Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-05-31

ed by hire. Incendiarism is sus-
pected.
- The Comanche Chief of
last week puts on his war paint
and feathers and goes for w. S.
]. Adams III the most savage
style. He also makes pass at
the exchange fiend.
Contracts have been let
for supplying the post at San
Antonio with forage, 10000
busheles each of corn and oats
are required, the price is 37I-2
cents for corn and SO cents for
oats.
- The GAINESVILLE Banner
says two-thirds of the business
houses of GAINESVILLE were de-
stroyed by the recent fire. The
aggregate loss is over 100000
of which not more than ten per
cent was insured.
More assistance has been
sent sheriff Meadows, of Ste
phens county, who is in pursuit
OF the Bass layout. Bass and
gang are splendidly mounted
and armed. They ride in open
daylight and are defiant.
= The Houston Tcllg,am
contains sensation account of
how a corpse en- route to the
graveyard suddenly came to
life in the coffin, raised a racket,
was released and went home,
thus running frst-class funeral.
j. F. Vaughn, a merchant
at Rock Church, McLennan
county, was brutally murdered
by four or five desperadoes on
Tuesday night. They entered
his store ostensibly to buy
goods and at once opened fire
on him. The robbers escaped.
Rev. J. J. Davis, a resident
of Mustang prairie in the east
ern part af Falls county, was
found lying dead in the puplic
road, shot by unknown parties.
Mr.. d. was prominent man, a
Baptist minister and a delegate
to the county convention
Marlin Bali.
Taylor Pounds, indicted
for incendiarism in having set
fire to the building which result
ed in a disastrous confagration
in Paris, has got a change of
venue and had his. case trans
ferred to Dallas. He made a
very narrow escape from lynch
ing at the time.
Two men at Eagle Pass
were sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for ninety-nine years each
for murder, and for fifty-one
y ears each for other offences,
making nice little terms of $50
years each. Many changes will
have taken place before their
sentences expire.
"A difficulty occurred IN the
county court room at San Saba
during the trial of a local op-
ton case, one Brown was about
to shoot the county attorney
when the latter's law partner
fired and killed Brown. Ken
dali who did the shooting was
arrested by order of the court.
- The grand jury of McLen-
nan county found ninety-nine
bills of indictment. For the
first time since the war, the
grand jurors were paid their
fees in lawful money. The
grand jury submitted an elabor-
ate written report. They visit
ed the county poor-house and
found it well kept and the in
mates well cared for and salts
fed.
= Victoria Advocate: a
band of Mexican gypsies are
doing this city. Burglars are in
town. Willis Fields, a young
negro, plead guilty to rape on
a young white girl and was sem
fenced to forty years in the
penitentiary. He is only four
teen years old. DIR. Jett Pin
card proves himself to be an
unprincipled scoundrel and leav-
es for parts unknown.
= The Headlight thinks if the
Georgetown folks cannot build
a wide guage or narrow guage
road, why then the next best
thing they can do, is to build a
one-legged road. 1t seems that
they are bound to have a rail-
road if they can do no better
than to build an old-fashioned
fence-rail road by laying the
fence-rails erossways on the
road.
We have often heard ofbou-
quets of onions and cabbages,
but the Bryan Pilot thus comes
to the front:
Willis Ridley, an enterprising
colored boy, has placed on our
desk a bouquet of green apples
of the size of a hen-egg, from his
place northeast of town.
Which was the size of a hen
egg, the apples or the bouquet
-Bastrop Adverhser:: Wheat
is being harvested in the differ
emf portions of the county, and
pronounced generally of very
fine quality Col, Jones har-
vested twenty-five acres of
wheat the, early part of last