Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-01-24
STATE NEWS.


lation OF 1000.
= Corn is selling at 50 cents
a bushel at Marlin.
= Milan county has nine
prisoners in jail at Cameron.
There was a very heavy
frost at Houston on Monday
morning.
Mrs. Pauline Wood has
been nominated for postmis-
tress at Carsicana.
Corn sells in Columbus at
40 to 50 cents, and is not so
plentiful as last year.
Tyler has an iron and brass
foundry that proposes taking
corn in exchange for plows.
-"Hog Eye" is the name of
a town in Burnet county. 1t
must be delightful place.
Almost every farmer in
Bastrop county has surplus of
pork. 1t is selling at from 8 I-2
to a cents.
- 1t is reported that a num-
Der of mad dogs have been seen
in the Onion creek settlement in
Travis county.
= In the glastonbury case at
Palestine, the mother, sister and
brother of the defendant testi-
fed to an abb.
Dogs are plenty and sau-
sage is cheap in Corsicana. That
town is now the boarding mis-
tresses paradise.
"A negro boy in Houston
took a policeman for a tramp
and got so badly scared that he
nearly ran himself to death.
- little girl eight years
old, daughter Of H. T. Clark,
of Georgetown, was run over
and killed by the cars at that
place.
"A brick-making machine
will be the next thing in Tyler;
the demand for brick is sufi-
Gent to justify the use of a ma
chine.
= The shipment of wood
from the lower part of Fort Bend
county is becoming quite bust
ness. 1t can be delivered in
Galveston at 81 and sells readily
at Sc.
"A branch telegraph Office
has been opened in the Texas
and Pacific hotel at Marshall,
with a lady young of course)
as operator.
The publisher of Richmond
Foa0 Counties advertises that
some one has stole his gold
collar button. Newspaper men
are occasionally given to ex-
aggeration.
The 6remen's ball at Hemp
stead last week was a total fail
ure; they lost money. This
should not be so; firemen work
without pay or reward Of any
kind.
= The Victoria Ad0oeafe has
a sample of sugar, made from
ribbon cane on a plantation in
that county, which compares
favorably with an excellent
grade of Louisiana sugar.
= Bell county is to be made
a hot place for rowdies before
the year is out. The county
attorney proposes prosecuting
every man who inisbehaves
himself.
Denison had a mad dog
excitement last week; a little
boy about two years old was
bitten by little dog, which af-
forwards had fits and those YER
sed in "dogolgy' pronounced it
mad.
- At Houston a negro bar
Der named Sam Hargrove shot
at his wife hitting her in the
"mouf' and knocking out a few
teeth; he then took pop at
his mama-in-law, but missed her.
He escaped.
According to the Iuder
Corsicana had pair of Siamese
twins. They were yoked togeth-
er by an iron band; one was
black and the other was white.
Stealing shirt was the cause
of the union.
= Billy Caruth, colored, died
at Dallas, aged ITO years. He |
was brought to Texas from
Kentucky and his age is well
authenticated by aided of con-
veyance to the father of his |
former owner.
J. B. Reed, a man who has
figured extensively in the news
papers of late, and whose last
exploit was passing a $50 coun-
terht bill at Texarkana, died at
Marshall from, exrcacc,,,a <J~:1I-