Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-09-13
STATE NEWS.

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Lumber is. only worth SIG
per 900 at Taylorsville.
= Strangers are in Bolton
looking for the railroad.
Bryan is to have a three sto-
ry graded school building.
Marshall holds regular sta
ted Murphy entertainments.
Sherman, properly enough,
favors the grading ofalI schools.
Pop skull" is the new
name for Bell county whiskey.
Fort Worth calculates ship
ping $1,000 bales Of cotton this
season.
No candidate is announced
for the Supreme Bench from
Williamson county.
Camp-meetings on the
self-supporting plan are popular
over the entire State.
- An attempt at Jail delivery
was nipped in the bud at Mont
gomery on Tuesday last.
-Colored philanthrophists in
Dallas, are raising funds for
their New Orleans brothers.
Montgomery county Green
hackers have resolved to vote
solidly the democratic ticket,
= Twenty-seven theatrical
troupes have arranged for per-
formances at Dallas up to date.
The Polk county Banner
man is afraid of geese-he
should So and get himself fenc-
ed in.
The Williamson county
courthouse was turned over to
the proper Offices on Tuesday
last.
The Denison News accepts
the inhuman conduct of negroes
at Grenada as a strong proof of
Darwinism.
= An alligator was captured
in the Colorado at Austin a few
days ago, measuring 7 feet, 10
inches in length.
Tom Ochiltree is a candi.
date for sheriff of Galveston
county, isalso, an aspirant to
theSupreme Bench vacancy.
M. H. Royston has been
commissioned as clerk of the
criminal district court of Gal
weston and Harris counties.
The grcenback senatorial
convention, which met at Ham
ilton on the 18th, adjourned to
meet at Comanche on the 10th
inst.
james Hamilton and sons
landed in Taylorsville, William
son County, on last Tuesday,
with twenty-four. carloads of
fine Mcrino sheep, purchased in
Indiana.
Round Rocks principal
revenue is derived from lumber.
Burnet, Llano, Lampasas, Ma
son, Brown and other counties
make this business an import
ant one.
Over in Polk county the
Livingston Banner, has worked
itself up into fever of excite
ment by getting annoyed at a
Greenback club that has just
been organized in that part of
the world.
Gov. Coke addressed a
large assemblage of citizens of
Bosque county. at Meridian,
last Tuesday, discussing politi-
cal and financial measures, in
which he defended in an able
manner the financial policy of
his administration as governor
ofthe State.
Gen. Hannah, Grcenback
nominee for Governor, made a
three hours speech to about $50
people at Navasota, on Monday
evening. He was given a res
pectful hearing. and patiently
listened to by some of the first
men of the county.
= E. H. Gruber, president
of the late State Savings Bank,
was arrested on Tuesday and
taken beforejustice Mcclure on
a charge of enlbezzlement, and
in default of $4,000 bail was
committed. On the last day of
August Gruber went into bank
ruptcy, assuming $4,000 bank
liabilities as personal debts.
There were about 1000
people present at the barbecue
at Seguin on the 10th inst
Speeches were made by Col.
Schleicher, Hon. John Ireland,
ex-Gov. Lubbock, Maj. Fly, DR..
Vim and Mr.. Burgess. Every
thing passed off quietly and
the speakers were treated with
the utmost courtesy.
The three mep who pistoled
DR.. Calder to death on public
street in Dallas adjourned, the
Register says, to a restaurant
near by and partook of dinner
and drinks, while the likelihood
was yet flowing from the six
ghastly wounds they had inflic-