Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-04
STATE NEWS.
-Atascosa county has a wool

Bolton booms, dwelling |
houses are in active demand. |
There was a heavy frost at \
Mckinney on Monday morn |
ing.
-Bonham expects to handle
10000 bales of cotton this sea-
son.
AS high as s2.75 bushel
for pecans has been paid in San
Antonio.
Victoria county has a large
crop of ribbon cane and needs
a sugar mill.
- People in Collin county
have been busy planting wheat
and picking cotton.
Seventy thousand election
tickets were printed at the Vic
toria Advocate Office.
j. B. Olive, ST., an old and
respected citizen of Bastrop
county died last Saturday.
There is a cotton blockade
at Mexia, over 1000 bales are
on hand awaiting shipment.
-Blandford, who is charged
with embezzling fudes at Aus
tin, is said to have been cap
tured.
Fifteen conversions were
made at the protracted meeting
of the Methodist church at
Bonham.
The stock OLA. B. Hartyn,
jr., dealer in general merchan-
disc at Jewett, was seized by
the sheriff.
-Faunin county has a court
house ring or clique, and for
years the Bonham News has
been fighting it.
The editor of the Gonzales
Inquirer overworked himself
and had to stop for a day or two
to recuperate.
in Victoria county, Skid
more, the itinerant orator, and
Billings, the solid gas bag, were
Legislative candidates.
"A number Of Swedish i'm
migrants arrived at San Anto-
MO last week, and will seek en-
ployment on farms.
AT Dallas the campaign
closed on Saturday night with
speaking by republicans and
greenbackers.
Ben B. Davis, the Calves
ton shipping clerk who took
morphine with suicidal intent,
died on Tuesday night.
Jessie Cumerladder, a Ger
man laborer at a gin near Rich
land, fell from a platform eight
feet high, killing himself.
Bells variety show at Aus
tin is now run as a legitimate
theater. He pays license and
charges an admission fee.
Sugar cane is plenty in
Waco, and the white folks take
to it as kindly as the colored
people do to watermelons.
r. T. Jennings, of the Mar
shall Messenger, will be tried
on the 18th of December for
killing Hon. w. S. Coleman.
Louis Trevina was shot
and killed in Uvalde by another
Mexican. Cause, politics, a
candidate and campaign whisky.
Waco is having a sort of
wood famine, the price of that
necessary article having gone
up to FIVE or six dollars a cord.
One Williams, a chronic
mover, who is said-to have been
moving for about forty years,
has bought land and settled in
Erath county.
Fifty bales of cotton were
burned at Denison on the Ist
inst. They had came in on the
cars of the M. K. and I. road
from Greenville.
AN immense iron cylinder,
called rooster, weighing 6,ooo
pounds, has been taken to
Llano county to be used in
smelling copper.
Missouri Noah, a tan col
ored woman living in Waco,
makes periodical attempts at
suicide, and thereby acquires
local notoriety.
"A Mexican, Reynolds Sa-
liz, walked into an office in San
Antonio and taking a pistol that
was hanging on the wall he shot
and killed himself.
- The prospective yield of |
sugar in the SANDY Point neigh |
borhood, Brazoria county, is |
1860 hogsheads and about 5000 |
barrels of nlolasses.
The canvass has been a |
regular bonanza for the livery
stable men throughout the state. |
Candidateshave been very busy |
riding day and night.
-"Hizzoner" is the name
bestowed by the Sherman
Chronicle upon the recorder of
that city. Hizzoner tries all
the DRINKS and downs, peace
distnrbers, &c.
Little Frank Leeper, aged |
six, living near Bosqueville, had
up to the 27th ult., picked 2,oo5
pounds of cotton. He is a good |
little picker and is said to be
fat and hearty.