Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-04-12
STATE NEWS.

L iic DIdSS Ddiiu llldllld Has
struck Taylorsville.
Sundays rain extended as
far north as Dallas.
Strawberries sell at seventy
five cents quart in Austin.
-Cfoakers III Bell county
predict frost on the 10th inst.
= There are seventeen pris-
onors in the Georgetown jail.
= -Lampasas county sends
5three prisoners to the peniten-
! tiary.
hgowsli1sist tery is to have
9onham on the first
The Bastrop postoffice is to
become money order Office
on the Isl of July.
- The fremont Hotel at
Galveston has been closed for
want of patronage.
-Bastrop is to have a cattle
show on the 24th inst. A large
attendance is expected.
Houston being unable to
pay her gas bill the street
lamps are shady of nights.
John Bowen, an estimable
citizen of Navasota has commit
ted suicide by taking poison
Gov. Hubbard has offered
$500 reward for the capture OF
the Eagle Ford train robbers.
There are about 500 ne
gro soldiers, officered by white
men, stationed at Fort Concho.
Hampstead intends demon
strating to the world that the
one-legged railway is not a fail
ure.
IT. w. Crabb, postmaster
at Quitman has been arrested
for tampering with registered
letters.
-Denison's city prisoners
will be utilized in breaking rock
to be used in macadamizing the
streets.
THE Dallas Commercial is
now worked on a new Campbell
press, and is much improved in
appearance.
= Bremond shipped 81 cars
of lumber, s of shingles and Fl
Of ties for the week ending
April 4th.
The musquite bush is
quietly taking possession of all
the vacant lots and roadsides in
San Saba.
= The Dallas detectives ar
rest law-abiding and peaceable
strangers on suspicion of being
train robbers.
= The Headlight says the
Blind tiger" has pulled up
stakes at Round Rock and NOV
over to Georgetown.
- An Inherent candy maker
amused the citizens of danger
field by making and selling can
dy on the streets.
The Flatonia Hook and
Ladder company will. celebrate
San Jacinto day by a ball and
picnic on the 2ad inst.
= Houston pays her laborers
sI.75 day in scrip, equal to
about 70 cents in money. Car
penters demand S IN scrip.
Sunday fishing is not as
pious as going to church, re-
marks the Dallas Herald. We
suppose it speaks by the card.
Brown Bowen, condemned
to be hung, and a prisoner nam
ed Darnell, were sent from Ans
tin to Gonzales county on Sat-
urday.
A highly respected color
ed minister has Beecherized at
San Antonio and there is an I'M
mense commotion in colored So
ciety.
The Tylor Drm0eyath oists
the name of R. B. Hubbard for
Governos because it believes
he is the right man in the right
place.
April fool. On the first
of April, one Mitchell, painter;
fooled the Bellvillians by skip
ping out and leaving the amount
of SI25 unpaid.
= The Bolton Journal says
the people are in earnest at last
in their efforts to get a rail-
road. The Santa 'Fe road is
the one they want.
Mr.. B. F. Mitchell has
wheat growing on his place near
Weimar which stands three and
a halff-et high, and has heads
seven inches long.
The Dallas "greenbackers"
succeeded in drawing out sixty
one votes in the late city cleo
ton. 1t is reported that they
are busted" now.
"A cattle pen covering two
acres of ground is being put up
at Columbus. 1t will afford
ample facilities for the ship
ment of live stock.
In Bell county local option
is now numbered with the things
that were. Saloons are in full
blast and standing prescriptions
are at a heavy discount.
Tho Auet;n St,fcS,U1U has