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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04

Mr. J. R. Jones and family, of San
Antonio, will arrive in BRENNAN
Monday and make this city their
home. AIr. Jones comes we'll recon-
mended both from San Antonio and
Fort Worth where he has been in
the jewelry business for ten years,
and prior to that time in Clinton,
H., as a good citizen, and is said to
be one of the finest watchmakers
and engravers in Texas. He has &C.
cepted a position with Mr.. A. T.
Threadgill, who recently purchased
from him one of the finest ieweler
outfits TO be found anywhere, which
added to his own, perhaps gives
him as large and complete an outfit
IS could be found in any large city.
He guarantees with this outfit to
duplicate any piece of auy watch.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04
County Court.

In the County Court Thursday
the case of Schweiss VS.. Barnett was
tried. The suit was brought to re-
cover rent for foreclosure, the de-
PENDANT pleading in contrevention
damages actual and exemplary. The
jury rendering verdict for defend
ant fer $3.50.
The case of Louis Levitansky VS..
the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe R'y,
suit for damage to himself and team
which a train collided with was
called and the evidence taken, but
the argument will be heard this
morning.
In the County Court Friday the
case of 81. Levltonsky VS.. the G. G.
& S. F. R'y was tried the jury max
ing a mistrial.
The case of Wallace VS.. the G. G..
& S. F. R'y, Judgement for plaintiff
for $3.50
Gesse VS.. Summers, motion to dis
miss appeal sustained.
Maxey ct ais VS.. Crockett ct ais.
Judgement for plaintiff for $3.50.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04
A COLLISION.
A Santa Fe Freight Strikes Moving
Wagon at the West Street Crossing.
on the Houston Texas Central.

Wagon at the West Street Crossing.
on the Houston s Texas Central.
About one o'clock Thursday after
noon as a Santa Fe engine was
switching in the yards, returning
from the compress, at the West
street crossing on the Central track,
it collided with a farm wagon com
pletely demolishing two wheels of
the vehicle, the occupants of the
wagon making a narrow escape from
a serious accident.
The vehicle was occupied by Mr..
Mike Wizowski, his mother and sis
ter, all of whom were considerably
shaken up by the collision but for
tunately sustained no serious injury.
The train as it approaches this
crossing goes through deep cut
that prevents the engineer from see
ing approaching vehicles except
they are on the track, but sign is
pasted there for a stop. Some of
the observers say that the train was
not going faster than a horse could
walk and the bell ringing, while
others were of the opinion that it
noiselesslY and struck
the wagon before the driver had a
chance to get out of the way. How
ever a suit will probably result and
the courts will determine whether
the accident was the result of car
Iessness on the part of the engineer
or the driver of the wagon.
It's an i'll wind that blows nobody
good. The remnants of the wagon
will be carried to Messrs. Schueren-
berg's shop for repairs, which will
be almost like building a new
wagon.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04

Mr.. G. II. STEVENS, who for the
past few months has been sojourn-
ing in Brennan, attending the dis
trict court during the entire term OF
eight weeks, silent and seemingly
interested spectator, left Friday for
Chicago. Gossipers never did learn
what he was here for, what was his
business or why he should manifest
such an interest in the courts of
Washington county, He was guessed
off as detective, or an author gath
ering material for book, but as no
one felt like it was any of their
business which, he was not ques-
toned and now that he has taken
his departure the mystery remains
tnsolved.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04

A PoLANDER went into a saloon on
Thursday and complained of being
q little hungry and after looking
around awhile discovered hunk of
stale cheese, about two pounds,
which he proposed to eat, with half
a pone of bread, and drink five
glasses of beer inside of half an hour,
provided some one present would
pay for 1.-THE agreeing to settle the
bill provided he did not accomplish
the task. The offer was readily
taken by saloon clerk and BAN
EER man, and sad to relate, though
true, they had to settle the bill.
Mr.. Polander then offered to eat one
pound of sausage if some one would
pay for it, but strange to say no one
would take him up. He's an eater
fSom Eatersville, you betl
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04
Preparing for a Grand Celebration.

The colored people of Brennan
are preparing for grand emancipa-
ton celebration June 18th, at the
Fair grounds in this city.
They will have orators of the day
10 recount their achievements since
emancipation twenty six years ago,
besides horse racing, a fat mans
race, children's games and the
c. owning of the goddess of liber-
ty, who is to be elected by the pop
ular vote of the colored people.
One of the prime movers in the
work of getting up this celebration
said to the reporter that 1t would be
"synonomous with the Mai-fest by
the white folks, but that they expect
ed to have much larger crowd
Befe."
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04
Crop Prospect.

In the past few days the reporter
has interviewed farmers from nearly
every section of the county, all of
whom report the most fattering
prospect for rich harvest.
The farmers are well up with
their work, cotton is growing off
nicely, while corn is not suffering
for rain yet though it will be in a
few days.
Mr.. Fl. Fisher has just returned
from a ten days ride through the
county, having passed through a
good portion of the county, and in
answer to the inquiry as to how
were the crops, upon his return he
said to a reporter that the prospect
was indeed fine. The crops were
clean, cotton growing nicely and
corn doing well yet, aud Il noticed"
said he that there is a considerab-e
increase in the corn acreage over
last year," which is perhaps ac-
counted for by the high price at
which the cereal has been selling
this spring.
The farmers are IN good spirits,
hopeful of bountiful harvest for
which, with no unforeseen disaster,
they havean elegant prospect.
The fruit crop promises fair
yield, plums and berries are plenti-
full, early peaches will soon be ripe
and the watermelon prospect is fair
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04
R@ BLAcK-DRAUeHT tea cures Constipation.

DIR. BARTLETT was in the city Fri
day and was exhibiting present
from some western friend, which he
greatly appreciated. 1t was an An
agora goat hide, the fleece of which
measured AZ inches. The goat was
killed near the head of Frio river, in
Edwards county, where they are
said to be plentiful.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The U. S. war ship, Pensacola, is
in Chill waters
Charles B. Dana is taking billiard
lessons from Maurice DAILY.
Denver congress chooses Omaha
as the next place of meeting.
This italian war talk might be
termed a tempest in peanut.
Cotton crop to date in sight sea-
son 1S01-91 is 100000 bales.
The nationalists give in their ale
glance to the third party ideas.
st. Louis Presbytery favors ap-
pointment of women as deaconesses.
The state horticultural fair will be
held in Lampasas on July 1, 2 and 8.
"A $4,000 spindle cotton factory
has been erected in East Florence
Ala.
It is said that New Workers spend
100000 every year on umbrellas
alone.
Denver congress endorses Henne-
pin and Nicaragua canal improve
ments.
The car of Russia is said to have
fondness for rising early in the
morning.
Ten negroes killed by gas ex-
plosion in Pratt mines mines, Birm-
ingham, Ala.
Princess Beatrice may be said to
be decidedly stout, as she weighs
210 pounds.
A Portland, Ore, Chinaman who
recently died left property valued at
over 100000.
Maurice Healy sat down on Par
nell very fiat in the house of com
mons recently.
The King of Greece has made
SS,OO0,0OO in speculation on the
London change.
Robert Shaw, of Brooklyn, owns
the old gun with which Israel Pat
man shot the wolf.
The iseed oil mills at Sioux City,
No, have been destroyed by fire, at
a loss of S150,000.
j. K. Bentley, defaulting treasurer
of the Iron Mountain road, is crazy,
and attempted suicide.
National road, Mex, will COM
mence construction from Colima to
Guadalairra in October.
Cotton crop report from Missis-
sippi and Alabama show about same
conditions as last year.
Gen. ". R. Featherston, of Mis-,
sissippi, is stricken with paralysis,
and not expected to live.
"a Family Skeleton" is the name
of a new farce comedy which will be
seen on the road next season.
An excellent cement for glass is
made by dissolving an ounce of ism
glass in two wine glasses of spirits
of wine
Queen Victoria has commanded
strict enforcement of the new regu-
lations limiting presentations at
court.
at a recent banquet Emperor
William in his speech said 81
alone am master in Germany, and
no one else"
The shops of the Raleigh and Cat
ton railroad are to be removed
from Raleigh. N. G. to point more
in the center of the Seaboard Airline
system.
Col. Harvey, who has been ap-
pointed by Governor Abbott, of
New Jersey. to be commissioner of
banking and insurance, is only
twenty seven years of age.
Mrs. Potter Palmer has declined
the $4,000 salary recently voted to
her by the board of lady managers
of the Worlds fair. She is working
for glory and patriotism.
It has been said of Murat that the
most respectable thing he ever did
was to indulge in bath; an opera
ton in which he was engaged when
killed by Charlotte Corday.
Twenty years ago some one stole
a GOLD rinp from W g Needham. of
Columbus, Ga. One day recently
Mr.. Needham received the ring en-
closed in an envelope without a
word of explanation.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04

ABOUT forty of the young folks at
tended the picnic at New Years
creek Thursday, and are superla-
lively enthusiastic in their accounts
of It's pleasures. They spent the ell
tire dey out there reaching the city
about o'clock Thursday night.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04
gSq5s5 5gqgs
A Present To Our Subscribers.

1t is with pleasure that we an
nounce to our many patrons that
we have made arrangements. with
that wIde-awake, illustrated farm
magazine, the AMERICAN FARMER,
published at Fort, Wayne, Ind,
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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04
The Central Preparing for the Truck
Growers.

The Central Preparing for the Truck
Growers.
A force of some 80 or 40 hands
were buslly engaged Thursday put
ting in a switch from the Central
along by the rear of the NJ. Amsler
& Co. building, CART of which is oc-
cupied by Mr.. Hacker, secretary
of the Truck 81 wers' Association,
for whose bend principally, this
switch was put in there. The
switch was being put down in a
rush that a car might be loaded
with new Irish potatoes there
Thursday night which will be
shipped to st. Louis, with others to
follow. The first car was sent to
Dallas few days ago, with very
satisfactory results.
Another switch, partly for the ac-
commodation of the Truck Growers
association, will be put down oppo-
site the new gin of Messrs. Watson
& Giese, near Rosedale nursery g,
where the Truck Growers will be
furnished cars on which to load
their watermelon4e which will be on
the market ere long.
The Central offers all the encour-
agement to truck growers along its
lines that it can, knowing that it in
creases the company's business from
year to year as the Association
grows.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04
A Safe Medicine

Is one that can be taken at all times without
danger. The liver must be kept in regular
action, the bowels open and cleansed of
feculent matter and the blood purified in or
der TO insure health. Msguire's cundurango
can be taken at any time. IS cts. per bottle.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04

A SANTA FE fat car on which the
break would not work, collided with
, a west bound gravel train on the
Central at the crossing yesterday
about noon, but was not moving
with sufficient impetus to cause
much damage.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04

The building and improvements
goes on with greater regularity than
it did even through the winter
months.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04

The flower yards are fragrant with
the oder of cape jesamine.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04

ENGINE No. 90, just turned out
from the Houston shops passed
here Thursday going West on her
maiden trip, gaily decorated.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04

THURSDAY was Catholic holiday
and the city was full of country
people who came in to worship.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04

WHAT has become of the amatuer
theatrical troup?
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04

PROFESSOR nocH is preparing g
statement for publica ton as to the
result of the chemical analysis of the
substances contained in his remedy.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04

CHATTEL mortgages for sale at
this Office.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04

vEeErABLEs are plentiful in the
market
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04
ESTHAY NOTICE.

ESIIIl1 NUAIOI-s
Notice is hereby given that on the 10th
day of February took up one sorrel horse.
about 10 years old and IA hands high and
branded Nm on left shoulder. Owner can
get same by proving property and paying
cost of estray. L. F. HARRIS,
m-28-3t GreenTine, Texas.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04
! ID & 4 3 & Z q 8
Colonization Lands i'm South
west Texas.

Big inducements offered in choice Bee
County lands. in small tracts, to colonies or
actual settlers. Wei adapted 10 cotton, corn,
vegetables and fruits. For particulars, adj
dress, 6. NJ. MAGiLL & CO.,
m-28-2t Arkansas Pass, Texas
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04

Our measurement does not always
come up to the standard.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04

Try nLAck;DRAueAr tea for Dyspepsia
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04
McEIree'S Wine of Cardui
A New Acquisition.

and THEDFORD'S BLAOK-DRAUGHT
sSe sold by all Washington County dealers.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04
STRAYED,

From my premises at Brenham, on May
l, 1891, one black mare, about Is hands
high, bald face, stocking feet, no brand. So
reward for her recovery. Address, b.
L, KoRFP,
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04
LOCAL NE WIS.

AND the cry is still for more rain.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04
The Farmers of Southern Texas GIN buy
CHEAP HOMES ON FAVORABLE TERMS.
Investigate the Opportunities

the Abilene comfortable heahfl
much
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04

Twenty years ago some one stole
a gold ring from W. S. Needham, of
Columbus, Ga. One day recently
Mr.. Needham received the ring en-
closed in an envelope without a
word of explanation.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-04

It has been said of Murat that tn
most respectable thing he ever diC
was to indulge in bath; an opera
ton in which he was engaged whel
killed by Charlotte Corday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-17
RAIN SUPERSTITIONS.
Various Ways by Which Moisture is Coaxed
From the Clouds

In the Caucasian Province of Georgia
where drouth has lasted long, marriage
BILE girls are yeked in couples with an ox-
yoke on their shoulders, priest holds the
reins, and thus harnessed they wade
through rivers, puddle and mashes, pray
ing, screaming, weeping and laughing.
In district of Transy lvania, when the
ground Is parched with drouth, some girls
strip themselves naked, and led by an
older woman, who Is also naked, they
steal harrow and carry it across the
field TO a brook, where they set it ahoat.
Next they sit on the harrow, keeps a tiny
fame burning on each corner of it for an
hour. Then they leave the harrow in the
water and go home.
A similar rain charm is resorted in In
dia naked women drag pillow across the
the field by night. 1t is not said that they
plunge the pillow into a stream or sprinklec
it with water But the charm would
hardly be complete without it. Some
tunes the charm works through an
animal.
To procure rain the Peruvians used to
set black sheep in the field, poured chica
over it, and gave it nothing to eat till rain
fell.
In district of Sumatra all the women
of the village, scantly clad, go to the river,
wade into it, and splash each other with
the water. A black cat is thOwn into the
water and made to swim about for while,
t,1en allowed to escape to the bank, pursued
by the splashing of the women. In these
cases the color of the animal is part of the
charm; being black it will darken the sky
with rain clouds. So the Bechuanas burn
the stomach of an OK at evening, because
they say, the black smoke will gather
the clouds, and cause the rain to come.
The Timorese sacrifice black pig for a
rain, a white orred one for sunshine.
The Garos offer a black goat on the top of
a very high mountain IN time of drouth.
Sometimes the people try to coerce the
rain-god into giving rain. In China a
huge dragon made of paper or wood, re
presenting the rain-god, is carried about
in procession but if no rain follows it is
cursed and torn in pieces. In the like
circumstances the Fellonpes Of Senegambia
throw down their fetiches and drag them
about the field cursing them till rain falls.
Some Indian of the OrinocO worshlped
toads and Ike ot them in vessels in order to
obtain from them rain or sunshine as
might be required: when their prayers
were not answered they beat the toads.
Killing frog is European rain charm.
When the spirits Withhold rain or sunshine
the Comanches whip slave; if the gods
prove obstinate. the victim is almost fay
ed alive. Here the human being may re-
present the god, like the leaf-clad Dodola.
Golden BOugh.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-17
Vain Regrets.

The woman who "weepe over split milk
has been condemned by every one. Yet
there are very few of US who do not waste
precious time in equally vain regrets.
Wise beyond her generation is she who
learns through her misfortune to attain
final success and waste no time In foolish
tears over the irretrievable. There is more
philosophy than most will allow in Mark
Tapley's theory of life. Maud Miller,
who was forever idly regretting that she
had been unable to exchange her pretty
face for silken gown and the rank of a
judges wife. is fair example of the hole
race of women who forever vex their
friends with the cry lit might have
been" 1t is some such purely selfish
frivolous ends they seek. Women who.
like Mrs. Gummidge, make whole family
of honest hard workaday people miserable
over the irretrievable fact that they are
''lone, lorD critters" are to numerous. Not
every one is so generous and noble hearted
as the fisherman of the story, and the Mrs.
Gummidges of real life are usually little
needed by the busy, hard working people
they live among, but they invariably do
some harm by spreading an atmosphere
Of discomfort and misery around them.
Each day in every ones life has It's
sorrows and joys; there is no good gained
by resurrecting the sorrows of the past.
Happiness, it can be safely affirmed, is
dependent upon circumstances, but upon
disposition. Every one has known chronic
invalids, sufferers from excruciating pain,
who bore their trials without murmur
and enjoyed all the small pleasures that
fell to their let with such relish that they
could not be called unhappy. The woman
who shown an intractable disIre to brood
over the past, who is repeatedly bewailine
her failure to secure something which II
is as impossible to obtain for her as the
moon, may be safely set down as Of an IN,
happy disposition. She would be as un'
haupy in palace as in howell as soon as
the novelty had worn off. The kingdom
of Heaven is not within her but rather
that other kingdom, with Its dissension
and bitter jealousies, selfshress and hard
ness of heart. Not until all selfshness is
laid a side and she comes into a state OF
thankfulness to God ard usefulness tc
man can she End rest and happiness
must come from within. not from without.
In doing good to those who are around
her, she will forget the past and all vain
regrets.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-17
SELL THE CHICKENS EARLY.

All the profits in the poultry business
are due to close calculation and watchful-
ness of small things, saving In every way
possible, be it large or small. Of course
the manner of feeding and proper accom-
modarions have much to do with it; but
the disposition of the stock that has been
raised this season as well as the old that
has been used for breeding or laying Is
Of the most Importance. The time of sell
ing makes all the difference in the world.
| secure the best results by selling cock
ereIs Just as soon as they are large enough
for broilers, for they bring a high price at
that time. Keep at them just as fast as
they are ready, even if the price does &C
down. They grow enough faster to make
it up, so that they are bringing good
price all the time and the expenses of feed
are being lessened, or rather the same
amount given to the other chickens to force
them along.
In the same way it is much more econ
omical to dispose early ofthe old cocks that
are through service and hens that LAID
their best, for it is in July and August
that they are in demand, before chickens
get ong. They bring a good price, ano
| they do not lay enough TO pay for keeping
to be sold at much less price later. Ano
then the pin feathers are something to be
considered, if ones time is worth anything
which are escaped by early dressing, AnC
it is with hens the same as with chicks
They will not eat after they are gone.
believe in dry picking instead of scald
ing as another source of profit, not only be
cause the feathers can be sold for &c pei
h., but the improved appearance of the
fowl dressed will almost always insure {
better price than the scaIded one vii
bring.-Cor. n f. Homestead.