Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08
STATE NEWS.

on the 2lst inst.
-Elgin has shipped $500 bales
of cotton this season.
Tho Austin Capital now gets
the evening dispatches.
In San Antonio the banks re.
port a scarcity of silver.
"A good many farms in Little
River bottom are inundated.
Waco is to have another even
ing paper, the Peoples Press.
John Hendrickson an old citi.
zen of Bolton, died last week.
The water-works middle seems
to keep things lively in Waco.
Work has been commenced Oh
the new courthouse at Colorado.
No injury was done the crops
in Waller county by the late cold
snap.
Tho late excessive rains have
seriously interfercd with railway
traffic.
The beer gardens at Dallas ar,
thronged with visitors every Sun.
day.
Tho battle cry of the white
Republicans al Dallas: "The niggel
must CO."
Elder T. NJ. Anderson, Bap
fist minister of Cameron, died or
Saturday.
The people of Honey Grove
want Dallas TO build a railroad &c
their town.
The Navasota Tablet wants
the streets of its town lighted or
dark nights.
Valley farms on the Gauda.
lupe river have been greatly dam,
aged by high water.
"A new and neat Presbyterian
church has been completed and
dedicated at Marshall.
Twenty special policemen were
sworn in for duty at Houston dur
ing the interstate drill.
The Waco wooden mill, it is
expected, will be in operation
within the next ten days.
Three Indians were arrested
at Liberty the other day on a
charge of horse stealing.
The Temple Tribune has open
ed its columns to discussion OF
the prohibition question.
An old man named Dietrich
was robbed of over $500 in a Fort
Worth restaurant the other day.
Crops are doing well in Color
ado county notwithstanding the
late cold snap. Some cotton has
been replanted.
Tho business men at Cleburne
are about to organize a Mutual In
surance association, with Cleburne
as its headquarters.
Tho Galveston Print Office is
now in the hands of the sheriff,
and until he gives it up there will
be no issue of the paper.
-Pickpockets are doing a good
business at Houston. A great
many people have their pockets
picked and say nothing about it.
"A sale ofresidence lots within
the park grounds. at Lampasas,
was made on Saturday. The lots
brought from $3.50 to $500 each,
There has been a great deal of
fenoe cutting in the vicinity of
GAINESVILLE lately, but the nipper-
men have managed to elude arrest.
A Brennan special to the
Post reports the killing of Prince
Green, a negro, at Clay station, by
negro named Jim Smith.
The county clerk of Colorado
county puts in his leisure time
firing rocks at the vagrant hogs in
the courthouse yard in Columbus.
Jack Ewing, of Hunt county,
suicided by blowing his heart out
with a shot gun. Social troubles
and whiskey was the cause of the
act.
"A shooting affray occurred at
Mason on Saturday, resulting in
the death of H. Garland, formerly
of Round Book. The murderer
-Bellville Times: Last Friday
two boys living ON the Brazos
river mpnkeyed with a pistol. One
of them shot the other in the
breast.
"A resolution asking members
of the Press Association to bring
their wives to subsequent meet
ings was promptly tabled by the
ASSOCIATION.
The Simms-Lombard shooting
scrape at San Antonio has been
settled so far as the recorders
court is concerned. They were
lined 800 each.
Temple had a regular pistol
one night last week. One
would suppose, says the Tribune,
hat nine-tehths ofthe men in Tenn
pie carried pistols.
-Misfortpnes never come sIngly
'ays the Bastrop Advertiser.
Whenever it stops raining long
enough for farmer to pillow, he is
summoned on the jury.
Houston has q cooking main
n progress as well as the drill !;
10Th regular theatres and the va
'iety show are open and there will
&c a gay time there generally.
Mr.. and Mrs, r. w. Davis |
celebrated their golden wedding
It Goliad last week. They are from
and have lived in Goliad
ince 1854, but landed in Texas IN .
S39.
Harry Harris, brother of E.
v. Harris, of the Greenville Ban
Ter, shot and killed himself while
n his room. 1t is unknown
it was accidental or Intcn-
ional.