Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-07-18
STATE NEWS.

- Dell county Has SCnOldS-
tic population of 4oo3.
- Waco is soon to have a
hrst-clasS variety show.
Fourth Of July takes three
columns in the Castroviile QnH.
i In Denison 81 new build
ing are in course of construc-
ton.
- In Medina county new
corn was ground on the Sth in
slant.
- Bonham boasts of a II
year old boy who weighs Us
pounds.
- Houston sportsmen go to
Virginia Point to spend Sunday
in fishing.
- The new depot at Rich
mond will be commenced in a
week or two.
- 4 negro boy died at Bel
ton while being baptised, from
the effects of heat and the i'm
mersior.
- If Grimes county escapes
the "wurrums" a good crop Of
cotton will be made.
last week a man died
very. suddenly on a farm near
Flatonia; supposedly, from the
effects of sun stroke.
- Navarro county, will make
corn enough for home consump-
ton; the cotton crop promises
to be up to the average.
- A colored fire company is
about to be organized in Deni-
son. 1t is proposed to have
them do the heavy work.
Capt. J. J. Mcbride, of the
firm OF Lee, Mcbride & Co.
Galveston, died suddenly at
lakewood, of congestion.
- Two men, Ellis and Aus
tin, engaged in a shooting bee
in front of the Ell Paso hotel,
Fort Worth-nobody hurt.
- Mr.. Lawson, of Courtney,
put his fingers too close to a
hay cutter; the first joint OF his
index finger was Shipped" off.
- Men and women Of bad
moral status ride in hacks of a
night in San Antonio and dis
turb decent people by their rev.
elry.
- In Grayson county eleven
men were fined for refusing to
work on the roads; eight Of
them were sent to Jail for nom
payment.
- The scholastic population
Of Medina county is 1915, Of
whom 256 can not read. There
are but S colored children in
the county.
Cotton millers have been
noticed on farms near Navasota.
Many of our exchanges COM
mend the use of lamps for their
destruction .
DIR. AR. Fitzpatrick, Of
Navasota, has been appointed
on the national board OF health
with instructions to report at
New Orleans.
- Two negros had a cutting
bee at Palestine the other day;
one killed the other and escap-.
ed. Another negro was killed
by an officer.
= suspicious character
named Williams was shot, but
not MORALLY wounded, while
riding off on a freshly stolen
horse in Paris.
= Tom Jordan, a negro
horse thief was caught in Burle--
son county riding stolen horse.
He was put in Jail and felt hap
py at not being hanged.
ID. J. Sadlier, a peddler of
religious books and an organ
izer of temperance societies in
Galveston. got on bender and
was locked up in the coop.
Gaspar Spattero, a dago,
recently pardoned out of the
penitentiary by Gov. Roberts,
died at the city hospital in
Houston on Monday, Of con-
sumption.
- Bales and Riggs, Bell
county officers, have taken the
contract for conveying convicts
to the penitentiary from a num-
Der Of northwestern and ives
tern counties. 80
Round Rock has a william
whom the Headlight thinks
would be a greater ornamentto
the grave yard than 5000
monument. They ought to kill
and plant him. ~
Twelve government freight
wagons loaded with oats at
Round Rock and set sail for
Concho. A Fredericksburg
man has a contract to furnish
that post with oats.
Henry Carson, a school
teacher, has been arrested in
Menard county, charged with
being implicated in the road
agency" business, or in other
words, stage robbing.
At the Llano mines last
week 900 pounds of ore was
melted, yielding Is pounds of
silver besides copper, lead and