Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-08-23
STATE NEWS.

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nickel saloon.
Sherman has quarantined
against all infected places.
Austin quarantined against
all infected points on the Goth
/ inst.
"A Mexican circus has been
delighting the citizens of Ma
, son.
The Dallas Hebrews have
raised 5000 for the yellow fever
sufferers.
-Mexia is now agitating the
question OF establishing water
works.
San Saba county saw mills
are selling lumber at S. 90 per
hundred.
The Columbus bar endor-
ses B. H. Davis, of Bryan, for
chief justice.
Hogs are trumps in Waco,
they roam at large at their own
sweet will.
Several cases of slight sun
stroke occurred near Pleasan-
ton last week.
Cotton has commenced ar
irving at Houston by the Texas
Western N. G. railway.
Judge Ireland spoke at
Fredericksburg on the 18th
inst. He made no converts.
Many of our exchanges re-
port incessant rains and much
malarial favcr in consequence.
The San Antonio Erbtcss
complains of the filthy condi-
ton of the streets of that city.
Col. Alfred Henderson,
aged upwards of eighty years,
is mayor of the city of Schulen-
burg.
One gambler was hauled
up before justice in Dallas
and fined $40 each in two
cases.
"A Fairfield man, who has
been west, lately returned home,
and now pronounces Horace
Greedy a fraud.
Marshal Hord, of Mexia, who
was wounded at the shooting
scrape at that place some time
ago, is about to die.
The murderer of Georgia
Drake, at San Antonio, was
pursued to Bolton where all
trace of him was lost.
The Denison Herald is
very patiently waiting to hear
that Dan. Morton, Galveston
publisher, has been cowhided.
The Hebrew Benevolent
Society of Galveston has ap-
propriated $3.50 for the use of
its sister society in New Or
leans.
The total assessment of
Fayette county for 1873 is ST.
e34,S2S aguinst s4,S52,oo3 for
1877. Numberof county polls,
4I45.
"A dead-beat by the name
of Hogrefe skipped out of
Mexia between suns. Many |
are grieved at his untimely de-
parture.
The Alamo Rifles of San
Antonio have disbanddd. The
prospect of a skirrnish with the |
Greasers had nothing to do |
with it.
The residence of Mr.. ]. P.
Collins, at Jefferson, was burned
last week. The inmates bare
ly escaped. The origin of the
fire is mystery.
-Rumors of war are rife in
San Antonio and the Coke
Rifles are out drilling. The
Rifles are colored troops and
the country is safe.
Mrs. Bullacher, wife of po-
liceman Bullacher, of Galveston,
while laboring under a fit of
temporary insanity drowned
herself in a cistern.
Farmers in the vicinity of
Dallas have already begun sell
ing cotton seed. The oil mills
will consume all the spare seed
IN that vicinity.
The New Braunfels wooden
mills are now turning out 600
yards of cassimeres daily. The
demand for the product of the
mills is in excess of the supply.
Harry Hayes and Henry
Ferguson jointly occupied a
house in Denton; they quarrel
ed in regard TO the possession
of it Henry Ferguson was
killed.
J. H. Slater, president of /
the Drovers and Planters Bank
of Dcnison, recently suspended,
has been arrested and placed
under $1,000 bond for embez-
Element.
"A miscreant threw arsenic
into the well on Mr.. Gallaway's
plate, a few miles from Dallas.
His entire family were poisoned
and only escaped death by early
attention.
The Galveston city coun-
Gil has appropriated $4,000 for
the use of the board of health
to be expended as required to
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