Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1877-05-18
STATE NEWS.

piuspeSe ioi heaNy yieiu VI
wheat.
One Fort Worth firm will ship
over l 100000 buffalo hides this
season.
Highway robberies are beeom-
ing common in the vicinity of
San Antonia.
The State tax on circuses is
three hundred dollars for each
performance.
Two men, camped near Sc
gum, were robbed of $500 in
cash, last week.
The Grange warehouse at
Sherman will be completed in
three weeks more.
The Adcertise1' reports the
oat crop OF Bastrop county as
never better.
The question of a county fair
is now being discussed IN Bra
EOS county.
Walker county has a very
fair show Tor a good crop both
of coru and cotton.
The State Grange has the
handsome sum of thirteen thou
sand dollars IN its treasury.
Tie machine shops of the
Gnlf, Western Texas and Pacif-
ic Railway are i'll tull operation
at Cuero.
One hundred and ,sixty-three
couples have "splicedn in Ro-
bertson county during the past
twelve months.
Ii is stated that there arc
about 10000 head of cattle and
10000 head OF sheep in McCul-
iocti Couuit.
Young county is rapidly set.
Ting mp with a class of good sub
stantial and reliable farmers. Its
lands are fertile and cheap.
The sReco7eI estimates the.
damage TO the crops of Fayette
county. by the grasshoppers, at
less than one-fourtb of one per
cent.
The Bastrop Cotton Mills con-
tinue to do a thriving business,
and the goods. made at those
mills find ready sale and are in
great demand.
Jack county produced last
year 10000 bushels OF wheat,
"a, 200 bushels OF oats, IS, 300
bushels OF barley, and $4,000
bushels of corn.
Texas is now the sixth State
in the American Union, New
York being first, Pennsylvania
second, Ohio third. Illinois
fourth, Indiana fifth.
a man named Pace, from
Winchester, had his throat cut
by Ben. Hines at Giddings last
week. Hines is in jail. Pace
is not expected to recover.
Lands are cheap in Polk conn-
ty and within the reach of any
man, no matter how poor lie is,
if he will settle in good faith
and indnstriously improve.them.
Farmers in the lower portion
of Van Zandt county are com
planning OF tine destruction of tile
young calves by disease known
as murrian. Some have lost all
their. spring calves by. this dis
ease.
Major Geo. B. Erath estimates
that the school fund OF the State
viii be thirty million dollars
when the school lands are all
realized from. The annual in>
come will be about two million,
eight hundred thousand.
The price of cattle in San
Saba county is on the advance.
Mich COWS sell for SIS; beeves
from SIG to SIS; three-year-olds
S12; two-year-olds 81 to IS;
yearlings S4.5o to IS. The de-
mand is active.
The Fort Worth Democrat
says there is "a rulnor among
the cattle men of that city TO
the effect that there has been
serious difficulty between the
inspectors and some OF the cat
tie men west OF Fort Griffin.
The rain and hsil storm at
Rio Grande City. on the 9Th,
was very destructive, and many
persons were severely injured
by the hail. One man lost four
hundred sheep and a mule, AMI
the number OF sheep killed in
the vicinity is estimated at one
thousand.
A NEW Railroad, the Now
Orleans, Texas and Pacific, has
been incorporated, and i've thou
sand, five hundred shares of
500 each have been taken.
The proposed route is from Aus
tin to the junction of the Vinita
branch with the Texas pacific,
As miles distant.
The New Brauntels wooden
mandatory is establishing a
wide reputation. 1t is now
turning ont a vast amount Of
cassimers, much of them being
sold in Missouri, Kansas and
Arkansas, while these fabrics
arc in vogue all over. Texas,