The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-12-26
BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS
ABOUT TOWN

The Alice mail passed Ell Saus at
20 this morning.
Fruit cakes from to 5 pounds f,r
sale at A. p. Barreda & Bro.
Jas. B. Wells, Esq, was in San An
tonic Sunday, en- route to Austin, so
says the Express.
The steamboat Bessie reached Hi
dalgo yestesday at L. 20 and left at 2
o'clock for Rio Grantle City.
Celestin Jagou has The HERALD's
thanks for pitcher of delicious,
eggs-nog, sent to the Office this
morning.
Your sweetheart yearns for them,
your sister likes them, and your
mother does too-we mean those de-
licious candies at Kleiber's drug
tore.
The Brito residence and lot OPP
posite the Episcopal Church, has
been purchased by Miss Rosa Z. Put
egnat; consideration $500 United
States money.
The HERALD is requested to cor
rect report recently circulated to
the effect that DIR. r. c. Macy in
tended to leave Brownsville, as he
has no such intention.
The schooner Marie Isabel, which
sailed from the Point the other day,
is reported as arriving at Lake
Charles, La, on Tuesday evening,
with all we'll on board.
An anniversary mass for the dead
was said this morning at the Cath
Ollie church for the repose of the
soul of the father of Manuel Alfonso,
who died in Spain year ago.
While the cold wave which reach
ed here yesterday morning is rather
mild, it means that Christmas day
was bitterly cold in more northern
ATTITUDES, where the poor must have
suffered much.
Between January l, 1894, and |
January l, 1895, there were l2S, 627 |
head of cattle passed in the United !
States from Mexico through the ports |
of Ell Paso, Deming, Noga,es, Bisbee,
Santiago, Brownsville and Laredo.
Second captain of infantry in the
Mexican army, Francisco Montezuma
by orders from government, leaves
his position as waiting officer and |
takes an active position in the |
Fourth battalion, stationed in Mata-
moros.-Monterey Times.
Among the Christmas remem-
brances received by The HERALD
editors family were some delicious
ripe grapes from the garden of Mr..
and Mrs. W. F. bennett. We return
thanks to our kind friends for these
and also for several other dainty SOU
A party consisting of those famous
nimrods Frank Cummings, Louis
Kowalski and several others, left
this morning for the ranch of Hon.
j. B. Wells in Hidalgo county, where
they will remain until next Sunday,
hunting turkeys and deer. This kind
of game is said to be plentiful up
there.
Ripe grapes are rarely gathered in
Brownsville at Christmas, but this
year number of our citizens had
them. Although not abundant, vet !
the vines have produced a well de-
veloped second crop. Fig trees are :
also bearing again, and a week of
would ripen this luscious
fruit. Some OF the trees have a great
many, good-sized figs on them, pre-
senting and odd sight, as nearly all +,
the foliage has fallen.
Our readers who have been look
ing for Hoods Calender for 1896
will be glad to know that it is out
md may be obtained from the drug
gists or by sending 6 cents in stamps
o e. l. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
The new calendar is certainly
riumpn OF art. 1t represents a love-
y head in beautiful brown tints.
by gold frame, embos-
ed and decidedly s.up to date" 1t a
makes useful ornament for The |