Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-04-16

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forger plead guilty to two cases
Wednesday and was sentenced tc
five years in one case and two in the
other, the remaining cases being no
pressed.
The Liverymen's association Of
the State of Texas will be held al
Bryan, April Is, 1891. All livery,
men are invited to attend Great
preparations are being made enter
tain them.
There was a destructive fire
Tuesday night on the farm of W. A.
White near Salado his fine barn con-
tanning 800 bushels of corn, a large
lot of oats, millet and cotton seed
was burned
The Waxahachie schools are
struggling to be placed on the uni,
versity list when students may enter
the university without re-examina.
tion. The officers are very san
gulne OF success.
The Champion, Shelby county:
Capt. H. A. Harris is planting his
entire farm in corn this year, with
the exception of about four acres in
cotton land that the oldest land on
the place. and perhaps couple of
acres in truck patches, peas, pota-
toes, etc.
-Groesbeck, April s: The recent
cold weather has injured the corn
crop considerably, but very little
corn has been killed, however. Cot
ton is being planted very rapidly.
Our farmers are well up with their
work and people are hopeful of a
bountiful harvest.
The Jury in the case of Mary
Ney and child VS. the international
and Great Northern railroad, rem
dered verdict at Huntsville Thurs
day evening awarding damages in
the sum of S12,5O0 in favor of plain
tiff, to be equally divided between
the mother and child.
Emma, the home of the Crosby
County News, and but short time
ago part of the great plains, is full
of life. The News says: Eleven
carpenters saving, hammering and
mailing and putting up houses, is
one of the sights of Emma, the cen
trail town of Crosby county, Tex.
The Luella gin association of
Grayson county has just balanced
its accounts for the fiscal year and
find that they have made net profit
of S1608 on the business the past
year. They are discussing the pro-
priety of add a corn anding oil mill
attachment to their plant.
The returns of the first NUM-
cipal election in Caldwell show that
the following officers have been
elected: B. G. Rowland, mayor; G.
W. Curry, marshal; Ed Reeves, A.
". McIver and 81. 81. Darr, alder
man. For the fifth alderman there
was tie between G. G. Banks and
]. f. Cobb.
The Office of general traffic
manager on the I. & G. N. has been
abolished. Mr.. J. E. Galbreth, who
held that position, has been ap-
pointed general freight and passen-
ger agent and MIR. j. B. Bartholo-
new, who formerly held the latter
position, has been made assistant
general freight agent.
John and Pat Muffet were arrest
ed near Paris Thursday on charge
of horse stealing in Obion county,
Tenn. They bought a lot of mules
paying half cost, carried them away
and sold them, returning and paying
the money. This they did the second
time, but the third time when they
bought $50 mules, they failed to re-
turn, but said their intention was to
return.
"A dispatch from Paris
says that a negro, who lives there
found two babies 20 miles west of
Grant, nearly twenty miles from any
habitaticn crawling about in the
woods. The negro said there was
nothing like any where near and that
it looked like somebody had left
them there to die or become the prey
of wild animals. They were negro
babies and about one year old.
The Pecan Gap correspondent
of the Delta County Banner relates
the following: MIR. Jones, who has
been very i'll with an abcess on one
of his lungs, has had an operation
performed by Drs. Brown and Da-
Wis. His chest was laid open.
drained and washed out, clearing
the pleural cavity of a large quantity
of purulent matter, Convalesence
was rapid and the young man has
returned to his former home in
Tennessee"