Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14
STATE NEWS.

/ B. L. Sander X Co., of Gid.
dings, have been closed by attach
ment.
. 1t is regarded as highly prob
able that Sherman will build her
own water works.
DR.. J. II. Neal, formerly OF
Washington in this county, has
moved to Navasota.
Ward politicians are already
busy in Navasota-so they are in
every town in Texas.
. II is stated tibet the new pas
senger depot at Brentwood will be
the handSomest one on the line.
Tho handsome two-story resi-
dence OF Col. Fletcher at San Mar
COS was burned on the 10th inst.
There is to be 4 pigeon shoot
at Hockey on the 10Th inst. Dele
gates from the leading gun clubs
of the state are expected to be
present.
I On Friday tho Brazos river at
Waco was frozen from bank to
bank and all day skaters enjoyed
themselves.
I i. is estimated that $4,000
worIl of alIIgator skins have been
shipped from Sabine Pass during
the past two years.
/ -BelIville Times: New farms
are being cleared and opened and
new residences are being built in
many portions of Austin county.
REV. c. Fielder and wife cclc-
bratcd their golden wedding at
Montgomery last week. Their
children and grand children were
present.
An alligator half-frozen to
death was found in Sweet Water
lake, near Galveston by a party
of hunters and killed with VIM
chester rifles.
1t seems that the old town OF
LaGrangc is experiencing a boom
in view of the anticipated coming
of the Texas Western Narrow
Gauge railway.
Last Thursday, Friday and
Saturday the thermometer was
down to three degrees below zero
at Abilene, which is tho coolest
ever known there.
DR.. Hyde, q citizen of Nacog-
doches county since 1886, and
therefore one of the oldest inhabi-
tants, says it is colder than he
ever experienced before.
The postmaster at Navasota
was presented with o fine water
melon on New Years day by Mrs.
Ophelia J. Greer, q prosperous
farmer OF Grimes county.
Shelton Adams, a wealthy
stock man, of McCulloch county,
attempted suicide at Brentwood
on Saturday, by taking morphine.
The doctors saved him.
Capt. Thomas Jefferson, of the
sloop ANNE, was frozen to death
on board his vessel, and q negro
boy who was with him was wash
ed overheard and drowned,
-Galveston's revenue is estima-
tel at 1914, 466; 1922, 1858 is requlr-
ed to pay interest on previous in
debtedness, leaving S81, 900 to pay
current expenses which last year
amounted to S204, 425.
Gilbert Marian and John Snow
had q shlndy at Columbia the 9TH
er day. Snow shot Marian several
times killing him. Snow got one
shot in the breast, but it Is not
known how badly he is hurt.
AT Waco $4,000 of the S45,-
900 required for the consolidat- |
ed Baylor university has
been subscribed. The friends of
the university feel confident of
securing the requisite sum of
money.
"A couple OF tramp printers on /.
their way TO Waco were picked up
by farmer near Corsicana. They
were taken 10 a house, thawed out /
and given some whiskey, which is .
what the average tramp printer
lives for.
Bone gatberers have been &C. !
lively at work in the vicinity of
Brentwood for some time, and /.
now bones are being shipped at
the rate of a car load q day. In Il
few months the supply of bones
will be exhausted.
Solomon Parr, one of tho old
est residents of the vicinity of Gal !
weston, died in that city on Sun /
day last, aged 81 years and eight /
months. He came to Texas in 1884
and had lived in Galveston for
twenty-five years.
"A special from Dublin TO the
austin Statesman says Friday was
the coolest day ever known in that
section. At daylight the mercury
stood I below zero; chickens froze
on their roosts and pigs froze dead
in their beds. The weather is very
severe on cattle.
H. r. Stamps OF Harwood was
last Sunday by the shiriff
of Fayctte county, charged with a
committed thirty years
ago. Stamps has lived in Har-
wood for a number of years, and
any knowledge of an IN
dictmcnt against him. /!
Sheriff Kinney, of La Sale
county, is now preparing the scat
fold on which Jose Maria Mendlola
is to be hanged on tho 18th inst,
1T Cotulla. The condemned man
says he is ready to go; he refuses {
to be interviewed or make any l
of his crime.
Perjury is rampant in Ander-
son county and 1t is confined to tho
element exclusively. A t
negro brought before the courts |
or the smallest OF highest offense '
inds no difficulty in proving an
lIlbi or patching up evidence in t
Justification. Three negroes have
ately been arrested for perjury at
Palestine.
The Houston Post wants a
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