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

| LanplSaS VIII nave tele-
graph line to Bolton by July 25.
= Five more wedding are
soon to come off at Mason.
= Passengers can now travel
from Laredo 20 Galveston in
IS hours.
= A full bloodcd Chinaman
! is among the visitors at Tampa
sas springs.
Round Rock is to have a
gymnasium on the green sward
near the depot.
= Mckinney's public free
.chools have just closed a very
successful session.
= An Austin wool dealer has
shipped 100000 pounds ofwool
the present season.
: Cotton picking soon begin
in the ncighborhood of Bel
mont, Gonzales county.
= Morris, city marshal of
Houston. has been suspended
for malfeasance in office.
= The corn crop of Atasco-
sa county will not be SO great
failure as was anticipated.
= Fourth of July was OBJ
served at Round Rock by the
colored people exclusively.
= Lumber is hauled by wag-
on from Round Rock to Fort
Concho. distance IS5 miles.
-Four prisoners confined in
the Orange Jail, made their IS
cape on the night of the 4th.
- Paris wants cotton facto-
ries and the NoM Texan writes
column and a half to prove it.
= Iron for the Texas and St.
Louis narrow gauge road has
commenced arriving at Texar-
kama.
= Taylorsville sheep raiser
has gone to Vermont to buy
I5OO head of fine sheen for his
rancho.
= DIR. John Hoffman,. aged
II, a citizen of Castroville since
1876, was recently drowned at
that place.
= Kansas fever has broken
out in Texarkana and at Crock
EFT. The white people at both
places say let 'em exodus.
Two horse thieves, J. Z.
Blum and another, were ares
ted at Henderson having in
their possession two fine horses.
The Castrovillc OmH man
has a local of thanks already
"set up" and will slap" it in
the paper as soon as somebody
brings him a bucket of peaches.
= The swollen and decom-
posed remains of a man was
found in an underground cistern
near Paris. Supposed to be
Grover, a farm hand, who suici-
ded.
Myriads OF millers have re-
Gently appeared in Colorado
county. Good success attends
the use of lamps at night IN de-
stroying the miller. Worms have
also appeared; poison is used.
= At Waco the jury in the
case of A. w. Jones, colorcd,
tried as an accomplish in the
murder of Jim Mccain, colored,
returned a verdict of murder in
the first degreee. This is his
second trial and conviction.
= The negro who committed
the outrage on Miss Edwards,
near Lindale, was captured near.
Mineola and identified by his
victim. His body has since
been found badly laceratcd.
He was literally carved to death.
= DIR. Lycurgus Erwin, of
Bryan, was arrested in Austin
on Tuesday, charged with land
crookedness, on a warrant based
on a requisition from the COVER
nor of Illinois. The doctor left
in charge of an officer for Chi
cago.
= At Georgetown on Satur-
day last the lightning was play
ing freaks. 1t destroyed the
telegraph apparatus at George
town, burned two stacks of
wheat two miles from town,
split a number of telegraph
poles and killed horse.
= Miss Maud Crosland, of
Indianola, aged nineteen, beau
titul and accomplished. commit
ted suicide at the house of Mrs.
Noble in Victoria, by blowing
her brains out with navy re-
volver. No cause is assigned
for the rash act. She was at
visiting friends.
: George Gray, an English
man past middle age, a carpen-
ter, living in Waco, on Saturday |
last made a desperate attempt |
to commit suicide; he took ten
cents worth of strychnine and
after two hours finding himself |
still alive he attempted to cut
his throat with a dull knife. Two
doctors were called in and
"coopered" him up. He will
recover.
Bloody Fourth. A Gala
day of Horrorsf' Is the way |
the benson Ncacs heads Il two
column account of the killing of |
three men on that day. Two
of the men were murdered and |
one murderer was killed by the
officers. We have already CIV
IN an account of the murder of
constable helms by a negro
and the killing of the negro.
The third man killed was a
Chickasaw Indian.
= The county assessor of
BeXar county reports the total