Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-06-06
STATE NEWS.

predicts a failure of the bell
punch law.
Joe Williams, son of a
we'll known citizen of Paris,
suicidcd by taking laudanum.
= A mammoth cotton seed
oil mill is to be erected at Hous-
ton and the zeAEg7aV is happy.
= Geo. Harris is now on trial
at Austin for the murder of B.
Olenick at that place last sum-
mer.
Orange trees, old enough
to bear, in the vicinity of Vic
toria are loaded with fruit this
year.
: The oat and wheat crop of
Victoria county have turned out
y; much better than was expect
ed.
: In the Hunt case at La
Grange, a change of venue has
been granted to Colorado
county.
: The fraudulent priest has
been to Hampstead. He sue
ceeded in duping a number of
citizens.
: The Jones brothers have
been taken back to Calvert and
jailed. Their trial is set for the
10th inst.
The Meridian BLADE offers
for sale choice lot of loose
fieas, take them as they come on
the range.
= Fourteen negro gamblers
were arrested in Dallas the 9TH
er night-the white gamblers
were not molested.
: Milan Hubby, suspected of
numbering a man named Ora
ham near Cameron, has been
arrested and jailed.
= A fire at Weimar on the
I'd inst destroyed several bust
| mes houses. iucurriuC a total loss
of about $4,000.
= Mr.. Marks Cohen, of
Hampstead, was married on
Sunday last to Miss Julia
Cohen, of Dallas.
At Sherman negro wo-
man was sent to jail for thirty
days, for stealing pillow cases
worth perhaps six bits.
Commanche is going to
have great big fourth Of July
celebration. Gov. Hubbard and
others have been invited.
"A cat fish weighing so
pounds, was caught at the mouth
of the San Marcos. This is a
Gonzales Lnqa,e, fish story.
| - 1t is reported that the cot
ton leaves in the R. r. McDade
neighborhood, Waller county,
are covered with grass-worms.
- Rev. Geore F. Gage, a
Methodist preacher, has been
arrested at Austin, charged.with
embezzling $1,000 gold from a
Mrs. Bishop.
Dave Scott and Bill Rich
went to Mckinney and got
drunk. On the way home Scott
cut Rich's bowels out with a
razor and made his escape.
= Major Penn viii commence
a regular camp-meeting on the
San Gabriel river, opposite DR..
Dinkins' place, twelve miles
west of Rockdale, July goth.
Young Goldstien, of Rock
dale, suspected of incendiary-
ism attempted to blow his brains
out with a pistol at Austin. He
I
will probably die.
| One Matlock, who stole a
horse in Bastrop was overtaken
and arrested in the edge of Bra-
EOS county. He was jailed at
Caldwell.
= Charles Tandrop, a jewell
Ter, formerly of Cincinnati, got
on a spree in Houston and
wound it up by taking about
50 grains of morphine.
Mckinney wants a compel
ing line of raiIroad, the Central
has almost ground her into pow
der. 1t is proposed to connect
with the East Line narrow
gauge.
= The Durham COW owned
by Mr.. William Billings, of
Victoria weighs I44o pounds.
He also has a twelve months
old calf that weighs 600 pounds.
The Bee complains that
Hillsboro needs more merchants
and more goods. If there was
more merchants it might gather
more honey in the way of adver-
tisements.
The Hampstead Rcgiste,
reprobates the habit of boys
carrying six-shooters. It says
''the man who sells, lends or
gives pistol to boy ought to
be severely punished"
= That circular saw which
has so long done duty as a gong
at the City hotel in Hampstead
has been retired-gone to meet
Heterogeneous. A bell has been
substituted in its place.
Col. Pierce submits a prop
osition to the citizens of New
Braunfels to build a branch
road from Marion to that town.