Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-03-05

BER. D. R. PERKINS, of Chapel
Hill, has bought out the drug bust
ness in that city of his mother and
brother.
A CASE of smallpox is reported
from Hampstead and considerable
excitement is said to prevail in con
sequence.
Nh. d. A. ALLEN left Tuesday fol
Dallas, where he went to stand a
civil service examination for promo
ton in the railway mail service.
TUESDAY afternoon Lovick Rogers,
while fooling with a pistol, accident
" shot Delbert Blackburn through
the hand, inficting painful wound.
The Truck Growers association
are moving along with their truck
planting. It is believed that they
will run their watermelon acreage
up to 500 acres.
TIE farmers are going straight
ahead with their farming operations,
and from some section of the county
corn is reported to be up. With
the present prospect it will proba-
bly, be down again tonight.
MIR. F. R. ALLISON had a fine
DURHAM mich COW killed by a
freight train on the Santa Fe near
the union depot yesterday. The
COW leaves a fine young calf, which
will have to be sacrificed as it
would be difficult to raise it.
MR. r. l.. KNoLLE has returned
from the Medical University at
Louisville, full iedged physician,
stood an examination before the
medical board of this city and left
Monday for Industry, where he will
begin his practice with DR.. Lagle.
RECENTLY five or SIX COWS have
gone mad in the vicinity of Chappell
Hill and had to be killed. No one
seems to be able to account for it
except upon the hypothesis that a
rabid dog has been through there
and bit them without any one OBJ
serving him.
THE Insurance adjusters have made
a settlement with Mr. E. r. Frank
lin paying him in full his insurance
on his stock of books and stationery
burned some time since, The insur-
ance was $4,000. Mr.. Franklin has
a stock on the road and will open up
In a week or two.
TUESDAY afternoon as County
Treasurer G. Minkwitz drove up to
his store and started to allght from
the delivery wagon his foot caught
in the spring of the seat throwing
him face first to the sidewalk, bruis |
ing his face considerably and infict
ing several other bruises on his per-
SON.
PERHAPS the largest cotton tran
saction that has occurred for years
here, was consummated Monday
when Mr.. Rheinstein sold to Mr. |
VIM. Axer 600 bales of cotton at the |
uniform price of 81 cents per pound.
The lot brought close on to $50, 900. |
1t will be shipped to Liverpool in a
few days.
PRoP. P. j. PrrzL1N, the second
best man in the Pitzlin- Upham
prize fight some time since in Gal
weston, spent Sunday in Brennan,
having come from Austin to pros
pect the field in reference to getting
a class in sparring, club swinging,
etc. He is now teaching his second
class in Austin.
THE masquerade ball at the Ger
mania Saturday night was largely
attended and heartily enjoyed until |
a late hour. There were about so
masks, some of them grand and |
gorgeous, some unique and striking. |
In a room adjourning the dance
hall refreshments were served, and
everybody seemed to be immensely |
enjoying the evening pleasure as if it |
had Just fairly commenced when the
reporter left at 11:30 o'clock.
IT has been decided that pupils
coming from families in which meas
les prevail will be permitted to at
tend school, provided they have had
measles and do not nurse or remain
in the room at all with those sick
with the measles. Physicians state
that there is no danger from pupils |
who have had measles attending
school, where they do not come in
contact with the sick. Those sick