Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-05-23
STATE NEW
Denison is overcrowded
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benson IS oVercrowoeo
with mechanics. z
- Paris is soon to have a
regular beer garden. - = 81
Crops in Bastrop county
are reported as fine.
Ripe tomatoes were
shown in Gonzales last week.
Dallas contemplates the
erection of a f1re-alarm& tele-'
graph. $50. = ,saA
The quarrel between the
two Denison papers still goes
bravely on.
: Fleas and mosquitoes
cause much activity among the
people of Gonzales :. - "a
Judge VIM. B. Leigh, a
prominent lawyer and eitizen:of.
San Antonio is dead. ,,i,,,
- Butter is plenty and, slow
sale in Austin at 10 to IL I72
cents and retails at IS cents
= A Lockhart lawyer named
Wiley suicided at that place,
Friday evening-morphine. -,
The walking mania has at
last reached Bolton and a match
is now being arranged there. "
= Hill county farmers are
hauling corn to Waco for sale
and have an abundance f it.
- A Denison barkeeper adj
vertises two-story milk punches
sarmounted by a mansard roof.
- Prospects for all kinds of
field crops as well as fruits are
splendid in McLennan county.
- The balloonist that didn't
go up at Waco is now billed
to go up at Austin on the
27th.
= Columbus has city cleo
ton in June; the canvass will
afford lively topic for CONVEX
sation.
= Dallas has just 1000 dogs
too many-a local reporter
counted 'em and known whereof
he writes.
Colorado county is out of
debt; has money in the treasu-
ry and her scrip is worth dollar
for dollar.
- The Joneses and Stearns
now in the Bryan Jail are guard
ed by a detachment Of the Bry-
an Rifles.
Wheat in Williamson coun-
ty will yield fifteen bushels to
the acre and the quality is unu-
sually fine.
= An English geologist puts
down the age of the limestone
rocks Of Texas at six hundred
million years.
= Myriads of seven-year le-
Gusts have appeared in the tim
Der south of Dallas; they are do;
ing no damage. ~;
The foundations thernew'
Jail at Houston have been, COM
menced; it will be. s2xIoS feet
and two stories high. :
= At Crockett some negroes
had a shooting bee, but. unfor,
tunately none of them got kill
ed; they are poor marksmen.
Greenbackers are holding
meetings in Galveston and will
make a gigantic effort to elect
their man to the state senate.
Corsicana is determined to
have two narrow gauge rail-
roads, one to Palestine and the
other to connect at Texarkana.
- An Englishman named
Clark, was killed by Indians
twelve. miles east of Vanhorn
stage station on the goth inst.
= Anderson Wiley, a negro
charged with setting fire to
buildings at Millican, has been
committed total in default of
$4,000 bond.
= Baker and Duggan charg-
ed with the murder of Hollo-
man at Seguin have been grant
ed a continuance. Witness
absent.
= Crops in Colorado county
are generally in flourishing
condition; though cotton in
some localities is suffering from
the inroads of lice.
= Mack Anderson, negro
barber, murdered his wife at
Columbus, by cutting her throat
from ear to ear with a razor.
He was arrested and jailed.
James Wilson was the orig-
inal discoverer of gold in Llano
county. After spending $500
to get $40 worth of the shining
metal he quit.
= The North 7kras says
when Paris gets its cotton fac
tory, its compress, its emigration
society, etc, it will begin to en-
joy prosperity and notia day
sooner. .5 :,
The Sherman Reg1ste, says
there are nearly four thousand
young schoolmarms IN Texas.
This is the number he wants
to kiss and not, the number in
Texas.
= Prince Haverly, a negro
who murdered another negro,
man in Palestine some time ago,
was nabbed in Houston on Mon
day and taken back to Palestine
for trial.
Il The first wheat of the
crop 1879 was brought to Waco
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