Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-04-30

account of incIement weather last
week-postponed their celebration
until May 1st
Safe blowers done a neat Job in
Dallas Sunday night opening the
safe in Leachman's laundry and
securing $3.50.
The farmers near Greenvine
will have to plant their cotton over
on account of the recent heavy and
washing rain.
"A committee has been appointed
by the citizens of Ladonia to re-
ceive bids and estimates for sinking
an artesian well.
Valley Mills will soon have
another artesian well, which will
make six Of these artificial spouts
within her limits.
The Orange Tribune reports
the lumber men of its section in good
spirits with the prospects for big
business fattering.
The governor will be asked to
commute the sentence of Henry
johnson of Raines county to i'm
prisonment for life.
The artesian well at Bonham
has reached a depth of about n1ne
hundred feet and the work is being
pushed day and night.
Jno. Jones and j. B. White were
arrested at Meridian, the former on
suspicion and the latter on a charge.
of cattle stealing, Sunday.
"A broken switch rod on the,
Gulf, Colorado Il Santa Fe caused
the wreck of caboose and two cars
of coal at Garland recently.
The alumni of the Terrell high
school will give a magnificent ban
quet at the public school building
on Tuesday evening, May 5.
"A boy by the name of Rodriguez,
narrowly escaped being killed at San
Antonio Sunday while trying to-
board an Arkansas Pass train.
The contract for building the
Sutton county courthouse at Sonora.
has been let for S27,7O6 to a San.
Angelo architect and builder.
Twenty German families, direct
from the old country, have settled
near Ennis, being the advance of a.
large colony to arrive by the list of
August.
Judge Brown, of the district
court at Vernon, has been i'll for the,
past week. Lawyer Snodgrass has
been attending to the duties of the,
court.
The courthouse at La Grange
is being built of the beautiful Null
doom stone and is now going up
handsomely, having reached the sec
ond story.
The third annual Mai-fest, Stock
exhibit and Racing of the Bastrop,
fire department will take place on.
Wednesday and Thursday, May 18th
and I4th.
DIR. J. ". Neil, a prominent
Presbyterian minister of San An
tonic and pastor of the First Pres
byterian church, died at Victoria
Saturday.
Work has been resumed on the
Abilene artesian well. It is now
down to depth of about 1900 feet.
and water rises up to within fifty
feet of the top.
The Bolton Reporter estimates
that it will require $4,000 to repair
the damages done to bridges in the
eastern portion of Bell county, by
the storm last week.
Two BARRIERS by the names Of
Doline and Cook, of Trinity had a.
shooting scrape Tuesday, Cook get
ting pistol bali in the arm that
ranged behind his shoulder.
George Reager, belligerent ne
gro created some excitement on Main
street, Waxahachie, by beating his.
wife numerically with slat which
lie pulled from picket fence.
Texas has 542 newspapers and
eriodicals-forty-one dailies, one
seven sem1-weeklies, 454
yeekhes, seven semi-monthlies, thirty
monthly and two quarterlies.a
Postmaster Smith, at Ell Paso,
s being severely criticised for allow
ng letters to be Unfortunately
'pened at the post-ofice there,
for Juarez lottery tickets
In cleaning windows, use pain
er's buster first, then wash with a
PONCE and water containing little
mmonla, dry with soft old linen
10th, and polish with dry clean
hamois leather.