Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-08-26
STATE NEWS.

Ken OF bastrop, died last week.
- Corpus Christi was DAM
aged $4,000 by the late storm.
- In west Texas the heavy
freight wagons are called steam
boats.
- Lampasas has organized
Hancock and English club Of
SO members.
- Cameron, Milan county,
is improving rapidly-the rail-
road is coming.
"A wagon load OF fine peach
es sold in Bartrop last week at
Is cents a bushel.
= Commence planting your
fall advertisements early, says
the Bolton Journal.
"A telegraph line will at
once be erected between Fort
Worth and Cleburn.
- Cotton worms have re-
duced the estimates in Lamar
county to half crop.
= The republicans of San
Antonio will put forth a city and
county ticket this fall.
In Lamar county 5000
votes were polled at the primary
election last Saturday.
AT Matagorda three hous-
es were injured by the cyclone
Of the 18th and 18th inst.
The Coleman county grand
jury found nearly thirty-onc in
dictmcnts for gambling.
On Saturday Bolton made
her first shipment of cotton via
International rold to Galveston.
The Pleasanton Monitor
man is having a time of it
keeping loafers out of his office.
= Sugar cane is in market at
Victoria and the darkies are
nearly as happy as if they had
watermelons.
The screw worm, in cattle
and stock generally, are numer-
Gus and doing much damage in
Bastrop county.
The Jackson Clarion COM
plains of heavy rains and winds.
Jackson county was on the edge
of the recent cyclone.
= Bee county is experiment
ing in cotton raising, and is said
to be equal to Atascosa county
and is grand success.
The Touring mills at Paris
are running on full time and
have no difficulty in getting
full supply of wheat.
Complaint is made at San
Antonio that the sick and poor
from other places are sent there,
because they are cared for,
"A German storekeeper
living ten miles below Austin
was shot by a negro, on Sunday,
and is not expected to live,
Rev. Y. S. Hamilton, of
Hill county, while driving home
on wagon, fell off in a fit and
died soon after being found.
Gonzales county is free of
worms and it is generally con-
ceded that more cotton will be
made than can be gathered.
= Lemp's beer house at Fort
Wort was burned the other day.
The beer was all saved and the
Fort Worth people are happy.
"A corps ofmen with teams
have began grading the Interna-
tional road half a mile above
the San Pedro springs at "San-
tone"
= The crop of grass in the
vicinity of Rockport has been
greatly improved by the late
rains; cattle arc in excellent
condition.
= The boil worm in Dallas
county is dying out; cotton is
still making, and with late fall
new bolls will repair much Of
the DANCE.
= Several Car loads of fine
Merino sheep, imported from
the north, passed through Hous-
tan on Tuesday, en- route for
western Texas.
: In the Lampases county
court Sch Sneed was fined SIS
for whipping his mother. An
easy get-off for such fun, says
the Dispatch.
- A large quantity OF walnut
logs have lately been shipped
to Galveston for export. Wal
nut timber is abundant in some
parts of Texar.
John Menly, Schwitzer,
an extensive sheep owner in La
Sale county,was drowned while
endeavoring to cross a creek
near Fort Ewell.
Frank Smith, a negro, fell
from building in Georgetown,
a distance of thirty feet. He
landed on his head and is not
dangerously hurt.
= Drazoria is infested with
mad dogs; several have been
killed. They have bitten a num-
Der of cattle and four cows haye
already been killed.
Il A convention of planters
has been held in McLennan
county and steps have been
taken against the unjust de-
mands of cotton pickers.