Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-07-15
STATE NEWS.

= First bollS arc no longer a
novelty.
Wood retails at So a cord
in Waco.
Corn sells in Bastrop at S
cents per bushcl.
Austin county has a popu-
lation of 1857.
- Henderson has a popula-
ton of about 1000.
At Dallas the republicans
ratified on Tuesday.
- Cotton worms have ap-
peared in Liberty county.
- BeXar county has So,5o5
inhabitants; San Antonio co.
594.
I'm Houston the hoodlums
amuse themselves by pistol
shooting.
= San Antonio is happy, the
census has been increased to
over 10000.
= Cotton worms have ap-
peared in the river bottom in
Coryell county.
= In Clay county the green
hackers have nominated q full
county ticket.
= The Bastrop Advertiser
was presented with a 5o-pound
melon last week.
-Bastrop wants i railroad
and will have i railroad meet
ing on the 24th inst.
- The total population of
Dallas county is $3.50; PoPu-
lation in 1870, 1854.
= The democrats of Lamar
equity will hold d primary cleo
ton for county officers.
= There was eleven deaths
in San Antonio for the week
ending on Thursday last.
The Jackson Clarion Of last
week saws cotton picking will
commence in few days.
= Jimmie Rouse, a boy "a
years old, was caught tapping
till in a store in Waco.
: The Lampasas county
greenbackers have put a full
county ticket in the field.
= A good many farmeis in
Austin county are using lamps
to catch the cotton miller.
= San Saba county instructs
for Roberts for governor, and
Seth Shepard for congress.
Wheat in some sections of
Lamar county is turning out
twenty bushels to the acre.
Galveston is now manufac-
turing ice for Houston; she is
trying to keep Houston cool.
Red River county held its
convention on Saturday last
and endorsed governor Rob-
erts.
I'm the Gorilla precint, Trav-
is county, delegates have been
elected to the county conven-
ton.
AT the greenback county
convention in Lampasas county
Wash Jones was endorsed for
congress.
= In a week or two cotton
picking will begin in the Mel
sonville neighborhood, Austin
county.
Work on the extension of
the Transcontinental railroad,
from Sherman westward, has
baen resumed.
= There is plenty of cotton
worms in the vicinity of Column
bus. Planters are busy giving
them physic.
At Crockett they have
prayer meetings three nights in
the week, Tuesday, Wednesday
and Friday.
= Henderson has shipped
1900 bales Of cotton the pres
ent season; last season 200
bales were shipped.
= Construction trains on the
International now cross the Col
orado and go a mile and a quar-
ter towards the setting sun.
At a special election held
in Palestine it was decided that
the public free schools to be
taken charge of by the city.
The Galveston republicans
held d ratification meeting on
Monday night. Collector Sim
clair made a lengthy speech.
Bellville improves-duting
the past week the Times man
notices four or FIVE new resi-
dences in course Of construc-
ton.
= Crop reports from all
points of Colorado county are
good, except from Eagle Lake,
where cotton worms have ap-
peared in force.
= The examination of DIR.
Ball and Mrs. Heacock, charg-
cd with poisoning Heacock,
husband of Mrs. H. is progress
ing at Wills Point.
A element attachment"
company has been formed at
Cuero and a machine will be
put up. The company has an
abundance of capital.
Last Saturday night John
Johnson, a prisoner, was shot
and killed by John Gaines, at
Henrietta, Clay county. John
son was trying to escape.
"A jackass mounted on a
float, with cow-bell attachment,
representing the XVIth legisla-
ture and the bell punch at Sher-
man on the 4th Of July celebra-
ton.