Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-09-12
STATE NEWS.
- Beer on Sunday as usual,
avs the Castroville Ouill.


says the Castroville Quill.
- Gainesville people are get
ting disguised with the Sunday
law.
AT Kerrville home made
bacon is selling at s cents {
pound.
= No election on the consti.
tutional amendment was held il
Colorado county.
: Two men were fatally in.
jured by a boiler explosion al
Fredericksburg.
"A revival meeting has,beer
in progress for the pat two
weeks in Columbus.
- Houston's backbone re-
minds us of that found in the
oyster.-Palestine News.
j. ]. Genslen, one of San
Antonio's Oldest and most pro-
minent physicians is dead.
On Tuesday last two and
a quarter inches of rain fell in
two hours at San Antonio.
= Gonzales is now under
going the circulating agony of
hearing a new brass band prac-
ticing.
= Jim Pace another of the
Pegleg stage robbers was ares
ted in Blanco county and taken
to Austin.
= Between four and FIVE
thousand people attended the
Lampasas campmeeting on Sun
day, August 3Ist. ..s-
- The yield of cotton in
Brazos bottom, lower edge of
Robertson county will be half
a bale to the acre.
= The cornerstone of the
convent of the Sacred Heart was
laid at Corsicana on Monday
with appropriate ceremonies.
- Henry Washington, the
negro who was shot by Dan
Scott and Mary Turner, in
Houston a few days agois dead.
Navasota has a military
company of over fifty members.
Exemption. from road and jury
duty is a wonderful incentive
to zine" the militia.
= Hugo Miller's saloon in
Columbus was burglarized this
week and ST in lawful money
was unlawfully taken and car
red away therefrom.
- A circus agent has been
to Bonham. Since the tax on
circuses has been reduced to
$50 the probability is the state
will be overrun by them.
= Bill Toliver, a negro living
on A. L. Gardner's place, near
Millican, was assassinated in
bed and killed on Monday
night; no clew to the assassin.
The Bastrop Advertiser
Understands" that a greenback
club has been organized in Bas-
trop. Robt. Kerr, colored, was
elected secretary of the club.
Hugh Merrick, one of the
Goodnight gang, convicted of
completely in the Walker rob-
berry, was sentenced to ten years
in the Liberty county district
court.
= The first cotton fire of the
season occurred a day or two
ago near Foruey, on the Texas
and Pacific road; fifty bales in a
box car and nine on a fiat were
burnt.
Recently an unknown
scoundrel entered the pasture
of DR.. N. w. Easton, De Witt
county, and shot and killed two
fine horses belonging to the
doctor.
= On Thursday last an at
tempt was made by four mask
ed men to shoot deputy sheriff
Grove, of Montgomery county,
on the road from Willis to Mont
gomery.
"A Lee county man whose
corn crop is a failure has gath
cred $50 bushels of mesquite
beans for his horses; he says
two bushels of beans are equal
to one of corn.
Two years ago a party died
in Lee county from the effects
Of the bite of a skunk; within
:hree hours after the bite the
patient exhibited all the symp- |
:oms of hydrophobia.
= Mrs. Yates, who was burnt |
% death by a lamp explosion |
1t Maj. PENIS Lampasas camp |
meeting, was a young girl only
sixteen years of age and was
married on the 5th ult.
Jack White, a Houston
policeman, got drunk the other
lay and got soundly whipped |
~ two women, after which he
vas arrested by a constable
He will lose his place.
= The Grimes county Sen
incl says there will not be as
much cotton made in the county |
his year, yet considering the
,rice, farmers will do about as |
veil as last year.
= The Columbus Plaindealer |
card in which one
nan calls another an infamous
lar. The card is introduced
With an editorial note saying, |
we are not responsible for the
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