Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-16
STATE NEWS.
"A Garfield club has been
organized at Columbia

pea over 10000 bales of cotton.
&C. w. Pyle, an old and re-
spected citizen of Houston died
on the 9TH inst.
= In Bexar county the re-
publicans are going to effect a
complete organization.
The Columbus Times thinks
a full average crop of cotton
will be made this season.
"A livery stable at Caldwell
possesses great advantages it
has the biggest sign in town.
The Waco compress began
work last Saturday morning it
has a capacity of sixty bales an
hour.
VIM. Meadows, a COW boy,
was shot and killed by ]. j..
Hill, near Dexter, Cooke coun-
ty.
At San Antonio 1855 pu-
pills were enrolled in the public
schools the first week they were
open.
in Brown county they can't
find anybody who is willing to
run for county judge. The Of
fee does not pay.
David Kinney, known as
Old Pap. a'bus driver at JefIer-
son suicided by taking two
ounces of chloroform,
Louis T. Valentine, Of the
firm Of Valentine & Co, San
Antonio, was arrested at Fla
tonia charged with incest.
Cedar piles are now ship
ped from Huntsville to Austin
for the use of the International
and Great Northern railroad.
Cotton is arriving at
Georgetown in punches" The
other day the Georgetown sam
counted ten bales in bunch.
-Twenty-dollar gold pieces
are in circulation at Gonzales
and the bankers are paying cut
gold in preference to currency.
The town of Travis, Austin
county, now rejoices in a drug
store; not a local option drug
store but a real drug, drugstore.
On Saturday last cotton
was quoted in Austin at s 3-4
to 9 I'D cents. In BRENNAN it
was selling at 9 I-2 to 9 7-8
cents.
Bob and Oliver Carpenter,
who killed their bother-in-law
Andrew Clark, near Waelder.
have been placed under bonds
of $3.50 each.
Dallas has just gone through
with tie most heated canvass
ever had in that city. Thur
mond had all the blackguards
on his side.
= The Galveston greenback-
ers have decided to put a legis-
lative ticket in the field, consist
ing of 4 senator, foater and two
representatives.
= The Brentwood Banner
learns that gentlemen author
lied to procure the right of way,
for the Santa Fe, through Brown
county have arrived.
= Stock men in the vicinity
of San Antonio are talking of
organizing to rid the county of
horse thieves. 1t is likely that
hemp will be used.
A great many horses are
being stolen in Kimball county
and driven off. is supposed
they are taken to Fort Worth
and shipped by railroad.
DIR. Chessher writes to the
Georgetown Sun that his friends
are supporting DIR. Arnold for
the legislature. Mr.. Nat Hem
derson is running against Arm
old.
= San Antonio is besct with
beggars, not less than nine were
counted on the streets in one
day, and most of them were of
recent Importation from Mexi-
co.
= JOHN Schwartz, a farmer,
while on his way home last
Saturday, with his wagon and
team, was stopped and robbed
of $50, near Cypress, Harris
county.
Mrs. Ruth A., wife of Rev.
1. e. John, editor of the Texas
Christian Advocate, died at the
family residence in Galveston
on the 18TH inst.
Two young farmers living
in the postoaks near Gonzales.
last week, gathered four hun
bred bushels of corn from twelve
acres of sandy land.
= VIM. F. Kluge, an old and
respected citizen was drowned
in Shoal creek, near Austin,
while bathing on Monday. He
was old and in6rm.
Gay and festive young men
in Columbus amuse themselves
by firing their six-shooters at
night. The city marshal is quiz
city waiting to catch one or
more of them.
= The Houston Post says
every business house in Column
bia but four, were burned. The
loss,is estimated at SI25,ooo
strange to say but one business
house was insured.
Terrell is the home of a
temperance paper, has plenty
of preaching and temperance
lectures frequently, yet plenty
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