Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-11-08
STATE NEWS.

Sugar cane is successfully
cultivated in Freestone county.
= The Johnston Guards of
Hampstead are about to receive
their uniforms.
- Professor Clark, dancing
master, well known in BRENNAN,
is now in Georgetown.
- Rev. DR.. Archer, of Hemp
stead, has been married to Miss
Ahnie Downwood. of Bryan.
= Charles Hart, aged Id, ac-
cidently shot and killed himself
while hunting near Dallas.
= Chism's gin with 80 bales
Of cotton, at Button, Mason
county, was burned on the 10Th
ult.
San Antonio has highway
robbers who have no more style
than to knock down and rob
negroes.
= Mrs. Miller's school house
in north Dallas was burned on
the 5th inst. Coal oil was found
near the building.
= In Houston the officers al
lowed the saloons to keep open
on election day. Luckily no
one was killed.
I'm Austin county a candi-
date for surveyor, having no
business in a professional way,
has opened a gun shop.
= McLennan county must be
a good place "for crime" The
district court criminal docket
has 3oS cases on it.
= Tom Ochiltree does not
boast of being religious, yet he
refused to make a campaign
speech on Sunday.
Professor John M. Parker,
superintendent of the Central
institute at Mexia has commit
ted suicide. No cause assigned.
/ The bulldozing at Marshall
is now supposed to have been
instigated by republicans. Some
of the bulldozers were negroes
John Dickey, an adopted
child of policeman Dickey, Of
Dallas, has been kidnapped
The child was stolen from the
officers house.
= The grass on Lost Prairie
Bell county, was by some mean:
set on fire. A quantity of fen
cling and several buildings were
destroyed.
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= In Fort Bend county the
| Democrats carried the State
ticket and elected a member o
the legislature; also, a majority
of the county officers.
- Bolton Iomual:: If thu
Gulf, Colorado and Santa F,
railroad issto be completed te
Bolton within the next ten year.
we are not apprized of the fast
"A quarter of a block, most
ly frame buildings, on the cor
ner of Twenty-6fth and Mark
ct streets in Galveston was con
sumed by fire on Sunday last.
- Thomas Pound, an Eng
lishman and a tramp. was rur
over by the cars at Hampstead
and so badly injured that he
died a few hours afterwards.
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= The Georgetown San say
last Sunday was bad day TO
loafers. A norther kept then
off the street and persons who
had stoves up did not lack TO
company.
- The Navasota Tablet tell.
abour two rattlesnakes tina
were killed in Grimes county
The length of the "snaix" is no
given, but it is said both wer'
old enough to have moss OF
their backs.
Wild game is scarce ii
Denison and the Nezos is in
quandary. 1t can't determin
whether it is the absence Q
game or lack of skill in the hun
tiers. This question should b
settled.
The dead body ofthe stag
robber found near Robber
Hollow, has been identified a
that of Goodman Franklin, o
Coleman county. He was kill
ed by freighter named Ross
There has been no pursuit O
the robbers by officers reported
= Ben Volino, an Italian
well known on the..frontier, mys
teriously disappeared from tn
house of a man named Taylor
in Comanch county
Taylor afterwards come t
Comanche wearing Volino'
clothes, Taylor and another ma
have BEEN arrested.
I'm San Antonio a mule sui
fering alteration of mind en-
tered a grocery store; his heel
being unaffected by the stat
of his mind, at once proceeds
to business, kicking thing
around promiscuously. The
upon being driven out of thu
store laid down and died.
Wheat sowing is abou
over in Comanche county. I
larger acreage than last year