Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-06-21
STATE NEWS.

" STATE NEWS.
- New cotton is expected in
Hampstead by the middle of
July.
- The funeral of Mr.. ]. J.
Groos took place at Austin, on
Monday.
= The Dallas oil mills give
constant employment to sixty
hands.
= Considerable damage was
done to crops and fences by a
rain and hailstorm in Victoria
county.
= Marlin has two lumber
yards, but they don't advertise.
: The Ball thinks this is wrong.
It's correct.
= THE Courier says the Wal
Ter county jail erected four years
ago, alta cost of $4,000 has prov
ed utterly worthless.
THE first cotton bloom,
boil, peach and roasting-year
having had their day, the first
sweet potato is now coming to
the front.
The local reporters on the
Dallas Herald accuse their
brother locals on the others pa
pers of Incidence and lack of
enterprise.
II. ]. Chamberlin, of Bell
county. is the owner Of a fine
sheep from which he recently
clipped a fleece of SO pounds
of wool. ~ -.
Three Galveston men have
bought three acres of ground
near Dallas and will proceed at
once to erect an ice factory. 1t
will cost $4,000
The Denison Neaos says
the delinquent tax lists in the
city collectors Office shows a
great many names delinquent
on account of poll tax
"A twelve-year old negro
girl was outraged by a negro
supposed to be John Fields,
in the Fifth Ward, at Houston.
Fields is still at large.
"A Touring mill is soon to
be started at Caldwell. 1t has
been satisfactorily demonstrated
that plenty of wheat can be
grown in Burleson county.
Two men named ]. R.
Freeman and Ezra Davis are in
Jail at Comanche on charge of
having robbed the postoffiee at
Snowville Hamilton county.
-Corsicana is a religious
town. There was preaching
at nine different places of wor-
ship in that place last Sunday,
with an average of two sermons
at, each place.
TIM Hampstead Courier
has been presented with some
fine apples raised in town, and
'sa1stheys fully demonstrate the
ahs .tl,at apples can be raised
in Southern Texas.
Crop. prospects in Waller
county were never better. The
CSa,isr says: We have never
saw''a season just right with a
farmer; it, is always too hot,
too wet, too dry or too cold.
"A starved tramp arrived ct
Dallas, two days and two nights
out from Houston. He had
got locked up in a car and
came very near being sufocated.
He was hungry and dry when
released. .
= The Denison Hnald is
nominally a Greenback paper,
but having no confidence in the
Greenbackers in Texas it urges
the importance of a full atten-
at the Democratic county con-
vention.
- Comanche county was
visited by a severe hailstorm on
the 9TH inst. Crops were total
ly destroyed in the course of
the storm; fortunately it was
not very wide. The losers will
be able toreplant.
A man named Baker was
arrested at,Dal.as by the police.
When the officers approached
him he shot himself three times,
twice in the head. Should he
recover he will be entirely, blind,
Baker had been in the habit of
numerically whipping his wife.
James Farmer, a Texas
Veteran. and one of the San
Jacinto heroes, died at his home
near Halle Dell, Comanche
county, on the 9th inst. He
was a good and valuble citizen
and was esteemed and respect
ed by all who knew him.
--B Bell county has again
been the scene of another muir
der. On the 18th inst, the
house of one A. ]. Lewis, on
Elmo creek, was visited by I'M
known parties and Bob Hardee
and Edward Cook killed. The
murderers are supposed to have
been horse thieves.
The Fort Worth Standard