Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-06-24
STATE NEWS.

new railway passenger depot.
Archery clubs are becom-
ing fashionable in many Texas
towns.
@-Cotton worms are begin
ming to appear in Gonzales
county.
The contract for a new Jail
at Groesbecck has been let for
sII,o25.
- The carless worm is doing
considerable damage in Burnett
county. -
= Jefferson, the home of the
limp, has a population Of 1851,
mostly white.
Crops in Gonzales county
are better than they have been
for years.
Stock in the neighborhood
of Gonzales is troubled with
screw worms.
Barnes Parker is on trial IN
the distsict court at Austin for
land crookedness.
- A freedman took the first
load of watermelons to Hemp
stead this season.
- Again the Navasota Tab
let offers years subscription
for the largest melon.
Large quantities of vcgc-
tables arc being shipped from
Palestine to St. Louis.
Gonzales will show Il pop
ulation of 1850, which is pretty
good for an interior town.
- Navasota has lately had
u cowliding scrape; u lady
handled the cowhide.
Cottons worms have APP
pcared in Colorado county.
Poisoning is being resorted to.
- The Mexia Ledger has
samples of millet 5 feet 10 inch
es high, raised in the vicinity.
-Bastrop county has a schol-
astic population Of 1868 whites
and 1925 negroes. Total a5S7.
The'Austin Times of last
week says there are no cotton
worms in the county that it has
heard OF.
The oil mills at Hemp
stead turned out 3 barrels of
oil and 200 pounds of oil cake
daily.
Lone Star: From what
we have heard the population
of Lee county will probably
reach 5000.
j. H. Mansell shot and
dangerously wounded Boss Par
ish, ten miles north Of Hawkins.
Family troubles.
= Scholtz, a German, was
thrown from his horse, in San
Antonio on Saturday and had
his neck broken.
= Hampstead has a tannery
which is turning out as fine
leather as any similar establish
ment in the South.
Eddie Forsgard, a small
boy, at Waco, was playing with
a pistol. He received a mortal
wound in the abdomen.
= A very long spring poem
has been received by the San
Antonio Herald. twas prompt
ly inserted in the waste basket.
The artesian well at Brown
wood is now 1900 feet deep;
water rises to within two feet of
the top; boring is still going
on.
The Democracy of Trayis
county will hold primary meet
ings at an early day and the
party will be thoroughly organ
lied.
= Bell county has but 22o
colored children of scholastic
age. She has 1911 white males
and 1872 white females Of scho-
lastic age.
= Maj. PENIS Eagle Lake
camp-meeting was not the sue
cess that was anticipated. and
the accessions to the church
were limited.
= By far the larger part Of
the local news in last weeks
Paris North Texan is taken up
with notices of candidates for
county Offices.
"A verdirt was rendered in
the Robertson county district
court sustaining two OF the im-
parchment charges against
county judge Hall.
= The Corsieana compress
company has purchased the |
Taylor compress, at Hearne, |
and will at once proceed 10 re-
move it to Corsicana.
= Bastrop had another lively |
time last week. The Adver |
tiser exclaims, "a picnic a hang |
ing, and an emancipation cele- |
bration, all in one week"
= Maj. Penn's camp-meeting |
at Luling is a splendid success. |
Five thousand attended the |
meeting on Sunday and seven |
ty FIVE went up for prayer.
- Mrs. Ernestine Sterne has
been postmistress at Jefeson
since 1872. She has lust been
reappointed for four years from
May 10, 1880 to May 10, 1884.
= The dead negro found on
the railroad near Dallas had
been an inmate Of the county
poor farm. He was hungry
and sick and laid down to die.
Fort Bend county has a
population Of 1900. Rich
mond has about 1900; the schol-