Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-09-27
STATE NEWS.

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Burnet county for 1873 is SI,2-
o7,37S.
= The Bastrop Cosino band
rlised s235.5o for the fever suf-
ferers.
- The grand jury of Lime
stone county found 80 bills of
indictments.
- Mexia now rejoices in a
cornet band. Serenading is the
order of the night.
Hoppers have made their
appearance in Denison and are
devastating the gardens.
= The pole-catters in Free
stone county have nominated a
negro for justice of the peace.
= Pilot Point raises 500 for
the fever sufferers and also had
a light frost on Saturday morn
ing.
= A number Of Comanche
merchants publish a card agree
ing to take Mexican dollars at
par.
= The Georgetown SIN pub
| fishes a two column reDort of
Hancock and Jones speeches at
thatplace.
= The Republicans of Col
orado county were to have held
a county convention on Satur-
day last.
= Three cotton gins running
day and night, in Marlin, are
unable to keep up with the cot
ton brought in.
= Hon. A. J. Carothers has
been nominated for floater by
the greenbackers of Lee and
fayette counties.
= According to the Eramia-
e. young chap travelled all
the way from Baltimore to Waco
and then got sniped.
: The passenger depot at
Mexia is only I4xI5 feet and
has no chairs, no benches, no
stove and no anything.
"A negro FIVE days out from
Memphis appeared in Dallas.
His baggage was burned and
he ordered ont of town.
= Falls county greenbackers
tell ignorant people that Grant
is to be the Democratic candi-
date for president in 1880.
= The police report less
drunkenness in Dallas at pres
ent than ever before. Times
must be dull up in that moral
town.
j. M. Barnes was murder
ed by William Reynolds on the
main plaza in Frio. They had
had a dispute about cattle pas
turage.
= The Colorado CihSen says
the Democrats of that county
are in the majority, but they al
ways manage to split and allow
the RAIDS to win.
= Dallas hackmen report
business dull at nights. There's
something wrong with the boys.
Money must be tight. Ifmoney
was loose the boys would be
tight.
= Galveston had a policeman
on the force who was known as
the sleeping beauty. He was
permanently relieved FROM duty
in order to give him time to re-
cuperate.
= The people of Mexia have
been scandalized by the sight
of the blacklist kind of black
buck negro walking the streets
with a woman of lilly white
complexion whom he claims as
his wife.
= The Denison Hyald goes
for the quarantine officers who
refuse to pass few pals of
Kansas butter and oysters pack
ed in ice, while they allow pas
sengers, promiscuous baggage
and mail matter to pass unmol-
ested.
Garner and Hardin raised
five bales of cotton on shares.
They started to Dallas with it,
but quarreled near Cedar Hill.
Harden cut Garner with a knife;
he then took one of the horses
and fed. The cotton is not
likely to do Garner any good as
he is in a critical condition.
HIS teeth began to chatter,
over the ice cream. He, but
toned up his jacket and took
another mouthfu1. That settled
it. He jumped up from the
table and started to where the
sun could shine on him, exclaim-
ed. "Whoopee! Plenty damn
cold grub! No cookee nufl
Freeze belly same like ice wa
gon."
The Colorado Clhsen
chronicles the returns OF Mr.. >.
P. Conway from the west and
relates how Mr.. c. caught a long
string of fish on the Llano;
about that time he discovered a
couple of Indians crossing the
stream little below him. He
suddenly recollected that he
had business elsewhere and left
without taking along his fish.
He never had time to return
for them.