Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-10-25
STATE NEWS.
Brownsville has qqarantined
,paigst Matamoros.

= Scarlet fever is prevalent
in Waco. Several cases have
proved fatal.
Hog cholera is playing
havoc with the swine in the
vicinity of Richmond.
Wilson, Primrose s. Vests
minstrels delighted the citizens
of Columbus last week.
Respectively and respect
fully are Synonymous terms in
the Denison Meas office.
Many of the citizens OF
Denison are planting shade
trees in front of their premises.
- The Flatonia A,gus keeps
up a lively fire on the railroads
for: charging exhorbitant freight
tariffs.
f- Last weeks Navasota
TABLET offers an apology for de-
laying ts,issue one day. twas
a girl.
= The new engine for the
Georgetown railroad has arriv-
ed. 1t is a beauty and the Re
cord man is happy.
Ninety-one county judges
report an average attendance Of
over o5 per cent of the school
asttc population.
Robertson county has
three full grown county tickets
in lthe field; the radical, Demo
cratic and greenback.
"A Bastrop butcher keeps
on hand at his stall stock of
ready barbecued meats and
cooked sausages.
The Grayson county papers
have formed a combination on
election tickets there will be no
cutting on prices.
- Work on the Corsicana
and Palestine RAILROAD is being
rapidly pushed, says the Fair
field Recorder, on paper, by the
Corsicana newspapers.
- In Denison two gentlemen
who are both on the shady side
of sixty are about to marry sis
tiers whose ages are respectively
twenty and twenty-three.
- The Georgetown tempe
rance council has ninety menu
bers. There are to be three more
saloons in town shortly. Both
these items are in the Snw.
Miss Texana Meyers was
recently burned to death, near
Halletsville, by the explosion
ola can of kerosine oil. She
was trying to kindle a fire.
- Georgetown San, The
corpse of Bill Longley. who was
hung at Giddings, was brought
through here on Saturday. en-
route for his fathers in Bell
county.
= Wood dealers in Austin
have formed a corner" and run
the price up to s4-s2 to So per
cord. Consumers threaten to
eat cold victfnais before they
will submit to the extortion.
Four Counties The track
layers on the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe railroad are only nine
miles from Richmond. They
will be here in two weeks at the
farthest. The road lis graded
some fifteen miles above this
place.
Phe Sherman Register says
Denison's handsome school
house has done more for her
than her cotton compress and
every other enterprise of which
the people are proud.
The negro-radical party of
Grimes county held a mass
meeting near Anderson and
nominated a black and tan tick
ct The coiored aspirant for
the office of tax assessor was
fixed" by being given the nom.
nation for representative.
In Fayette and Lee coun-
ties they are having a triangu-
lar race for the Legislature.
Travis Shaw, the Democratic
nominee, Sim. R. Carothers,
greenbacker and Mr.. PAUL., of
Giddings republican. The A.
gig says Carothers will stay at
home.
= a negro thief made a raid
in Bastrop one night last week
robbing Unfortunately. He
gathered in SOLO from the
pockets of a printer il the Id
ve,Hse, and also stole District
Judge Moore's pair boots. The
mig was caught by the town
marshal and jagged.
= Comanchc Chief: Candi-
dates who are defeated will re-
ceive the unbounded sympathy
ofthis office ifthey will pay their
bills.in advance.
A candidate who wouldn't
pay the printer after such a
pathetic appeal as the above is
certainly hardened sinner.
On Saturday evening last,just
about dark six masked men APP
peard at the residence of Mr..
Joardon, seven miles east of
Austin, and entering the house
drew their revolvers, orderinghim
to open his safe. While he was
in doinG tbiS thew