Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-08-08
STATE NEWS.

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- Simon B. Trice, a pionee
and prominent citizen Of Waco
is dead.
= The total scholastic popu
lation of Milan COUNT betweel
s and ID years, is 1873.
- Williamson and Bell coun
ties are suffering for rain, tn,
cotton crop will be very light.
- The city authorities Of Col
umbus have ordered a car loat
of lime for disintecting purpos
eS.
During three days of thi.
week 1914 head of cattle wer'
shipped from Flatonia to St
Louis.
Gen. Hannah was in Mar
lin last week and didn't call or
the BaN-it however, continues
rolling.
The Llano river has ceased
running and cotton in the coun-
ty is dying on account of dry
weather.
- Miles Williams arrested In
San Saba county has only
twenty cases against him for
theft, etc.
The citizens of Bryan are
| about to hold a mass meeting
to devise ways and means of
sinking an artesian well.
AS far as the 4Neios has OBJ
served, scarcelya secular paper
in the state defends the new
Sunday law.-Gafueston Nesus.
Crop reports from North
ern Texas say cotton is suffer-
ing from the drought. In the
vicinity of Dallas the injury is
20 per cent.
- En- BLIZZARD is the very at
tractive name of a Dallas amaz-
on who took enough cold pois-
on" to put a final quietus to
her earthly career.
= The shotgun policy is. be-
ginning to tell with the vagrant
cows in San Antonio. Owners
who have valuable animals are
penning them.
Near Maysfeld, Milan
county, an IS-months old child
of c. M. Carr fell into a well, on
his premises, o2 feet deep and
was instantly killed.
- At Dallas Chas Alexan-
der sends a couple of bullets
through the body Of Jim Moore.
Both are negroes and the trou-
BILE was about a woman.
- The Weimar correspond
ent of the Colorado Citizen. es-
Inmates the cotton crop Of Fay
cite county at about one bale
to four and a half acres.
I'm Corsicana water thieves
have become quite a nuisance.
Under cover of the night they
visit wells and cisterns and haul
water away by the barrel full.
- The Democracy OF Dallas.
held a meeting last week and
organized a club. This, we be-
lieve, rs the first organization of
the kind since the last election.
= The Headlight claims that
Round Rock sells more lumber
than any other interior town in
the state. One firm at that
town carries a stock Of a mil
lion feet.
= Mayor Smith of Round
Rock had several cases before
him last week and was so well
pleased with the trimmings that;
he is ready and anxious to try a
few more.
Columbus Plaindealer: dur
ing the past week we have had
good indications but no rain.
On the Bernard and all round
good showers have. refreshed
the crops.
- The advent Of the c. and
M. railroad has walked Planters
vile up. Theirs is NO more
checker playing or street loung-
ing, everybody now has strict
business air.
There is a poor family liv-
ing across the stone bride in
Austin, in very destitute cir
cumstances. They have an old
quilt stretched to shield them
from the sun.
- A negro chicken thief at
Houston was shot at and after
wards caught and beaten nearly
to death with a cowhide by a
colored lady from whom he had |
lifted" chickens.
= A man named Otto, living |
near Lockhart was found dead
at his own gate, having been
killed by a blow from a fence
rail. His son Theodore has
been arrested on suspicion
= The Montgomery Journal
grows facetious over the pros
occt of the c. and M. road and /
ellis of the various characters,
hand-organists and 9TH
,rs who will come by rail.
- Indianola has established
strick quarantine against all
louisiana posts except Calca-
lieu. The Morgan steamers
:arrying Cattle from Indianola
o Havana have been stopped.
- Mr.. Clay Bennett accident
lily shot himself while playing