Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-04-19

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gerdens in Waco.
The crop of candidates in
Comanche county promises to
be very abundant.
= Crops generally are look
ing fine in Comanche county
since the late rain.
Crops in Burleson county
are looking we'll since the rain.
Fruit prospects are fine.
internal revenue black
mailers were at work in Victo-
ria county some time ago.
Tom Hayden killed Robt.
Herod in Red River county.
Cause, intimacy with Hayden's
wife.
"A large number of fat cat
tie are being shipped from Vic
toria county to the Havana
market.
Col. Felix Smith, of Travis
county, last year cultivated
three thousand bushels of corn
to the pillow.
Austin has a very old and
ugly negro woman, whom the
Gazette playfully calls female
chimpanzee.
= The Murphy movement has
at last struck Denison. Sixty
seven converts signed the
pledge at the first meeting.
An enthusiastic railroad
meeting, held at Richmond,
Fort Bend county, pledges the
Santa Fe rail road $4,000.
"A mad dog. on a farm
about a mile from Fairfield,
bit several other dogs and ami
mails before it could be killed.
Alexander Kiehnerdt, OF
Navasota, has recently come
into possession of $4,000 by
the death of his father, a Rus
sian count.
Bell county is out of debt
and has $1,000 in the treasury.
The Bolton Journal and every
other man is red hot for the
G. c. & S. F. railway.
John H. Brown, a resident
of Grimes prairie, Grimes coun-
ty, came to his death by the
use of "cyanunet of potash" so
said the coroner's jury.
A GAINESVILLE man adver-
tises handmade ladies shoes.
Those ladies are probably diff
ferent from the ones who wear
ladies' handmade shoes.
The total value of the
property of Austin county is
s2.S77,444. The county is out
of debt and the court house has
been repaired and paid for.
Internal or eternal or internal
revenue spies are nosing round
Austin, smelling for empty
whiskey barrels and cigar boxes
with acknowledgements stamps
= Col. Schleicher has COM
pleted his report on the rela-
lions of the United States with
Mexico, and it will be submit
ted to the House in a day or two.
Sixty quarts of Strawberries
were received from the interior
by Galveston firm and readily
sold at 4oc per quart. There is
big money in raising strawber-
les at such fancy prices.
= Brown Bowen publishes a
lengthy statement in the Con
zales Inquirer, in which he re-
iterates the charge that John
Wesley Hardin killed Holder
man.
= There is some talk of or
ganizing a new county with
Round Rock as the county seat.
1t is proposed to take portion
of Williamson, Travis and per
haps other counties. 1t looks
as if there are some men about
Round Rock who want to hold
office.
= The Bolton Journal says ::
at is a source of pride to us.
as well as a credit to
the people of Bell county, that
they are responding so liberal
ly in the way of aid to the
Santa Fe road. The sum en-
pected to be contributed by
Bell county will be raised"
Meetings have been held
in Sempronius and San Felipe,
Austin county, at which the G.
c. & S. F. railroad was strongly
endorsed. At Cat Springs the
people are favorable to the road.
The railroad. committee ap-
pointed at the meeting at
Bellville will visit New Ulm, In
dustry, Roeder's Mill and Mel
sonvilie in behalf of the road