Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-29

The case of Voss VS.. Bassett, ap.
pealed to. the supreme court from
Washington county, has been affirm
ed.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. K. Fielder return.
ed Sunday evening from Fort Worth
where they have been visiting the
spring palace.
Mr.. FRITZ L1NDEMANN, farmer
out on the William Penn road, was
presented by his wife with a little
daughter on Monday.
DR.. B. P. CURRY had a horse
killed on the Central railroad track
near the compress on Friday night
by passing locomotive.
The fest at George Macham's out
beyond PALMS was not largely at
tended on Sunday afternoon, owing
to the dampness Of the atmosphere.
A NUMBER of Brenhamites are max
ing arrangements to attend the com
mencement exercises at the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical college next
month.
THERE are several cases of measles
at Chappen Hill yet. MIR. R. B. john
son, the we'll known lumberman of
that place, is also reported very i'll
with continued fever.
Tue party of young people here
tofore mentioned got off on their
trip to Eagle Lake by private con-
veyance at O'clock Monday morning,
notwithstanding the muddy roads.
ALL of the members of The com
mittee to arrange for the big fourth
of-July celebration at Germanla park
are requested to meet at the Ger
mania at four o'clock this afternoon.
MONDAY was the beginning of the
regular monthly term of Justice
Curry's court. The docket was the
lightest he has ever had. Only a
few judgments by default were
taken.
THE city authorities should be on
the lookout for distempered horses.
On Sunday a colored man, who
drives badly diseased and distem-
pered horse, was seen to water him
at one of tbs public watering trughs.
WHILE a train was switching in
the Santa Fe yard on Saturday a
box-car loaded with cottonseed OF
cakes was struck with such force
as to cause the pile of sacks to slide
to one end of the car and to tear it
out completely.
DEPUTY Sheriff league went up
to Caldwell on Monday accompanied
by Messrs. John jackson and Tom
Matchett, white, and Huse McAdoo,
Frank Hubert and two or three
other colored attached witnesses in
a case pending in the district court.
Hermann ALAMANsKY, the young
man mentioned in Sunday mornings
paper as having given Deputy league
and Constable Boyd such a tight
race, has been released from the
county jail. His father came in,
gave bond and hired him out as a
county convict.
A VERY heavy rain fell in the city
on Saturday night and all day Sun
day it continued cloudy and threat
ening, and sprinkled at intervals.
There was slight wind, but no
harm was done by either, and the
farmers are in good spirits.
Mr.. J, N. CHADWICK, of Chappell
Hill, says that he never saw a bet
ter or prettier rain than they had
down his way Saturday night. 1t |
was a fine downpour, but did not
wash the land a bit, and although |
there was some wind that tangled
the corn a little it did not do any
harm.
BARNETT GoocH, young man who
used to work in Beaumier Brothers
foundry in this city, and Miss Min
ME Wood, the granddaughter of Mr..
and Mrs. A. II. Wood, were quietly
married on Monday morning be-
tween II and II o'clock at 4. H.
Woods boarding house. Rev. J. /,
L. Lloyd, OF the Baptist church,
performed the ceremony. The Ban /.
NER Office received a liberal suppI7