Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-11-25
CITY AND COUNTY.

CITY AND COUNTY.
HEN eggs are now selling at
bit dozen.
SEE the large ad. of II. W. Ora
Der, of the old reliable jeweIr,
house.
IT is reported that there Is
good deal OF sickness in tn
country.
TIE late norther was regula,
picnic for the stove dealers
everybody had stoves put up.
The pouoffice was closed OF
Monday from 10 a. M. 10 | p. m.
out ofrespect to the memory of ex
President Arthur.
The impression seems to have
gotten out that the Methodist con.
ference will meet here next Friday
This is a mistake, the conference
meets on Wednesday December
LIST.
ATTENTION Is called to the new
advertisement of f. A. Eldridge in
this issue. When he says cost he
means it, and all who arc in need
of dry goods will do well to call
early.
TIE Great American Allied
shows, thirteen shows combined
for a single season, notwlthstand-
ing It's pretentious name did q very
small business in Brennan. 1t
failed to draw.
LOUISE BALFE appeared at the
fremont opera house, Galveston,
Monday night. The Galveston
News speaks of her IN the highest
terms. Miss Balfe will appear
here on Saturday evening next.
Box list now open at A. Slmon's:
PUBLIC opinion endorses the re-
mark OF the BANNER that the radi-
calls die hard. The good people of
this county have declared at the
ballot-box that they want no more
radical administrations in Wash
ington county. The will of the
people is supreme.
After an outlay of considerable
cost am now prepared TO make
larger and finer specimens of Pho
tographic work than has ever been
made in Brennan before.
W. II. SMELL, Artist.
A PRoTRAcTED meeting will be-
gin at the Baptist church on Sun
day the 21st inst. conducted by
Rev. C. P. Lumpkin. Mr.. Lump
kin is an earnest, ,,devout, patriotic
and eloquent preacher. He wins
the affections of the people where
ever he goes.
THE Bertelle comedy company
took their departure from Bren-
ham on the Santa Fe down train
Saturday evening. Their attempt
to play the Streets of New York on
Friday evening will be remem-
bered by all who were present as
the poorest attempt ever made on
the boards in Brennan.
FINE young gobblers that have
for months had a royal time &C
cumulating fat to be in prime or
der for Thanksgiving turkeys, can
now be bought in the market for
sixty cents a head. This is rather
bad for the butchers but it re-
lieves people in moderate circum-
stances of the painful necessity of
gormandizing on crow or fvc-year
old ROSTERS.
CUTTING ScRAPE.-About noon
Tuesday Monroe Cole and George
Brown, sometimes called Bud
B.agg, both negroes, had a quar-
rel about a financial affair and be-
ing unable to arrive at an under
standing that was mutually agree
able Mr.. Brown cut Mr.. Cole about
half dozen times with knife.
The gentlemen were arrested and
incarcerated in the Bastile.
WILL THOMAS, a one-armed ne
gro man, who was convicted of
forgery at the last term of the dis
trlct court, made an application
for a pardon at once and was not
sent away with the other convicts.
On Friday q pardon was received
and Thomas was released from
Jail. Thomas was the victim of
bad company ana there were many
mitigating circumstances which
procured his pardon.
OWING TO the dull times ! will
continue 10 make my finest Cabi-
net pictures at 81 per dozen,
W. Il. SMELL, Artist.
SUIT was fled by the German,
American Bank of New York on
November Sth, 1886, against the
city of BRENNAN, for the interest
on the bonds issued in 1879, to buy
the right of way for the G. c. & S.
F. R'y company. The suit is for
S41T5.00 and is brought in the