Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-09-03
STATE NEWS.
Austin needs a city hall.


The Talmage college at Alvin
will soon be completed.
-Wharves at Velasco to cost
1915, 900 have been commenced.
Tyler has three canning facto-
ries and large steam tannery.
Ali the northern part of Faulk
county, was burned on Saturday.
The cotton seed oil mill at Pal
estine has received new machinery.
New corn meal retails at so
cents bushel at Victoria.
Louis Callan has sold the Cole.
man Voice to ]. 81. Tucker.
The Sunday law in Greenville,
Hunt county, is being rigidly en-
forced.
Marshall will have a meeting
Friday night to organize military
company.
. The grocery store of Jacob Is
rael in Corsicana, was burned Sun
day night.
Tyler claims 10000 population
and has an efficient system of cleo
trio lights.
"A man was arrested twice in
one day, at Hillsboro last week, for
carrying pistols.
Three new storehouses are
being built at Appleby, one dwelling
and one church.
The grade on the Hearne and
Brazos valley railway is about COM
pleted to Mumford.
The Picayune says the Beeville
gins are turning out an average OF
thirty bales per day.
Work on the new depot and
section house was commenced last
Monday at Cameron.
-Tramps are arrested for vagran-
cy, duly fined and put to work on
the streets at Taylor.
Poisonous gas was struck in
we'll in Austin recently and came
near killing two men.
In Texas the acreage in cotton
this year is said to be 10 per cent
greater than last year.
The fat mems association met
in Galveston Monday. uncle" Joe
Rolf ought to join them.
Harry Jones shot his sweet
heart, Lucinda Washington, at
Houston, Tuesday night,
The fifth vacant house burned
1T San Antonio in the last month, |
was burned Sunday night.
For several days the receipts
Of cotton in Yoakum have been over
one hundred bales per day.
The Cuero Bulletin says cotton
S coming in rapidly from distances
md selling at S2.40 per 100.
The commerce Journal thinks
cotton in that section will yield
about half a bale to the acre.
"A dead man was found in
Houston Saturday night with moth
ng about him to identify him.
Dudley Moreland had his leg
BADLY broken while driving a hay
,ress at Black Jack Thursday.
The contract has been let for
he erection of the new Cumberland
Presbyterian church at Austin.
"A large number of fine horses
re now in training at Bolton for the
aces at the coming Bell county fair.
-Jno. Bond, at Sherman; on five !,
harges of assault with intent to
murder, has been released on 81, 500
ond.
Jas Kelly, of Galveston, tried
D go out by the morphine route
aturday night, and is under treat
lent.
There are about $4,000 acres of
acant land in the southern portion
f Floyd county subject to home
tead.
The Wharton, cotton crop it is
stinated will reach one bale per
ere. A pretty good average crop
that.
Saturdays cotton receipts at !
Ialveston showed an increase of
718 bales more than on the same
ate last year.
"A block of dozen frame busl-
ess buildings burned at Quannah l
aturday night. Loss 100000, 1
$4,000. c
ID. Carter, a fifteen year old boy 9
/ Ell Paso, shot his big toe off with t
shotgun by putting the muzzle on g
and pulling the trigger.
Thirty young men from Geor-
Ia and Tennessee arrived at Corsi- :
ma last week in search of work on
rms. Washington county needs q
,out 500 such immigrants.
Two little cIildren of Austin