Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-06-03
City AND COUNTY.
SEVERAL cases of iux IN town.

SEVERAL sidewalks in tho city
are badly in need of repairs.
WHEN will the war on unlicensed
dogs commence? Echo answers
when.
TPERE is considerable sickness
in tho city just new, mostly sum
mer complaints.
A FEST will be hold at VIM Rem
merits pasture, beyond Pleasant
Hill, on next Saturday.
No PEACHES are in market yet
and piums arc scarce so far. Mus
tang grapes will be abundant.
ROUND Tor will hold her annual
4th of July celebration, on q
grander scale this year than ever
before.
Two luuatics, Bradford the crazy
negro man and a dementad negro
woman, were sent to the Austin
lunatlc asylum on Friday.
MEMBERS of Green's Brigade
should bear in mind that the next
reunion takes place at Galveston
on the twenty-third day of next
July.
TIE summer normal school for
this, the Twelfth senatorial dis
trict, will begin at Caldwell, July
u, Miss NannIe Breeding, primer
pal.
CRoPs in this county are, as a
general thing, clean and IN good
condition, but a good rain is now
needed in order 10 insure the corn
crop.
THE public road between Brcn-
ham and Burton Is said to be in
bad condition, especially near
Judge Busters residence, beyond
Berlin.
c. W. Hess & Co., OF this city,
are selling buggies and spring
wagons at hard-tlmc prices. Give
them a call if you want a vehicle
of any kind.
The prisoners in tho city Bastife
enjoy themselves singing; the
prison is so close to the BANNER
office that We get the full benefit
of their songs.
SOME valuable and needed i'm
provements are shortly to be made
at the Firemen's park, which will
not only make it a pleasant but
popular resort during the summer
months.
THE Brennan Grcys have now
gone regularly to work drilling at
the park, in anticipation of the
Interstate drill at Galveston. We
hope they may capture the big
prize.
RoUNpANcE.-The BANNER yes
terday received letter mailed at
Whitman, P. o. in this county, and
which came round via Galveston,
it having the latter postmark on
the back.
COUNTY Court adjourned on
Thursday for the term. Prior TO
adjournment Hal Jones, a colored
gentleman, was arraigned on a
charge of unIawfully carrying a
pistol. He plead guilty and was
fined s25 and trimmings
DULL is now the word; business
of kinds is as dull as can be well
imagined and about halfthe people
have the blues. A good rain would
have a wonderful influence in re-
moving the blues and revlving
things very generally.
F1aE.-On Monday evening the
old colored Methodist church in
the suburbs of Chappell Hill was
burned to the ground. The fire
was the work of an lncendlary.
For some time the building has
been used as a school house.
Mr.. KRUGER, of the Whitman
peighborhood, informs the BANNER
that farmers in that locality are
getting rid of the grakshoppers
by killing them out, various de-
vices being used for that purpose.
THE line of the Brennan and
Brazos Valley railway will be sur
viewed. in a short time, and the con-
tracts for grading and other neces-
sarv work will be let to con-
tractors. The road will be built
without any unnecessary delay.
Mr.. W. P. DoRAN, for many
years a citizen of this city, has
bought property in Hampstead
and moved there with his family.
He was a war correspondent and
is well known as "Slou.x" The
BANNER wishes Mr.. Doran success
in his new home.
The white Republicans of Bren.
ham held secret meeting a few
days ago for the purpose of agree
ing upon a plan for the fall cam
paign, i. e., getting themselves into
Office again. They have grown
tired of "grazing," and now want
to get their hands into the public
crib again. Poor fellows!
JUSTICE HACKwoRTH Is holding a
fire inquest over the burning OF
Dick Mackoy's house on Thursday
last. There is some evidence to
show that the fire was of incendiary
origin, but not the slightest clue to
the party or parties who did the
act. MackeY is q well known col.