Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-18
STATE MEMS.
BelIviIle continues to i'm.

= Bellville continues to I'M
prove.
In Gainesville coal is cheap
or in wood.
: The town of Pleasanton is
steadily improving.
Waco has shipped over IS
900 bales of cotton so far.
= Rumors of weddings arc
now common all over the coun-
try.
= Hardly vacant house in
Gainesville and families coming
in every day.
Ben Thompson was at Bas-
trop the other day getting up
grand rattle.
Up to- Thursday last one
hundred horses had died of ep-
izootic in Dallas.
Lagrange now has a lit
erary club with a full compli-
ment of officers.
In Austin county the green
hackers made a great noise for
so small crowd.
Six speeches were made.
in one case in the district court
at Waco last week.
All the whistlers of Robert
son county are to meet togeth-
er in one grand convention.
James Wright the man who
was hit on the head with show
Ell by a negro is about to die.
w L. Byrd, clerk of the
county court died at Rusk on
Wednesday after short illness.
The Texas and St. Louis
narrow gauge railroad is COM
pleted Is miles west of Tyler.
"A Bastrop county youth of
is, challenges any boy of his
age to a cotton picking match.
The Dallas county grand
jury found 200 indictments at
its last session-s5 were for
felonies.
"A Dallas clothing house
advertises suits for, solid men,
who weigh from 200 to $50
pounds.
There was heavy snow
at Fort Davis on Tuesday last.
The thermometer stood at 10
degrees.
Inc Fair1eld Recorder
thinks that the new jail at that
place viii be completed by the
18th of July next.
= Marshal Crary, of Austin,
having been elected sheriff Of
Travis county, there will soon
be special election for marsh
al.
James B. Olive, ST., who
recently died in Bastrop county
was II years OF age and had
been a citizen Of Texan since
1850.
: Cotton is arriving at Paris
at the rate of 500 bales per day.
The compress is running day
and night, and is doing a big
business.
= Georgetown is also infes-
ted with gay and festive pistol
shooters who ply their avoca-
ton at night: Nobody knows
who does it.
The Navasota Tablet wants
to know where the 500 Grimes
county greenbackers are that
the party leaders boosted of be-
fore the election.
The farmers of William
son county are now in a more
prosperous condition than they
have been for years. So says
the Georgetown Sun.
Williamson county now
has a sufficient number of in
habitants to entitle her to a
representative without being
attached to some other county. |
= Mrs. Henry Greenwall ar
rived in Galveston the other
day. A few days ago she was
reported to have been deserted
by her husband in New York |
city.
Eggs are selling in Houston |
at two bits a dozen and chick
ems at So to S4.25 a dozen, tur-
keys sI.25 each and potatoes
at 81 bushel, sweet potatoes
half price,
AT the sale of town lots at
Iredell on the Waco extension
of the Central, on the 10th inst,
sixty-one lots were sold netting
s25o5. A few Waecoites mad
purchases.
Col. w. F. Upon democrat
ic' nominee for the legislature
from Fayette county is elected
by a majority of 1900 or 1000.
He is one of the most popular
men in the county.
Saturday week one negro
killed another at a point between
Flatonia and Lagrange. The
killing was done by a blow on
the head with bottle, but the
bottle was not broken.
= flock of sheep from Mis-
souri, passed through Denison
the other day going to Wise