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

graph Office.
- Cotton-pickers are in de-
mand in Gonzales county.
- Austin county gets SOFA
Of the state school fund.
- The Dallas board OF trade
now numbers Is members.
- Caldwell was rather dull
last week :; everybody picking
cotton.
- Cotton and boil worms
have Appeared in force i'll Ira
Wis county.
Major Penn made 272 con-
versions at his campmeeting in
Bell county.
- Farmers in Travis county
are paying S. cents to sI.oo for
picking cotton.
- The International railroad
will be completed to San Mar
cos by the 18TH Of this month.
Merchants at Liberty are
going to try shipping cotton
direct to New Orleans by rail.
Most of the cotton in Aus
tin county has been stripped of
foliage by the ravenous cotton
worm.
Last Monday week a mule
at the Huntsville penitentiary,
was sunstruck, causing it to go
blind.
= The Burnet Bulletin lives
in hopes Of seeing a narrow
gauge railroad built at no very
distant day.
The longest performance..cv-
or hello, ,inthe Tyler opera house
was thecounty convention last
Wednesday.
- Georgetown claims to be
the largest town in Williamson
county. Round Rock is next
in population.
- Six prisoners escaped from
the Coleman jail the other eve
ming. All but two were soon
recaptured.
Rockdale is booming; dur
ing the ten days ending Sep
TENDER cd, Jos bales Of cotton
were received.
- Over in Grimes county
some of the candidates are be-
ginning to look sleepy-dark
lantern meetings.
e. L. Shropshire, chair
man of the 18th judicial district,
declines to call a convention to
nominate judge.
= Cotton worms are repor-
ted in nearly every section of
the state; they will cut the crop
short of the estimates.
"Spifiigator" is the name
ola correspondent of the Nava-
sofa Tablet. He Is probably a
near relative of alligator.
= DR.. Rutter who was ASST
mated in Burleson county re-
Gently, was formerly a citizen
of Williamson county,
Local option was voted on
at Huntsville on Tuesday; the
anti-local optionists won by
majority of ninety-six.
= San Antonions are now
treated to a free concert on
Tuesday and Thursday after
moons by the first infantry band.
Major Penn passed through
Waco the other day en- route to
Rowlet's creek in Collin county
to commence a campmeeting.
"A trusty convict who had
been at the penitentiary but a
few months took French leave
last week-he should have staid
about FIVE years longer.
= J. {. Kearby, greenback
candidate for congress in the
third district has gone west for
the purpose of canvassing. He
expect to encounter local dem
ocratS.
Several cases of CHAMBERS
have occurred recently among
the horses and mules at Fort
Worth; stringent laws to pre-
vent its spread have been adop-
ted by the city council.
= The Bellville Times learns
that the name Of the crossing of
the Santa Fe and International
roads has, at the request of Mr..
Temple, been changed from |
Temple to Milan Junction.
= Georgetown Sun gives the
name of a creek in its county as
'O'Possum." It must have |
2eeu named after an Irishman.
The people living on that creek |
all it possum, emitting the o. !
= All the compositors and
he foreman in the Waco En-
lminer are memheEs of the fire
department., and when the fire
bell rings every man drops his |
stick" and goes to fight the
lanes.
The commissioners court
If Austin county held a special
Meeting on Monday for the pur-
Jose of letting out the contract
or building a bridge across
mill creek, on the Industry and
3renham road.
Mclean, a white convict,
vas shot and killed on DIR.
rhompson's farm, in Walker
county, last week. He had at
to eScane twice beIora