Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-11-07
STATE NEWS

A bank at Paris the other
cashed draft for S52, 900.
The total assessment Of
Grimes county for 1879 is S2,-
1864.
- Business in Flatonia was
never so good as it has been for
the past week, so says the Ar
gus.
- The Central and Mont
gomery railroad is now graded
to Montgomery and is waiting
for iron.
- The Flatonia Argus apol-
ogizes fer short reading matter
on account of the long circus
advertisement.
= The Lampasas Dispatch
7 Of last week hasn't a word to
say about the gold diggings in
its neck of the woods.
A refractory penitentiary
convict was killed by a guard
whom he was resisting at Dun
laws sugar mill, near Sugar
land.
- Mollie Ives, a fourteen
year old girl living at Oakville,
Live Oak county, suicided re-
Gently by taking strychnine.
No cause assigned.
!, = Samuel H. Belts, a citi-
zen of Texas for nearly thirty
years, died at his home in Wal
Ter county the other day at age
of SO years.
- The Gonzales Inquirer has
received an application from a
young lady who wants to learn
the art of type setting and
wants her to come.
The Holiness campmeet-
ing at Corsicana is over and
gone; Haynes is in Brooklyn and
Cofsicana expects to have peace
and quiet for awhile.
Two very small negro chill
dren were lost at the circus in
Waco on Saturday, were found
on Monday 20 miles below Wa
CO wandering along the road.
= On Monday night Nava-
sofa had a very destructive fire;
the total loss is upwards of $780,
600. Wilson & Howell and
August Muller are the principal
losers.
"A San Antonio man has a
jack-knife that is venerable. 1t
was carried by a soldier in the
revolutionary war and is now
carefully preserved az an heir
loom.
= Brownsville rendered con-
gresham Epson an ovation up
on the occasion of his recent
visit to that place. The Demo-
GRAFT devotes FIVE columns to an
account of it.
The accidental shooting
of a negro boy at Round Top
is thus condensed by an ex-
change: "Big niger shot a lit
tie niger. Didn't know the
gun was loaded"
= A large acreage of wheat
has been sown in Lamar county
this season. 1t is also reported
to be dying out from drouth.
The North Texan says large
quantities of -four comes to the
city by almost every train.
The negro, Frank Porter,
who murdered policeman John
son at Denison was captured
Sunday, and is now in jail at
Sherman. Threats of lynching
were freely made, but not exc
cuted.
= Don Antonio Menchaca,
one of the oldest citizens of San
Antonio, is dead. He was
native of that city and was about
90 years of age, though he only
claimed to be 80. He lived i'll
San Antonio all his life.
= At Paris on Monday last
the jury returned a verdict of
guilty and ninety-nine years in
the penitentiary in the case of
A. B. Fisher charged with be-
ing an accomplish in the muir
der of J. ]. Wheeler.
= Russell Kingsbury, pub
lie weigher at Waco. and the
keeper of a cotton yard, is in
hot water. He sold ten bales
of cotton that belonged to 9TH
er parties. He is a talented
young man of good family and
has the reputation of being fast.
The coroners jury at Col
umbus in the case of the two
negroes lately found hung near
there, say they were killed by
John Denly, Frank Wright and
Dave Johnson, colored, and
Warren Stafford white. The
examination was exhaustive and
lasted several days.
-Col.W. L. Booth, of Hemp
stead, was reelected president
of the Texas Spiritualist and
liberal association. The Cour-
ier says Houston, Beaumont,
Marlin, Brennan and many 9TH
er interior towns were well rep
resented. The convention adj
journed on Sunday.
Monday night four robbers
were captured near Manor, three
of them are identified as Poe,
Cain and Glasscock. On Sun
day evening they masked and
robbed fifteen persons between
Manor and Austin, as they were
coming from the fair. They had
five stolen horses in their pos
session.
= Rockdale Messenger: A
few weeks ago Mr.. Rob't Green,