Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-05-31
STATE NEWS.

New Irish potatoes are re-
failing at ST a bushel in Column
bus.
Wheat in Colorado county
will make thirty bushels to the
acre.
Professional burglars are
prosecuting their bushes in
Waco.
- Two steam threshers are
getting ready for work in COM
anche county.
Crop prospects in Milan
county are fine. There has been
plenty frain.
THE Georgetown .Sxn enters
upon its second year with fiat
-tering prospects.
The Rockdale Messenger has
put on its summer suit. 1t now
wears patent inside.
- The telegram calls the
loafers who frequent the Recor-
der's court hoodllms.
There are now 400 men,
bers of the Murphy or blue
ribbon brigade in Dallas.
- There are forty, prisoners
in the Marshall jail. Among
the number is Rothschild.
= On Wednesday Houston
was visited by 500 negros ex-
cursionists from Galveston.
= Mr.. w. l.. Simpson and
Miss Tennie Rogers of Chappell
Hill, both died on Monday.
Wash Jones, the Radical
candidate for congress is billed
for Round Rock on the 3Ist
inst.
The Williamson county
Greenbackers claim an enroll
ment of seven hundred men,
bcrS.
= Miss Dora Schroeder died
at La Grange from the effects
of a coal oil explosion = kind
ling fire.
The Columbus CfiseH says
the West wants the State po-
lice force kept in the field and
must have it.
-Bryan's drayman wants to
abandon the respectable calling
in which he is engaged and run
for the legislature
- Bellville's brass band is
progressing finely. 1t is expec-
ted that they will soon furnish
delightful music.
A negro child playing in
pig pen, on farm two miles
from Dallas, was-badly" chawed'
up by an enraged sow.
State troops have been
sent to San Saba to quiet any
disturbance that may grow out
of killing Brown by Kendall.
"A year old child Of Capt.
Allyn was killed at. Corsicana
by a careless negro nurse who
was cooling along" with a der
ringer pistol.
: The fire department Of
Bryan contemplates a grand
fourth of July celebration
in the way ola picnic and pub
lie speaking.
"A special to the San Anto-
MO E1prrss from Eagle Pass
says king Fishers bond is am
ply sufficient. unquestionable
and according to law.
The State Savings bank of
Dallas has busted. Assets un-
known. Six dollars in cash
was turned over to the assignee.
The bank owes depositors $50
600.
Cards and whiskey caused
N. Wade respectable citizen
of Lagrange to take arsenic.
An emetic was administered
and caused him to throw up the
arsenic.
The Navasota Ed6krflcarns
that nearly the whole amount
required has been PROMISED by
citizens to secure the tap of the
Central and Montgomery road
at that place.
The fremont Hotel at Gal
weston was sold at trustees sale,
on Tuesday. for s45,925. Marx
& Kempner were the purchas-
ers. The original cost was
nearly 100000.
= As Dallas can't have bull
and lion fights it does the next
best thing: 1t has bear and
dog fight. one bear being pitted
against FIVE bull and three cur
dogs. The "bar" whipped.
= The San Saba Wfsps says
"our town has been the scene
of confusion, undue excitement
and even alarm for the last few
days, occasioned by the shoot
ing of w. A. Brown on Tuesday.
Mr.. Hector Bell, foreman
of bridges on the Sunset
route, was run over and
killed near Alleyton, by his
hand car. Mr.. Bell was a much
respected citizen of Columbus.
- Grcenback convention
was held at Rockdale and a
platform adopted declaring
complete separation from both
political parties. An organiza-
ton wifi be effected in Falls and
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