Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-09-27

| prostitutes.
- An attempt will be made
to start circulating library in
Dallas.
The Marshall Herald COM
pares the voice of Gen. Ham,
man to that of a saw mill.
- Mrs. Nash, of Paris, died
from an overdose of morphine,
taken for quinine by mistake.
- Cardwell of the Statesman
is said to be very puny. His
present weight is only about
800 pounds.
= The Headlight says Ham
cock will carry all the northern
counties of this district except
Lampasas.
= A county newspaper adj
vertises for an even thousand
paying subscribers. 1t will get
'em-over the left.
= The population of Pleas
anton is rapidly increasing,
Two girls and boy were ad-
ded last week.
Fifty cents and board is
the price paid cotton pickers in
Marion county, There is plen-
ty of them at that rate.
- The Round Rock Head
light has abandoned its patent
jacket and reduced its size,
Home papers are best in Texas.
= The Georgetown Record
says any man who is guilty of
starting a false report about yell
low fever should be thoroughly
punished.
= An exchange says that
the quickest way to reform is fof
all to run for office and each
man vote for himself. Texas is
rapidly approaching that point.
"A few days ago near
Pleasanton a negro named
Thomas Young stabbed Mr.. c.
o. Mcclure. Wages, has some
thing to do with it. Thomas is
in jail.
: The Bolton Iou,ual says
these Shanghai fences are
making much trouble in some
parts of the county" A Shan
hal fence is cattle, butnot hog
prof.
= At least twenty men sam
pie every bale of cotton brought
to Round Rock. Each sampler
extracts about half "a pound,
which after examination is
dumped on the street.
= Miss Mittie Caldwell, a
Dallas school teacher was ar
rested on a charge of unmerci-
fully whipping pupil. Alegal
investigation proved that the
charge was unfounded.
DIR. Cole, he late of the
Sturges House in Waco, who
was accused of skipping out,
publishes a card in the Dallas
H,ald denying the soft inn
parchment.
= Hon. J. D. Sayers spoke
to a large audience at Bolton
on the 18th inst. A report that
yellow fever was raging in Bel
ton prevented many from at
tending.
= tits said that the offer of
a dollar per hundred and board
is insufficient to induce some
of the Houston negroes TO take
to the cotton fields. Politics is
the business that keeps them
at home.
"A horrible affair occurred
a few miles from Rusk on
Thursday last. Horace Mosely
determined to kill Jasper Pryor.
He borrowed shot gun osten-
sibly to hunt squirrels, but
Pryor was the game he was
after. Finding Pryor sitting on
the door of a ginhouse and TAX
ing deliberate aim he fired on
him. Pryor fell, struck by one
shot. Mosely then shot and xii
led himself.
= Hugo Mueller who lives
near Cypress went to the house
of a Mr.. Viger, Viger's dog at
tackled Mueller and he shot it.
A war of words ending in fight
was next in order. Viger was
so badly beaten that he died in
an hour. Mueller was ar
rested and put under guard at
his own house. AT supper time
Mueller managed to give the
guards the slip. He is still at
large.
-Comanch has six dry-goods
stores, two groceries, two sa-
looms, two mills, one steam cot
ton gin, one furniture factory,
one saddle shop, one furniture
store, four blacksmith shops,
two hardware and stove stores,
three drug stores. three
hotels, seven lawyers and four
doctors, one newspaper, the
CHIEF, also tailors, milliners,
BARRIERS and shoemakers. Thir-
ty seven business houses adorn
the square, seven of these are
two story brick and stone, the
the remainder are frame. The
Fort Worth and Fort Yama
stage company has its head
quarters in Comanche with large
stables, blacksmith. and har-
ness shops.
WASHINGTON county held a
Democratic convention recently
and amonU other p,n,ec ,ue GEO