Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-11-28
STATE NEWS

STATE NEWS
- Comanche has the railroad
fever bad.
- Sherman is to have cot
ton seed oil factory.
= Williamson county has
$3.50 in its treasury.
- At Austin deficiency war
rants are quoted at 81 I-2.
= Waco expects to ship So,-
900 bales Of cotton this season.
A $4,000 Methodist
church is soon to be erected at
Dallas,
- On Friday robbers reliev-
ed a deputy sheriff of Travis
county Of Si6o.
- The Methodist Episcopal
conference in session at Deni-
son have adjourned.
Texas has over 100000
children between the ages of
eight and fourteen years.
- 1t is said the interest on
the state debt amounts to near
ly half a million annually.
The Grand Lodge of Tex
as Masons will convene at
Houston on the nth of une.
- The new compress at Jeff
erson has handled upwards of
10000 bales of cotton this sea-
son.
- Three vessels cleared the
port of Galveston last Saturday
for Europe with Ia,43o bales of
cotton.
AN organized band Of
horse thieves are doing a good
business in the vicinity of Cor
sicana.
- Dick futile, a supposed
robber. resisted a squad of ram
gers in Travis county; and was
shot dead.
- The freight depot of the
Central railway at Waco has
been burglarized and sIo65 in
cash stolen.
"A long train of cars, load
ed with railroad iron for the
Santa Fe road, left Galveston
on Monday morning.
- The Galveston Civilian
says the old fire department will
be disbanded and la paid depart
ment organized in its stead.
= Capt. Lee Hall is work
ing up things pretty lively on
the frontier; he is a terror to
thieves, desperades and muir
derers.
= At Austin Steve McKiu-
ney was found guilty of muir
der in the second degree and
given eleven years in the peni-
tertiary.
Col. Will Lambert, former
ly of Houston, has succeeded
in tracing up his claim to a leg
acy in Scotland, which he will
visit soon.
- The title to the town of
Longview has been decided in
favor of the defendants on de-
murrer, has been reversed by
the supreme court.
- A rumor is current that
the State, that is, the alcalde,
has employed spies to watch
the bar keepers and that they
are now at work.
= The new faculty have ia
ken charge of the state Agri-
cultural and Mechanical Col
lege. Twenty cadets have left
the institute in consequence.
= Mrs. Shepherd, the wife of
M, R. Shepherd, living near
Greenwood, on Red River, last
week gave birth to triplets. two
boys and girl.
= Emma Coghill. an insane
woman, murdered her two chill
dren aged eighteen months and
three years, in the hospital at
Corpus Christi, by strangula-
ton.
The GAINESVILLE Times
hears that there are a great many
counterfeit half-dollars of the is
sue of 1873 in circulation along
the north border Of Red River
county.
Constable Brooks. Of Hen
-eitta, was sho. and killed by
posse of COW boys in a drunken
spree on the 24th inst. Four
Of the murderers were arrested
and jailed.
= Johr Dickerson, convicted
Of theft of cattle and sentenced
% three years in the peniten-
.iary, died in the Comanche
all on the night of the goth
nst., with typhoid fever.
= Rev. J. J. Clemens gave a
thanksgiving dinner to. the
Houston newsboYs-newsboys
Are proverbial for having good |
lppetites and they doubtless
the dinner hugely.
II At the sale of lots at the
lew town of Whitney on the
extension of the Central, on the
18th inst. over 100000 worth
Of town lots. we're sold and
strange to say a large majority |
IF the buyers were Waco men.
LoNGEvITY.-It is quite evil
lent that in Christian lands, |
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