Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-02-17
STATE NEWS.

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= Horse thieves are on the
rampage in Lamar county.
Counterfeit ten cent pieces
are abundant at Gonzales.
- Georgetown wants the NJ,
K. and 7. railway to come that
way.
The Templeton's appear
at Grays opera house, Houston,
February 10.
Sandy Jones, a negro ra-
pist, was sent up for SO years,
from Corsicana.
- Bolton will soon have four
or five lumber yards in opera
ton at the depot.
- Burglars are on the ram
page at Tyler and have robbed
a number of houses.
- Burns & Bakers feed store
at Austin was burned last Sat
urday night. Loss small.
Rain and bad weather has
seriously retarded farming oper-
ations in the vicinity of Flatonio.
Paris folks had an exhibit
ton of shooting by Capt. b.
gardus and his four sons, last
week.
= During the past year the
Houston and Texas Central rail-
way carried 23Ao44 passen-
gers.
= The first through freight
over the International road was
received in San Antonio last
Friday.
= B ellville was visited by an
infant cyclone last week; anrun-
finished building was blown off
its pins.
Waco shipped $4,000 bales
Of cotton up to Friday last. 1t
is expected that $1,000 are yet
to come in.
County attorney Hardy, OF
Corsiana, was robbed of $50 by
a man who has no respect for
the officers fthe law.
"A yonng man named Davis
was shot and killed by officers
who were trying to arrest him,
near Bastrop last Friday.
A San Antonio thief step
ped into a carpenter shop and
stole a handsaw. He traded
the handsaw off for whiskey.
We believe that two-thirds
of the people Of Grimes county
are satisfied with the present |
Sunday law, says the Tablet.
"A party of Indiana far
mers arrived at Dallas last Sum
day on a prospecting tour, with |
view to locating in the state. |
= Madam E. Dupree is now |
making a ffty-hours walk at
Denison. Two men are to walk |
against her, each walking TWEEN
ty-hve hours.
= Engineers are preparing |
to make soundings of the Braz-
osriver, preparatory to building
the bridge for the narrow gauge
road at Waco.
According to the Rockdale
Messenger, young Boykin was
tried in habeas corpus at Came
ron, last week, and remanded to
jail without bail.
= Pistol shooting at night in
Bolton is becoming very COM
mon; the Journal wants it stop
ped as it is calculated to make a
bad impression upon strangers.
Last Saturday night at
Sherman Oscar Middleton was
feariully stabbed with a pocket
knife by John Southern. Mid
dleton was thrashing Southern
when he was cut.
AT Sherman last Sunday
Billy Woods, a small boy, acci-
IDENTIFY shot himself while play
lag with a loaded pistol. Pts
tolls are very unsafe in the hands
of the average boy.
An Austin Statesman re-
porter went to church on Sum
day and came near freezing out.
He says there is a general COM
plant that the churches are not
properly warmed.
The San Antonio Evening
Light says the price of real es-
tate in the city and immediate
vicinity may be said to be NOM
inal. The principal trouble is,
there is no buyers.
Ben smith, colored, was
shot and killed at Beaumont by
Tyler Jones, also colored. Jones
says he simply put a pistol to {
Smiths head and it went off;
that he didn't shoot him.
: Dennis Dow was killed by ;
Jackson Hall, at Ships farm I
some II miles from Giddings,
on the 5th inst. They quarrel !
ed about hauling cord wood and
it is said that Hall was justified |
IN the act.
Judge B. F. McDonough,
Of Houston, who in 1873 was {
sentenced to the penitentiary l
or five years, for completely in
he land frauds, has been fully
oardoned and restored to citi- r
zenship. T
= Twenty frame business a
Houses in Denison were burned F
asst Sunday night. The loss n
S about S25,ooo and the insur- {
lnce is about $1,000. Most S