Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-21
STATE NEWS.

Scarlet fever has broken out
in a highly respectable family at
Austin; every member has the dis.
ease.
The dead body of n negro
child was found in Frogtown, 4
portion of Jefferson, the other
night.
Up to the present time there
has been no losses of cattle IN
Gonzales county from cold
weather.
/ The journal says LaGrangc
now has good hotel and the num-
Der of drummers has largely in
creased.
! The Book & Jones stock of
goods at Bcllville has been pur-
chased by Il Chapel Hill merchant
who will remove them soon.
The Tribune says Galveston
naS too many able-bOdIed loafers
who are too lazy TO work but not
too proud TO live on charity.
Sever lncw eases OF small pox
were reported the other day in a
Mexican lamlly at Beaumont, two
miles south OF San Antonio.
I. thrilling suicided at Clarks-
vile on Monday by shooting him
self through the head with a large
| pistol. He had been drinking.
j. A. Harvey for a number of
years n citizen IN Waller county,
and one OF the first settlers at
SeaIy, died on the 10th inst, aged
SO years.
Some nights ago 4 Houston
lady discovered a man trying to
enter the window; she took shot
at HIM with pistol; he lost no
time in leaving.
The Odd Fellows, Orphans
and Widows home, located near
Corsicana, is now in full opera
ton, and Is prepared TO care for
additional inmates.
Mr.. John Tooly, an old and
respected citizen OF BurIeson coun-
ty, who lived near Clay Station,
died last week. Mr.. Tooly was
well known in Brennan.
Austin county is certainly
peaceablc and law abiding; only
seventeen bills were found by the
late grand jury-twelve for felon-
les and five for misdemeanors.
Work was actively resumed on
the state capitol Monday morning.
Twenty stone masons were put to
work on the interior walls. This
is q small force for so large build
ing.
Extreme cold weather was ex-
perlenced IN Denison on Sunday.
1t had been sleetlng and freezing
for the previous twenty-tour hours,
and teams crossed Red river on
the ice.
The city council of Dallas has
sat down In body on the variety
shows by imposing a heavy fine
for the sale of any kind of beer,
wine or whiskey in said theatres.
There is now three variety shows
in the city.
Forty granite cutters have
gone to work at Burnet for Gus
Wilke, sub-contractor of the state
capitol. Granite is arriving at
Burnet from the quarries at the
rate of eighty cars per day.
-Pecos City is now n we'll ad-
vertised town, and since tho auc-
ton sale of lots last October tho
postpfice receipts have tripled and
the express and freight business
has more than doubled.
Distinct court at Bellvllle ad-
Ijourned on Friday. There were
five felony CONVICTIONS and no APP
peals. The case of sam wilkins
was transferred to Washington
county on a change Of venue.
"A tragedy occurred at the
Hutchins house, Houston, on Sun
day. Lopez Jefferson, colorod, a
cook in the house was shot and IN
stantly killed by Willie Churchill,
colored, waiter. Churchill was
put under $1,000 bond.
There is some talk of trans
ferrIng the Central machine shops
from Houston to Dallas. So far
it is only rumor but if 1t should
provo true it would be q left-hand-
ed boom for Houston and a right
handed one for the other place.
Travis Nash, well known
young man of Navasota, is very
bad man. He confesses that he is
a wlfe-beater, a thief and an in.
cendiary, having set fire to Mlller's
store in 1884. Nash is In jail at
Anderson and will certainly be
sent to the penitentiary.
"A Fort Worth special to the
Houston Post says the Fort Worth
and Denver City railway has
issued orders for the immediate
construction at Fort Worth OF 100
stock cars to handle the immense
number of cattle to and from the
Panhandle early in the spring.
In the district court at BeIlvilIe
Jake Hutchinson, a negro, was
sentenced TO the penitentIary first
for life, on o plea of guilty for muir
der, and on Two charges of assault
with intent to murder he was SEN
fenced to five years andthrec years.
| He will have TO serve eight years
before he begins on his life term.
Jos. Mendoza, a Mexican,
was hanged at CotulIa on Friday,
for the murder of G. NJ. Hodges,
agent of the Missouri Pacific rail
way at Encinal, about eight
months ago. Father Kosbiel, who
addressed the crowd on behalf of
the prisoner, said that Mendoza
asked pardon for his crime and ex-
pressed himself as being very re-
pentent for having committed the
deed.
The commissioners court of
Bell county ordered that county
officers be instructed TO buy sta
tionory in Bolton when same could
be bought as cheap as elsewhere.
1t Is fact that majority of the
county officers in Texas send away
for stationery and printing that
could be done at nome, and as Il
general thing they pay more for
DaDors and blanks than we'll