Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-05-30
STATE NEWS.

POpuiatiOi-
= Crops in Milan county are
reported as splendid.
= Marshall is to have a club
room, reading room and Ii
brary.
= Fort Bend county has cot
ton bolls as large as pigeon
eggs.
= A car load of new wheat
has been shipped from Ennis to
Galveston.
= In the recent 4S hours
walk at Dallas, Davis made q
miles and Edgas. II.
: John Angel, who was
shot by Wilkeson at Marshall
! the other day, is dead.
Gonzales is about to or
ganize a base ball club and re-
'organize is brass band:
= Denison has bug hunter,
he occupies his leisure time in
catching every bug he can find.
= The ladies of Hampstead
are soliciting funds for improv-
ing the cemetery at that PLACID.
The trial of theJoneses and
Stearns for the murder of Morse,
is set for June 10th at Cal
vert
= Houston will soon have
two theaters or, as it is now
fashionable to call them. opera
houses.
The Bonham Meas man
consoles himself with having
heard of roasting ears this
season.
= Corsicana has had $500
blaze the other night-the dwell
lidg of Mr.. Chamberlain was
cremated.
= Work is to be resumed at
once on the Weatherford extern
sion of the Texas and Pacific
railroad.
: There is Is felony cases
on the criminal docket of the
district court of Harrison
county.
= Houston isjust now prid-
ing itself on the size of its cab
bage heads, the last one shown
weighed is pounds.
= Leonard Burns, charged
with the murder OF Mack ZHpp,
was tried at Lagrange on We'd
nesday and acquitted.
-Lepp's smoke house, a few
miles from Hampstead, was en-
tered by hungry cusses who
carrivd off a lot of meat.
= August Erps, desperate
and horse thief was killed by
rangers uear Fort Griffin. He
didn't want to be arrested.
- The trial of Jas. D. Hunt,
charged with the murder or
Capt. Killuogh was set for trial
at lagrange on the 2oth
inst.
= The cotton buyers of Nc
Kinney having no cotton to buy
at home have turned their at
tention to specializing in "fu-
lures"
Laredo is a beautiful place
for a summer residence. The
local paper boasts that the Their
mometer was at ITO degrees in
the shade.
Up to Saturday evening
S27,34S Of the $1,000 required
of McLennan county for the
new railroad had been sub
scribed.
The local editor ofthe Nc
Kinney Advoeate hasjust walked
up from a protracted sleep, and
remarkes, Files have put in an
appearance"
Lamar county's poor farm
cost s2oS "a for the quarter
ending April Ist. This is much
cheaper than the system of al
lowance in cash.
Work on the St. Louis and
Texas and St. Louis narrow
guage will begin at Texarkana
June Ist and the road finished
Tyler by Oct, Ist.
"A Tyler negro made an
attempt to kill another negro by
shooting him in the head. The
bullet had no more effect than it
would on a solid cannon ball.
= The mokes an Waco, says
a correspondent of the Mezos,
are opposed to the Kansas exc
dus. At a meeting the other
night the subject was vetoed,
Laredo, like most Spanish
American towns, is infected with
dogs. The La,edos contains a
complaint about dogs in Span
ish and a rejoinder in English.
= DEGRAFFENRIED, a horse
thief, resisted arrest near Waco,
drawing two pistols and 6reing
several shots; he in turn was
fired upon, wounded and cap
tured.
Lee Ting, a Chinese wash
ee of Houston has procured a
license to marry a Miss Mary
Wilkins. The wedding is to
come off on Saturday next in
American style.
= The silver excitement at
Brentwood is said to have
been gotten up expressly for
the purpose of advertising