Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-07-23
STATE NEWS.

The Lavaca cotton seed oil com
pany, capital $4,000, has been char
tered.
Williamson and Parker counties
are making large shipments of cat
tie.
There are ffty-one teachers at
tending the summer normal at Yer
non.
They had a thirty hours rain at
Woodville, in Tyler county, last
week.
-Denison wants the Governor to
order the enforcement of the Sun
day law.
The Gainesville ice factory is
running day and night to supply the
demand.
AT Troupe good corn crops are
assured and the cotton prospects are
splendid.
The Llano summer institute be.
gan work with thirty-three teachers
enrolled.
The net receipts of cotton for
the season at Galveston has been
1,O00,O65.
Pit Esque, of Edgewood, was
killed recently by Robert Harper,
near Edgewood.
The Baptists are holding pro-
tracted meeting at Turner's Point,
Kaufman county.
The Christian church at Archer
has just been completed and is a
credit to the town.
The business outlook of Texar-
kama is reported more favorable
than for years past.
The general offices of the Cot
ton Belt railway have been removed
from Texarkana to Tyler.
Beef cattle are being shipped
from Victoria to New Orleans, where
they are in demand at good prices.
There will be a grand ex-con-
federate reunion at Mckinney on
9th and It'll.
A branch of the Texas Building
and Loan Association, of Galveston,
has been established at McDade.
The Albert Sidney Johnston
Camp of Confederate Veterans was
at Paris, Texas, last week.
The freight and passenger de-
partment of the Cotton Belt railroad
has been moved from Texarkana to
Tyler.
Shipments of watermelons from
Cuero to distant markets have
Melted the shippers handsome
profits.
Its hot enough in San Antonio
to cook tamales in the sunshine
The thermometer registers LOG in
the shade.
The building for the Greenyille
oil mill is nearing completion, and
the machinery will soon be placed in
position.
On the 14th and 18th the annu-
al reunion of the Henderson County
Veteran Association will take place
at Athens.
Lucy Williams, colored woman
40 years old, was run over and killed
at Dallas Saturday by rapid tran
sit motor.
Eleven thousand dollars has
been subscribed for an iron bridge
across the Brazos IA miles below
Weatherford.
-Track-laying on the Arkansas
Pass railway reached Rockale last
Saturday; work on the depot was be-
gun on Monday.
The Houston and Texas Central
railway is building new platform
at charging their facilities
for handling the coming cotton
crop.
The Fl. Worth and Rio Grande
railway has reached Brentwood,
md will be open for passenger traf-
&c between there and Fl. Worth by
August l.
The grand Jury of Bexar coun-
ty has returned about 60 indict-
ments against lawyers, merchants,
bankers and others for failure to-
pay occupation tax.
In Caldwell county there will
be enough corn made for home CON
while the prospects are
favorable for the heaviest yield of
cotton raised for many years.
Crops and gardens at Corrlgau
are very fine. AS a rule crops have
been better cultivated, and fewer
and smaller debts incurred in their
production than ever heretofore.
Col. E. H. Cunningham is the
first planters in Fort Bend county to
receive his license emitting him to
the sugar bounty rendered by the
United States government to sugar