Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-12-16
STATE NEWS.

AT Bolton the water towor is
ornamented q with advertising
signs.
Steps are being taken for the
erection Of cotton compress at
Navasota.
Over $4,000 has been sub
scrlbed at Bryan, toward building
q cotton compress.
Houston Post: Judge Shep-
ard, OF Brennan, wants to be secrc-
tary of State, so it is said.
On Sunday seventy-elght bales
of cotton, and two fiat cars in tran
SIT, were burned at Navasota.
Cattle from along the Inc of
the Texas Pacific railroad are now
being shipped from Balllnger.
Tho Bastrop fire company is
now raising funds to build an en-
glne house and to procure an en-
CINE.
- Belton's city council has pass
ed an ordinance prohibiting the
playing of musical instruments in
saloons.
Tho Temple Bee says that 81
600 bales of cotton have been
handled at the compress in that
town this season.
Wheat along the line of the
Texas and Pacific railroad west OF
Fort Worth, is from all accounts
suffering for want ofrain.
Local option was carried IN
Erath county by a majority OF
about $50. The county has a
Democratic majority of 1000.
John Blythe, of Fort Worth, is
to eat one quail day for thirty
days on wager. 1t is SAID to be
q difficult feat TO accomplish.
Dixon Williams, the evange-
list who converted Nat Q. Hender-
son, is now trying his persuasive
powers on the sinners at Jefferson.
AT Gonzales last week q ne
gro man stabbed Mr.. Hcrzfeld in
the back with a knife, lnficting Il
painful wound. The negro oscap-
ed.
San Antonio has two brewer
les and three ice factories now do
ing a good business and a new
brewery and ice factory are soon
to be started.
-Hugh Mitchell, former depu-
ty sheriff, was shot and killed at
0verton the other day by Mat
Wheless. The killing was the re-
suit of an old feud.
"A county alliance has been
organized in Harris county.
There are fourteen alliances now
organized and a prospect for ten
or fifteen more.
Local option has been carried
in Hunt county by a majority Of
not over 40. 1t is safe TO say that
laxlty in the enforcement OF the
law will be the result.
The first station house south
of Dallas on the Santa Fe railway
was burned on Sunday; the charred
remains of man and a dog were
found in the debris
Rain Is needed in Coleman
county to save the wheat which is
now up; if it does not rain soon 1t
will die. The grass is fine and |
horses and cattle are in good con-
dition.
-Hamp Derry, a negro, was
tried at Palestine for perjury and !
given five years IN the penitentiary. |
During the great strike Hamp
swore that he was not present at
the killing ofan engine. /
Since the recent decision of
the Supreme court IN the gambling
cases large number of old and .
new sports are returning to San
Antonio and the business is open
ing up IN all its old glory. |
John Kelly, the violinists, who /
at various times had given concerts
nearly all over Texas, died at Vic
toria few days ago. He was quite |
aged having been before the public
for upward of fifty years.
San Antonio merchants are
said to be complaining of dull
times and claim that business is
now duller than 1t was in July.
There is some complaint of dull
times in Brennan, but it is not
duller here than elsewhere.
The Marlin Ball, of last week.
says that before the 1st OF January
next about two hundred families
Of negroes will leave Falls county
for BrazorIa county. The advance
guard has already started.
In Milan county, at Union
Ridge, on the I'd inst, Henry La
mar, aged ID, stabbed William
Brown, aged Is, to death with
knife. They were school boys
had quarrel and settled it by
fighting with their knives.
james House, farmer of Par
ker county, was in Fort Worth last
week soliciting aid for thirty-fve
destitute families, all drough suf-
ferers. Mr. House has the endorse
nent of the county alliance and
officers of his county.
The jury fees of Dallas county
n the past year exceed $4,000,
argely piled up by new trials. At
he term of the district court Just
expired new trials of civil cases
were granted in all but three.
Able lawyers at Dallas favor doing
lway with jurIes in civil cases.
Taylor county is now under
5oing second drouth. No rain
las fallen for several weeks and ]
armers are much discouraged at {
he prospects for harvest next ,
,ear. In many instances grain is '
'eported dead and dying. Some
armers are about ready to aban-
lon Faylor county.
Some of the striking yardmen
rom Denison visited the Interna- ,