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

Wallace Prairie, Grimes county
is dead.
| Tho Victoria Advocate is
opposed to doing away with the
city charter.
- Round Rocks grecnback-
ers are going to attempt re-
organization.
A 6o-pound cat fish went
up the Trinity nearly to Dallas
and got caught for his pains.
- District court at Bryan
has just closed; ten convictions;
highest punishment fifteen years
Gov. Throckmorton is the
leading counsel for the defense
in the Holt murder case at Den
ton.
- H. Hurlock, of Corsicana,
is charged by the committe on
land frauds with extreme crook
edness.
- The ladies of an aid socie-
ty Austin advertise a mush and
milk supper. Rather a thin
diet, that.
- Rev. John Nicely, aged Is
citizen of Grimes county since
IS4S, recently died at his home
near lola.
-Benhcklin, Tom Green
county, is soon to have a new
and commodious hotel, it will
be 16x4o feet.
- Round Rock wants a mill
tary company. 1t has tried
fire companies, base ball clubs
and brass bands.
- Attempt was made at
Dallas on Sunday night to fire
the Jewish synagogue. No clue
to the incendiary.
- In the vicinity of Mont
gomery sportsmen are having
a fine time killing deer. "The
woods is full of EN-"
- Every town in Texas is
now finding out just how many
drinks it takes to do its inhabi-
tants a given time.
- Railroad box cars a few
ago cost $1,000; they now sell
at $500. Do shippers get any
benefit from the reduction
Kaufman remains the coun-
ty seat of Kaufman county by
a majority of $50 votes. Ter
rel was the competing point.
A stock company is now
being formed in Austin to start
a daily greenback paper. Look
out for it soon, says the Capt
tai.
- About halfa crop of cot
ton will be made in the Flatonia
neighborhood. The top crop
is a total failure; it wouldn't
pay to poison.
- Flatonia, says the Argus,
is now paying more for cotton
than any town on the line of
the railroad. The other towns
are yet to be heard from.
- A number Of our weekly
exchanges complain ola search
to of local news-timber is so
scarce with them that they cant
even make wooden locals.
- The dead body of Dan
German, a railroad laborer, S
years old, was found on the
bank of the bayou in Houston.
He died from want and expo
sure.
- Mrs. Halsell, an estimable
lady of Bonham, while laboriny
under a fit of temporary insan-
ity, jumped into a well IS feet
deep. but was rescued without
injury.
Counterfeit half dollars
are very abundant at Bonham.
The News says they are well
calculated to deceive, but one
quarter lighter than the gen.
uine.
- San Antonio offered a re-
duction of ten per cent on all
city taxes paid between the LIST
and 9th of October, $4,000
was paid in, mostly by large
tax payers.
- The Fort Worth Demo-
GRAFT stakes its reputation as a
prophet that the fortwill remain
the terminus of the T. and P.
railroad until March 1880 and
maybe longer.
Tarrant county has obtain
ed a verdict in the district court
against R. F. Berkeley, ex-coun-
ty treasurer, for nearly $1,000.
Barkely was defaulter and his
securities will have to suffer.
"A young man named Will
lis, who imagined that he was
the handsomest man in Bexar
county, goes to the penitentiary |
for five years for making a |
deadly assault on German cit
zen.
- The biggest part Of the
fourth page of the Dallas Sun
day R.-C. is occupied by a reg
lar poster" ad. of an enterpris-
ing grocery house. which evil
IDENTIFY has no fears of printers
ink.
= Spillers steam saw mill, |
three miles north of Willis, ex-
ploded on Monday morning,
killing a negro and severely
wounding several other men,
some critically; the boiler, en-
CINE and mill are a total wreck.
= Near Mansfield, a farmer
named Joel Heaton went to his
field with his son, aged II, to
drive out cattle that had broken
in; they became separated,
TJeaton mistakinp his son for a