Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-10-02
STATE NEWS.

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Ell Paso by private capital.
-Weatherford has received about
5000 bales of cotton to date.
The coal mines near Bridgeport
will probably soon be opened.
Wilson county farmers are hope
full of making a second cotton crop.
Parker county cotton is turning
out much better than was expected.
The Southern Pacific route is
to be shortened two hundred miles.
Waco is reaching out for rail
road to Thurber, and also to Llano.
The new cotton mill at Henri
eta, Texas, has commenced opera
tons.
e. NJ. Wirkheiser, sawmill, JEFF
ferson, Texas, reports the outlook
very good.
The cotton crop at the State re-
formatory at Gainesville, Melted the
state $500.
General Manager Judy is push
ing the Pecos Valley road for all it
is worth.
Dixie Williams is meeting with
good success in a revival meeting at
Texarkana.
"A wind and hail storm serious
ly damaged crops in Williamson
county last week.
Among the improvement pros
poets at Midlothian is the establish
ment of bank.
Taylor has voted tax to sus-
tain the city schools for ten months
by large majority.
Seymour is to have new lum-
Der yard, which will be opened by
the first of October.
John ,Byruns, of Austin feel
from a pecan tree ~ feet and broke
his leg day or two ago
An artesian well is being sunk
near Claude on the 400-acre tract of
land that recently sold for $4,000.
Farmers in Pleasant Valley,
Ellis county, find that corn is yield
ing much more than was anticipa-
ted.
Strangers are pouring into Sey-
mour on every train, and yet the
rush, it is expected, has as yet
scarcely begun.
Frank Campbell, colored, fell
dead on the streets of Bolton. The
supposition is that he died from
heart diseate,
Professor Ludring of the Sher-
man North Texas Female college,
has sent to Russia for his family,
who will make Texas their home.
There was a grand barbecue
and ratification meeting at Gaines
vile Friday in honor of ]. W. Bal
ley. Visitors from half a dozen
counties were present.
Louis Burris, small boy living
in the Union Valley neighborhood,
was knocked off his pony while
racing and remained unconscious
for several days. He is all right
now.
The Hon. J. P. Smith, Mayor
elect of Arkansas Harbor, it is under
stood has closed a trade with Cap
tain Smith and other heirs, purchas-
ing $4,000 acres of land belonging
to the Hynes estate,
"A poor man named Patterson
four years ago deposited SIS with
johnson & Lipscomb at Luling, and
apparently forgot it. The firm have
tried to locate him, and have recent
ly found him at Lockhart.
From reliable figures San An
gelo is proved to be the largest
wool market in the state; 3,261, 900
pounds were marketed there last
spring. One hundred bags four
months fall clip of wool sold there
Wednesday at Is cents.
Miss Byrd, of Lone Star, was
engaged to young physician at
that place. Andrew Chaser, ex-
press agent at Jacksonville, and an
old lover, came along and she went
with him to Tyler and was married.
Two men named Raimey and
Collins started to a cotton field near
Holland last Monday on horseback.
They decided on a race down the
road. One of the horses fell and
the other stumbled over him. Raj
mey was killed and Collins seriously
injured.