Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-12-09
STATE NEWS.

- Beaumont is only a town
it is not Incorporated.
-Cuero is in need of an or
ganizcd FIRE department.
"A Bellville dealer advertis-
cS beautiful ladies skirts"
-"Solid north" breezes have
been blowing on Comanche.
Five new engines have been
ordered by the International
railroad.
- Navarro county polled a
! total vote of $3.50 votes at the
last election.
-Comanchie had a fire last
week; stable and corn crib
were burned.
I'm the neighborhood of Pal
estine the fields are alive with
cotton pickers.
- Comanche has shipped
nearly a thousand bales of cot
ton this season.
= Corsicana will haye the
Texas and New Orleans railroad
by some time in January.
Two wrecks occurred on
the Texas and Pacific railroad
on Saturday. Nobody hurt.
"A tramp fired into negro
cabin near Palestine, wounding
a colored woman in the asm.
= Papers in Texas Cities
are busy calling attention to the
bad condition of the sidewalks.
Petty thefts are of common
occurrance at Austin but the
thieves manage to evade arrest.
= Tom Green county, Tex
as, is as large as two
or three of the New England
states.
All allowances for outside
paupers have been stopped by
the commissioners OF Bexar
county.
Fort Worth is in want of
tenant hoases-there is no va
cant dwellings Of any kind in
the city. i
= Cotton picking is over at
Huntsville and the price of a
shine has been again reduced
to anickel. s1
jackson county elected an
entirely new .setof commission
ers and the Clarion hopes they
will start right.
A stage load of six-shoot-
ers and United States marshals
passed through Pleasanton en-
route to Laredo.
= At Dallas two blind men
had rough and tumble fight.
One had called the other a fraud.
Both were frauds.
lin Dallas the stone-cutters
are on strike against a reduc-
ton of their wages from $3.50
to S2.25 per day.
Judge JIG. C. Winch died
suddenly in Houston on Tues
day. He had been citizen Of
Houston since 1865.
Two hand engines and
a steamer haye been retired
from the Galveston fire depart
ment and placed in storage.
- At Dallas the jury in the
Hawkins case had been out 48
hours on Monday night with
little prospect of agreement.
= Cotton-eyed Joe, colored,
a character at Fort Concho,
came to his death from freezing
while lying drunk in the snow.
"A San Antonio man adj
vertises three hundred goats
for sale, price $1,000. A few
Of the goats are pure Angora.
= The pecan crop in Brown
county this year will be the
largest since 1877, when over
100000 bushels were ship
ped.
The editor OF the Marlin
Ball thinks that the man who
would steal an editors wood
should be shot with a baked
apple.
= In Gonzales county much
cotton will be lost by bad
weather and sickness among the
people. Corn is rotting in the
fields.
"A party of tramps came
near setting the Denison COM
press on fire by carelessly throw
ing lighted matches among the
cotton bales.
Owing to bad weather there !
has been no preaching in Bell
vile for four weeks and that's
what's the matter with the |
Times man.
According to the Denison
News peanuts, better known as
COOLERS, are a delicacy. The
crop of 1880 is about two and
a quarter bushels.
A new piece of music is enti-
tied Dance me on your knee,
darling" She evidently wants
to find out if he is ringing in a
wooden leg on her.
= Harry Douglas, a convict
at work on the San Antonio
extension, was on Monday shot
and killed by guard while at
tempting to escape.