Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-01
STATE NEWS.

Texas has about eight million
sheep.
-Lampasas talks of building an
opera house.
The Catholics are erecting a
church at Tyler.
The fruit crop in Smith coun-
ty will be light.
Work has commenced on the
ice factory at Navasota.
/ Palestine requires $500 bond
of each OF her policemen.
! Marlin has organized a build
ing and loan association.
Austin has a roller skating
rink under full Roadway.
Austin butchers predict de-
cline in the price of beef cattle.
| After the LIST of July peddlers
must pay license in each county.
Five robberies were commit
ted in Austin inside of two days.
The Bryan Rifles will not at
tend the Interstate drill at Hous-
ton.
Gen. Mccormick is a candidate
for judge ofthe tenth judicial dis
trict.
Tho Sabine Pass Times en-
ploys female compositors oxclu-
sively.
-Burnet has put in her claim
for one of the summer normal
schools.
II The eleventh congressional
district of Texas contains sixty-one
counties.
Rev. Henry Schulz, rabbi of
Emmanuel congregation at Dallas,
has resigned.
The county treasury of Har-
rison county contains a cash bal
ance of $4,000.
"A great portion of the cotton
crop of Bastrop county will have
to be re-planted.
1t is estimated that the cattle
drive from Texas this season will
exceed BOG. 900 head.
Judge Sabin has received his
commission as Judge Of the Eas-
tern district of Texas.
The range in west Texas is re-
ported fine and stock, as a.general
thing, are rolling fat.
The corner stone of the new
state Capital at Austin will be laid
on the 4th ofJuly, next.
The Lampasas Eagle and
Kerens Light are enthusiastic
Marion Martin organs.
Coy. Ireland has committed
the death sentence of Perry Covitt
to Imprisonment for life.
Coal is being taken from the
Hunt mines, near Larado, at the
rate of rs tons per day.
Alligator teeth are now a mar
ketable commodity and sell in
Houston for 81 per pound.
The Herald says houses are
being erected in all portions of
Dallas; the town is on a boom.
The next reunion of the sur
vivors of Hoods brigade will take
place at Dallas on the 9th ofJune.
The organization of Zavalla
county swells the number of or
ganized counties in Texas TO liz.
Temple IS about to have one of
her long felt wants supplied
brass band will soon be q fixed
| fact.
Mr.. Schmilewsky, Houston
ian, is short; he is short of a young
and handsome wife and $500 IN
cash.
The Laredo Times says the
earnings of the Mexican National
railway for the third week in
April was $4,000.
According to the Seguin Times
a cranky woman from away up
north has been in Its town loctur-
ing on temperance.
Il. Enshimer, an Isrealite, IS
years of age, committed suicide at
Rockdale on Tuesday with chloro-
form and morphine.
I'm Falls county last year a
young lady cultivated a ten-acre
lot in cotton and cleared $500, says
a newspaper paragraph.
Tho Maverick heirs have re-
ceived $50, 900 from the U. S. gov
eminent for the ground on which
Fort Worth is situated.
-Zedlers' Mills, Gonzales coun-
ty, is the luckiest spot in Texas.
In that neighborhood they escaped
a frost by just one degree.
"A smuggling match is to take
place at Turner Hall, San Antonio,
on the 18th of May between Joe
Morris and George Edwards.
Marion Beatty, one of the par
tlcipators in the McDade tragedy
last Christmas at McDadc, is now
on trial at Bastrop for robbery.
Parties who have travelled
over the country IN the vicinity of
Terrell report the cotton consider
ably damaged by the late cold
snap.
The board of insurance adjus-
tiers have re-rated n number of
Texas towns, and the business men
are "kicking" over the advance in
rates.
Harrison county sends twelve
delegates to the Fort Worth con-
vention, ten negroes and two white
men; the whole business is for
Arthur.
Tho fences of Alex Cockrell's
pastures IS miles west of Dallas
were cut on Monday night. Dam
age $4,000. No clue to the perpe-
traitors.
Mrs. Serena Goodrich, widow