Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-07-22
STATE NEWS.
Austin county holds her con
vontIOn on Saturday neXt.

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Cotton is opening in the vicinity
of Elgin and picking will soon be-
gin.
The BellvilIo Times looks for
n big boom in Its town IN the near
future.
"A correspondent ofthc Hemp
stead Courier wants the Sunday
law enforced.
- Paris will build new city
hall to cost at least $4,000; bonds
will be issued to pay for it.
Active preparations are being
made at Galveston for tho reunion
Of Dobray's cavalry regiment.
Tho ancient town of Nocogdo-
chcs is improving; the erection of
a new residence is reported.
San Angelo is nice warm
place; on Sunday last the Their
momctcr was 10 degrees IN the
shade.
Hampstead is TO have n new
paper this week, the Enterprise,
which Will give Hampstead four
papers.
"A Democratic Club of 143
members has been organized at
Beaumont; il is known as the Clcvc-
land club.
-Bcllvill Times: Prospects Tor
an overwhelming cotton crop in
the county continue to grow
brighter.
Tho Paris Gas Light company
has amended its charter SO rs to
allow the company to put up elcc-
trio lights.
On Monday evening the vicIni-
ty of Corsicana had q fine rain;
it WAS much needed and assures u
good cotton crop.
The Houston and Texas Cen
trail railway gave its Corsicana
employees an excursion TO the Trim
ity on Sunday last.
"A revival is in progress ut
Longview, and So great is the inter
est manifested, that the house will
not hold the people.
1t is reported at Austin that
Greer county has finally organized
with Mangum us county seat, which
is also post office.
Tho Bexar county convention
will be composed OF $50 members
moro than the state convention !;
it will be Democratic love feast.
Conrad Anschoike, of Calvert,
suicIded last Monday by taking
morphine. Business and domes-
tic troubles drove him to dcspcra-
ton.
First bales have began coming
IN. Galveston has already got her
first bale, and, on Sunday morning
the second first bale arrived at
Cuoro.
The primary convention at
Bolton resulted ina warm contest
over Saunders and Mills for con-
gress. Mills was somewhat in the
lead.
Sam z. Garrison, white man,
wanted $500 worth in Indiana, was
arrested and jailed at San Angelo.
Ho will be sent back TO Indiana at
once
Mary Cannon, an abandoned
woman, was murdered IN San An
tonic Monday morning by Santiago
Rodriguez, a Mexican. He has
confessed.
Judge Schulz, of Dallas, Judge
advocate of the knights OF Labor
assembly, has wired his resignation
to the assembly now in session at
San Antonio.
Mrs. NJ. Hausman, of Dewitt,
county, got the first bale of new
cotton TO Galveston on the 10Th
inst. List year the first bale was
received July %.
An up country paper acknowl-
odgcs the receipt OF watermelon,
worth perhaps two bits, in an odl-
toral notice of eleven lines worth
at regular rates Sl.10.
The invitation committee for
the Bcllvillc barbecue on the goth
inst. have invited Ross, Giddings,
Wells, Thompson and Moore to
attend and make speeches.
Judges Terrell and Hancock,
both returned to Austin on Mon
day. Terrell is much pleased
with the result in McLennan, which
endorsed him for United States
Senator.
Tho Austin Statesman gives a
column account OF a brutal assault
made upon Thomas Riley by a man
named Maurice Moore; the parties
are farmers and live ten miles in
the country.
Several wagons, laden with
families fleeing from the effects of
the drouth IN the west, arrived in
Dallas on Tuesday. The families
are in quest of work on the farms
and railroad extension.
The Corpus Christi Caller re-
ports the death of John Garner, q
native Of South Carolina, aged Sc
years and seven months. He came
to Texas in 1898 and moved to
Corpus Christi IN 1916.
AN unexhaustable supply of
stone coal is reported to have boon
discovered near WaldrIp, McCul-
Tough county; the vein averages
thirty inches in thickness and Is
said TO be of excellent quality.
"A revolution is SAID to be i'm
minont in the state Of TamaulIpas,
and it's stated that parties foment-
ing it are paying bounty of TWEEN
ty dollars to parties on this side of
the Rio Grande to so over and help |
them,
San Antonio has a few law
years, who, were they in q large
city, would be donomlnated shys- |
tiers. They go to the Jail and drum
the prisoners for business. This
is a practice that is not resortcd to
by honorable members of the legal
fraternity.
Tho commissioners court of |
Dallas county, has aDDrOuriatCd |