
The residence of Mr.. Wicks a
Rockdale was burned on Monday
evening; loss about $3.50.
Arabian Holence of Rio Grand,
City is missing. he started on
hunting and failed to return.
-Gatesville had quite distruc
tive fire the other day. Severa
business houses were burned.
Tho Gonzales Inquirer pub
lishes complete transcript of tn,
minutes of the commissioner,
court.
Tho gas works at Ell Paso hai
just begun operation-gas wa
turned on for tho first time OF
Saturday.
The mysterious Disappearance,
of Fred Fries from San Antonio
some days ago is still as much of +;
mystery as ever,
AN Italian named Boschi, liv
ing in Victoria, accidentlly shor
and killed his son, aged five years
on Saturday last.
AT a fandango near Brown
vile one Mexican killed another
with o knife, The trouble was al
about a fair-senorita.
I'm Bastrop they play mattel
! games of base ball on Saturdays
In the largo cities match game.
are played on Sundays.
"A fire occurred in the OF
house of the Sunset railway al
Harrisburg Sunday night destroy,
ing $4,000 worth of oil.
The Monroe Cattle company
of Albany, Texas, has had its char
ter amended increasing the capitol
stock from 100000 to s75O,O6O.
Major Penn took three days
tilt at the Rockdale sinners last
week. His audiences was large
and much interest was manifested.
Fort Worth has more suicides
than, Dallas simply because she
has more population than Dallas,
is the way the leading paper puts
1t.
The district court at San Aug.
Justine at its last term sent dele.
CATION of five colored gentlemen
to represent the county in the
state penitentiary.
The carpenters at work on the
wooden mill at Waco struck for an
advance of so cents per day Mon
day, but a few of them afterward
returned to work.
AT Denison a negro musician
took couple of shots at a colored
preacher who was suspected of be
ing too intimate with a young lady
in the musicians family.
Hampstead will vote on local
option on the Sd of March. The
Courier is opposed to it. If it is
carried Hampstead will have whis
key and local option, too.
Ben Thompson got hurt Sat
urday night by some strange mis-
hap and was unable to meet the
city recorder of Austin on Monday
morning. says Post special.
Eva Fay, the spiritualist hum
bug, had a crowded house at Waco
Sunday night. 1t was decided
that the performance was q clever
series of slight-Of-hand tricks.
Tho Touring mill to be erect
ed at Brownwood will have the
very latest improved fiour-making
machinery, using rollers instead o.
stones for grinding the wheat.
The Caldwell Register wants
to know wheth n the county com,
missioners have forgotten that tbs
law requires them to publish q
statement of the county's finances,
Kate Dellman, living near
Buckholts, Milan county, is ten
years old and weighs 155 pounds
She continues growing rapidly
and gains pound every few days,
1t is claimed al Columbus that
the Weimar end of the county
has received more money 5ht Of
the county treasury than all the
rest of the county and still they
are unhappy.
"A correspondent of the Whit
ney Messenger, writing from
Aquilla, reports the marriage of
Uncle Davy Griffin, aged so to q
lady aged rs. 1t is never too late
to do good.
-Bellvllle Times: The public