Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-07-15

The San Antonio Express
says, Il quantity of material for
the extension of the Sunset
railway westward has arrived,
and that in a short time work
will commence.
THE drought is said to have
most seriously affected the cot
ton crop of Mexico, and the
northern manufacturers of that
country will again be dependent
upon Texas for supply.
CENSUS cnumeratorS have
made official returns. Popula-
ton of Denison 44oo; Sherman
COCO. Denison has been claim
ing six to eight thousand and
Sherman from eight to ten thous-
and.
Mrs. GEN. HANCOCK was born
and raised in St. Louis, and is
the daughter Of a gentleman
named Russell, who at one time
was a prominent merchant in
that city. He has been dead
many years.
The first bale of cotton re-
ceived at Houston this season
was sold at auction and after
lively competition was knocked
down to Mr.. w. D. Cleveland
at s5o5. The bale melted Mrs.
Hausman S555.
The body of an unknown
sailor was found floating in the
river at New Orleans. His
body and arms were a complete
picture gallery, there being at
least d dozen different designs
tattooed on them.
The San Antonio Express
writes up Weaver, the green
back candidate, at considerable
length. Writing against Weav-
er looks like wasting good AMI
munition on very snail game
snow-birds or tom-titS..
The proposition TO get up
fair at San Antonio next autumn
has fallen through. y sufici-
emit amount of money could not
be raised to place it on a sue
cessful basis. An effort will be
made to hold a fair next year.
A DEAD Indian was found on
the railway track near Atoka, l.
T, the other day. There was
a number of bullet holes in his
body. John Anderson, a farm
er living at Eufaula, l. T., was
shot and killed by a man named
Meeks. Both were white.
Ex-GovERNoR THRocKMoR-
TON has many friends of many
minds. Some want him to
have a cabinet position, others
want him for presidential cleo
tor, others again would make
him governor and at the same
time he is being groomed for
the senatorial race.
GEO. w. JOKES in his fourth
of July speech to the negroes,
says the Bastrop Advertiser,
told them there was no differ
ence between Hancock and
Garfield and spoke in glowing
terms of Weaver. The negroes
regarded Jones story as fshy
and cheered loudly for Garfield.
THE counterfeitGrs have at
last made Il ten-strike in the
manufacture of d 500 national
bank bill so excellent in design
and execution that it can only
be detected through the super
iority to the genuine article.
The notes of a number of ma
tional banks have been counter
feited.
y DALLAS special to the
News says governor Roberts
left on Monday morning for
Austin, abandoning his tour in
northern Texas. He will issue
an address through the news
papers. The special says the
governor made no friends in
Dallas orvicinity by his speech
es. Electioneering is an I'M
pleasant business at best.
ALLEN WRIGHT, the negro
convicted of murder at Dallas
and sentenced to death, refuses
to appeal and wants to be hung.
As his request is reasonable we
presume it will be complied with.
1t is such a rare thing now-a-
days that a murderer wants to
be hung that he should be &C
commodated, just for the nov-
city of the thing.
THE Marshall Herald refer
ring to the testimony of the ex-
perts in the Currie case says:
Cali that was proved by the
physicians or any one else, was
that Currie was drunk, and in
the midst of a prolonged de-
bauch. The testimony as to his
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