Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-08-02
STATE NEWS.

GA-IG.
San Antonio has Sam
Bass. He is a negro and is a
burglar by profession.
Bryan has revoked her
quarantine ordinance and Co.
lumbus has passed one.
The special dispatches to
the Galveston Aszos of the goth
treat largely of the eclipse.
The axe thief has been
caught in San Antonio, bat the
chicken thief is still at large.
- The Marshall He, aid re-
ports numerous buildings in
course OF erection IN that city.
- The first bale ofnew cotton
has made its appearance at
most of the towns in Southern
Texas.
The Milan county Green
hackers think about and will
probabl;' put county ticket in
the field.
faE Dallas Herald fayors a
division Of Texas. Public sem
ti,nent in Dallas is largely
against it.
= The city authorities Of
Houston are exerting them
selves and putting the city in q
thorough sanitary condition.
= Denison has an efficient
hook and ladder company but
has no fire engine of any kind.
1t is proposed to buy hand
engine.
- Horse thieves have been
raiding Gays stock ranch twelve
miles north of Austin and have
stolen ten or fifteen head Of
horses.
j. 5. Bland, 4 citizen of
Austin county, was assassinated
at his residence, seven miles
north Of East Barnard on Mon
day night.
- The Austin Gasehe says
it has higher mission than to
be shooting at dead ducks
Hubbard is the duck to whom
it refers.
- The Houston Age advises
the people of that city not to be
alarmed. Quarantine regula-
tons will be ssringently en-
forced.
- The store house of Rob-
ertson, Adair & Co. and Mrs,
Perry's millinery shop were
burned at Marshall on Tuesday.
Loss $4,000.
Tracy and Brady the Hous-
ton Radical-Greenback apostles
have lately been on anevangeliz-
ing tour to Willis. They made
no converts.
Elder Penn is conducting
an immense camp meeting in
the northern part of Burlcson
county. About 700 people are
in attendance.
The Hampstead brass
band displays great presence of
mind in going entirely out of
the hearing of the citizens oftl,e
town to practice.
The Denison Neses learns
that a fight occurred among
some herders in Jack county,
about steer, and that seven
men were killed.
= The Waco Telephone gives
particulars of the assassination
of B. o. Gambrell, at Perry, as
related by his widow. 1t was
a most cold blooded murder.
= Lampasas county instructs
for Hancock. An improbable
story is told that the Jones and
Shepard men combined to con-
troll the convention but failed.
= The old log jail of Nacog-
doches has been in existince 2S
years, and as far back as 1864
was condemned as an unfit
place to conhne prisoners. it
is still in use.
, A correspondent of the
San Saba Ntsvs writing from
Lampasas says II find the peo-
pie greatly divided; some for
Hancock, some for Shepard and
some for Jones"
= The stray boy caught IN
San Antonio with 5000 in his
possession turns out to be Dick
ey Wright, the Houston boy,
who few days ago robbed a
widow woman Of $3.50.
Tho Rockdale Messenger
thinks that Hubbard and
Throckmorton have both been
shamefully treated. One or the
other was the choice and their
merits should have been tested. |
The Denison Herald is
waiting patiently to record the
death of small boy who was.
playing by trying to get aboard
4 morning train. 1t is only a
question of time; the boy is
sure to get killed.
Gus Dickson, colorcd, took
the first bale of new cotton to
Navasota. He has brought in
the first bale for four years in
succession. Gus is good
farmer and, we suppose, does
not NEEDLE with politics.