Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-09-19
srArB NEWS.

Castroville will have three
bell punches.
Horse thieves are busy in
and about Fairfield.
Cotton is higher in Bon
ham than in amy other town in
north Texas.
- Small pox appears to be
breaking out in several OF the
upper counties.
James kibbee of the Ma
son News-Item is the father Of
an BIB boy and is happy.
Comanchc, Mason and
Brown counties are supplied
| with shingles by the Little Rock
mills.
- The GAINESVILLE Register
thinks that GAINESVILLE will be a
railroad town by the 18th of
October.
James Addison Barker.
Sr., one Of the Oldest citizens of
Millican, died suddenly of apo
plcxy on the 10Th inst, aged 70.
- Four city prisoners at
Houston climbed the fence and
regaincd their liberty they
didn't enjoy working on the
streets.
- n man, presumably dead
, beat, delivered lecture at the
Gonzales courthouse and the
audience behaved badly, 50 says
the Inquirer.
= Major PENIS meeting at
the Georgetown fair grounds is
attracting multitudes of people.
One hundred and fifty were for
ward for prayer.
= The Dallas Herald and
Commercial positively asserates
that there is no public gambling
carried on in that model and
moral growing city.
- Two Mexicans confined
in the Castroville iail for petty
theft, made their escape last
Sunday night by unlocking the
doors and walking out.
Col. T. H. Garner died at
his home in Columbus on the
9th inst. at the advanced age of
81 years. He came to Texas
from Tennessee in 1853.
- H. B. Dalton, late of Ken
lucky, was shot aud killed by
James Gum, near Graham, the
other day. They quarrellcd
about few bundles of millet.
= John T. Shanks. Texas
veteran, aged 80, died in De
Witt county the other day. He
came to Texas in 1897, and
served also in the Mexican war.
= In Comanche the croak-
ers croak and the GROWERS
growl, but still the town contin-
ues to grow; there is not a va
cant dwelling and rents are
high.
- Hillsboro is about to have
a new dry goods store and the
the tavern keeper has just got
a new and heightened" bell
to summon his hash-gourmands
to their hash.
- Mr.. Sam Nesbitt who lives
near Butter Freestone county
lost his guinea chicken in a sin
gular way. 1t was taken up in
the yard by a whirlwind and
carried out Of sight.
= The "boys" in the Bolton
Journal Office will publish a
daily during the continuance of
the Bolton fair. It is to be dis
tributed gratuitously as an adj
vertising medium.
Paris has three newspa-
pers, the North Texan, the
Banner and the Press. Bon
ham had at one time had four
or Ave papers, but most of them
have gone to Davy Jones lock-
er.
= The Gonzales Inquirer
says more corn has been raised
than was anticipated and that
the timely rains will be of vast
benefit to the cotton crop.
Times will not be as hard as
people think for.
Eighty-6ve English immi-
grants, men, women and chill
drcn, from Durham, England,
are now enroute from New York
to Galveston on the steamer
State of Texas. The will prob
ably go to western Texas.
"A young man passed by
the Bastrop Advertiser Office
the other night attempting to
sing Baby Nine" The Adver-
tiser advises the youth to go to
the FJee islands and sing to the
heather, he wants no more.
= Farmers in the neighbour
hood of lola, Grimes county,
are going to haul their cotton
to Houston by wagon; they
save FIVE dollars a bale freight
on the cotton and also the
freight on groceries back again.
The Bonham News COM
plains that the district court has
been in session four weeks with
out doing any great amount Of
business; the weather has been
warm and the attorneys have
not been as industrious as they
might have been.
- The Rockdale Messenger
says that on the End inst. as the
train was going towards Rock
dale and a few miles east of
Milanc, FIVE eonvicts jumped
from the train. They were fir
ed upon by the guards; two,
Mexicans, were seriously woun-
ded, three escaped.