Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-11-29
STATE NEWS.


= Shackelford county gives
Roberts 59z votes and Ham
man 4.
= Milan county expects a
very heavy influx of immigrants
this season.
= The only excitement at
Columbus last week was the adj
vent of the circus.
= The Victoria Adv0eate adj
vises farmers to sow wheat.
Cotton is down to six cents.
= The corn crop in Milan
county is immense this year
Farmers are now busy gather
in5.
r. H. Furlow, living 10
miles southwest of Crockett, has
made 70 bushels of rice to an
acre.
John Malone was stabbed
and killed at Allen station by J.
J. Berry. Malone was the ag-
gressor.
-Waco's city election comes
off on the 9th of December.
The Democrats have full ticket
in the field.
= The Houston Telegram is
now engaged in heralding the
virtues of the Holman Liver
Pad-for pay.
= Jackson's gin on Walnut
creek, Williamson county, was
burned last week. Loss $500:
insurance $4,000.
= At Rockdale the citizens
have organized a company of
fifty special policemen to guard
the town day and night.
= The grocery store of Ty-
son & Terrell at Houston has
been burglarized no less than
five times within short period.
= Geo. Bannerman left his
wife at Sutherland Springs on
| Nov. 9th. She is at Luling and
would like to hear from him.
Dallas has a fashionable
wedding. that of Mr., lack Toll
liver and Miss Annie Rainey.
The Herald writes it up in a
column and half.
= Tom Hayden and Harry
Bassett, carpenters, engaged in.
a shooting bout at Stephens
vile. Hayden was shot seri-
ously in the head and breast.
- Bill Bradley. a reputed
horse thief, escaped from the
Mason jail last week. The jail
is but little better than hen
coop and is locked with pad
lock.
The Mason Mfsps-Aem has
a letter from Round Mountain,
reporting the discovery of
rich silver ledge on the Perdi-
Males on DR.. Hachenbergh's
rancho.
Williamson county has
levied special tax of one-quar-
ter of one per cent for the pur-
pose of paying off the debt in
cured in building the new
courthouse.
"A Bastrop county man has
a common COW that gave birth
to three well developed calves
last week. At last accounts
this litter of calves were all alive
and thriving.
= Parties from Lynn, Mass,
have been prospecting at Dali
las with a view to establishing
a cooperative boot and shoe
factory. They are well pleased
with the outlook.
= Theo. Wallace, of Tarrant
county, late of Paris, Ill, come
to Dallas with six bales of cot.
ton, his wife and his mother-in-
law. He sold the cotton and
with proceeds cit out.
- On Saturday, December
18th, Bastrop will have public
hanging. Three colored gen
tlemen win be sent to glory
Timbers have been hauled and
work began on the scaffold.
"A. NJ. Beattie, county clerk
of Hidalgo county, married a
Mexican lady in Reynosa, Mex
leo. Five Americans were pre-
sent and were treated with mark
ed hospitality.
= The prisoners, six in num-
Der confined in the Maverick
county jail, sawed their way out
and have all escaped to Mexico
Several of them were convicted
at the last term of the district
court.
= The Bellvillins are consid-
ably stuck up" about the pro-
posed narrow gauge railway
through Austin county. A
mortage for $500 mile on it.
has been filed in the county
clerks office.
Several Giddingsites were
taken in and done for by the
brass jewelry man who accom-
panies the circus. The next
circus that comes along will
probably have a newer and
fresher trick.
: Now that a store has