Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-11
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NE WIS.
WANTED-AlI persons indebted
to the Banner to come forward and
settle. We need the money.
Mr.. W. A. DALLAS has been ap-
pointed to clerkship in the Santa
Fe depot.
The ladies complain of the scarcity
of domestic help, the cooks having
Joined the cotton picking brigade.
SWEET potatoes of the new crop
are coming in and are very fine
With sweet potatoes "'possums and
simmons" ripening, the average col
ored man is happy.
The spirit of progress in all its
benignant force is the motive power
in citizens who realize than in cities,
as in men, Heaven helps those who
help themselves"
FROM parties from the four points
of the compass it is learned that
crops are looking well. Cotton is
still growing, is green and full OF
bolIs and blooms.
POSTMASTER DIVER has been max
ing some improvements in the Post,
Office for the comfort of himself and
clerks, by putting up wire in place
of ceiling around the enclosure
where the mail is distributed.
RI ABLE to explain why the oys-
ter was better during the past week
than the week before. 1t was just as
warm weather. We r not, though
we know it is the custom to COM
mence eating the bivalves on the
first.
The, murder trial of VIM. Leak
for the murder of a woman at Chap
pell Hill, was concluded in the Dis
trict court Monday, the jury re-
turning verdict OF guilty and fix
ing the punishment at two years in
the penitentiary.
BRING your cotton to Brennan.
1t pays as much as any of the neigh
boring cities and gives you the ad-
vantage of more competition and
larger stocks of general merchandise
to make your purchases from than
any of the competing markets for
your cotton.
IT is said that the managers of
the fest Sunday did everything in
their power to keep good order at
Prairie Hill, for which they deserve
credit, for when it is known that
fighting is tolerated as part of the
programme of the fest, it will not be
long before they are in disrepute.
BEAUREeARD BRYAN, Esq, has re-
turned from the meeting at the dem
ocratic executive committee at Aus
tin. There was about Is of thecom-
mittee in attendance, and the bust
ness transacted was the planning of
an active campaign. Speakers have
not been named for this district yet.
They were rendered an elegant
banquet Saturday night.
IT was fortunate thing for the
grand jury that the rain prevented
their meeting Monday morning, as a
large section of plaster fell from the
ceiling of the county court room
where they would have been, had
the weather not prevented some Of
them from getting to the city, and
they might have been hurt, as it is
said to have fallen right where they
had been setting.
SUNDAY as Messrs. Jno. Hoffman
and Alex. Simon were going out to
the fest in buggy, gig came near
turning over just in front of them,
throwing out one of its occupants
who was carrying an open umbrella,
frightened their horse which
turned suddenly, smashing a wheel
ofthe buggy and breaking the shafts,
throwing them out, but not hurting
them seriously.
ONE of the young men who was
out driving Sunday evening happen
ed to the misfortune on his return
to be thrown out and slightly hurt,
the horse running until he fell into a
fence where he was extricated with
out any very serious damage. One
shaft of the gig was broken and the
h0rse,ssightly scratched up. Fortu-
nstely the Young lady with whom