Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-11-14
STATE NEWS.

SorSiCana pOlleQ OOZ VoteS
at the municipal election last
week.
: Sallie Johnson, a Waco
negress, suicided by taking
poison.
- The CIRCUS drew a much
larger crowd at Austin than the
capital fair.
w. H. Hunter, Of the Bel
ton Journal, was married on the
5th inst. to Miss Alice Laws.
- The Bonham News claims
that Bonham is handling more
cotton this season than Deni-
son.
"A number of sombreros,
Struggled over from Mexico,
have been seized in San An
tonic.
= The Gonzales Inquirer man
is looking for some merchant
who will credit him for an over
coat.
of $1,000 collected by the
city collector and assessor of
Houston this month, only
$4,000 was in money.
Sunday nights FIRE at Nava-
sofa has set the people to talk
ing about the necessity of hav-
ing fire cisterns and tanks.
&c. b. McDermott. of Ora
ham, has disappeared and is
supposed to have been murder
ed by a man named J. J. Post.
The Denison and Pacific
railroad having been completed
to Gainesville, that town, ac-
'cording to the Registes is to be
the liveliest place in all that Sec
ton Of the state.
= The San. Antonio Herald
"1oke" is much grieved; a big
bill board was blown down
without killing niger. When
ever niger is killed that local
reporter is happy.
Sullivan, convicted in Con-
zales county of the murder of a
negro girl and sentenced to the
penitentiary for life, has con-
fessed his crime. He says he
was drunk at the time.
"A negro witness in Con-
zales when asked if he knew
what a complaint was, said:
Eyes sab, / does. When dey
has me in dis heah cheer calls
DAT a complaint, 1 does"
J " The Denison Herald of
the 9th inst. reports that sixty
exodusters went up the evening
before. Some exodusted from
Washington county, but not
enough to do any good
The Navasota Tablet says
that the fire in that town last
week was the work of an incen-
diary. tits supposed that Mil
ler's store was burglarized from
the rear, robbed and then fired
- The Gainesville Register
learns that Stephen Crow, of
Marysville, while enragcd at his
wife, pummeled the head of
their FIVE months old baby so
badly that tits almost impossi-
BILE tor it to live. Crow skip
ped.
= Rev. R. Alexander D. D.,
the first Methodist missionary
in Texas, and who is now sta
toned at Chappell Hill was
married at Bryan on the nth
inst, to Mrs. P. NE. Wilson of
that city.
= An Austin saloonist who
has applied for but notreceived
his ben punch rings a call bell
and makes a tally mark on a
sheet of paper which he weights
down with a glass; when the
paper blows away. he gets a
new piece and commences
again.
, u About $50 negroes from
Nacogdoches. Shelby and ad
joining counties are now at
Longview in a destitute condi-
ton. They had been led to
suppose that upon their arrival
at Longview they could get
tickets to Kansas at S. each.
A book had been sent to them
and from it they caught the
Kansas fever.
= AT Graham on Monday
night mob Of masked men
made an attack on the jail at
that place with the avowed in
tention Of taking out and lynch
ing Post and Smith the suspec-
ted murderers of McDermott.
The sheriff and deputy success
fully resisted the mob. Good
citizens deplore the attempt.
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