Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-10-22
STATE NEWS.
The Texarkana fair was a gran

JeWeGG OaGurQaY.
Orange ranks as the great lum-
Der center of Texas.
Rains in Floyd county have
been abundant and general.
There has been an abundance of
rain throughout South Texas.
The new we'll at Cleburne has
reached the depth of 40 feet.
Work on the new jail at Corpus
Christi is being pushed rapidly.
Six thousand attended the Falls
county fair at Marlin Thursday.
-Fifty-one cars of stock were
shipped out from Quanah Friday.
The Red river bridge at Deni-
son is rapidly nearing completion.
Era, Cooke county, will soon
boast of $1,000 Methodist church.
The oil mill at Hallettsville is
using water from the artesian we'll.
The order of Patriot Sons of
America has been started at San An
tonic.
The wine grape yield in California
this year is said to have been enor-
nous.
Mary King suicided at Calves
ton Thursday by an overdose OF
morphine.
Rains above Ell Paso have
caused rise in the Rio Grande at
that point.
The contract has been let for
the erection of a Masonic temple at
Hallettsville.
A self-sustaining bridge has been
recently built over Rocky creek, in
Grimes county.
The shafting of the bagging
factory at Sherman was set in motion
on Wednesday last.
Excavation for the foundation
of the courthouse in Edwards coun-
ty is now going on.
The piping for the artesian well
at Velasco is on the ground, and
work will begin at once.
The cotton farmers in the
nelghborhood of Farmersville keep
four gins at active work.
San Marcos has now a full
fedged organization of ''the Citi-
zens' local option league"
There is to be an ex Confeder-
ate meeting at Grandbury, Hood
county, on the oath inst.
There is an effort being made
by the business men of Ballingor to
organize board of trade.
The artesian well at Lakeview,
near San Antonio, is reported to
have an increase of the flow.
-Oleburne has now two fine ar
tesian wells; sufficient, it is thought,
to supply the town with water.
The rain makers experimenting
at San Diego are not making the
success that they would like to.
Cotton, picking is going on live
ly in Taylor county, and the weather
keeps dry despite the rain makers.
The scarcity of stock water in
Shackleford county as causing the +,
removal of stock to the Panhandle.
"A petition is being circulated
in Cleburne asking the city council
to have electric lights in the streets.
Frank Griffin, ten-year old lad
living near Lancaster, recently |
picked 3Os pounds of cotton in one ,
day.
A wagon-load of red Jersey hogs
were sold in Gainesville last week
at four cents per pound, gross .
weight. Ii
Farmers in the nelghborhood of
Greenville are anxious to get cotton ;
pickers, as the crop is going tols
waste.
The saw mill of McCuistan &
Bro, of Nacodoches, was burned I
Thursday night. Loss $4,000. No II
l4bufdnC6-
Crops in the Brazos country t
are turning out splendidly and the
farmers are sowing more small grain
than last year. II
AT Era, Cooke county, about |
400 bales of cotton have been ginned
which is said to be less than one
half the crop. L
Rocks to form the foundation
of the Military plaza pavement at
San Antonio are being brought in
and broken up. |,
-Chas. Bente, a wealthy pawn
broker, of Houston, has been SEN
fenced to two years in the peniten- !
tisry for swindling.
The machinery and motor for
the hotel Velasco were put in mo-
ton last Thursday, supplying 200
incandescent lights.
Philip Hayden and Tom King