Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-05-09
STATE NEWS.

- In San Antonio they have
ripe figs and roasting ears.
The taxpayers Of Bonham
are opposed to the city taking
charge of her public schools.
- Since the recent rains the
price Of corn in San Antonio
has declined from 81, to Is cents.
- On Monday last a severe
hail storm visited Williamson
county, damaging wheat and
corn considerable.
The local editors of the
! Denison H1aM and the Nf7oS
amusc themselves by firing
squibs at each other.
- The Kansas fever has at
last broken ont in San Antonio,
but as yet does not seem to
have assumed a violent type.
- Rev. A. H. Walker has
twenty-five acres of wheat near
Gonzales. The quality is. ex-
cellent and the yield will be
good.
-Castleman's barn, on the
Weems farm, Travis county was
blown down by the storm
on Monday last. Loss about
$1,000.
= Local option was voted on
in the Caldwell beat of Burleson
county on Saturday last. The
advocates of the wet" ticket
were quite active.
- There has been six deaths
at the state lunatic aylum since
DR.. Wallace retired. The States
man thinks at this rate the pa
tients will soon be disposed of.
- The stock show at Bas-
trop, which was to have taken
place on the 251h ult., on ac-
count of the rain was postponed
to next Saturday, the 10th inst.
= Reports from Palestine.
Waco and Dallas say much
damage was done to crops by
Monday nights storm which
seems to have been quite gen.
eral.
On Monday night there
was quite a severe thunder storm
at Galveston. A house at the
foot of Bath avenue was struck
by lightning but not much
damaged.
= Six stout. healthy, able
bodied men of Bonham spent
three days in fishing on Red riv-
err; they caught three pounds of
fish and about the same amount
of small game, mostly ticks.
During the thunder storm
at Waco on Monday, a man
named Smith on the way home
when two miles east of town
was struck by lightning and
himself and twohorses were
killed.
- Advice from southeastern
Kansas says about 1000 men
have gone into the Indian ter
ritory within the past week.
Also that rich silver mines have
been discovered just south of the
Kansas line.
- At the recent term of the
Gonzales district court there
was twenty-one felony cases
tried, resulting in thirteen con-
victions. One hundred and sew
enty-nine indictments are pend
ing on the docket.
- Finch. the jailer, killed at
Marlin by marshal Hemphill, is
characterized by the Ball as a
drunken rowdy and the sheriff
is severely censured for en-
ploying such deputy. Hemp
hill was acquitted.
- Flatonia and Schulenberg
on the Sunset route, are both
towns of considerable impor-
lance, yetthe railroad mandates
do not think it worth while for
them to put depots up for the
accommodation of passengers.
- S. G. Hemphill, city mar
shall of Marlin, was before Judge
Alexander on habeas corpns for
killing one Finch, jailer at Mar
lin. The particulars of the Kill
ling have already been given.
Hemphill was discharged.
= A. G. Steele, who killed
McMichael at Millican, on Sat-
urday last went into that town
on Wednesday and voluntarily
surrendered himself; had a pre-
liminary examination and was
released on bonds of $4,000.
= In 1869 Oltorf of the Mar
lin Ball was "devi" in the Office
of the Falls county Pioneer, es-
tablished that year. That pa
per died some years ago and its
devil is now proprietor of a
live and prosperous paper.