Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-06-17
STATE NEWS.

needed in Limestone county.
The first watermelons Of
the season are gradually coming
in.
- The first new wheat was
, received at San Antonio on the
I4th inst.
Since the advent Of the
railroad, Bellville enjoys fresh
bay fish.
- Major Penn opened his
campmeeting at Eagle Lake on
the 18th inst.
-Brownwood is now in tcle-
| graphic communication with
the outside world.
A couple of Cinnamon
put in an appearance at Con-
cho the other day.
Prospects now bid fair for
the largest crop ever made in
Williamson county.
- Twenty-Five dollars and
costs is the lowest fine in the
Waller county court.
- worm, not the cotton
worm, is depredating on the
cotton in Navarro county.
AN alligator over IL feet in
length was discovered browsing
! in a corn field near Weimar.
The prospects for a corn
crop in Austin county are de-
scribed as being magnificent.
= Austin county has a total
scholastic population Of 229I of
whom only 66o are colored.
- Hampstead has one per-
son who is superlatively mean;
that person poisoned a pet
deer.
- Luling had a $4,000 fire on
Monday. Epstein & Miller dry
goods merchants were the suf-
ferers.
= The Denison News ha,
commenced the publication OF
a series of papers on water
Works.
= AT the stray sale in Con
zales last week 5 horses and 5
head of cattle Melted the coun-
ty s58.SS.
The funeral Of Coleman at
Marshall was more largely at
tended than any at Marshall fol
many years.
"A stone mason named
Goblin, living at Greenville,
Hunt county, has fallen heir to
$50, 900 in Vermont.
AT Marshall, proceeding
under the new law, the district
attorney will try the case of the
state VS. Jennings for bail.
In drunken row al
Aquilla, McLennan county,
Murrill, a saloonist, shot Ben
Hucker in the left breast.
D. S. Quincy was tried last
week at Hampstead, in the
mayors court, for cowhiding
G. G. Lester and fined SIS.
= The Lockhart News-Echo
echos the news no longer, but
it now Registers it and the sub
scribers can read for themselves,
Jennings, who killed Cole
man in Marshall, was, upon a
preliminary examination, admit
ted to bail in the sum of $1,000.
= Near Dallas, two men
named Pfouts and Newsom
quarrelled about a trivial affair.
Pfouts shot and killed Newsom.
- The widow of Prof. Gath
right, who was a Knight OF
Honor, will be the beneficiary
of his policy to the amount OF
$1,000.
The governor refused to
pardon P. A. Peck, convicted
of cattle stealing in Navarro
county. Peck is respectfully
connected.
-Tomatoe cider is a new ar
ticle. An Austin county man
made 1000 gallons of it and has
taken it to San Antonio for in
PRODUCTION.
AT Austin the greenback-
ers wasted some very good gun
powder in firing a salute over
the nomination of Weaver and
Chambers.
= At Concho the other day
seven goats were killed by
lightning. The boy who was
herding the flock was only a
few feet away.
- At Mexia, Mr.. Dewitt
ran his wagon over an is month
old negro baby, killing it. He
was arrested and placed under
d bond of $500.
The steam tug L. 8. Coats
exploded her boiler, at Clinton
on Sunday, killing McGinnis,
the cook, and scalding a man
named McCayne.
The Gonzales Inquirer
man is happy because some
body has said the heas would
flee soon. He also wants the
mosquitoes abolished.
= Bellville's military COM
pany has an enrolment of
twenty-seven members and
strong hopes are that an organ
ization will be effected.
= The empanneling of a
jury in the Currie case at
Marshall was incomplete on
Saturday last. Barrymore, the
state witness had arrived.
Discoveries OF gold and
silver have become stale, they
have uo,u jiCcovereJ lend in