Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-08-31
STATE NEWS.

man is said to be an established
fact.
- In Dallas young Cain" is
the thing now. Hail Columbia
is "ausgaspieldt"
- Bolton has been enjoying
a season of skating. Parlor or
rubber skates were used.
- More cotton has been rails
ed about Taylorsville, William
son county, than can be gather
with the home hands
- Sherman makes magni-
fieient market for melons, but
Dcnison scoops in the cotton
trade, says the Herald.
One Hunter. a Harms
county horse thief, was captur-
! ed in Indianola, where he had
just sold a stolen horse.
| - Plagge, who has been
plaguing the San Aantonians
for some days has resigned his
positions as superintendent of
schools.
- An old man named L. P.
Finn, living near Paris bought
and took IL drachms of laud-
anum. He will cross over the
river.
- a large emigration from
the far famed Shenandoah val
ley in Virginia to Dallas and
nelghboring counties. is eXpec-
ted this fall.
- The Fairfield Recorder es-
Inmates that the cotton crop of
Freestone county will be cut
short one half by boil worms
and dry weather.
- 1t appears that they have
bug juice in the quiet city of
Victoria and that an over
indulgence in it lands the indul-
| ger in the calaboose.
The Burleson county Green
hackers were to have held a
convention on the 18th inst. for
the purpose of nominating coun-
ty and district officers.
= Bill Crozier, bar keeper
at Fort Worth was shot and
killed in the Variety theatre in
that town. by Buffalo Bill. The
trouble was about drinks
= San Antonio has a steam
rock crusher by which the hard
est stones are crushed to any
required size. The broken
stones isused on the streets.
A Tarrant county farmer
is said to have "scooped up"
the Fort Worth premium for
the first bale of new cotton
with bale of last years crop.
= The new courthouse at
Georgetown is to be as near
tightening proof as tightening
rods can make it. For the
present seven lightning rods
will suffice.
Capt. Lang is now at home
and will rest a week or so, when
he will stump the State in a few
days for the Democratic party
and its standard bearers
MNAn Ball.
= Hugo Dreezer, was rob- |
bed, in Fayette county, by mas
ked men, who obtained sly.
- An extensively advertised
Greenback meeting at Lagrange
was SHINY attended.
- In San Antonio a bad boy
named Glazcr, aged twenty-five,
was held in bond of 500 for
having threatened to let daylight
through the corpus of his own
dacdy aged sevcnty-six.
"A Dallas man, who has an
aversion to newspaper report
ers, probably having been made
the subject of an item, thinks
they ought to pay a license the
same as any other business.
- The Dallas Commercial
says there is a conviction slowly
creeping through the minds of
the people that the whipping
post would soon run two-thirds
of the scoundrels out of the
State.
"A greenback county con-
vention will be held at Marlin
next week. The Ball says the
negro greenbackers are in favor
of repudiating the debt the
government owes for setting
them free.
A drunken quarrel took
place in Montague a few days
ago which resulted in the killing
of three MEN one named Roberts,
and two named Pollard. A man
Queillen who killed both the
Pollards made his escape.
j. D. McCown, a farmer
near Rockwell, reports singu-
lar disease among his cattle. 1t
has the appearance of mad itch.
The cattle rub themselves
against the trees until their .
bones are bare, and die sudden ,
ly.
- Col. F. c. Taylor, now
runs his stages from San An
tonic to Fort Mason, 100 miles, 5
in 20 hours averaging, includ-
ing stoppage 6 miles an hour.
This is nearly as fast time as is
made on some of the Texas