Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-10-31
STATE NEWS.

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day. 80
Austin expects to realize
$4,000 by the state fair this
week.
-McLennan county has just
finished poor house at a cost
of SIS 20.
-Bonham has a hog law and
the News is now clamoring for
dog law.
Fifty thousand head of
cattle and 10000 sheep are
grazing in Concho county.
: Tyler wants a town clock
and photographer-the latter
could make money there.
= Burhans, Denison news
paper man, denies the truth of
the report that he has been con-
verted.
- The Grimes county green
hackers are going to hold a
national county convention
soon.
Eight hundred dollars has
been subscribed towards build
ing Baptist church at George
town.
-Comanche has less musi-
cal talent than any town of its
size in the state. So says the
Chief.
Col. J. A. Williamson, an
Austin lawyer, has been declar-
ed insane by a jury and sent to
the asylum.
The churches in George
town are all in a flourishing
condition, and have a largely
increased membership.
Several citizens of Column
bus are making preparations to
begin to get ready TO go to the
Sierra Mojada diggings. a'r
The Georgetown Record
thinks trains should be run on
the tap road to ROUND Rock
during the camp meeting.
= Another cargo of "coons,"
seventy-fve in number, from
San Augustine passed through
Marshall the other day en- route
for Kansas.
The Bonham News says
is is going to burst up the Bon
HON courthouse ring atthe next
election and it gives the ring
timely warning.
John Marsh, an escaped
convict from Pamela county,
was arrested at Austin the 9TH
er day while herding cattle near
the fair ground.
The large hand engine at
Bryan has been laid up as unfit
for further use. A better water
supply and new engine are
urgently needed.
- GAINESVILLE has ghost; it
is immense, being fully eight
feet high and havingawful eyes.
At ten o'clock every night it
visits the family of a laborer.
Lewis Spencer killed San
ders with an axe in Brazos bot
tom near the Robertson county
line. Both were negroes and
the trouble was about a woman,
Spencer's wife.
= San Saba has six bell
punches-up to October 24th
47S3 drinks of whiskey and
only 75S of beer had been re-
corded, The San Sabians seem
to have a weakness for whiskey.
According to the George
town Record the "Sazarac" is
the one place in Georgetown,
where pure and fine liquid re-
freshments can be had. The
Record is authority in such
matters.
= Denison is just now I'M
dergoing religious awakening
of considerable magnitude.
Mrs. Bullock is making CONVEX
sions at the Methodist church
and the Baptists are also hav-
ing revival.
= In San Antonio on the
plaza skitish horse got scared
at load of hides and threw his
rider. A police officer then
came along and arrested the
ALLEN rider for riding a wild
horse. 5 e.
= The Bastrop Advertiser
says Bob Morris was halted on
he Lagrange road by two gen.
.lemen armed with Winches-
:ers. They requested his small
;hange-he give it to them
without a murmer.
In Grimes county a num-
ser of negroes have been COM
to jail, having been sur
'ounded by their bondsmen.
The exodus saeason is at hand
md fears that they might dust
:aused their surrender.
= Keno is not correct in
Waco. The other day some
welve or fourteen FUCKERS"
we're arrested. AS usual they
we're nof in the habit OF buck
ng but had just dropped in to
ook at the game and bought a
ard. They will have to pay
lst the same as though they
'ere professionals.
The Corpus Ledger calls
ne attention of the public to a
la idered horse and the Browns
lille Democrat chips in: You
ont suppose policeman can
ford to be a chambermaid in
n equine hospital and loaf
round a saloon all day at the
,me time for 1ftv dollars