Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-08-19
STATE NEWS.

= Fannin county has loco
motive threshing machine.
Jackson county gets sIIz5
from the state school fund.
AN immigrant aid society
has been organized at Mexia.
Thirty bales of new cotton
have been shipped from Bell
vile.
- AT Concho the Pecos river
is mile wide; cause heavy
rains.
The total assessment of the
property in Mason county is
sSo6.s47.
: The shipment of cotton by
rail has been commenced at
Caldwell.
= Whitney is now a city; a
full set ofcity officers were cleo
ted the other day.
New cotton has been ar
irving at Flatonio at the rate of
from so to 50 bales day.
"A special to the News
from Hampstead says the cot
ton crop is damaged by rust.
: Hays county instructs her
delegates to the congressional
convention to vote for Epson.
= ~ surveying party has
', started from San Antonio on
the extension of the Pierce road.
j. L. Taylor, an old and
respected citizen of Columbus,
died in that town on Sunday, of
old age.
= The rains at San Antonio
| and in the west have been very
heavy and did immense DAM
age.
Rents are going up in Nav
| asota; all the business houses
are occupied and more are
building.
AT Austin on Monday, Red
Ryan was severely cut by G. L.
Watts. 1t was all about ne
gro woman.
What to do with the sur
plus corn is the question that
now bothers the farmers in
Walker county.
"A Dallas man, Col. George
w. Hynson, tried small ex-
pertinent in fasting, going fifteen
days without food.
= Texana has merchant
named EGG. Egg, which we
suppose means that this partic-
ular Egg is a good egg.
"A town lot in the city OF
Houston together with a house
of four rooms is offered for sale
for S25o-cheap enough.
In San Saba county and
vicinity the screw worms are
worse upon cattle than they
have been for many years.
= In Brown county the DEM
ocrats and grenbackers pass
their leisure time in discussing
the political issues Of the day.
= The real estate business
seems to be brisk in Dallas; it
takes column in the Herald to
print the transfers for two weeks.
= Fall fights have opened at
Hampstead. w. D. Whisen-.
hunt and ]. w. Stephenson, a
pair of white RAIDS, "fell out and
fit"
"A banking house has been
opened in Bellyille and the
Times is banking on Bellville,
shipping many thousand bales
Of cotton.
= Jim Odell, horse-thi eff and
desperate, who escaped from
the Houston Jail d few days ago,
has been recaptured in Liberty
county.
About IL o'clock the 9TH
er night monster bat, ineasur-
ing at least twenty inches from
tip to tip, sailed into the Phoe-
nix saloon at Waco.
- On Saturday at o'clock
the ten prisoners confined in
the Gonzales jail overpowered
the jailer and made their escape.
All were re-captured but one.
"A considerable number of
guns have been placed in vari-
Gus stores around Huntsville,
to be used in case of an out
break at the penitentiary.
-. A German farmer in Gray
son county has determined upon
experimenting with the Gin
chona tree. This tree yields a
wsll known and valuable medi-
einal bark.
= Arrangements are being
made at Mexia for a grand bas-
ket dinner;democrats and green
hackers will join hands and
democratic and greenback ord
tors will speak,
1t seems that the old and
good town Of Jasper is having
improvement boom store
is having a new awning put up
and an addition is being built
to the hotel.
San Antonio had so
hours rain during which 7.S5
inches of water fell. AT Cas-
troville there was heavy rains
raising the Medina river and
washing away mills.
"A Hancock and English
ratification meeting was held at
Corsicana on Monday night. A
Club will be started and every