Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-10-14
STATE NEWS.

D~AeSh NOiNiA~S ~ A4 tAS'$.
= In Smith county the top
crop of cotton promises well.
= Flies are worrying stock
badly in McLennan county.
Building is brisk at Column
bus-all the carpenters are busy.
Henry Ranar was run over
by a freight train at Tyler and
killed.
= A blooded COW was sold
in Waco last week for 500 in
cash.
'-Bricklaying has commenc-
ed on the Hudson block in
Caldwell.
- Barnum' show. drew an
audience Of 10000 persons at
Shermao.
Col. ]. w. Young, an old and
respected citizen OF Bastrop died
on Friday last.
At Brentwood pecans are
plentiful and sell readily at SI.75
to 81 per bushel.
= Maj. Penn has awakened
the sinful Dallasites and his tent
is crowded nightly.
Alex Burton colored had
his arm badly mangled by gin
six miles from Waco.
: The fair at Mckinney
proved to be a perfect success;
it closed on Saturday.
- For want of better amuse-
ment local telephones have been
put up in Liberty Hill.
The county fair at Marshal
opened under favorable auspi-
ces and with a fair display.
: Castroville has a new cot
ton gin capable of ginning sew
en- bales of cotton per day.
= Mr.. Walter Gresham was
in Austin last Saturday in the
interest Of the Santa Fe railway.
"A gentleman at Fort Worth
whose name is suppressed, at
tempted suicide by morphine.
&C. w. Low, living near
Brookston, was killed by Will
Roam, a negro, who stabbed
him.
Grayson county's bell
punches have rang out sII,352,-
so worth of music during the
past year.
AT Dallas the district judge
charged the grand jury to inves-
tigate the violation of the bell
punch law.
- C. NJ. Monday and ]. D.
Borden got drunk at Lovelady.
Borden fatally stabbed Monday
and skipped.
- The Bastrop Advertiser
proposes publishing an install
ment Of Machine Poetry" at
an early day.
= The Georgetown Sun is
working against Nat Q. Hender-
son and in favor of Arnold for
the legislature.
Tyler is to have gas works
"a joint stock company has
been organized for the purpose
of building them:
Mr.. Closse, school teach
er, was severely bitten by a rat
tiesnake, near Seguin, and is in
a critical condition.
Thompson's Theatre, in
Dallas, now opens on Sunday
night for the purpose of giving
a sacred ~ concert.
w. T. Clatterbuck, of Red
River county had his arm null
tilated by a gin SO that amputa-
ton was necessary.
- Pinafore,- by the. Juveniles,
drew 4 very slim audience at
Austin on Saturday night. Pin
afore is about petered.
An oldnegro named Good
eye, has been jailed at Rastrop
on a charge of attempting to
rape small negro girl.
Business at Navasota is
brisk; the Tablet thinks that
$4,000 bales Of cotton will be
shipped during the season.
H. E. Perryman, while on
his way to Mexia with a load of
cotton, was shot and instantly
killed by a man named Wells.
Farmers in Johnson county
as a general thing, want the
Santa Fe railway to pay for
right ofway through their lands.
The compositors on the
Dallas Herald are still on a
strike, the paper is coming out
a little short in reading matter.
= Lavaca county has Just
gone through with the cere-
mony of a primary election and
has nominated a county ticket.
Josh Meyers, a Brazos
county negro, was sent to the
penitentiary for two years for
stealing yearling in that coun-
ty.
"A white man and a Zulu or
African afforded amusement to
the loafers at the Pacific depot
in Dallas, by fighting a fist
i fight:
= Major Renn.s meeting at
Dallas on Sunday was we'll at
tended. Twenty-Five came for
ward for prayer and two were