Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-02
STATE NEWS.

at IS cents a bushel.
-Corsicana has already ship
ped 800 bales of new cotton.
- Georgetown is to have
cash cotton buyers this season.
- Boil worms are doing con-
siderable damage in Smith coun
ty.
A Hancock and Shepard
club was organized at Deanvillc
last week. "
Waco expects to handle
O., 900 bales of cotton the COM
ing season.
Jefferson is about to cx-
perience another boom, says
the Democrat.
- The wife of DR.. A. r. Kill
patrick, of Navasota, died last
Saturday night.
- Cotton is beginning to roll
into Bastrop and flush times
will soon follow.
- Cotton in Burleson coun-
ty is opening rapidly, but hands
to pick it are scarce.
up to last Saturday Hemp
stead had shipped only about
/ two hundred bales OF cotton.
- The Methodist campmeet-
ing at Sherman made SO con-
versions and added 70 to the
church.
- Pat Burke was shot and
killed by Nose Miller, at Nor
gan, on Tuesday. No plrticu-
lars given.
-Brazoria is now within thir-
ty miles OF the telegraph wires
and proposition is on foot to
build a line.
- There is vast amount of
sickness in Butleson county and
the doctors are kept busy day
and night.
In Georgetown the sa-
looms all close at IL o'clock at
nlght-there is a city ordinance
to that effect.
- Catterpillars and boil
worms have appeared in various
portions Of Bastrop county
damage light as yet.
- Rev. o. o. Fisher, one of
the oldest Methodist preachers
in the country, died at Austin
on Saturday afternoon.
On the Ist Of October a
stage. will run from San Marcos
to San Antonio carrying the In
ternational passengers.
= Capt. w. H. Maltby, of
the Corpus Christi Free Press,
is dead. He was an Ohio man
and came to Texas in 1859.
- The total assessment of
Bastrop county for this year is
S2,SI7,457, of which the value
of town lots in Bastrop is $780,
$50.
= A negro boy who was
snake bitten at Harrisburg three
weeks ago, has been removed
to Houston to have his arm am
putated.
= D. w. Phillips, one of the
leading greenbackers of Lam
pasas county, has withdrawn
from the party and will vote for
Hancock.
= Joe c. Kindred, of Column
bus, has been nominated for sem
ator for the 5oth district COM
posed of the counties of Colora-
do and Lavacca.
- The Burnet Bulletin was
lately complimented with a
scorpion-lizard ID inches long
and very much resembling a
young alligator.
e. Fay, arrested in Lead
vile on a charge of forgery and
who has for some time been in
jail at Austin, went to Bolton
last week and was released on
$4,000 bond.
: The Giddings Rural Texan
says it wants 5000 subscribers
by the last day of June 1851
We are afraid he will continue
to want long after that time.
= DR.. B. w. Bristow,pof Fla.
tonia, contemplates entering
upon fast of fifty consecutive
days. The fasting business is
becoming stale and unprofta-
bic.
"A great big barbecue is to
be gotten up at or near Bastrop
on the 10th inst, Roberts, Shep-
ard, Jones, Savers, Hannah
and other orators have been in
vited.
= The Waco Examiner has
received, from a farmer near
Perry, a stalk of cotton seven
feet high and seven feet across
from branch to branch. Itcon-.
tains III full grown bolls.
- Galveston county's DEM
ocratic executive committee
seem to have great difficulty in
procuring a quorum at called
meetings. The county conven-
ton question is still unsettled. |
- Col. Coopwood, a prom
inent lawyer of Austin, while
getting out of his buggy at |
Georgetown. accidentally shot
himself in the side and shoulder.
He will probably lose his arm,