Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-08-05
STATE NEWS.

A SNhAy iiaS liSliu UT
ed for Roberts.
Robertson county in
structs for Roberts.
- First bales are now no
longer a curiosity.
- Sunday base ball is in
vogue at Houston.
-BelIville will soon have sew
eral cotton warehouses.
= On Saturday there were
heavy rams all over the stare.
Galveston has a colored
military company, the Grant
Rifles.
= The Roberts men had only
four majority in Bexar county
convention.
- Williamson county green
hackers are waking up in the
interest OF Jones.
- Business houses are scarce
and in demand at Tyler. Rents
are going up too.
- At last Sherman has voted
in favor of a special tax for
public school purposes.
Heavy rain in west Texas
last week, stopped travel, as the
streams were all swollen.
- Guadalupe county in
structs for Roberts. Waller
county also instructs for him.
= Col. Jno. F. Elliott, of the
Dallas Herald, declines to be a
candidate for the legislature.
Pat Malloy was run over
and killed by a street car in
Houston on Monday morning.
= Cotton prospects are fine
in Mason county, but the acre
age is not one-tenth big enough.
- San Antonio received her
first bale of cotton on Thursday.
1t was raised in Atascosa coun-
ty.
Tho democratic convention
in Bastrop was the largest held
since 1872 and the most harmo-
NOUS.
= Burks was more than re-
joiced at his respite and now
looks for Communication and even
pardon.
Bosque county instructed
for Roberts; the instruction was
strongly opposed and barely
carried.
Roberta Vanhool, aged 10,
was drowned while bathing in
the bayou, two miles below
Houston.
= railroad meeting was
held in Bastrop last week.
A number of committees were
appointed.
Cotton worms have made
their appearance in Liberty
county, but were eaten up by
the birds.
= Delegates TO the county
convention at Texarkana are
said to be scarce, only twenty
FIVE were elected.
Austin county's cotton crop
will be the largest raised in
number ofyears. Cotton pick
ers will be in demand.
- Country produce at Ty-
Ter is exceedingly scarce on ac-
count of the increased consump-
ton by railroad hands.
= A great many country
people visited Waco the other
day to see the hanging; they
were all disappointed.
The young men in Bellville
are trying to organize a gym
nastic club-they tiled a militia
ry company but failed.
John Zoller was killed at
Eagle Pass by deputy sheriff
Beacon. Zoller was imposing
upon Beacon at the time.
-Masons only barber has
gone off to the campmeeting
leaving the Masonians to shave
themselves as best they can.
Bill Williams, a negro
hackman, went to the house of
Scott, another negro, and shot
him to death. Bill then eloped.
= Playing dice for cigars is
the latest thing at Tyler. When
the narrow gauge gets in full
full operation Tyler will wake
up.
Joe and Angelo Battaglia,
aged 10 and s years, were
drowned at Waco on Sunday
while washing a buggy in the
river.
The Telegram rises to re-
mark that there was profuse
liquidation in Houston during
the progress of the county con-
vention.
= Grayson county green
hackers talk about putting out a
full county ticket, with a candi- |
date for sheriff who has deserted |
the democracy.
The Free Methodists are
holding a campmeeting at Ter
rell. Among othings they do
not believe it is right to beg
money to build churches.
"A Galveston News rcpor-
ter says horned frogs ought not
to be caught, as they render the
farmers valuable assistance in
destroying noxiouS insects.
One thousand laborers are
wanted in Tarrant county to
gather the growing cotton crop; |
nearly all the counties in north
crn Texas are short of hands.
James Bailey, one of the
oldest citizens of Houston is