Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-25
STATE MEMS.
Bolton wants a steam Iaun-

at Dallas.
There was d light sleet at
Dallas on Tuesday
Corn is scarce in Lock
hart and sells at 90 cents.
-Cottc,. is arriving at Rock
dale as fast as it can be shipped.
The Statesman reports bus
mess of all kind brisk at Austin.
= At Bastrop the Jones men
fired cannons in honor Of his
election.
= The total losses by the FIRE
in Marlin. last week, foot up
about $4,000.
= The Dallas Times accuses
Fort Worth of sending her pa
pers to that city.
e. H. Darst, an old citizen
Of Fort Bend county and d Tex
as veteran is dead.
j. B. Farris' gin house,
four miles from Navasota, was
burned last Tuesday.
Coon hunting, and possum
and sweet potatoes are matters
of interest at Gonzales now.
There 200 local preachers
in the Dallas district, and 23,-
554 members of the church.
"A Mexican was killed at
Navasota on Monday by the
breaking of a jackscrew under
a car;
= Six doctors at Sulphur
Springs have formed syndi-
cate and will work against dead
beats.
Sands circus exhibited at
Rockdale last week and is pro-
nounced a fraud by the Messen-
ger.
= Corn sells in Columbus at
50 cents a bushel. Many farm
ers have not gathered their corn
yet.
Hog-killing weather re-
marks the Austin Statesman.
Spare-ribs and backbones are in
order.
= Hans Nickel wears Grape
on his hat for his beloved friend
Calamity Jim. Calamity was a
mule.
Judge H. C. A. King, for
az years a resident Of Burleson
county, died near Caldwell, on
the 23d.
= The Bastrop Advertiser
advertised for a printer and re-
ceived about a dozen applica-
tons by letter.
= A male piano player in a
saloon at Fort Worth morphin-
ed last Saturday. The doctors
pumped him out.
AN old negro man who had
been missing several days was
found frozen to death on a farm
near Dallas on Tuesday.
: In Bastrop county 500
votes were polIed for sheriff
while only 27S5 votes were
polled for representative
Samuel Watson, of Mem
phis, Tenn, formerly Metho-
dist preacher, is delivering spir-
itual lectures in Houston.
= A Houston tobacconist is
doing a pennybusines by Civ
ing out two cents to every pur-
chaser of a ten-cent package Of
tobacco.
-Denison burns coal instead
of wood; a company owning
mines at Savanna. l. T., are
about opening a coal Office in
Denison.
= Several hundred cotton
pickers, irrespective of race,
color, or previous condition of
servitude, are wanted in Bell
county.
Grimes county polled so
" votes for presidential cleo
tors, as follows: democratic
1872, republican 1850, green
back SIS.
= Hardy Thomas. sheriff
elect, of Grayson county, is
said not to be quite IS years of
age-the youngest sheriff ever
elected in the state.
"A good deal of cotton will
be lost in Colorado county for
want of hands to pick it; 81 per
hundred has been freely offered
but no hands could be had.
Two car loads of Bohem-
ians arrival at Schulenburg last
Sunday week. They came in
the same ship as those who ar
rived at Brennan the same day.
= About fifty German and
Bohemian immigrants arrived
at Giddings last Sunday week.
They were a part of those who
arrived at New Orleans some
days ago.
"A Dallas dispatch of the
2sd says, "for the past eight
days there has been continu-
Gus freeze here, a thing hereto
fore unknown in that section of
the country.
= One OF the Armstrong
brothers who was killed near
Taylor a few days ago, was IN
der bond for kidnapping small
negro boy from Hills prairie
Bastrop county.
Tho district iudJe ,f Dallas