Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-10-14
STATE NEWS.

10.
] Coles circus will take in Cen
trail Texas tho latter part of this
month.
Tho anti-monopolists are about
TO hold county convention in
Bell county.
"A negro man was killed by
lightning on Onion crock near
Austin last Saturday.
The Temple Times says a -four
mill is one of the possibilities for
Temple in the near future.
Fort Worth will have races
November 9th. Brcnham's races
will come off November 10th and
IIlth.
Tho Caldwell News says the
! prospects for u top crop OF cotton
were never better in Burlcson
county.
Governor Ireland has again
gone out camp-hunting for Il few
days. 1t is nice thing TO have Il
quiet state.
Tho Houston flour mill Is
about 10 be ra-cstablIshcd. For
two years past the mill has not
been successful.
Gold mines are supposed to
cxist in the mountains near San
Marcos. In former times the mines
were worked by the Mcxicans.
Tho dcngue fever has had Il
walk-over in n good many Texas
towns this fall. Brennan has been
lucky in having had but few cases.
At Fort Worth the other day
a ten-year-old boy was entlccd into
Il saloon and made drunk. The
boy is very sick and may not re-
cover.
The fusion convention at San
Antonio held until 2.l5 Sunday
morning. knights of Labor, Re-
publrcans and everything but Dem
ocrats were nominated.
The antr-monopoly party is
hard at work in various portions
tions OF the state. The truth is
anti-monOpoly is antl-Democracy
and the drift is Republican.
Tho straight Republicans of
Harris county met IN Houston on
Monday and put straight county
ticket in the field. They propose
making thorough canvass of the
county.
AN alligator three and n half
feet long escaped from a Dallas
garden some days ago and went TO
roost in sewer. Ho camo out in
search OF negro babies for break.
fast when il was killed by some
boys.
Ed. Rosscau, q man who was
recently killed in Taylor, formerly
resided in Travis county where he
killed two men; he always managed
TO have the law on his side, but
having been killed the law don't
help him any now.
-Rcv.F. J. Tyler, of Gaines
vile, was in Waco last Sunday and
preached a regular Sam Jones
Sam Small sermon. He got after
the married men who do not pay
as much attention to their personal
morals as they ought to.
james OdeIl was TO have had
a hearing on habeas corpus before
Judge Cook at Galveston. Odoll
is charged with the murder OF
Charles QuinIan, during tho sitting
of the Democratic state convention
in August last.
Hiram Featherstone, alias
Luther Martini a prosperous farm
or living near Dallas has been ar
rested on the charge of numbering
a man in st. Francois county, Mo-,
about six years ago. He denies
the charge and says he Is from
Colorodo.
Tho so-caIlcd anti-monopolists
in Bell county arp growing very
aggressive, says the Journal. These
same anti-monopolists want 10
start monopoIies of their own, they
are mOnopOlists themselves, and
there is really no end to the mo-
nopoly except their ability to carry
it out.
AN old and important land
case was brought up in the district
court at Galveston on Monday.
The case is that of Esther Y. LEA
que, el al, VS., J. 9. Watraqs and
involves the title 10 lands worth
100000 and situated IN William
son county. The case has been in
court some thirty years.
The town of San Marcos has
organized a reading room and
library association. 1t is usual IN
such cases to organize with q great
flourish of trumpets, but the en-
thuSiasm is usually short lived.
1t is to be hoped that San Marcos
will do better and that her hbra=
ry may DO permanent institution.
-Lleut. Beaumont Buck of COM
pauy D, Sixteenth Infantry, is soon
TO be married TO the daughter of
Major Barrand of tho Eight calval-
ry. The wedding will take place
at Fort Mcintosh. Lieut.. Buck is
Texan who had some trouble at
West Point and who for some time
had considerable newspaper motor
ietY.
The Richmond Opinion seem
to have an original opinion in re-
gard to the cotton business. 1T
says; 'Iess cotton is shipped from
tins section than usual owing to
our merchants giving a higher
price than can be obtained in eth
or the Galveston or Houston mar
ket." What is Richmond gong TO
do with the cOtton-hold it until
cotton factories are started?
Tho Galveston News of Tues
day gives full report OF tho trial
of James Qdoll on habeas corpus