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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1879
Page
2
The column notes party dynamics in Texas and Ohio, mentions local option debates on Sunday laws, reports on governors vetoes and pushes for public school funding, and covers state political maneuvering in Austin Brenham and Columbus with references to campaigns, conventions, and pensioner costs.
Ox of Galveston's largest grocery houses, Heidenheimer Bros, petition the city council to permit a privately funded wharf. Terms with the city monopoly failed, while the Denison Herald notes Brown, once Brenham opera manager, now departs after settling debts. A Taunton jail hanging of Katherine Churchill on the 26th last month triggers discussion of gender equality in English law.
The Cen Smb and Montgomery road will be west lumber at twenty dollars a thousand. The note signals a surge in rail freight and lumber demand amid expanding Western rail links.
A Colusa man named Squeers, jailed for murder, used a razor provided by his wife to take his own life. A new paper in Columbus titled Tus Platadeate debuts as an independent. Tex bonds: Colgate the New York soap man holds 409,090 dollars of Texas bonds.
Brenham city council plans to issue up to 20 year bonds at 8 to 10 percent to finance right of way and depot grounds for the Santa Fe road. Tax burden remains within constitutional limits, with shops and machine facilities proposed to attract workers and boost population and commerce. The Basr advocates the project as essential for local growth and tax base expansion.
The Victoria Advocate notes a Paris suicide by laudanum, trials in Austin, a big cotton seed mill in Houston, fruitful Victoria crops, a venue change in Hunt case to Colorado county, and numerous arrests from Dallas to Hempstead. Local fires, marriages, pistol laws, rail proposals, and a growing city life in Belton and Sherman are described along with Indian attacks and mining prospects.
A deputation led by the village mayor awaited Frederick William IV as his train stopped at a small railroad station. When the mayor began to speak, a neighboring donkey brayed loudly, ending the silence. The king responded, One at a time, gentleman, one at a time.
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