Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-05-16
STATE NEWS.


are looking well.
There was a, light frost at
Palestine on the 9Th inst.
- The receipts ofthe Hous-
ton volksfest were S2o74.
Crops in Milan county are
assured since the, recent rains.
l-T There are nov six prison.
ers in the county Jail at Gamer
on slsiiiag adi ~ ,i'7i asEy
= Wheat is being success
fully raised in the neighborhood
of San Antonio. 7i4'9 ~
= An Alligator skin is on
exhibition in Huntsville, meas
uring II feet in length.
Bastrop county sends eight
recruits to the penitentiary-
seven black and one white.
= Curries case for. the muir
der of B. c, Porter has been
set for trial at Marshall, June
Rev. R. E. Mcbride, of
Denison has half a dozen live
centipedes in captivity. Nice
pets.
~ They had a hailstorm last
week at West Point, Fayette
county, in which hailstones, as
large as mans fist, fell. r,s.5
DIR. D. w. Archer, of
Navasota, has purchased the
Crockett Patron and moved
there to to take charge of it.
- The Kansas fever has at
last broken ont in San Antonio,
but as YET does not seem to
have assumed a violent type.
- The Dallas Mai Fest fell
through and was passed, but
the Turn Verein had a jollifca-
ton in the way of picnic.
NJ The Huntsville Item wants
recipe to wake up the people
of that ancient town who are
unmindful of their own interests.
= The stock show at Bastrop
on Saturday, considering the
postponement and the many
disadvantages was grand sue
cess.
= Horse thieves are up and
doing in Austin and vicinity.
They are pushing their business
with a zeal worthy Of a better
cause.
"A convention of CONNER
cial travellers is to meet at,Dal-
las May IS, the object benz to
secure the repeal of the drum
merS tax .,.,y o-..e 80 So.
|, a. At East Dallas two saloons
were burned recently by incen-
diaries and, now the -owners-of
those, left sit up of nights with
shot guns for company. =
- = An Austin was fined
five dollars for keeping a dan
sgerousodoga The court order
ed the dog killed OF sent outof
the city. l. sussicsi tas~o
= Austin is to have a new
passenger depot, but it IS not
the Central railway that is GO
ing to build it. The Interna-
tionaFis the enterprising COM
pany. a1i 3r3' ri 27a re-. 'aa l.
" Gainesville boasts of a
young mans christian associa-
ton, a comet band and a skat-
ing rink. but says not word
about how many saloons it.
takes to supply fluid comfort,
- Waco's big balloon, can't
go up; there's. plenty of gas in
the town, but its not the kind
used in balloons, The ascen-
sion has been postponded for
ten days.
81 Heightened Brown, a par
ipetetic newspaper mau, who
was lately engaged on Kaufl-
man paper is, says the Denison
Meas, on the tramp again His
normal condition is to be on
the tramp.
A seven-year old female
negro was before the recorder
at Austin charged with waiting
dornics" at her neighbors. The
court held that the young lady
was not old enough to be res
pcnsible, and dismissed the
case.
: The Bastrop Ado1asc,
tells ola case brought into the
county court on an appeal from
the magistrates court at Elgin.
The original amount in contro-
very was S5o.SI. The costs to
one of the litigants is already
$500 and to the other about
500. Going to law IS an eX-
persive luxury.