Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-06-27
STATE NEWS.

papers IN Texas.
Denison will have a fourth
of July celebration.
Wool is worth 81 cents per
pound at Paris, Texas,
- Another walking match is
now in progress at Dallas.
- The Denison gun club Of
fers IS cents each for pigeons.
- Lockhart is being shaken
up by professor named Shook.
The Gonzales tannery is
turning out good quality of
leather.
- Local option was defeated
in Gonzales county by small
majority.
- The Houston flour mills
are now running regularly on
new wheat.
- number of Leadville
Adventures are quietly getting
back to Sherman.
- A soaking rain fell at
Sherman on the 24th instant.
Crops are booming.
- There are between thirty
FIVE and forty printers in Waco
out of employment.
= Cooke county has 2S6S
children between the ages of
eight and fourteen.
= The Falls county darkies
have the Liberia fever, they can
see nothing in Kansas for them.
= Sherman's military COM
pany has disbanded until fall.
They can't stand the hot wealth
er.
Work will soon commence
on the Santa Fe railway below
Richmond. Work has begun
all along the line:
= The crops from Denison
to Dallas are the best in the
state. Corn is made; cotton is
vigorous and clean.
"A colored tramp while try
ing to beat his way on the Cen
trail railroad between Navasota
and Millican fell between the
cars and was killed.
= In spite of the Kansas
movement the colored element
have taken to tramping. A col
ored tramp made his appearance
in Bryan the other day.
-Skunks are very plentiful
and annoying in the town of San
Diego. They get under the
floors of the dwellings and prove
an intolerable nuisance.
People in San Marcos don't
want baths in their houses.
They say the old way of wash
ing occasionally in the beautiful
river is good enough for them.
In the limestone formation
of Sarco creek, Goliad county,
the tooth of a mastodon was dug
up the other day and presented
to the editor of the Guard.
= Kiln-dried corn meal is
selling in Gonzales at sI.25 per
bushel,-there being no home
made meal in the market on ac-
count of the great scarcity of
corn.
AT least one thing has been
secured in Brown county.
whether they have metal there
or not; the prospectors have
killed the snakes and prairie
dogs.
= Keno is again the correct
thing in Denison, but if a chap
don't keno he cusses, which is,
perhaps, the next best thing he
can do under such adverse Cir
cumstances.
I'm the case of Austin Sims,
at Waco, verdict has been rem
dered of guilty of murder in the
second degree, and punishment
assessed ae thirty-hve years in
the penitentiary.
j. R. Looney, a lunatic,
who has succeeded in gaining
considerable newspaper notorie-
ty in eastearn Texas, has sue
eeeded in getting himself ares
ted at Montgomery.
= The vicinity of Griffin was
visited by a fearful rain on the
goth inst, More than eight
inches of rain fell Collins creek
overlooked and seven persons
in all were drowned.
"A Martha Washington tea
party will be given at the resi-
dence of DR.. Jones in Gonzales,
on the evening of the fourth of
July, in which ladies and gen.
tlemen are to appear in cos
tunes.
= Abner Waleer, who was
convicted of the murder of Geo.
Heaton in Falls county, and ap-
pealed to a higher court, is to
be hung, the supreme coort sus-
tanning the verdict in the lower
court.
= The new dredge boat for
Corpus Christi harbor has at last
arrived at its destination, and |
now work will be commenced |
at dredging out a channel for
crafts of greater draft than row
boat.
= Henry Quarles now claims
that he was insane when he kill
ed his wife. His insanity should,
perhaps, be full excuse for his
crime and he be turned loose
to marry and murder another
woman.
In Cass county a little girl
Is or 4 years old) of Mr.. 10.
Roundtree's, in her innocent
amusement, put sand into the