Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-12-16
STATE NEWS.

Rent houses are scarce in
BsllvIlle.
Cotton receipts at Caldwell
gave been quite liberal and
prices good.
The Pilot says Bryan wants
another railroad and that rail-
road talk, is rife.
- Twelve divorce suits have
lately been filed in the district
court at Bellville.
Sneak thieves are operating
in Sherman. Almost every night
houses are robbed.
Damage to crops in Austin
county by the late rains is not
as bad as was supposed.
- Gonzales is now a city
and the city ordinances are duly
published in the Inquirer.
Col. James B. Sweet, for
many years 4 prominent citi-
zen of San Antonio is dead.
-Denison is to have a new
ice factory with a capacity of
10000 pounds OF ice per day.
Columbus had three mar
row escapes from fires last
week. Defective hues was the
cause.
= Bastrop is lucky in the
way of wood. The highest price
during the freeze was $3.50 a
cord.
building is the order of the
day at Caldwell; the only diff
Guilty is in procuring lumber
enough.
- Sallie Ollinger, aged thir-
teen, living near Plano, was
burnt to death by her clothes
taking fire.
Caldwell will, if the Regis
ter is not mistaken, double its
population within the next eigh-
teen months.
= In San Antonio local
competition in the dry hide bus
mess run the price up to Is to
10 cents pound.
= Jasper county farmers Of
fer to deliver syrup of the new
crop at fifty cents a gallon but
find no sale for it.
= After two months of dust
and rain a Whit of dust is quite
agreeable remarks the local on
the Denison Herald:
= Bastrop is now troubled
with pistol shooters at night.
The authorities can't find out
who the shooters are.
II Nc work has been done
on the artesian well at Calves
ton. The contractors seem to
have abandoned the work.
-Brazos county has organ
lied an immigration society by
the election of officers and the
adoption of a constitution.
Already three candidates
for mayorare before the people
of San Antonio and many more
precincts are to hear from.
e. A. Sturges was elected
mayor and the full democrtic
ticket for city officials was cleo
ted at Waco on Monday last.
With the fine weather roads
are improving in Colorado coun-
ty and farmers have resumed
work in gathering their crops.
Colorado Citizen The case
of the state VS.. Monroe Harrison
has for the fourth time been re-
versed and sent back for a new
trial.
Brooks, the man who mys-
teriously disappeared in McLen-
nan county has turned up; he
had been on trip to Hamilton
county.
= Eleven candidates have
announced for the office of
county collector of Brazos coun-
ty, since the death of the treas
urer elect.
= Bill Jacobs, a repulsive
and very black negro, was sent
up for FIVE years from Jefferson
for rape on white girl aged
fifteen years.
A Round Rock special to
the Galveston News makes the
assertion that Williamson coun-
ty will average a bale of cotton
to the acre this season.
= 4Dastrop county farmer
who was waiting for a good
frost before digging his pota-
toes, lost hundred and fifty
bushels by the late freeze.
"A negro convict, jumping
from car to car on the train at
Eagle Lake, fell between them
and lest his head before the en-
gineer knew he was on the
track.
The county commissioners
of Bexar county have abolished
the contract system of keeping
the county paupers and have
elected a superintendent of the
poor farm.
= At Austin a number of
colored people were arrested for
creating a disturbance at a col
ored ball; strange to say every
one of the disordly darkeys
,vere fined