Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-08-12
STATE NEWS.

-Cuero is TO have several
new brick store houses.
Cotton worms have appear
ed in Comanche county.
The freight depot at CO.
lumbus is being enlarged.
- Japanese sweet potatoes
are cultivated near Austin.
-Bastrop has passed an or
dinancc establishing fire limits.
"A colored man brought the
first bale OF new cotton to Bas-
trop.
About thirty wagon loads
of lumber leave Whitney every
dny.
The Colorado Citizen is
confident that Shepard will be
elected.
- Boil and army worms are
reported in Brazos bottom, nea r
Calvert.
Cotton is being destroyed
by the boil worm in Fannin
county.
Cars are now running out
ten miles beyond Austin on the
International,
The Whitney Bee has been
presented with a cucumber four
feet ten inches long.
"A thousand extra hands
will be needed to save the cot
ton crop of Grimes county.
The Burnet Bulletin is max
ing a vigorous fight against the
greenbackers in its vicinity.
"A contract has just been
let at Tyler for the construc-
ton of a jail to cost $4,000.
AT San Antonio a negro thief
was arrested while attending
church and marched off to jail.
la Corsicana the COWS are
so hungry that they devour ev-
erything edible in country wag-
ons.
--Chas Deffenbaugh. COM
positor on the Austin States
man last week set 1900 ems in
an hour. \
= The Bellville Times re-
| polls cose~ worms in different
portions of the cos-ty. Poison
will be used.
The Austin Home BuIeine
and Loan Association has turn
ed out crooked; about $4,000
has disappeared.
"A stranger in Corsicana
was drugged and robbed. The
drugging business is rarely prac-
ticed in Texas towns.
The two Laredos calls up
on the patriots of Webb county
to come to the front and an
nounce their wants.
AN entire block of business
houses in Mineola, Wood county
ty, was burned on the 9th inst,
Loss about $4,000
+ jacob Keoppler, a market
gardener, was drowned while
crossing the Concho, near Fort
Concho, a few days ago.
The Lagrange band is fast
reaching a standard of excel
lence, which is no doubt appre-
ciated by the LaGrangers.
Chickens are so scarce at
Burnet that the Bulletin man
actually offers to pay part cash
for a dozen young chickens.
Gonzales is blessed with
hood lums who in the dead hours
of night break windows and
tear pickets from yard fences.
About a thousand bales Of
cotton will be raised in the vi
cinity of Castroville; three hun
dred bales were raised last year.
There is so much economy
and reform in Comanche coun-
ty that all the constables have
resigned-the office don't pay.
Seth Shepard made an
hour aud a halls speech at La
Grange last week. The Jour
nal says he made many friends.
= Marlin was visited by the
heaviest hailstorm of the season
on Saturday about 6 o'clock; it
lasted three-quarters of an hour.
The Victoria Advocate
seems to think that the Clement
attachment yarn factory at Gu
Gro exists entirely upon paper.
The property of the Gulf
Coast Fair association, at Victo-
ria, has been sold under deed of
trust by the sheriff, bringing
$1,000.
w. NJ. Goss, a respect
able colored farmer living. near
Tyler, was shot and severly in
jured by LETTERS, his son-in-law,
who was drunk.
Near Tehaucana the other
night three men rode from the
bushes and covering J. A. For
man with their six shooters rob-
bed him of saa.
&C. c. Lockett, esq, for
merly of Brennan, is announced
in the Caldwell paper as can
dictate for county attorney in
Burleson county.
Jesse Qualls and James
Bennett, both citizens of Waller
county and both eighty years of
age, called on the Hampstead
Courier last week.
w. G. and w. Pickering,
father and son, have been ar
rested and taken to Fort Worth,
charged NTH a murder in Illi-
nois three years ago.
- The pecan crop in the
San Saba neighborhood will be
the largest for several wears.