Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-10-07
STATE NEWS.

-Glddings has shipped 1857
bales of cotton since Sep I.
= The Henderson and Over
ton railroad has been purchased
by the International.
Over one hundred students
are now in attendance at the
Huntsville state normal school.
- Only twenty divorce cases
are docketcd for the October
term of the district court at Gal
weston.
The Galveston letter car
rieis handled 1904 pieces Of
mail matter during the month
of September.
- The Houston Posts strik-
ing printers have gone to work
again at the old price-35 cents
per thousand.
= Judgments are being rem
dered against the Houston Tel
egram company in the Hous-
ton courts.
John Marshall, aged eighty
years, guard at the Huntsville
penitentiary suddenly, dropped
dead on Saturday.
Horse thieves are bold in
Houston; on Saturday last stole
a letter-sarriers horse from the
front of the post office.
= Woodson Coffee, an old
citizen of Colorado county, fell
dead in a store at Columbus on
Monday. He had apoplexy.
One hundred and fifty of
the German emigrants that late
ly arrived at Galveston have
gone to western Texas.
e. J. Davis made a lengthy
speech at Austin on Monday
night, discussing fully the fin
ances of Texas and democratic
rule in Texas.
The negro woman, who has
been lying on the station house
floor at Houston for the past
month or more, has been re-
moved to the hospital.
-Corsicana is soon to have
an.ice factory; company has
been organized for the purpose
of building one. BRENNAN
should soon do the same thing.
-Thornton's showndrew a
very slim crowd at G;ddings
and as the Lone Star failed to
give it complimentary notice,
the presumption is that Thorn
tons show does not amount to
K One Mclean, a new and
green local reporter on the
Sherman Courier, had his head
punched dy a lawyer named
Dave Bryan. Mclean will
be more careful in the
future.
Miles Rhoads is,when So
Der a peaeable citizen of Flat
ohio, when drunk he wants to
fight and always succeeds in
getting WHIPPED. The last whip
ping he cought is liable to prove
fatal.
: DR.. Lynch, of Lynchburg,
N Denton county, in attending
4 family, through mistake ad- |
ninistered morphine instead of
luinine. Two children, aged
line and twelve years died from
he effects of the poison.
1t is dangerous to carry a
pistol in Giddings. Mr.. Grant,
| gentleman from the Yegua
paid s34 for the privilege and
Mr.. Thornton of Thornton's
;how planked down s37.55 for
he same kind Of fun.
Prof. E. N. Chopper, super
of public school died
at Houston on Satur-
lay of congestion. He was
rom Cincinnati and had been in
Houston but a few months du-
ing which time he had made
many friends.
When they have butter on
he boarding house tables in
Whitney the first boarder who
,ets through rushes into the
treets and cries out"butter for
upper" and they say it is a
aution to see the way the
ungry guests start for the
ating house.
= Thorndale, Milan county,
onsists of store kept by T.
V. Carothers and an artesian
ell which is being bored by
apt. Mitchell. A correspond
Mt writes that on the 18th uIt.,
'ur men rode up and made the
and clerks throw up
leir hands they then robbed
lie safe of four or FIVE dollars
nd departed as quietly as they
anne.
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