Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-07

win be stopped. We mean business.
OK the 18th inst the "Farmer'
Daughter" company will appear a
the opera house.
THERE is now 56l pupils enrolled
at the white schools, aud abou
300 In the colored.
MAYORS COURT Monday IN
N. Jones, unlawfully "toting"
pistol s25 and trimmings
CoTToN.-But very little cottor
is coming In and the market is
quiet and dull. There is no change
IN the market.
CoTToN.-The markets. nom inal
buyers and sellers are about hall
cent apart in their views and nc
sales are being made.
Two horses, supposed to have
been stolen, were captured by the
marshal on Monday. The riders,
two negroes, escaped.
FaosT.-The heaviest frost ofthe
season fell on Wednesday morning,
SO the BANNER is informed by a
gentleman of uninpeachablc verac-
ity.
Personalities Bertha G. Gill
bert, of Houston, is IN the city
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Alex Simon.
Mr.. Jake RaIston, of Cameron,
is in the city.
ROBBERY. - Tuesday evening
while the family were at supper
thief entered the residence of Mr..
O. q. Hughes and succeeded IN
stealing 1885 in cash.
QUITE number of young people
from Brenh am went out to 1nde-
pendence Mo uday evening to at
tend the marriage of Miss Mary
Bell Dever to DR.. johnson, of
Austin.
TIE BANNER office can now be
found in the Asbeck building. In
day or two everything will be IN
shlp-shape, and we will be prepar-
ed to do job work promptly and
neatly.
PERsoNAL.- Mrs. Kaiser, Miss
Sophie Coin, Mr.. Chas. Wenar
and MISS Blanche Wenar, of Pales-l
tine, and Mrs. Susan Kaiser, OF
Louisville, KY, are IN the city
visiting Mrs. Henry Cohn.
THE Stuttz dramatic company
will give performance at El bridge
hall on the 18th inst, for the bene-
fit of the Fire Department. The
Stuttz company is well and fav'ora-
bly, known throughout the state,
BIG PIG.-Mr. Frank EvansIch,
on Monday, killed a 14-months old
pig that weighed 513 pounds dress
.ed, and yet plenty of men can be
found in this county who say that
hogs cant be successfully raised.
The FARMERS DAU eHTER.-On
Thursday next, the 18th inst, the
play, "Only Farmers Daughter"
viii be presented at the opera
house by a magnificent company.
The press notices are very compll-
mentary to the company. See adj
vertisement n this issue.
The ALLEN CAsE.-The applica-
ton of Mr.. John A. Traylor, on
habeas corpus, for bond was heard
on Saturday by Judge Mcfarland.
Several witnesses were examined
and the judge granted him bail in
the sum of $4,000 which vas I'M
mediately given and Mr.. Traylor
was released.
Tomorrow evening we will have
the Nellie Boyd company IN the
@'Unknown," which, Judging from
the bills; is I sensational drama.
The New York Herald says: ats
Uest praise lies in the fact that it
came modestly heralded, and has
by its own merit, won its way to
stano,.ing-room only and general
praise"
The city election is yet nearly
three months off and no regularly
ordained eandi dates are in the field,
but In lieu of the regularly ordaIn-
ed there are sew, srd prospective
candidates hard at work trying to
arrange the wires so thai they will
work properly. The coming city
canvass promises to be an exceed
ingly interesting one.
SNow.-0n Sunday morning
there was a light snow which fell
before daylight. The day was
quite cold, Monday was also cool.
Hog-kill1ng is now in order. One
thing that is needed here is pork
house attached to the ice machine
and a cool-storage room, by means
of which hogs could be killed and
made into bacon at all seasons of
the year.
MARRIED.-In Fort Worth on the
3Ist of December, by the Rev. W.
g. Sartesville, Mr.. ]. B. BELL, JR.,
of Abilene, to Miss MARY F. NAL
LETT, daughter of Capt. W. S. Nal
lett, of the vicinity of Brenbam,
Washington county.
Mr.. Bell is one of Abilene's most
pVpGlar and prosperous young
MN: he is fortunate in obtaining