Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-11-22
STATE NEWS,


- The greenbackers in Falls
county will contest the election.
- The total enrolment in |
the San Antonio public schools
is 1915.
Hen. Gustav Schleicher
was banqueted at San Antonio
on the goth.
= Four new dwellings are
now i'll course of construction
at Round Rock.
: The Denison planning
mills and cotton gin was burned
on Saturday last.
Gus Porter, the youth who
was shot and wounded in Aus
tin, will recover.
= Houstonians are calcula-
ting that the circus will carry
away at least $1,000.
= About 200 bales of cotton
are shipped from Round Rock
daily, says the Headlight.
= Round Rocks Headlight
is now Illuminated by the pink
head of Minor H. Brown.
The Denison papers, the
Ne70s and the Herald will both
get out holiday editions.
= Heilinger's grocery store
at Marlin has been burned.
Loss $4,000; no insurance.
Dan Cooner, colored, shot
and killed himself while hunt
ing near Giddings, last week.
Freestone county is to
have a hog and pig show. This
is a hoggish peice Of business.
= The continued drought in
many counties has entirely pre-
vented the planting of fall gar
dens.
- In Travis county nearly
five thousand votes were po,led;
the largest ever polled in the
county.
Grimes county sends eight
convicts to Huntsville as the
result of the last term of the
district court.
= In Polk county the farm
ers are busy making syrup.
The production is fine and the
yield splendid.
= Maj. DIT. Frazell, for sew
eral years general stock agent
of the H. and T. C. railway,
died at Waco day or two ago.
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- large trade has sprung
up on Salt river and numerous
packets for the stream are adj
vertised in various country pa
pers.
= A Denison man is about
starting a Mexican restaurant.
Chile con carne, tomales and
other "hot" dishes will be serv-
ed to order.
Dallas will send large
and respectable delegation of
merchants to the New Orleans
commercial convention to be
held Dec. 8.
In Dallas county the green
bakers polled 1865 votes for
governor; the Democrats 36oI;
the black republicans 655.
A Correspondent of the
Statesman builds a narrow gauge
railway from Austin to Brown
wood, on paper. An absolute"
railroad SO to speak.
Track laying has been COM
menced on the Georgetown and
Round Rock railroad. Seven
teen car loads of iron have al
ready been received.
= Several presiding officers
of election precincts in Bell
county say they will not serve
again in that capacity without
pay. They carry level heads.
= The Bolton telegraph of
fee was a paying institution the
first few days of its existence.
How it has been since the nov
city has worn off, is not stated.
= Hal Geiger, the Hearne
bulldozer, has after a lengthy
examination been discharged.
The whole proceeding is
looked upon as stupendous
farce.
-Four robbers entered Rob-
inson's hardware store in Round
Rock IN Monday night at 7
o'clock and took $500 in mon
ey. They played the Circle
vile game.
- The Austin hunters re-
ported to have been robbed of
their guns and horses by high
have returned home
and emphatically deny the soft
impeachment.
The Corsicana Mdex has
been presented with specimens
of coal from the banks of the
Trinity, about twenty miles from
Corsicana. The vein is said to
be six feet thick.
THE limp man is sadly trou-
bled. Here is what ails him: