Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-08-20
STATE NEWS.

at Allen farm.
-Belton needs more rent houses
neat cottages.
Worms are running the cotton
around Terrell.
The State. treasury now con-
tains S2,000,000.
Cattle shipments were lively at
Victoria last week.
New corn is selling at 60 cents
a bushel at Victoria.
A new <. of P. lodge is soon to
be organized at Victoria.
The taxable wealth of Falls
county is now S6,000,000.
The machinery for the Denison
roller mill is on the road.
The boil worms at Briceville
are doing considerable damage.
The present Texas cotton crop
is estimated at S2,000,000 bales.
Many farms in Van Zandt coun-
ty will yield so bushels to the acre.
Jim Lighthall broke jail at San
Antonio recently but was recaptured.
There will be big confederate
barbecue at Anderson on the 10Th.
Pedro Benevides, a horse thief
of Duval county, has been captured.
Boil worms are doing consider
able damage to cotton in Grimes
county.
The rolls of Colorado county
show an increase of 500, 1863 in taxa
BILE values.
-Austin's new military company,
the Governors Guard, has been
chartered.
The Lee county tax rolls show
an increase in tsxable values over
last year of s92,25O.
The residence of the widow
Hess was destroyed by fire at
Gainesville recently.
Geo. Faulkner has been arrest
ed and lodged in jail at Fl. Worth'
charged with bigamy.
"A premium of S25 was given
The man who landed the first bale of
new cotton at Austin.
Between 375 and 400 CONVEX
sions are reported from Maj. PENIS
Bartlett campmeetng.
The building for the Greenville
Toolen mill is finished and the ma
,hinerY is on the road.
Bolton S last artesian well struck
water Friday at depth of 925 feet.
The water is quite cold.
The Quanah broom factory is
urning out from thirty to forty
lozen brooms per week.
The new Leeper-Boldrick build
ng at Denison has been completed
nd is ROW being occupied.
The boil worm is doing con-
iderable damage to cotton in the
Srazos bottom, near Marlin.
The deputy tax collector of t
'ecos county has skipped, and it
J rumored his cash is short.
The Lusk postofice has been {
Established, with Mr.. Knight as
ostmaster.-[Moody Courier.
About $3.50 worth of wolf scalps
Ias brought to the commissioners
curt at Corpus Cristi last week.
j. 7. O'Brien is under arrest at
)enison, charged with assaulting q
fargart Albertson, lady aged IS. 7
George Crozier and Samuel S
Iagnus are confined in the Travis
ounty jail, charged with theft and a
lander. 2
Miss Jelly, living near Corsi- Il
ana, started fire with kerosene re-
antly-clothes caught-wlll prob a
bly, die. i,
Edgar W. Mack. a prominent il
Dung attorney of Mckinney, is
Kissing. There is indications of &
'ul play. f,
-Quintana has been made post ii
fee, and new Office will be created
the new city and will be known j
J Velasco. k
"A new pump has been ordered a
II the public cistern at Ladonia. q
be artesian well has reached a
spth of 225 feet. A
The Marlin Ball has been pre- d
nted with beet weighing 81 o
FUNDS, 8 feet in length and 124
ches in diameter. CT
j. H. Cobb, of Wichita Falls, II
lot at J. G. Carpenter, OF that 81
ace Saturday, the difficulty grow
G out OF law suit. NJ
The body of an unknown man y
IS found Saturday on the banks of "a
IS Sandy, near Hawkins, in an ad- -,
need stage of decay. u
of the 800 teachers examined c ar
r certificates at the summer nor
al schools, only 254 passed a
editable examination. "a