Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-05-14
STATE NEWS.

.ar - hACdSSio al hOn fiNh~S
at Henderson.
The Comanche Chief does
not want Roberts reelected.
Glorious Rains Burnett
all right again, says the Burnett
Bulletin.
II Mai. PENIS revival meet
ing at Bryan is gaining in inter-
est daily.
Montgomery postoffice be-
comes a money order office on
the Ist Of July.
= A boy thirteen years old
was drowned in tank near
Mckinney while fishing.
Crops in Falls county are
looking splendid and prospects !
are Frightening every day.
An armadillo is the latest
addition to the Victoria Advo-
Gates cabinet of curiosities.
During the session Of the
grand jury in Austin. the Sum
day law is strictly observed.
"A Denison gardener ad-
vertises for twenty-five persons
to pick strawberries and peas.
= The Bastrop Advertiser
Of last week contains two and
half columns on the dance ques-
ton.
- The Scholastic population
of the state for the present year
is 23o,s27; in 1879 it was aoS,-
e54.
= According to a story in the
Waco Telephone spiders in that
town are known to eat tobacco
juice.
Rockdale is to have a
brick cotton warehouse 55XI2s
feet in size. 1t will be ready
by fall.
Denison must be d wicked
place, people up there play
foot hall and drink whiskev on
Sunday.
The city council Of Hemp
stead take their leisure; the first
meeting in four months was held
last week.
= Huntsville has received
but IS car loads of corn the
present season. They have got
off very cheap.
During the month of April
1851 pounds Of freight was
received at Bellville by the San
ia Fe railroad.
Nearly 10000 head of
cattle have been driven along
the trail near Lockhart since the
18th of April.
u In Bastrop it costs $500
to buy garden truck enough to
furnish a small family with a
Vegetable dinner.
The cotton worm has made
its appearance in some parts of
Victoria county; farmers pro-
pose "doctoring" them. 2
Two car loads Of polo pom
les from San Antonio passed
through Houston on Saturday
en- route for New York.
: Mexia is blessed with a
financier, in last weeks Ledger
he settles the national financial
problem in a four column ar
ticle.
Maj. c. B. Pearre, of Waco,
has accepted a call to present
his name before the convention
as a candidate for the legisla-
ture.
= The Mexia Ledger man is
happy now. Sam Bramhall of
that town has plenty of mint
and makes the best of mint ju-
leps.
= Twenty-Five hundred pig
cons are enroute from Chicago
to Dallas. They will be shot at
the coming shooting tourna-
ment.
= The Cameron county
grand jury fund So indictments
at the last term Of court-Ioo
for misdemeanors and SO for
felonies.
-Isham Folks horse became
frightened as he was riding in
Mason county and running
against a tree Mr.. Polk had his
skull fractured.
= An imposter has been 60
ing about the suburbs of Hous-
ton with a big book collecting
taxes from negroes and small
property owners.
A colored school teacher
was arrested at Bastrop on a
capias from Milan county,
charged with forging a school
voucher for $40.
= Charles J. Bullacher, aged
81, son of a grocer in Galveston,
committed suicide on Saturday
evening by blowing his brains
out with a revolver.
- X. X. Kieiy, the Arkansas
bigamist, plead guilty and was
sentenced to the penitentiary
for three years-one year for
each wife who claimed him.
Jake Sumerville, who muir
dered a man at Calvert some
two or three years ago, has at
last been convicted in Milan
county and sentenced to the
penitentiary for life.
Navasota has an African
negro woman no years old,
who has a daughter only twen-
ty years old. The Tablet eX-
poets this story to be believed. |
: Two hundred and thirty |
bales of cotton were recently |