Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-05-28
STATE NEWS,

-rdyGltS county pays p/S/
quarterly for the support OF her
paupers.
Cotton worms are repor-
ted to have their appearance
near Waelder.
Business is dull at Rock
dale but still drummers contin-
ue to come and go.
= Riojos & Canales, dry
goods merchants at Eagle Pass,
have failed for $4,000.
"A Mexican drove into
Victoria behind a COW and a
donkey harnessed to a cart.
-Grangers in Milan county
are quite active and several new
oranges have been organized.
Sheriff Crutchheld of Jack
county is short as tax collector
and has left for parts unknown.
: The Castroville Quill re-
ports crop prospects as remark
ably fine in that section of the
state.
Victoria is a seaport as
long as the supply Of beer holds
out. Schooners are the princi-
pal craft.
Better times are at hand.
A Bell county man has paid a
debt that has been due upwards
of six years.
The Flatonia Argus gent
ly hints that the boys arc doing
little too much promiscuous
pistol shooting.
"An Alligator Allegation"
is what the San Antonio Herald
calls Jehu Furnash's adventure
with the alligator.
"A Flatonia furniture dealer,
as an inducement to young
men to marry, offers line of
cradles very cheap.
"A rumber of bell punch
and Sunday law cases are to be
tried in the Justices court at
Austin on Saturday.
Ingram a saloonist at Jacks
boro. has been arrested for hav-
ing in his possession a barrel OF
contraband whiskey.
Local items are as scarce
as one-hundred dollar bills in
editors vest pocket, remarks
the Denison Herald.
- Ninety-three bales of cot
ton on two Mexican trains, en-
route to Mexico, passed through
Castroville last week.
Robert Gaines alias Deni-,
son was crested in San Anton
10 on the charge of forging a
registered letter receipt.
The last day OF the volks-
fest at Houston was slinly at
tended during the day, but
largely attended at night.
The arrival oftwo bales of
cotton in Austin the other day
caused a great connection
among the cotton buyers.
The Volksfestat Columbus
was a grand success; between
two and three thousand persons
were in attendance the first day.
Capt. Lee Hall of the state
police force is in Austin. He
has not resigned but probably
will before the end of summer.
= Cresitea, colored wood
hauler, fell from his wagon in
Houston and was run over and
so badly injured that he soon
died.
The case of the state VS.
Rowland Rucker, charged with
the murder Of r. B. Grayson
and wife is now on trial at Pal
estine.
"A Mexican teamster was
shot and wounded by Il horse
theft. The teamster was in
camp about five miles from San
Antonio.
= Many citizens of Victoria
are anxious to subscribe liber-
ally towards the construction of
the Galveston and Camargo
railroad.
= The Milan county green
hackers held a meeting at
Rockdale last Saturday and
elected delegates to the Austin
convention.
The San Antonio Herald
is demolished, literally wiped
out by a deputy sheriff of Cald-
well county-the sheriff did it
with his little pen.
Louis Jacob Krall has been
arrested at Houston on a charge
of incest with his step daughter,
girl of IL. A child was the
result of the intercourse.
- The web-worm has attack
ed cotton in Navarro county,
and on some farms obstruction
has been SO great as to necessi-
tate replanting.
= The mayor Of Brownsville
holds seances and whenever he
sees a man in court who has
been drunk S. and trimmings is
entered up against him.
= A band of robbers are ter
rorizing the people near Fort
Stockton, robbing stores and
the like. Rangers have been
ordered from McKavett.
Part of a human skeleton,
the remains of an indian, were
unearthed in Waco the other
day by worknen who were ex-
cavating for a water pipe.
= On the 9th inst, at Center
Point, Prof. w. Atterbury shot
and killed T. A. Corbell, for
saying that the wife of the