Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-08-22
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
= The total assessment of
Bosque county is sI,59I,S57.
- Prof. McNeesc, of Bren-
ham, is mind reading at Waco.
- The Round Rock Head
light wants the town hogs abol-
ished.
= The assessed value of
property in Waller county is
sI,65I,ooI.
- Last Monday week Con-
zales county had s7,79I.47 cash
in her treasury.
Victoria votes on the ques-
oil taking charge of the free
schools on the 2S;h inst.
- Bell county has provided
a poor farm and will soon re-
move all her paupers to it.
- The law was openly viola
ted in Victoria on Sunday
two boys traded jack-knives.
= Waller county scrip is
worth only thirty-fve cents on
the dollar and is dull sale at
that.
- The Flatonia Argus man
is blessed by living in country
where the hunters give HIM ven
ison hams.
- The Brazos Pilot thinks
the top crop of cotton in the
fall rarely amounts to anything
worth mentioning.
- The Gonzales Inquirer of
fers TO print as many prohibition
tickets as may be wanted "f.ee
gratis for nothing"
= In Victoria county the
corn crop will average thirty
bushels and cotton is generally
better than last year.
Gonzales county has had
fine rains and unless the worm"
intervenes the prospects for
fall crop Of cotton are good.
= Cotton has been arriving
at Hampstead very freely and
times are getting brisk. No
signs of the one-legged railway.
- The Cuero Bulletin gives
an extended history Of artesian
wells and concludes that they
can be made available in wes-
tern Texas.
= In San Antonio if a man
does not pay his hack bill he is
charged with "disorderly con-
duct" and accordingly fined and
imprisoned.
= The Mason News-Item Of
last week reports fine rains in
the apper counties and a much
more cheerful outlook for stock
men and farmers.
= Miss Laura Marsh, whose
death by suicide at Marshall
has been extensively published,
did not commit suicide, but
shot herself accidentally.
Joseph Brumley, for TWEEN.
ty years a peaceful citizen of
Erath county, has been ares
ted for numbering a man in
Hunt county Fl years ago.
"A Fort Bend county pan,
whose communication the
local paper refused to. publish,
gets a hearing in the Telegram
in opposition to the exodus.
= AT Mason the steam -four
ing mills are paying sI.2s
bushel for all the wheat they
can get. This is as good a
price as can be obtained in the
state.
- The trial of Capt J. P. Par
ker and his son Henry, charged
with murder was commenced
at Fairfield last week. About
seventy-hve witnesses were sum
moned.
- Bonham's first bale caus-
ed great excitement: The Meas
devotes a column and a half to
it, and the produced..of chat first
bale pocketed SIo2.25 in lawful
money.
= The Burgheim rape case
at Columbus has terminated by
the justice deciding that the de-
PENDANT is not entitled to bail.
Habeas corpus has been ap-
pliedfor.
= The walking craze having
died out nearly all over the
state, has just broken out at
Pleasanton. A couple of young
bloods of that town walked to
San Antonio.
= There is to be a change in
the postoffice at San Antonio.
Mrs. Norris, who has held the
office for some time has resign
ed and applications for the va
cancy are numerous.
A correspondent of the
Bolton Journal writing from
Brownwood says the latest dis
covery is petroleum. The sill
yer mine has proved to be a
composition of gas and silver,
principally gas.
Comanche county votes
on local option September 2.
The Chief opposes the law say
ing it will only serve to put the
liquor traffic in the hands of I'M
scrupulous men, and not at all
serve 10 stop it.
- The Cuero Bulletin has
received a communication enti-
tied the "Foolkiller," but it de-
clines to publish it on the