Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-30
STATE NEWS.
Waco has a whiskeu .iis.

Waco has whiskey dis
tillery.
| The papers are still advis-
ing farmers to sow turnip seed.
= The roads in the vicinity
of Waco are in a horrible condi-
ton.
= The narrow gauge survey
ors were at Waco looking round
the other day.
: Hon. A. J. Evans made a
Garfield and Arthur speech at
Waco the other day.
AT Dallas G. w. Hynson,
a hotel man, was stabbed three
times in the back by J. Aust.
At Palestine on Friday
night some miscreant fred a
stable; mule was burned to
death.
= There was a sale of town
lots at Kyle, on the Internation-
al. They sold at from 500 to
$3.50.
= A number of English i'm
migrants passed through Dallas
on Monday, en- route to San
Antonio.
On and after October Ist
! the name of the TaylorsviIle
postofice will be changed to
Taylor.
Victoria county has eighty
thousand head Of cattle, being
the second largest stock county
in the state.
AT Graham, Jack Post was
found guilty ofthe murder Of
McDermot; the jury assessed
the death penalty.
= Harrison Thurman and
John Haynes had a stabbing
match at Gainesville. Thur
man was killed.
John Smithwich, aged 10,
picked SIG pounds of cotton
in Bastrop county, one day last
week. He won fifty dollars on
the pick.
1t is estimated that the cot
ton crop Of Bastrop county has
been injured fully twenty per
cent. by the late rains. Picking
has been greatly retarded.
On and after October Ist
the Bastrop restaurant keepers
will charge fifty cents meal
and fling in a cigar Two bits
has been the prevailing tariff.
"A Taylorville dispatch pre- |
diets the election ofCol. Hem
derson to the legislature. The |
colonel Henderson alluded TO, |
is he of the Georgetown Re- |
cord.
Mrs. Kline, the wife Of |
Kline, for the murder Of whom |
Noftsinger was hanged, was in |
Denison the other day and de- |
MES having made the confession !
attributed to her.
= Plano has a society sensa- |
ton. Mrs. Duke, wife Of ]. S. |
Duke, well known and promi-
nent citizen of that place, eIop- |
ed with young man named
James Hycks. /
On Saturday niorning a
difficulty occurred at Eagle |
Lake between DIR. B. C. Jones !
ahd Robert Flowers; the latter |
was shot in the side and dam
gerously wounded.
A number of the property |
owners of Waco have orgsniz-
ed a company and will obtain a |
charter for a railroad from Waco
west. Tie necessary capital
has been subscribed.
= In Travis county politics
is the absorbing topic and on
Saturday at a meeting across
the river from Austin, coIored
speaker went for the white re-
publican leaders without gloves.
i'm Houston the city and
county authorities cannot agree
which should take charge Of
sick and indigentpaupers, mean
while paupers are allowed to lie
around loose and die without
any attention.
= The Waco Telephone
seems to regard it as almostcer-
tain that the burning of the
Mcmahon mansion was the
work ofan incendiary. but it re-
CARDS the catching of him as
very doubtful.
AT Bastrop on Friday two
I3-year old boys attempted to
cross the Colorado in a pine
box. When they were in the
main current their box struck
a snag and broke in two. Both
boys were rescued.
y. G. Tracy and Henry
Cline addressed a greenbaek
mass meeting at Willis last Sat
nrday. The attendance was
small as half the colored people
in town failed to attend. The
party lacks enthusiasm,
= At Waco the other night
-hFee persons dressed in wo-
mems clothes rode Up to a cat
lie pen in East Waco and by
heats forced the men in charge
to open the pen, when they
drove off the cattle.
= On the 27th, immense
;warms of grasshoppers appear
ID at Jacksboro, coming from
he north Az fiu1ac the sim