Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-01-19

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The public schools at Bracket,
Kinney county, are ina furnishing
condition.
The Dallas Building and Savings
Association has been organized with
a capital stock of 100000.
The steam heating apparatus of
the new capitol at Austin has been
tested, with satisfactory results.
Attachments have been run on
Patterson's drugstore at Dallas.
Liabilities $4,000; assets $4,000.
Haskell county is settling up
with farmers from Coryell, McLen-
nan. Falls, Milan and Tarrant county.
Reports from the range indicate
that stock has gone through the re-
cent cold weather with but slight
loss.
"A prohibition party club, of
which Dr.. j. B. Cranfll is the lead
ing spirit, has been organized at
Waco.
Work on the Cotton Belt depot
at Plano has begun. The end of the
track is now eleven miles west of
that town.
Old residents of Jefferson say
that they never knew of such con
tinued spell of bad weather as the
recent one.
The grand jury of Marion
county has been discharged for the
term, after returning forty five in
dictments.
The city of Houston now
gropes in darkness at night, owing
to a difference with the electric
light company.
-Thos L. McGehee, West Sta
ton, and R. B. Saunders, of Stock
dale, have been admitted to the fed
eral pension rolls.
The efforts of the citizens of
Embree to have the Duck Greek post
Office removed to an intermediate
point have failed.
With the prospect of two rail
roads in the near future, Abilene is
on big boom and everything has
an upward tendency.
| superintendent Cooper has
sent out his annual circular to the
county judges in regard to taking
the scholastic census.
Joe Ponton, who made his es-
cape from Lee county Jail, where he
was being held for murder, has been
arrested He has made three es-
capes from jails in Texas before.
"A man named Jones was frozen
to death near AIcGregor on last
Sunday night. He was intoxicated
and lay down by the roadside, where
he was found the next morning.
The stockholders in the Marble
Falls cotton factory talk of with
drawing from the state coo ,erative
mandatory and to transfer the deed
from the state alliance to. themselves.
The enterprising citizens of
Eagle Pass are endeavoring to in
duee Sullivan and Kilrain to give an
exhibition of their brutal powers in
that highly cultured border village
Cedar Mills, Grayson county,
has been visited by destructive
fire. The postofice and number
of stores were consumed. The
fire is believed to be of incendiary
origin.
The shipment of beeves from
the new town Of Canadian, which is
the Shipping point for the whole
northwestern part of the state, has
been heavy, and great activity is
expected in the spring.
Mrs. Louis Deyault, of Carpen-
ter's Bluff. ferry three miles north
of Denison, on Red River, threw her
child into well and killed it. The
poor woman had been showing signs
of insanity for some time.
VIM. Cameron & Co., of Waco,
the other day paid over S12,50O to
Callahan county, that being the
amount of the bond of ]. II. AIillican
& Co., for whom they went surety in
a contract with the country.
Several families who moved last
fall from Campbell's Ridge, Kaufman
county, to California, surprised their
friends by returning suddenly few
days ago. They now express them
selves as being satisfied with Texas.
The county immigration society
of Runnels county has called a joint
convention of the immigration so
cieties of Brown, Coleman, Tom
Green, Concho and Runnels counties,
for the purpose of jointly advertis-
ing their interests.