Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-12-13
STATE NEWS.

has been re-organlZed.
= Chickens are selling in
Bastrop at $3.50 a dozen.
- Waco has 4 man named
Pigg. He is mattress maker.
- Cattle on the range in Mi
lam county are suffering for wa
ter.
-McAlpine's gin, Wallaee's
prairie, was burned on Thurs
day last.
= Dust, leaves and profanity
filled the air at Columbus one
day last week.
Wellborn's majority for
congress in the Dallas district
is only 5I,oSr.
Northwestern Texas is set
ting up as rapidly as Kansas
did a few years ago.
= The country around Waco
is settling up rapidly. Immi-
grant wagons are arriving daily.
= William Sheehan was way
laid and robbed one night last
week on Pecan street, in Aus
tin.
= Hogs roam at large in
Dallas just the same as if there
was no ordinance to restrain
them.
Galveston's board of AL
dermen propose reducing the
mayors salary from $500 to
$500 per year.
Dallas is to have a new
afternoon paper. As soon as
one paper fails another is start
ed in its place.
= Adams store at McMil-
Ian, Bell county has been rob-
bed of a small amount of money
and a fine pistol.
ID. w. Stockbridge's gin
at Eagle Lake, was burned on
the goth ult. The fire was the
result of accident.
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= Belton's Silver Cornet
Band has organized itself into a
cooperative grocery establish
ment. Music and pota toes
cheap for cash.
j. T. Gardner, the man
who attempted to rape a little
girl near Cat Springs, Austin
county, is in the Bellville Jail in
| default of a $1,000 bond.
= Many farmers in the vicin-
ity of Flatonia ARE now engag-
ed in sowing wheat and oats,
( the late rains having left the
ground in good condition.
- The Bolton Journals devil
has had bad luck. He went
possum hunting, got lost; had
his hunting fee eaten up by a
coon and didn't get the coon.
Geo. w. Norris, a stranger,
got into a dispute in a saloon at
Willis and was shot through the
brain and instantly killed. John
Talbot is supposed to be the
shootist,
"A white man, stranger
in Austin, has been making
some money by "hoodooing'
negroes. He has been arrested
but the negroes propose bailing
him out.
= Georgetown San of last
week reports the last half mile
of the railroad track as being
laid. 1t is getting itself in trim
for an excursion by rail to
Round Rock.
Byrd Moore, charged with
being accessory to the murder
of Capt. Killough near La
Grange has been acquitted.
Bob Moore, his brother is to be
tried on Thursday.
= Twenty-Five hundred dol.
lars was collected in Chris,
Episcopal church at Houston
on Sunday, towards the liqui-
dation of a five thousand dollar
debt on the church.
= On Saturday next, Smith
Jackson and Prior Jones, ne
groes, Wilde hanged at Bastrop
for murder. The scaffold has
been erected on the courthouse
square, west OF the jail.
= A McCulloch county man
going for a doctor, rode a horse
fifty miles in four hours and five
minutes. This is about as fast
as trains travel on the Wertern
branch of the Central railway.
= John Parten, living ten
miles from Marlin, concealed
himself and shot and killed his
own brother as he was passing
on his way home to dinner.
They had long been on bad
terms. The murderer escaped.
= Columbus and vicinity is
beset by numerous tramps.
They exc out an existance by
robbing and plundering. The
Ghsen suggests that the State
vagrant law be enforced against
them and it reproduces the
same.
= The neighbors of Rev. ].
I. Warner are going to meet at
his house on the 10TH to have a
royal lion hunt. A Mexican lion
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