Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-06-14
STATE NEWS.


works are about completed.
Austin county has but two
guests in the Hotel de Jug"
= T he Grange in Red River
county is in favor oflocal option.
Measels are prevalent at
Tyler, chiefly among children.
= Bell county, instructs for
Hubbard. and Bosque for Lang.
San Antonio Express now
runs its presses bywater power.
Georgetown's Greenback
club has twelve enrolled mem
bcrs.
= The Chief says Comanche
county will go solid for Throck-
morton.
Two much rain in Smith
county; weeds getting a head of
crops.
- The north Texas papers re-
port heavy rains and storms last
week.
= The wheat crop of Texas,
this season, is estimated at g.
100000 bushels.
= The late storms in Parker
county destroyed 100000 bush
els ofwheat.
- The street railroad to San
Pedro Springs in San Antonio
is nearly completed.
Horse thieves have been
doing land-office business in
Colorado county.
= Comanche and Brown
counties claim that this seasons
wheat crop will average from
so to 40 bushels to the acre.
The Comanche Chief ten
ders the use of its columns for
reports of Greenback meetings.
1t is estimated that there
are 10000 head of sheep within
a radius of ten miles of Taylor
vile.
The wheat that was sown
in the neighborhood ofNelson-
vile, Austin county, has turned
out very well.
= An Italian count with
hand-organ astonished and de-
lighted the citizens of the city
of Comanehe.
= Severe hail and rain
storms have taken place IN
Western Texas. The crops
were considerably damaged.
The San Antonio Express
regards the fight between the
editor OF another paper and a
citizen as an excellent joke.
= The citizens ticket at
Denison won a sweeping victo-
ry over the Democratic ticket.
No party issues were involved.
= The Colorado Clhsen says
the negroes had a turbulent
meeting, or, Saturday, and made
regular farce of the proceed
ings.
The experimental wheat
crop in Colorado county has
proved eminently successful
Next year it will be planted ex-
tensively.
"A fine crop of oats has
been harvested in Austin coun-
ty, but as they have no railroad,
they are entirely cut off from
market.
j. w. Potter. a skillful
counterfeiter from Illinois, was
arrested at Fort Worth by a de-
tective who had been on his
trail for ten days
Col. B. F. McDonough, |
of Houston, pleaded guilty at
Austin to land forgery and was |
sentenced to five years in the |
penitentiary. 1
= De Witt county instructs |
for Hubbard, for Governor and |
Schliecher for congress. Fort
Bend county prefers Hubbard |
to Throckmorton.
&C. w. Geers, Of the Den
ton Monitor, accompanies. Hon.
F. E. Piner, congressional can
didate in the Third District. as |
historiographer,
MIR. Hitler has cottonseed |
oil mill at High. Hill, Fayette
county. He has just shipped
car load of cotton seed oil and
one of oil cake from Flatonia.
: At Marshall a man named
]. R Thomson was commit
ted to iail, in default of bond.
for numerically whipping his
child, a girl only five years old.
: The Indians have been on
a raid near Junction city; also
on the Big and Little Saline riv-
ers. They captured several
horses. The rangers are in pur-
suit.
"A difficulty occurred near
Stahords' Point, in Fort Bend
county, between Phil Mudd and
J. J. Super. Mudd was shot
five times and killed. The
trouble was about a sI4 cow.
The Dallas Commercial
notes the departure of a certain
bank ex-cashier, with his grip
sack, for the north. The said
cashier sold his household furni-
ture at greatly reduced price.
The Houston Volksfest