Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-12-20
STATE NEWS.


= Bastrop county has seven
teen prisoners in the county
Jail.
= Bryan has put a full Dem
ocratic ticket in the field for city
officers.
Up to Wednesday last Maj.
Penn had made 4S conversions
at Lagrange.
In the district court at
Houston three divorces were
granted on Monday.
= 1t is reported that man
named Hemphill was killed in
Bastrop county last Sunday.
= When the recent fire was
in progress at Fort Worth the
Dallas fremen rendered their
services.
: The Harris county grand
jury has been at work for over
two weeks and have returned
but four indictments.
Pistol shooting is epidemic
on the streets of Flatonia at
night. The city marshal does
not try to arrest the offenders.
= The Tyler Democrat had
a man to call in and pay his
subscription. This being a rare
occurrence it makes note of
it.
= Webster & Fisher, dry
goods merchants of Paris, have
failed with liabilities of $4,000,
and assets amounting to $751;
900.
"A negro attemptedto COM
NIT a rape on a young lady
whom he met on the road near
Worthan. The negro was
caught and hanged.
of all those in business in
Dallas in 1871, but two firms
are now in existence. The 9TH
ers have all failed or entered
upon other pursuits.
= The grand jury of Harris
county has found but FIVE indict-
ments during this term of the
court. G. w. Lynch of the
Hockey Horror" has been in
dicted for shooting Binford.
= Dallas county utilizes her
poor farm as a resort for va
grants as well as paupers. The
other day eleven Migrants were
sent down; they will be put to
work and made to earn their
board.
= Bastrop county is out of
debt and has assets enough on
hand to run next year without
any county tax. They havn't
had radical county administra-
ton Tor some time. The coun-
ty commissioners are business
men.
- The remains of an I'M
known man were found in the
debris of the late fire at Fort
Worth. The head showed a
heavy cash on one side. 1t is
supposed a murder was commit
ted and the house set on fire to
destroy all traces.
= Ben Volino, whose disap-
pearance from Comanche coun-
ty created such a stir and also |
the arrest and falling of a man
named Taylor, has come to life |
at Fort Griffin. Volino is adj
vised to keep out OF Comanche
county in future.
= The commissioners report
Of McLennan county shows that
the county is out OF debt and
there is cash balance in the
hands of the treasurer amount
ing to SIo,I32 al. A new
courthouse has been built and
a county farm bought.
= The Columbus CltiseN has
received specimens of sugar and
syrup made from ribbon cane
in Colorado county. 1t says:
ut viii not be many years be-
fore the manufacture of syrup
and sugar will be one of the in
dustries of our county.
= The town of Richmond is
no longer a city; its board of
aldermen have gone by the
board; there is no mayor, mar
shall or policemen, and worst of
all the town is in debt and there
S no authority to pay it or mon
~ to pay it with.
The Fowler family at Web
oerville is quite extensive-for
one family-there being "a
most of them boys.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fowler had each
thirteen children when they
married., and eight have been
added to the list.
= Worms, a Jewett merchant
vas shot with buckshot and
BADLY beaten about 6 miles from
hat place, while attempting to
'ecover some stolen goods. His
riends, and the sheriff sum-
noned a posse and killed one
legro and made prisoners of
wo others.
Joseph Hemphill, who re-
ided--on Walnut creek, six miles
rom Bastrop, and whose repu-