Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-08-15
STATE NEWS.

mail to Cleburn.
Western Texas had glori-
Gus rains last week.
Seasonable rains are repor-
ted in Nothern Texas:
- Parson Veal's case is now
on trial at Waxahachie.
| Victoria county had a rain-
fall Of six inces last week.
The Denison Herald Of
fee is now lighted with gas.
| = Exodus excitement is still
high in Montgomery county.
Texas papers are daily re-
porting the return of Leadville
j pilgrims.
On Friday the 22d Bunk
AXE, the negro william will be
hung at Austin.
= Waller county is to have a
greenback meeting this week at
Fields store.
"Denison Deviltry" is rhe
title of a "pome" in the News
of that lively town.
1t will require only
ten bell punches to supply the
saloons in Victoria.
Col. Leader, an Austin
Newspaper man, has been arrest
ed for forgery and is under trial.
The Colorado Citizen man
has been feasting on roasting
ears raised upon land overflow
ed this year.
= James Draper has found
in the bed of Atascosa creek,
near his place, the jaw bone of
a mastedon.
- Since the recent rains in
Colorado county, planters have
raised their estimate to a bale
to four acres.
= AT Crockett drummers for
rival clothing houses got into
a scrinimage; one put a mansard
roof over the others eye.
Elisha Conway, a black ne
nro. murdered his wife in Dali
las by carving her to death with
a razor. Cause-jealousy.
R. c. Stafford. a promi-
nent attorney of Bastrop has
been arrested for forgery. He
was released on a $1,000 bond.
= The body of Persy Bell,
of Houston, who was drowned
in the bayou while on fishing
excursion, has been recovered.
The Pleasanton Journal man
has just been west on the San
Miguel; he had a splendid time,
game and fish being abundant.
At Bastrop a difficulty oc-
cured between Jos. Gill and
Chas. Tickle. The latter was
severely, perhaps fatally, stab
bed.
= The bar Of Madison coun-
ty is taking unnecessary trouble
in recommending a lawyer for
the new court of errors. They
err.
- Hampstead, up to Satur-
day last, had shipped 100 bales
of new cotton. BRENNAN, up
to the same time had received
over 700 bales.
Two negro women were
killed twenty miles northwest
of Crockett the other day. They
fwere beat to death. Nothing
more is known.
= In Waller county cotton
pickers are getting 50 cents a
hundred for picking cotton. and |
more can be had at that price
than farmers want.
IT. +. Roberts. who is farm
ing six miles from Paris, will
make 40 bushels of corn to the |
acre and a bale of cotton to ev-
ny acre on his place.
= In Comanche the Sunday |
law is strictly observed; the
Chief has been serenaded and
now wants the telegraph line
extended from Bolton.
- The Colorado river is low
er at Columbus than it has
been for years. Some of the
streams in Colorado
county are nearly dry.
Ben F. Holman, while in
toxicated, shot and killed a
Mexican near Weimar. The
shooting was done of pure wan
tonness. Holman escaped.
= Charley Colbert, a respect
ed resident of the territory, who
was wounded in Denison by the
negro desperate that murdered
constable helms, died the other
day.
- The mysterious appear
ance ofa scissors grinder on the
Of Victoria created an
excitement nearly as great as
would the arrival OF a genuine
circus.
Small boys at Gonzales
are making small fortunes by
catching small turtles. The
small turtles are sold to cistern
owners and put in cisterns to
destroy wiggle-tails.
Bryan, in order to be fully
up with the times, has a regu-
Iarly organized gun club with
all the latest improved para
ohernalia. The ladies attend
the match shootings.
= Mining has ceased in
Llano county, except Tegener i
4 Muller, and they keep their +,
own counsel. Their smelling
fires are kept burning. but no /
,ne knows the result.
In Fredericksburg the Sun
lay law was freely discussed I
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