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iia.i'A.'-'j mmiaimt 1 V AJ.U.,J.:iJL".. t.'l-:';,J!'.'i.'j w--.u jJTJfjjmj.."1 ' 'LJ'U'Jk.' tiVl". -Li-.Ji-.i'J l.'! LOCAL NEWS. On to Velasco, The Utile son of Mr. A. X!. Koch ,- is quite sick. The railway connection to Velasco is the hope of Brenham. Two of Mr. Fritz Harms children are quite sick with the typhoid fever. The upward tendency of cotton has the effect of bringing it in in a hurry. It takes work to build up a city, and not enough people are working for Brenham. Me. Abe Habbison returned from New York Tuesday night, after an absence of five weeks. Miss Geobgia Slateb left yesterday to accept a position as teacher in one of the schools at Temple. Parties here who desire to build on their Velasco property are ex periencing trouble getting lumber. WINEOFCAKOUL aTonlofol Women. Phe Santa Fe folks are talking of Itting .on a train to run between tenham and Navasota, which would be a great convenience to both places. Me. Fritz Ftnke recently celebra ted the 15th anniversary of his mar riage, at his home a few miles in the country, and quite a number from here went out and enjoyed his hos pitality. De.Xiocehabt of Chappell Hill, was in the city Tuesday, having recently returned from a trip to the northern lakes where he spent some time for his health, returning much improved. In the case of Harvey Hurbert and wife vs. the G. 0. & S. F. K'y suit for the value of a cow killed by the train, before Justice Curry Tuesday, verdict was rendered for the plaintiff for 30. There will be a grand feast at Woodworths' School House, in Henry Sanders pasture three miles east of Brenham, Sunday Sept. 13th Everybody invited to attend. There will be music, dancing, etc Me. Bobt Tampions little Bon Boberfc Earl, one year old, died at 6:30 "Wednesday evening of cholera infantum, at the home of its grand mother, Mrs. S. C. Tampun, on North Market street in this city. Dr. A. JP. Silltjian, of San Felipe, a frequent visitor to this city and well and favorably known here, is quite sick at the home of his daugh ter in Jewett, and a Houston Post special says, is not- expected to live. BLACK-DRAUGHT tea cures Constipation. Misses "Willie and Fat Goode, of Bellville, and Miss Mattie Camp ball, of Chappell Hill, the last named sister of J. D. Campbell, Esq-, are here on a visit to relatives and friends, the guests of the family of J. D. Campbell, Esq. The public schools opened in al most every town in the State last Monday, except Brenham. Our schools will open next Monday, Sep tember 7th, a clear loss of time of one week. Query: "Will teachers receive one months pay for three weeks work? Mr. 0. W. Howland, of Independ ence, came in Monday after Bev. E. "Ward, whom he carried out to as sist in the protracted meeting going on at the Baptist church there. The meeting commenced the first of last week and will be continued through this week. Mrs. "W. H. MuBPHEr left Tuesday for Tyler to ioin her husband who for the past few months has been in business there, and who was for merly proprietor of the Merchants ivxenange baioon here. Xhey nave many friends here who regret to see them leave. About 2:30 o'clock yesterday after noon the steam gin of Mr. li. Jv. Felder, near Chappell Hill, was burned, together with about nine bales of cotton. Coming as it does right m the busy season of ginning, the loss is very great It was not learned whether it was insured or not. . The reserved judgment in the Father F. M. Huhn case was ren dered by Judge Kirk Tuesday, and he is required to give bond in the sum of 1000 for the faithful per farmance of his trust as master of John Luke and all others under Hb charge who are under 14 years of age. McEIree's "Wine of Cardni and THEDFOBD'S BLAOK-DBATJGHT are sold by all. Washington Couny dealers Me. Jab. Goodlett was hero from Gay Hill "Wednesday, and reports that a wind and rain storm visited that section of the county Tuesday night and was so severe as to do great damage to the crops, blowing cotton all out and beating it in the ground. No serious casualties were reported. District court convenes here next Monday, when Judge Beauregard Bryan will preside for his first time in "Washington county, though he has held court both in Lee and Bur leson, where, though he had to over come the prejudice of some on ac count of his youthrulness, he gave universal satisfaction. Cain Sijiox on one side, and Sid Heaston and Bichard Bouse en the other, had a difficulty at Dr Luhn's drug store on the northwest corner of court square Sunday evening. Cain took a turn with each of them and while none were seriously hurt those who witnessed it say that he came out first best with both of them. The Brenham Oi! mill was started up for the season Tuesday. A vast amount of work has been done thero putting the mill in first class condi tion before the season opened, and it is presumed everything is in good shape for the mill to run on full time and up to its capacity during the season. This will add material ly to the bucket brigade. The firms of Messrs. F. Kiber and Simon & Gee, both had merchan dise on the ill-fated steamer of the Morgan line "Eldorado," bound from New York to Galveston, which was sunk en route a short time since, and will lose the amount not having any insurance. Messrs. Simon & Gees loss amounts to bzbb.uu, while Mr. Kiber's reaches S200.00. Quite suddenly and without all the wire pulling of Mr. Dyrenforth in "West Texas, old Jupiter Pluvius opened his flood gates Sunday night and "blessed Brenham and vicinity with a copious shower. He may be a little slow sometimes and doesn't furnish showers on special order, as the agricultural bureau will proba bly shortly engage to do, but he gets there in his own good time in this part of the moral vineyard, just the same. Jno. Thompson, a Zulu Sampson, who claims to be the strongest man of the 19th century was performing wonderful feats of strength in the bar-rooms yesterday, bending a g bar of iron across his muscle, lifting a barrel of whiskey with his teeth, with a big man on his back at the same time, and carrying the biggest man in the crowd, in a chair, with his teeth, and they didn't look like good ones either. He was exhibit ing to the colored people at the city park last night. "When it come to muscles Sullivan wasn't "in it" with him. Mr. L. K. Creekmoee, formerly with the Santa Fe bridge gang near here, is now with a merchant and farmer at Ella, and was in the city Sunday and Monday getting up a crowd of cotton pickers to take up with him. He got quite a number to promise to go with him but the home farmers out bid him and two representatives of lower Brazos bot tom farms who were here for the same purpose and they all made a water haul. The "Washington county tanners are paying 50 cents and board whereas the others offered 50 cents without board. The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe authorities are arranging for the publication of an atlas for distribu tion throughout the United States in which they propose to give an extensive and complete write up of the manufacturing industries of a number of towns on their line, Brenham among the number, and have requested the agent to ask the secretary of the Board of Trade here to furnish them with the write up. This is a splendid opportunity for Brenham to get a "free ad," and one that she should avail herself of. All the manufacturing industries of the city should make it a point to furnish Mr. Haynes with the data necessary to make the showing a good one. IN MEBIOItlUai. "There is no flock, however watched and tended. But one dead lamb 13 thero There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair." j.n tms case however, the poig nant grief of Bev. A F. Brauns is made all the more unendurable by two vacant chairs. Two weeks ago he followed the remains of his wife to the grave, and yesterday at 9:05 o'clock a. m., Augusta G. Brauns, his six months old infant daughter breathed her last. Her remains will be laid beside those of her mother at Cedar Hill cemetery to day (Wednesday.) Lightning's Work. Tuesday evening dark and angry looking clouds lowered over tho city a little to the northward, indi eating a storm, and the heavy thun der and vivid flashes of lightning shook the earth itnd lit up the heav ens with a lurid glare. The rain which is said to have been heavy north of hero didn't reach Brenham, out one stroke of the lightning came near resulting fatally. A large postoak in tho yard of Mrs. D. H. Uaukin was shattered, the shock knocking Mrs. Bankin down, and su-1 verely shocking Miss Emma Bankin j Knocking down ana rendering her ! insensible for a few minutes. j A ROW AT A BALL. Long Point tlte Scene of an Almost Fatal Tragedy. Long Point was the scene of a tragedy Sunday night, in which one man got his skull fractured and three others got slightly cut with a pocket knife. DetaJs of the affair are very mea gre, but from what the Banner could learn, it seems that the difficulty started early in the night at a ball, which was in progress at the Grange hall, and was at first con fined to the Messrs. Neinast, and was interrupted by Mr. Lucian Campbell, who insisted that tho ball room was no place for a difficulty, and tho wholb party repaired down stairs to an adjacent blacksmith shop, and before the people at the ball had missed tho party the bloody work had been done, and Mr. Lucian Campbell had been hit on the forehead with a sledge ham mer, sustaining a fractured skull, while Messrs. Emil and Fritz Nein ast, and it is said a third brother, were each cut, one in the neck, one in the arm and the third one in the hand, but none of them seriously. Young S. Campbell, son of J. B.' Campbell, went to the assistance of his uncle, who was struck with the sledge hammer, but it was not known who did the cutting. A TEXAS VETERAN DEAD. TV. H. Cleveland Died at Waco and Inter red Here. One of the pioneers of this coun ty, a Texan Veteran, has finished his life work, fought the good fight, and has gone to join the innumer able caravan in the land beyond. The news of the death of Mr. "W. H. Cleveland, which sad event oc cured Thursday evening at the resi dence of his daughter, Mrs. N, D. Eoe, of Waco, while there en a visit, was received here with many ex pressions pf sadness. Mr. Cleveland was one of the pioneers of this county, having come here from Alabama id 1S3S, and has almost been a continual resident since that time, until a few months ago when he left here to reside with his grand daughter, Mrs. J. C. Mal lison in Austin. He was 84 years of age and for more than 60 years has been a consistent member of the Baptist church, having been a member perhaps longer than any man in Texas. His remains were brought to this place for interment Friday evening on the south bound Santa Fe and were met at the depot by a large number of his former friends, who turned out to pay the last sad tri bute of respect to his memory. Put to Sleep at One Blow. Early Monday morning a copper colored son of Aztec extraction fresh from the land of "God and Liberty" entered Justice Curry's office and tried to tell Constable Boyd about being robbed of 300.00 in his native tongue, whereupon Mr. Boyd told him that he did not un derstand Spanish and to go get an interpreter. It seemed to enrage the Mexican because Mr. Boyd could not understand him, and he offered him an obscene insult. In the language of the prize ring, Mr. Boyd "swung" his right suddenly, and "landed" on the Mexicans crani um about the temple, where the skull is the thinest, the Mexican threw up his dukes, closed his eyes and went backwards against the wall and tumbled in a heap on tho floor apparently as dead as the tra ditional mackerel, but 30 minutes time and a bucket of water brought him around, and he slowly opened his eyes and gazed around the room as it he expected to find the build ing demolished by lightning, which he evidently thought had struck him. He pulled himself together and retired in good order. First Fall Fight. The first fall fight of the season occurred at Kiber's corner Friday afternoon, the participants being Henry Thaxton, a clerk in F. Ki ber's store, and Geo. Wilson, Jr. The difficulty arose over a trifle of a bunch of grapes, the boys exchang ing a few hot words and young Wil son passsing on. He soon returned however, and the quarrel was re newed, when almost simultaneously they struck at each other, Thaxton with his fist and Wilson with an um brella. Wilson had a small orna mont over his right eye, while Thax ton caught the force of the blow of tho umbrella on his hand, one of his fingers being bruised and his face scratched slightly by , his antago nist. Both drew blood on the first round and it was hard to tell who had thejDuest of it, when outsiders separated them. A Deser-ecl Promotion. Miss Willie B. Traynham, who for tho past two years has been assistant principal in the Brenham public school has resigned her posi tion and accepted a more lucrative one in the public schools of Galves ton, for which place she left Mon- dav to enter unon her duties. Slin has many friends hore who. while ! they will be glad to learn ol her i promotion will, regret to see her leave the city. EKBNHA3I NEEDS A TANNERY. A well known stock man said to a Banner reporter a few days ago that he was wearing a pair of boots that cost him fifteen hides to have made. This struck the reporter as being too much raw material to give in exchange for one article manufac tured out of it, and involuntarily he exclaimed "that's strange"! when the gentleman continued. Yes, there is no tannery here and the hides must be sola to local dealers at a low price and they ship them at a slight advance to commission men who reap another profit on them before they reach a tannery third handed, and then after dress ing and tanning they go through two or three hands I presume to get to the shoe makers, who must add the cost of his other material and charge wages for making them, but about 12 of my hides have gone into profits for other people while the three perhaps pay for the boots. With a tannery here some of these unnecessary large profits would be cut off, and it is an industry that is about as badly needed here as any other. Brenham wants a tannery. WE'VE GOT IT. The Quintana Times says: "On to Brenham, should be the cry of everyone who is interested in railroad building to Valasco. The Valasco Terminal should be ex tended to Brenham by all means as it would furnish a cheap and direct line for the large cotton product that is handled at that place H brother Bankin of the Banner will take hold of the other end of the tow lino we will soon have an air line be tween Brenham and Velasco. The Banner has frequently expa tiated upon the advantages of a road from here to deep water at the mouth of the Brazos, and has no doubt but that Brenham will do her share towards building it. It only needs some one to take the initiative in the movement. But the Ban ner has caught the other end of the tow lines and will pull steadily and persistently as long as there is any chance to draw the road this way. Keep the other end taut brother. Important to County Teacher's. The examination of teachers for county certificates, valid in the coun ty for the current scholastic year, will be held September the 3rd and 4th, in the school building, begin ning at 8:30 a. m., Thursday, Sep-' tember 3, and it is highly important that teachers be present promptly, when the examination begins, other wise they may be debarred from tho examination by coming in late. Teachers who desire to enter the ex amination must provide themselves with legal cap paper and pen, as the answers to questions must be writ ten in ink. 16 would be well for teachers to have an intelligent un derstanding, of chapter XII of the school law, Digest of 1891, by which they will see that the examiners can be convened only at stated times. The examiners for Washington county will be in the High school building, Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock to arrange for the Examina tion. W. H. Fltnne, Chm'r. Board of examiners. New York Outrivals Brenham. For some time Brenham has en joyed the distinction of being the only city in the. world where paper pulp was manufactured from cotton seed hulls, and the only thing in the way to prevent the projectors from having as good a thing as they wanted was the high freight rates to the northern mills, and like Ma homet and the mountain, the mills wouldn't come to it, it has gone to the mills, at least it is being loaded on the cars here now by the inventor Mr. Emile Bohn, who will leave with it Friday for New York where it will be set up and put in opera tion by him. There are few places that could take an industry like this from Brenham, but New York is one of them, and New York gets Bren ham's pulp factory. A Youns Cyclone. Near Independence, last Satur day, during a wind and rain storm accompanied by hail, a young cy clone struck the residence of Mr. B. F. Moreman, who had recently added an addition to his residence, and blew half of it down, scat tering it in his cotton patch around the house. He was blown out some little distance himself but fortu nately escaped without any serious injury to himself. The hail knocked out nearly all of his cotton, but did not extend to any of the adjacent fields. There was no other building in the neighborhood injured, and none less able to stand the loss than Mr. Moreman. Capt. T. C. Clay of Independence, was in the city Tuesday and says that the college opened Monday with 40 students, and that Mr. H. G. Boberts' family would move thero to get the benefit of tho school. Mr. Mr. Jim Boberts and Boswell will move in a few days. Cotton will all be gathered in two weeks and will only turn out a bale to every three acres. Corn plenty. Hogg scarce. Free school will opon tho 1st of October. A SLIGHT COLLISION. A Wild Freight Humps a Passenger Train and Chases It out of the Yard. Tuesday at noon as the north bound Kansas City Express was standing at the union depot on the Santa Fe, a heavily loaded freight car thai had been scotched on the main track up on the bill beyond the compress, came tearing down at the rate of 12 or 15 miles per hour, and considerable alarm was feit for the probable result as the crowd contemplated it, crushing into the rear end of the Pullman sleeper, but conductor Aiken with careful watch fulness discovered it uud signaled engineer McKnight to pull out. The train consisted of iwo baggage cars, three passenger coaches and a heavy sleeper all crowded with pas sengers, and it was not so easy to dash off all at once, but tho engineer gave her all he could and sent the driving wheels to spinning before the train moved, but finally got under way and had gone perhaps two car lengths when the crash came, but the cars were going at so near the same speed then that the damage amounted , to nothing and tho shock hurt no one. Tom Mills throw a pair of platform trucks under the wheels of the wild car but they did not derail it or come anyways near stopping it, and to avoid a second collision, conductor Aiken swung on to the wild car and mounted it to set the brake, but found that it was out of order and signaled the engineer to keep out of the wav, and a lively chase followed, the car gaining speed with its own momentum as it went down the grade, the passenger going over the first hill at a lively rate to keep out of the way- The car had gained such speed that it didn't stop at the first grade but went over it and started up the second before it was stopped. The switch engine was following in its wake and soon they all came steaming back. In the ex citement one lady threw her baby out of a car window, which fortu nately was caught by some gentle man standing near, after which she rushed out on the plaf form and tried to leap from the rapidly moving train and could only be prevented from the rash act by main force of more cool male passengers. An other lady tried to get through a win dow but was prevented. The whole affair was quite exciting, for no more damage to have been done. Marriage License. Following is the list of marriage license issued from the County Clerk's office, for the week ending Wednesday afternoon, September the 2nd, 1891: Stephen Moxey and Eldora Mc Clellan. Martin Hartman and Bertha Hartung. Wiley Felder and Lizzie Lienecoe. Jas. Shaw and Addie Williams. Austin Flewellen and Alsie To iand. Jno. Tanner and Carrie Walker. Washington Minor dnd Ella Draden. Real Estate Transfers. Following is the real estate trans fers recorded in the county clerk's office during the week ending Wed nesday evening August 12, 1891. F. Kiber to A. T. Threadgill .100 acres of the A. Harrington league, $1,200. A. Lauraine and wife to A. T. Threadgill 108 acres in the Jas. Walker and A. Harrington league, $6,000. GLDDINUS GRIST. Giddixgs, Tex., August 31, 1891. The Sunday law i3 observed here by every body. Tho new vault for the court house is near ing completion. Hon. J. A. Fields ha3 been confined to his bed the past week. Farmers are lowsDirited on account of the low price of cotton. Tho new machinery for making dry press ed brick is turning out exceHentbrick. The First National bank officials will move into their new building this week. It is an ornament to the city. Giddings wants a railroad from here to Velasco and is going to have it. The sur veyors are now making tho preliminary sur vey. Quito a refreshing shower fell here Friday afternoon. It was greatly needed, as we have no artesian well and the cisterns were nearly all dry. County Attornoy L H. Bowers has b9en working up several felony cases for District .Attorney King at our November term of the dittiict court. There was an unknown Mexican run over and killed near hero Sunday night by the eafrt-bound passenger train on the Houston & Texas Central railroad. Assessor Burns has just (returned from an extended trip to West Texas and says that Leon county crops will even up with those of any county in West Texas of its size. The fifth Sunday meeting of tho Baptist District Association was closed last night. Quito a number of visitors from "Washington, Burleson, rTayctto and Bastrop counties were' in attendance. The negro, Georgo Hildebrand. who is in jail for burglarizing the residence ofF. A. scnmiQt, in aetauit ot Dond, stole $97 from Mr. John Parker, ilr. Parker had hi3 money hidden in his sugar barrel. The negro was stealing sugar and found the mor.ev. He also burglarized tho gunsmith shop"of Mr. Boerne, from whom he took a fine hot .gun, which he carried into tho woods and covered up with leaves. He also stole two goldrins from a young lady and irave them to hii sweetheart. All the above property has been recovered. George says that he is will ing to go, out mat ne intends to taka com pany with him to Huntsville. Exdwood. STATE NEWS. Yoakum is boring an artesian well. Corsicana has a new opera house. Commerce wants a new passen ger depot. Floyd City needs a boot and shoo shop. Bockdalo is building a cotton seed oil mill. Glen Rose, Somerville county, needs a bank. The tobacco crop of east Texas is said to be fine. The Jiexia Democrat will here after be issued semi-weekly. Tho insurance companies are evacuating the city of Dallas. The interest tin the Christian meeting atMilford still continues. Col. T. R. Bonner one of the receivers of the I. & G. N. railway company, died at Tyler Sunday. The Retail Liquor Dealers' asso ciation of Texas will hold a state convention in Austin on Sept- 29th. Prof. J. M. Carlisle of Ft. Worth, has been appointed State Superintendent of Public Instruc tion. The Valley News says the range in Bosque county has not been so good in ten years. Grass and water are plenty. Some one tried to wreck a train near Palestine by placing a piece of railroad iron across the track, but it was discovered. There have been twenty-six ac cessions to tho church. cDr. Rogers has given the church a lot, and they will build at an early date. Weaver & Wilson's furniture factory at Sulphur Springs was burned Sunday night, believed to be the work of an incendiary. A respite of the death sentence against Ed Powell and Jim Leper, of Gatesville, Coryell county, has been granted until Sept. 29th. Collinsville held an election re cently for the purpose of deciding whether to incorporate or not. The vote stood 48 for and 38 against. Indictments have been found against a number of lawyers in Na varro county for the failure to pay their occupation tax, and thirty of them are under arrest. The Pilot Point Post-Mirror says that section is needing rain. Vegetation is drying up and rain would be a good thing for those wishing to plow for wheat. A terrific storm passed over Limestone county Sunday, a meat market, part of the depot, town ball, and one residence -being demol ished at.Mt. Calm. The damage to crops is inestimable, but very great Pete Clement, a Paris colored dude, went to a country entertain ment and made some disparaging remarks about the provision for comfort, when a country negro? knocked' him silly with a soda pop bottle clipping one ear entirely oft W- J. Collins, a blacksmith at Wynnewood, vin Cook county, was recently bitten by a mad dog, but went to Gainesville, where. he suc cured a madstone, which adhered to the wound two hours extracting large quantities of vini3. He ap prehends no further trouble. The night clerk of the Union depot hotel at Dallas, made love to a country lass, proposed marriage, got a couple of friends to go through a mock ceremony at the hotel, and after staying with her that" night told her that he guessed the fel lows were joking the night before. She was an orphan girl from Palmer, Ellis county, but has relatives who wil endeavor to avenge her wrong by bitter prose cution if the three can be caught Several weeks since Mrs. F- Farmer of Little Rook, Ark., was in Denison in search of a lost husband. She departed soon after her arrival with apparently no success. To day she put in a second appearance, and says she has been searching diligently for the past few months and has now come to the conclusion that he was killed on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, railway. She says she has proof sufficient to sub stantiate these facts, and will imme diately bring suit against the com pany for damages. An Austin News reporter to ascertain how many Texas plant ers would avail themselves of the bounty called on Col. Burke, collec tor of internal revenue Saturday and the records of his office show that the following planters have taken out licenses and filed their bonds. E.H.Cunningham, G. Drnely, J. L. Bonney, L. A. Ellis, Wm. Da morant, Wm. D. Fields, T. W. House, G. O. Jarvis, John Lang, Wm. Masterson, R. B. Willis, Mrs. B. B. Davis, James Cornell. The law requires the bond to be about one-half the amount of the bounty each planter estimates he will re ceive. The largest bond is that of Col. Ed. Cunningham, $60,000 and the next largest ia that of Col. L. A. Ellis of Austin, $30,000, and it is evident these gentlemen expect to receive 120,000 and $(50,000 respec tively Ironi the government.