Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-11
STATE NEWS.
Houston has n negro variety
theatre, where tho unwary arc
robbed.


AT Tyler all freight business
has been suspended on the Nilsson
ri Pacific railway.
The Knights OF Labor at Den
ison will, it is SAID, put full mum
clpal ticket IN the field.
Tho Merchants and Planters
national bank of Sherman has 4
paid up capital of 100000.
Wagon roads leading to Wax
ahachie are almost impossible on
account of recent heavy rains.
Tho graders on the Fort Worth
and New Orleans railway have
reached Midlothian on the e., G.
and S. f. Ry.
They had Il small pox scare at
Paris, but it soon abated when
the doctors announced it case of
measles.
The prospects are very fair
for postmaster Zadek, of Corsi-
cana, TO get relief from Official re-
sponsibillty.
Tho Temple Times of last
week publishes tho delinquent tax
list OF city tax payers. The list Is
quito lengthy one.
Prot. 7. ]. Girardeau is very
low at his residence in Galveston;
physicians have but little hope of
his recovery.
"A stock company with a cap
ital of SO, GOO has been formed at
Temple tor the purpose of build
ing n frSt-class hotel.
The city of Sherman is figur-
ing on the construction of water
works to cost S9O,000-the works
to be built and owned by the city.
ALI the employes-four hun-
dred in number-on the Intel
national road between Houston
and Palestine have been suspended
AT Denton the other day the
city marshal arrested twenty -uEe
white men and negroes for gam
bling with cards and shooting
craps.
The "boy preacher" Rev Pear
son, Is holding revival meeting al
Denton, in the courthouse, and is
awakening considerable interest
in religion.
William Smith, a young dry
goods salesman at Denison lived
beyond his means, stole from his
employer, got caught at |; and is
now IN jail.
The large and elegant resi-
dence of R. S. Terry at Jefferson,
together with nearly all his tur-
niture was destroyed by fire on
the 18th inst.
AT San Antonio on the 9th
inst. the carnival season was in
augurated by the Casino associa'
ton. The expenses for the ball
and supper was about $4,000.
! The street railway project at
Bolton is off for tho present, but
the Journal feels sure that it viii
be built in the near future, but by
whom it cannot now conjecture,
-Pecos City is said to be out
ornearly out, Of two staples of life
bacon and sugar, and as no freight
trans are being moved l2,UOt
pounds was being shipped by ex
press.
The Denlson Sunday Gazetteer
says it is sure that not less thai
$1,000 month is sent from Deni
son TO the Louisiana state lottery
1t Is strange what a penchant some
people have for gambling.
: &C. A. Dodge, who has beer
engaged in the tobacco business il
Ell Paso for the past four years
was found dead in his bed OIL
! Saturday morning. Heart disease
/ was The cansc OF his death.
3 Master Workman Golden was
= arrested at Dallas for being drunl
S and down. The Galveston New
says "By all means the police
man who arrested him and tn
:, mayor who fined him should b,
: boycotted without unnecessary dc
D lay"
Q Tho Temple Times has "drop
t pod out" the announcement of
( candidate for alderman who refus
cd pay his bill. The best plan i
not to drop an announcement int
: the paper until it has been pal,
for.
c A crazy woman named Mrs
e Offutt, whose divorced husband
: resided in the Indian territory
s4Iclded at Gainesville on Monda,
last by cutting her throat with
razor. She was destitute and des
{ perate.
c According to the Galveston
n Tribune there are many industrl
GUS men in that city out of EN-
ployment and anxious to work
Il 1t thinks the city could we'll affort
|, to give two hundred men
months work on the streets.
o Livingston and Forester, tn
two young men under arrest q
l. Galveston for swindling and rob
d berry, turn out TO be two CRANE
e rascals from Buffalo, n. Y, boil
l. having been in the penitentIary
In Galveston they played tn
moral rule,
The Houston Age says siJ
thousand dollars have been sub
# scribed for the purpose Of erectin:
!. and establishing a furniture fac
=, tory In Houston. A gentleman
has LETT tor the north with o view
Is to buying the requisite machinery
e This is a'moye in the right direc
+ ton; Texas has plenty of timbe
O for making furniture.
e "A drummer named NJ. Sans
field was found dead on the tract
Of the Texas & Pacific railway q
IS Fort Worth, near the stock-yards
n Not cent OF money was toun'
q on his person, and there Is tw,
# theories concerning his death, on
of suicide and the other of muT
J der. Samsfield has brother VIII
l. is famous rabbi in Memphis
e Tenn.
w. B. Howard, editor OF tn