Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-08-09
STATE NEWS.

nation of county officers.
Five hundred people are
taking regular baths at Tampa
sas springs this summer.
"A Bohemian shoc-makcss
was burned to death at Weimar
by a coal oil explosion.
San Antonio has a haunt
cd house. No family ever oc-
cupies it more than two weeks
The prisoners in the Sherman
jail want to keep cool and have
pctitioned for palm leaf fans.
- The old-time knock-down-
and-drag-out election rows are
no longer fashionable in Clarks-
vile.
The total assessment of
BeXar county for this year is
sII.o67,5I7 against slo,ooo,ooo
last year.
An attempt was made to
assaSinate Tony Glass, foreman
of Sam Aliens rancho, near
Harrisburg.
Gonzales is taking a step
in the tight direction by the
establishment of a mandatory
for agricultural implements.
-Scipio Thompson, a cele-
brated chicken thief of Austin,
is in favor of black officers from
governor down to constable.
- Capt.,,Pcak' s..rangers have
been paid S2I.25 each as their
share of the rewards for the
capture of Pipes and Herndon.
- Marshall has established
rigid quarantine against all in
fected places and has officers
on all highways leading to town.
In Bastrop the weeds are be-
ing cut down, the streets and
yards cleaned and the town GEN
orally is being put in apple-pie
order.
odd Tige," the lion fight
ing bull of San Antonio, is not
drowned, but lives and fights all
bulls with which he comes in
contact.
AT Garwood's mills, on the
l. and G. n. Railway, on Sun
day, Ed. Cage, negro, was
shot and fatally wounded by
Jim Paterson, negro.
Joe w. Hill has sold the
big "Injun," the Comanche
ChJ, to Mcssrs. Yeargin and
Robt. T. Hill, who will hereaf-
ter handle the tomakawk.
R. L. Fulton, ex-mayor of
Galveston, offers to sacrifice his
personal comfort for the public
good-he wants to be tax-as-
SCISSOR for Galveston county.
"A negro boy of is has
been arrested and jailed at Sher-
man for attempting to outrage
a lady. This crime is becoming
entirely too common in Texas.
- Mr.. Del Brown, a clerk at
Windsor Hotel in Dallas died
from the effects of heat. Twen-
ty minutes after death the tenn
perature of his body was 1880.
The mutilated remains of a
man were found in a thicket
three miles south of Jones Prai-
RE, Milan county, on the 18th
ult. identification was impos-
sible.
"A Mormon preacher, who
has been preaching extensively,
and somewhat effectively IN
Atascosa county, will endeavor
to convert the citizens of Pleas
antown.
B. F. Avery s. Co., the
Louisville pillow and agricultural
implement manufacturers. have,
purchased a site and will
at one procured to the erection
of a factory at Dallas.
- James Christian of Bell
county, was halted by two mas
ked men whilst on the road from
Moffatt to the Grove in that
county. He was relieved of
s3o5. Robbers escaped.
Six subjects graced the
mayors court at Denison one
one day last week. They were
all fined, but not one of them
had so much as a nickel. All
went to Jail.
- The Marshall HfyaM says
that Jefferson is taking no SAN
itary precautions whatever, and
that persons from New Orleans
are permitted to enter and re-
main there without objection.
- Mr.. J. D. Carpenter left
New Orleans last Saturday and
arrived in Houston where an
expectant bride awaited him,
His presence became known and
the health officers hustled him
out of town.
e. T. Jackson, a well
known and wealthy citizen of
Galveston, committed suicide at
NTo-+I,,-, ,,-ha+ber he had uDDe