Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-12-02
srArE NEWS.
: Giddings wants a wagon

Wood retails in Houston
at $40 per cord.
- Pork sells in Navasota at
from 6 I-2 to s cents.
Corn is selling at Giddings
at IS to 50 cents a bushel.
= Thanksgiving day was
wholly unobserved at Giddings.
Austin county polls 2416
votes, 9S5 of them democratic.
Mud, mud, beautiful mud,
exclaims the Houston Tele-
gram. L
The people of Rusk are
determined to haYe a railroad
or burst.
- The Lampasas county dis
trict court convicted half doz-
EN- thieves.
Ed S. Lockett, who is
well known hereabouts, is now
in bushes at Waco.
: In Grimes county there
has been no cotton picked for.
thepast ten days.
= The Welsh and Sands cir
Gus company has gone into VIM
ter quarters at Houston.
There was eight deaths in
Houston last week, three of
them being small babies.
= Huntsville has shipped
5000 bales of cotton up to date
and will ship 5000 more:
On Sunday last the police
of Austin arrested no less than
ten disturbers OF the peace.
- San Antonio has a good
many suffering poor-many of
them improvident Mexicans.
Good dry wood reached
the enormous price of S. a cord
at Bolton, during the late freeze.
= Nearly all of our exchang-
es throughout the state COM
plain Of the bad condition of
the roads.
John Hayes and his horse,
which he was riding, were killed
by lightning, near Pilot Point,
last Monday. @
: Bolton has temperance
meetings and the banooms
have hot drinks, punches, and
tom and john. .ls .s- r
- The epizootic has struck
Sherman and a number of
horses have died within the
past two days. 10
The Bellville Times adyer-
tises for the owner ola set OF
artificial teeth which were found
about a month ago. la a.3
"A negro man was acci-
dentally shot and killed on
Watson's plantation in Harri-
SON county, while hunting.
= AT Waco the cotton pick
ers come to town and invest the
proceeds of their labor in load
ed pint and quart bottles.
Charles Kopischreckie sue
cided at Plano by hanging him.
self in his smokehouse, on Mon
day. Too much whiskey.
Galveston is very quiet
and orderly now, On Satur-
day last there was not a single
case on the recorders docket.
"A vineyard near Logarto,
Live Oak county, is said to have
produced three crops of grapes
last year upon the same vines.
= Mat Noonan, an Irishman
in the employ Of the Interna-
tional railway, was run over and
killed near Milano, on Monday. |
- William Henry and John
Taylor were arrested in Gid.
dings by sheriff Brown, lastweek
and jailed on the charge ofsteal7 |
ing horses. i
MIR. G. w. Elliott, of Cor
sicana, lost three horses from,
blind staggers last week, and a
gentleman living near Eureka
lost two others. % ~ iiia9f. q
- The prisoners who escap-
ed from the Austin Jail last
Friday, were furnished with a
saw by outsiders; the question
is how did they get it. 81,
Cameron, Milan county,
the terminus Of the Santa Fe
railroad, claims to. be the best
cotton market within a radius
Of seventy-ive miles.
The Huntsville Item says
that Welsh & Sands circus was
1 good one. The Item was
especially delighted with the
:rapeze performance.
= Bots Goterri, has been ar
'ested for the murder of Ramon
Muries, at Graytown, near San ,
Antonio, last week. INJURIES had
ieduced Goterri's wife.
"A young lady named Hill
vas terribly burned by her cloth
ng catching fire, last Saturday. !,
Her recovery is very doubtful.
she lives near Sempronius. :
: The Cuero Bulletin says c
hat in spite of. cold weather it l
.ot its paper out last week in i
ime to furnish the Star, its c
eighbor, with local news. y
- AT Weimar Gus. Cloud, a :
egro shot a..man who was with v
he town marshal trying to ar
not Ls,, The ,,,A,,, l. =, 80