Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-07-29
STATE NEWS.
Tho Victoria Advocate wants
book agents suppressed.

ton compress, the machinery for it
is en- route.
Glddings and Terrell are the
iavoritcs among tho people of San
Saba county.
-Comanchc county instructed
for Ross at the county convention
last Saturday.
The boll-worm is said to have
appeared IN some portions of
BrazOs county.
"A Tomplc merchant offers n
premium of S25 suit of clothes
for the first bale of cotton.
In San Saba last week the
thermometer reached rs high as
ll5j the hottest since 1876.
-Grayson county needs a new
Jail and the Sherman Register is
working hard to have ono built.
Tho BellvIlIo Times Intimatcs
that tho primary meetings in Aus
TIN county were fixed for Judge
Moore.
The Times says the cotton
crops IN Austin county will not he
us largo as was anticipated several
weeks ago.
! 1t is predicted that Ross will
lead Swain by majority of two
thirds in the coming Harais county
convention.
Galveston county and city get
$4,000 from the state Ia run pub
he schools during the coming
scholastic year.
-McXia has a cooking club that
gives occasional entertainments.
A college for cooks is one of the
needs OF Texas.
In Houston politics are bccom-
ing very active; business is rather
dull and people have plenty OF
time 10 talk politics.
-McLennan county Democrats
have tried the primary election
system often enough TO be satisfied
that it is Il fraud and n dcIusIon.
Tho Bell county Farmers al
lance have decided to build their
cotton yard at Temple. The Tenn
plo Times regards this as u victory
over Bolton.
1t is supposed that tho assas-
sinaton OF editor TruItt, OF the
Timpson Times, was the result OF
an old teud fifteen years ago in
Hood county.
Pat Shchan, barkccpcr at
Mollie Scymour's bagnio in Austin,
while drunk stabbed his brother
in the side. 1t is supposed the
wound is fatal.
The Falls county commissions
ors have adopted a plan for now
courthouse at Marlin and will ad-
Ycrtise for bids. The proposed
building will cost $4,000.
Harry Brigance, Texas vet
ran and an old resident OF Grimes
cnunty, died suddenly in San An
antonio last Saturday. His remains
were taken homo for lntcrmcpt.
Paris has q Sunday law and
an Saturday night tho llttlo brown
lug is brought out from its hiding
place, is nicoiy filled and carried
home TO help tide over Sunday.
-Emigrants are passing through
San Saba; some are gong cast
looking for moro productive aniI,
! Whila othcrs afc going Wosi look
ing for free wator and free grass.
THE Navasola Tablet seems to
regard SSwain and Ross as the two
leading candidates for the govern
ship; it says that 4tpss is the supe-
riQr of Swain and is sure that he
will be nominated.
There Is q proposition on foot
10 cut OFF portion OF Tom Green
county west of San Angelo and
form u new county. Tom Green is
large enough to make five or SIX
ordinary sized counties.
Tho Austin Statesman has
been showing up ". Y. Leader,
editor Of the Austin Dispatch. II
the Statesman tells the truth about
Leader he is n fraud and man
wholly destitute Of moral oharac-
ter.
"A little school girl ten years
old was outraged by a young white
man named PcvctO, near Dexter,
Cook county Tho young man
belongs TO II very respectable
family and at last accounts had
escaped.
San Angelo Enterprise: A.
D. Grisby, the first man 10 put
!plow into Japan prairie several
years since, is breaking up land
for fall planting. Grisby is an old
Californian and Is in no way DIS
couragcd by the droUlh.
The fools are not all dead.
At HoganvlIIe Sam Hart, a young
man pointed his gun at Bill VIII
liam, negro, and pulled the trig-
ger. Bill will 90 through the
world with one eye if he RECEIVERS.
Sam did not know the gun was
loaded.
Miss Jennie Foster, who claims
to have lived with Carries J. Long
holso, of San Antonio, for several
years as his wife, now sues him tor
S12, 800 damages because he refuses
to marry her. Ho and his attor-
neys claim that it is a Matchmaking
scheme.
Tho Caldwell News OF last
week reports the death of two
Texas veterans. w. w. Hawkins,
an old settler of Lee county, died
on the 10th inst. aged II. Charles
Covington, of Caldwell, in carly
times Il citizen of Washington
county died on the 20th inst. aged
IS years.
"A Hampstead special TO the
Houston Post says, Judge McFar-
land, of Brennan came down yes
terday (tho 22d INST to hear ovi-
dcncc in the case of J. W. J. Cloud
charged with the murder of Joe
Farr, on habeas corpus, Alter