Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-07-22
STATE NEWS.

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- Navasota precinct endor.
ses Roberts.
- Bellville's military compa-
ny is played out.
! Caldwell is soon to have d
brick store house.
Columbus now has a Ger
man singing society.
There are no political rings
or combinations in Georgetown
AT Corsicana the precinct
meeting refused to endorse Ro-
berts.
The Denison Herald speaks
Of a neighbor local as an imbi-
Gle.
Tho democracy of Mata-
gorda county is unanimous for
Roberts.
- Caldwell now has a mill
tary company, the "Burleson
Guards"
- Falls county sends an I'M
instructed delegation to the
state convention.
"A small negro in Waco was
up before the recorder for steal
ing wetermelons.
Mr.. Watson who lives two
miles from McDade began pick
ing cotton last week.
- McLennan county's CO.
nundrum Where are cotton
pickers to come from F?
Henry Price, of Uvalda
county, has been arrested for
passing counterfeit money.
Negroes ought to be hap
Ply at Flatonia- they have 50
and 90 pound watermelons.
Cooke county will go solid
for Wellborn for Congress, and
for anybody to beat Roberts.
]. c. Mexican, one of the first
settlers of Caldwell county, died
recently at the age of So years.
-Denison has a prospect of
having a German-English re-
publican paper started in the
fall.
Gonzales county's Oldest
negro is a woman, aged liz.
The Oldest white person is only
S..
The NIineola Flag has de-
serted the democratic ranks and
joined itself to the greenback
cause.
The greenbackers had a
"hurrah" at Fort Worth on
Monday. Wash Jones was
char"
j. NJ. Dickerson, colored,
living near Bastrop had new
corn ground into meal on the
10th of July.
The case of the state VS..
Reuben and Williford Loggins
is set for Wednesday, the 2Ist,
at Bellyille.
Jackson county has a pop
ulation of 27II and in addition
has an excellent county paper
the Clarion.
- We confidently expect the
first train of the Santa Fe rail-
road by Christmas day, says the
Bolton Journal.
- The county democratic
convention of Brazoria county
met at Columbia and endorsed
Roberts and Jones.
- Mrs. Emma Brooks, wife
of DR.. Brooks Of Fort Worth,
died the other day from an
overdose Of morphine.
- Burleson county already
has three candidates out for
sheriff and there is still plenty
of them in the woods.
"A well in Sherman twenty
seven feet deep affords water
enough to overflow at the top
like an artesian well.
"A surveying party, SIX
teen in number, of the Santa Fe
railroad, is camped at Fort
Worth awaiting orders.
= Belton's magnificent cornct
band seems to have gone up or
peterd out; the Journal wants
to know what has become Of it.
Sam Robinson d seafaring
man was shot and killed at a
bagnio in Galveston on Monday
morning by Mike Ration, a sail
or.
- The Sherman Chronicle
says Dallas is a slow town-it
took them seven years to find
out mayor Thurmond'S true
character.
- The postmaster at Column
bus informs the public that the
government does a cash BUSH
ness so he can't give credit for
postage stamps.
Miss Terry, young lady,
was bitten in the face by a pole
cat near Millican. 1t had to be
killed before it loosened its hold.
Miss T. is very i'll.
- The Jones brothers have
been taken from Cameron to
Calvert and upon their arrival
at the latter place were allowed
to take in the town.
p. L. Elmore, a young
merchant at Old Waverly,
wound up a spree of several
days duration by shooting him
self through the heart.
All attempts to recover the
body of John Bandy buried
seventy feet under ground, by
the caving in of a well near Bell
vile, have been abandoned.
- The Georgetown Sun of
last week publishes one of Tai