Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-10-04
STATE NEWS.

of Hope with So members and
i Temperance Council with 81
members.
= Williamson county has
three candidates for slrerG: an
Independent a Democrat and u
Greenbacker.
The Rockdale Mfssengerre-
CARDS the coming of Brick Pom
eroy to Texas, as an evil only
second to the yellow fever.
= Barlow, Wilson, Primrose
& Vests MINISTRIES are drawing
crowded houses at Dallas.
Milt Barlow is a whole team i'll
himself.
= Work has been CONNER
ced on the Central and Mont
gomery railroad from Navasota.
Trains will be running to Plan
tersville by Dec. IS.
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= In Houston the private
Waterman Of saving bank got
drunk and let the peelers know
it by firing his pistol. He was
gobbled up.
- Bryan sends eight prison.
ers-fve colored and three white
just sentenced to the peniten--
tiary. They passed through
Houston on monday.
The last issue of the Bolton
Journal is devoted principally to
advertising the Waco business
houses. Waco merchants know
the value of advertising.
-Belton's daily newspaper
project has been abandoned;
the projectors having accepted
situations on the Waco 7ele-
pAoNe-taken cases, perhaps.
= Whooping and yelling is
the order of the night in Waco.
The Telephone whispers to the
boys that it is all right, proyi-
ded they have got the money to
pay for it.
= The Austin bar meet on
Saturday and by resolution, en-
dorsed the nominations for chief
justice and associate justice
made by the Democratic exc
cutive committee.
= The Fairfield Reeorde, re-
ports the death of ]. F. Nordike
from black jaundice. This di-
sease, it says, in almost every
instance battles medical skill fire.
quently proving fatal in from IS
to So hours.
w. S. Holman, a lawyer,
has been nominated by the Bell
county Greenbaekers, as a can
didate for the legislature. The
Journal gives him frst-class,
but not overly complimentary
notice.
- The Judge of the Ell Paso
District court writes to Gen.
Stute that the situation there is
very critical. There are four
prisoners in jail who could not
be held six hours if the rangers |
were removed.
The Greenbackers of Rob-
ertson county ZELDA convention
at Calvert. twas highly col
ored there being sixty negroes
and eight white men present.
The finances of the country are
safe in the hands of the colored
people.
-Rockdale mourns the death
OF Mrs. Leonard Isaacs, a young
married woman, who died after
an illness of about three hours.
Her husband left her at dinner
time, complaining of a slight
headache-at a o'clock she was
a corpse.
Two long men recently
met in Dallas. G. w. Carter,
of Terrell, measures 6 #. Sin.
in height, while Thomas G.
Young, of Lewisville only ex-
tends upward oft. I ga inches:
They claim to be the two tai
lest men in Texas.
The speech of Hon. John
Hancock, at this place on Satur-
day last, was one of his grand
est efforts. 1t was replete with
the. solidest kind of hard, prac-
teal, common sense, and con-
WINGED many who would have
been misled otherwise.-Roek-
dale Messenger.
- Cotton pickers are scarce
in the neighborhood of Austin.
One planter has already impor-
ted Is from San Antonio and
sent for a second installment.
On many plantations the crop is
so abundant that the picking
will last till Christmas.
A courteson in Sherman
took chloroform with the inten-
ton of going over the river"
A timely discovery prevented T,
the accomplishment Of her di-
size. When she came to she
cursed out those who had saved
her life.
Cotton brings as much in
Round Rock as in Austin, and
lumber is sold cheaper in Round
Rock. This, says the Statesman,
keeps trade away from Austin.
The erection of a compress is
solution of the difficulty.
Perhaps it is,
An absurd r,,uor &c af1oot