Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-08

place 1Or Inc DeQ6uG Oh Ills uealGn,
arrived in this city on Tuesday after
noon on the eastbound Central train,
which was nearly an hour late, &C,
companied by the widow of deceased.
Mr. c. G. Lockett came with the re,
mains as far as Austin, where they
were met by Mr.. Robert Thompson,
a sou of the deceased, and Mr..
Lockett returned homo. The funer-
al took place from the train to the
city cemetery, and the obsequies
We're conducted by Rev. F. S. Leigh,
rector of st. Peters Episcopal
church, who came up from Hemp
stead to officiate. The deceased was
a member of Royal Arch and Blue
Lodge Masons and of the American
Legion of Honor, the last-named of
which attended the funeral in
a body. There were several Masons
present, but they did not attend
in body, as they never at
tend as an organization
except where they are specially re-
quested to take charge of the re-
mains and to conduct the services.
Col. Thompson had $4,000 insurance
on his life in the American Legion
of Honor, and probably other insur-
ance. The deceased was native of
North Carolina and was IS years of
age. He graduated from the state
university of North Carolina, receiv-
ing a splendid classical education,
after which he was educated for the
law profession, but did not follow
it. He was married early in life at
Washington City to a daughter of
Col. Robert Treat Paine, a North
Carolina congressman. The de-
ceased moved from North Carolina
to Texas and located in
Austin county. In 1868 he moved
from Nelsonville, IN Austin county,
to Brennan and resided here con-
tinuously after that date. He was
in the express business for a while
with Mayor Wilkins, and after that
and up to his death was engaged in
the cotton buying business. He
took an active interest in
politics, and served one or
two terms in the state legislature,
but was not professional politician.
He was a man of many good quail
ties and had hosts of friends who
speak nothing except in praise of
him. The deceased leaves surviving
him his widow and the following
children: Robert, the eldest, who
was in the cotton business with him
in this city, Mrs. G. G. Lockett, of
Kerrville, William Thompson Jr., of
Dallas, Charles, who is in the rail
road business in Mexico John Thomp-
son, of Brennan, and Lizzie Paxton,
the youngest, who is ten years old,
Meeting of Subscription Committee.
The Washington county members
OF the committee which was ap-
pointed to solicit subscriptions to
the stock of the proposed railroad
from Huntsville via this city and
Navasota to LaGrange, held a meet
ing in the private Office of Col.
Giddings, in Giddings & Giddings'
bank on Wednesday afternoon. The
members of the committee are
Messrs. D. G. Giddings, T. A. Low,
Albert Werner, Heber Stone and
Fred Fisher. The most important
result of the consultation was an
agreement to begin the work of can
vassiug for subscriptions right away.
Col. Giddings is very much i'm
pressed in favor of the proposed
road and is satisfied thatit would be
of greater benefit to Brennan than
almost any other road that could be
built, but says that neither one nor
two nor three OF four men ought to
be expected to build it alone. The
Colonel expressed the opinion furth-
ermore, that one road built by Texas
people and, honestly owned and con-
trolled and operated by Texas peo-
pie would do more good and go
further in solving the question of
cheap freight rates than all the rail
way commissions that could be
created. A railroad he says,
can be constructed and equipped
at a cost not exceeding ten
thousand dollars mile; but
the great wrong and injury inflicted
in the way of freight rates by the
railroads is in running up fictitious
debts and then charging enough
freight to pay the interest on fcti-
tous bonds. From conversations
had with the other gentlemen in
terested in the enterprise, Colonel
Giddings feels confident that the
Navasota and Huntsville people
will build the road between those
two places, whatever, Brennan may
do, and if we get the road it will be
by our own exertions. It is our
own lookout and it behooves us to |
bestir ourselves.