Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-02-24
STATE NEWS.

tdlh vi planting GOTH tIllS week.
d. w. c. Davis, a promi-
nent merchant Of Sherman, is
dead.
They talk of supplying
DenisQn with water for fire pur-
poses.
- The Caldwell Register
complains that local news is
scarce in his bailiwick.
= The Bank saloon at Mcxia
is safe place to deposit money,
says the McXia Ledger.
Tine Baptist church at Gid
dings has bought lot and will
at once erect a house of wor-
ship.
- AS wooden buildings in
Mcxia are destroyed by fire
their places are supplied by
brick ones.
A company of Michigan
capitalist have lately bought
over 10000 acres Of pine lands
in Hardin county.
- The Lemp Brewery COM
pany of St. Louis will put up
ice houses at Milano junction,
Rockdale and Cameron.
Giddings Lone Star urges
the county commissioners to
build bridges to the extent of
the bridge fund on hand.
- Flatonia is soon to under
go all the excitement attendant
upon a municipal election. The
only salaried office is that of
marshal.
- Jack Gu:hnan, the fisher
man, whose skull was fractured
by Sid Jenkins, near Bastrop
the other day is dead, and Jenk-
ms is still at large.
The Marshall Herald says
the key to the federal prosecu-
TONS in Harrison county was
the costs that accrue to the
officers of the court.
- Property owners at Sabine
Pass are growing suddenly rich.
The Beaumont Enterprise says
one man refused a $1,000 for a
single unimproved lot.
Last week, at Harwood,
P. w. Gallagher shot an impu-
dent negro breaking his thigh.
1t is reported that Gallagher
acted in self defense.
= The "baby editor" of the
Caldwell Register returned
home last week, but during his
absence no new babies had ar
rived to be written up.
= In the Tunis neighbor-
hood, Burleson county, some
farmers are making prepare
tons for this years crop while
others have not finished gather
ing last years.
= The Tyler Democrat says
that as a general thing the
farmers of Smith county begin
operations this year with plenty
of corn, plenty Of meat and
stock in good order.
= The Inquirer says the
county commissioners of Con
tales county are guarding the
interests of the people carefully.
If a bill is allowed by the court
the claim has to lie well ground
ed.
A negro man was found
dead near the Fannin and Hunt
county line the other day, with
fifteen buckshot in his hide. It
is supposed, says the Bonham
News, that he offered insult to
a white lady.
= The friends of the late A.
R STROLLER, the cattle man, who
was found shot in the head near
Dallas last Saturday night, in
sist that he was murdered and
that it was not a case of suicide
as the coroner's jury said.
VIM Undenstock, of Mar
shall, has been appointed inter-
nal revenue collector of the
fourth district of Texas, to sue
coed Gen. Malloy, who has
been appointed collector of Gus
toms at Galveston.
"A small explosion occurred |
at Bastrop last week. The fire.
man at the factory mills got up
"big steam, one hundred and
twenty pounds, when the safety
valve connecting the double
boilers burst enveloping the
premises in steam and soaring
all hands in the Advertiser office
nearly to death.
- The Flatonia Argus says
that Mr.. J. R. Scates, county
collector, and one of the most
popular and trusted officers of
Fayette county is a defaulter to
the amount of $4,000. He,
last fall, was elected for third
term. His office has been clos
ed and his boundSmen ask to be
released from further response
bility.
"A young French woman
from New Orleans, whose hus-
band deserted her at Waco a
few months since, had violent
attack of Mysteries, SO violent
indeed that eight of the doctors
in Waco thought she had hy-
drophobia. Opiates were ad-
ninIstered and at last accounts 5
she was in a fair way to recov- !
IF.
The Bellville Times says
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