Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-09-23
STATE NEWS.
BeIlvllle now has three meat

-Thcrc wore seven prisoners in
the Bastrop Jail last week.
Bcllvillc has received 1905
bales of cotton since August l.
Home raised grapes were sold
IN Bellvillc at 10 cents Il pound.
Cotton worms arc reported il
nearly every portion of Austir
county.
Cotton pickers are in demand
in Austin county at so cents Il hun
drcd and grub.
An abundant supply of water
for the Sherman watorworks is
now an assured fact.
The Bellville Times says the
corn crop IN the county is ample
for home consumption.
Prof MacFarlam, of the state
university will deliver the students
q lecture on earthquakes.
Gen. J. NJ. Knight, a prom
mont citizen ofTarrant county died
on Friday morning, aged 10 years
Miss Mamie Breeding has
been elected principal of the Cald
we'll free school for tho ensuing
term.
The Caldwell News propose
to run an Alliance column for tho
benefit of the Burleson county al
lance.
Tho Bellvillo Times claims
that its town is a cotton market
and as a trading point is equal to
the best.
Tho Democrats of Bell county
hold II convention at Bolton last
Saturday and nominated u full
county ticket.
-Dcnguc fever is now rapidly
abating in Sherman, patients are
convaloscing at the rate of about
thirty day.
j. P. Bridges, editor of the
Luling Signal, has taken the man.
agemont of the Luling opera house
for this season.
Philip B. Scott, resident of Bur,
Lesson county since 1886. died at his
home near Elizabeth Chapel, on
the 18th inst.
In Houston the campaign fol-
county officers has opened up in
earnest and speech making is the
order Of the night.
Hon. r. @. Mills spoke at Nc,
Oregon on Saturday to small au-
dienco. His main efforts were
against prohibition.
MIR. c. C. Garrett OF BRENNAN,
has been appointed a director OF
the A. and NJ. college, in place OF
Pfeuffer, deceased.
On Friday Senator Maxey and
others addressed q political gather.
ing of $500 people ut Carpenters
bluff, Grayson county.
Tho plague of bugs has put in
an appearance at Fort Worth and
Dallas. Down this way we have
had them for several nights.
Charley Reed charged with
stealing q mule in Brazos county
was captured at Muscogoe, l. T.,
and is now in the Bryan Jail.
"A young man named Robert
Mills was drawn into his gin
and literally ground to pieces at
Village creek, near Ennis, on Mon
day.
Bud Walker, a young man
from Arkansas, committed suicide
near Maxey, Lamar county, by
blowing his brains out with shot
gun.
= Laura Grain, mulatto girl Is
years old, is in tho Waco jail on
tho charge of infanticide. Her in
FAINT was found buried in the or
chard.
Columbus Citizen: The new
iron tank on the city water works
tower is about completed and the
town will have an ample supply of
water.
Charles Find, of New UIm,
informs the Bollville Standard that
the cotton crop in his section ofthe
county will be forty per cent short
Of last year.
"A Republican county conven-
ton was held in San Antonio on
and as usual with such conventions
It broke up in a row and without
doing anything.
Tho Sherman Register Is al
ways boasting of Its town and now
boasts that Sherman is ahead of
my town in the state in the mat
.cr of dongue fever.
The Dallas city council has
Inder consideration an ordinance
the keeping of bawdy
houses punishable by fine of from
300 to $500 for each day.
Oliver Castings, Waco negro,
Jays that the alleged Mrs. Anar-
,hlst Parsons was his wife; that she
deserted him and ran away with
Parsons. She is a quadroon.
j. J. Jacobs, formerly county
of Colorado county, was
ound dead IN Il field near Alley
on with two bottles by his side,
to have contained chloro-
orm.
". F. Pace, a prominent
Knight of Labor, has withdrawn
rom that organization, because, he
aid, the knights were preparing
o run a niger for constable in
Dallas.
Two car loads of provisions
or tho Runnells county drouth
were received and dis
on Friday. All actual
wants are now supplied for the
resent.
Tho Grcenville Banner says:
1t has rained now, and some peo-
lie who have depended on the rail
Dad pool for water tor months