Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-07-26
STATE NEWS,

Horse thieves are doing a
lively business in Denton coun-
y.
The Mexia Ledge, favors
the repeal of the hog law in that
city
Maj. Rowen Green is a can
didate for the legislature from
Colorado county.
Dallas is a fearful place.
1t was so hot there last Sunday
that a mule was sunstruck.
Two men, a negro and a
half-bred have been sentenced at
Longview, to be hung August
10.
- Hon John Hancock has
accepted an invitation to address
the people OF Bastrop on the
18th inst.
- Four hundred vagrant
dogs were killed in San Anton
10 last week and yet there is
thousands of dogs left.
"A. J. Cope, an old citizen
of Lee county, was struck by
lightning during a storm on the
22d inst, killing him and his
horse.
Joe Johnson. negro coun-
ty convict, on the Dallas coun-
ty farm, was shot and killed by
a guard as he was attempting to
escape.
The cotton crop on the up
lands in Brazos county is better
than it has been for a number
of years. There is no sign of
worms.
- Two or three years ago
most of the mealt consumed at
Houston came from St.Louis;
now none comes from there.
Houston has mills.
The water works at Waco
have been completed and are
now in practical operation. The
Telephone says they are a graf
flying and complete success.
-Denison narrowly escaped
a beer famine on Friday. An
enterprising saloonist telegraph
ed to Sherman for a supply of
beer, and thus the calamity was
averted.
The bale of new cotton
from Lavaca county was ship
ped from Galveston to the St.
Louis Cotton Exchange. 1t
was sold at auction bringing 81
cents per pound.
S. A. Hard, city marshall of
Mexia, went into saloon to
stop a fight. Tom Kennedy, who
was fighting, shot at him and he
shot at Kennedy. Both shots
took effect. Doctors say both
will die.
-Brazos county has three
candidates each for the office of
Sheriff, county clerk and treas
urer; two each for county attor-
ney and district clerk, and only
one each for county judge and
assessor. That is all who have
announced so far. Unannounc-
ed candidates arc not counted,
as they do not amount to any
thing.
Marketing is high in Dali
las. Beef 5 to 10 cents, the lat
ter for choice cuts; mutton and
veal 10 cents; bacon II I-2
cents; roasting-ears IS cents;
peaches 81 to 81 50 per bushel;
apples 81 to 2 50 pei bushel;
potatoes, Irish and sweet, 81 SO
per bushel; butter IS to p
cents; eggs IL I-2 to IS cents.
= Hydrophobia isprevalant
in and about Houston. On
Sunday a mad dog was killed.
Sammy Quarles, newshoy, was
bitten by dog two months ago.
His arm is now beginning to
swell and inflame. In the
Whiteoak settlement hydro
phobia has broken out among
the cattle. Several mad dogs
are reported in the Fourth ward
- J. H. Bingham editor of
the Mckinney Enquirer and J.
D. Hunter had mill" in Nc
Kinney. Several blows were
passed. Bingham drew a revolt
yer and opened fire wounding
Hunter in both thighs and send
ing a wild shot through the
breast of a negro man who was
standing sixty yards off. The
negro is fatally wounded. Pol
tics and whissey caused the
row.
MANY farmers seem to think
there is something gained by
getting trusted for whatever
they have to buy. Many far
mers. laboring under this delu-
sion, allow their grocery bills to
run for years unsettled, as also
their blacksmith's bills, and
always owe for agricultural tools
and machinery. Never did men
make greater mistake. There
is probably no one thing that
operates so much to keep farm
ers as a class behind and in
straitened circumstances as the
habit of getting trusted for what
they buy. 1t is a good rule to
pay when you buy, and if you