Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-04-09
STATE NEWS.

majority OF Tour votes.
Hobart Z. Polk killed himself
at Maashal Saturday night.
The Corpus Christi Light Guard
have been drilling sixty days.
Honey Grove is getting ready
to put up new bank building.
The Smith & Sames saw mill at
Daingerfeld was burned Saturday.
-Granbury is soon to have two
new banks, one private and the other
national.
The establishment of car works
are said to be an assured fact at
Beaumont.
The question of building a rail
road from Amarillo to Panhandle
city is being agltated.
The artesian drill for the asy.
lum well at Terrell is down 1900
feet and still moves on.
The large new school building
at Wolfe City is about completed
and will be occupied soon.
The residence of Sack Pruitt
was burned at Orphans Home, DIAL
las county, Saturday night.
THE calaboose at New Boston
was burned recently and negro boy
came near burning up in it.
The Jefferson Flour Mills which
were burned some time ago at JEFF
ferson, are being rapidly rebuilt.
The amount of money invested
in new manufactures in Texas dur
ing the year 1890 was S6O,OOO,OOO.
The waterworks which are being
put in at San Angelo are estimated
to be sufficient for city of $4,000.
William Robinson in playing
with a target pistol at Hillsboro ac-
cidentally shot himself in the thigh.
-Caddo Mills has organized a
new Cumberland Presbyterian
church which is in prosperous con-
dition.
Gainesville has raised her $500
bonus and closed the contract for a
$4,000 cotton seed oil mill to be
built at once.
In one brief day the court at
Paris, Tex, divorced eighteen
couples, and made eighteen hearts
to beat as thirty-six.
"A dispatch from Paris reports
killing at Muscogee in the creek Ma
ton which occurred recently. Paul
Lucky killed Dick Scott.
The new Baptist church at
Huntsville is to be dedicated on the
10Th, and Rev. DR.. Burleson will
preach the dedicatory sermon.
The Marshall Star states that a
new hotel will probably be built
there near the passenger depot
It is to be convenient and commodi-
Gus.
Grimes county commissioners
have ordered the issue of $4,000 in
bonds to erect a courthouse and a
20 per cent tax for interest on the
bonds.
Tin ore has been found in great
along the gulches, near
San Antonio New machinery has
been added to the Alamo Iron
Works.
1t is an assured fact that Llano
will furnish the granite for the deep
water improvements at Galveston.
It will require rs car loads per day
for five years.
The cotton crop of Texas for
1890-91 is close to 100000 bales, |
worth nearly S10O,00O,0OO. This is
one fourth of the entire crop of the
United States.
Negotiation are pending at Corsi-
cana, for the erection Of stove
foundry and machine works at the
cost of S150,000. Eastern and local
parties are interested.
Anthracite coal and metal ore
very much resembling has been dis
covered on alarm belonging to Capt.
near Canton. The coal is
very black and burns readily.
. -Work on the Baptist college
at Brownwood is being
rapidly pushed to completion and
the stone work will be finished IN a
lew weeks, if the weather remains
favorable.
1t is claimed by expert miners
that gold has been found in a low
range of hills 25 or 80 miles north
east of Sunset. 1t is also said that
silver and other metals exist in pay
ng quantities.
"A movement is on foot to es-