Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-05-17
"A saloonist at Round
Rock was fined $500 for selling
liquor without license.

lquor without 4 license.
- AT Huntsville active pre-
parations for rebuilding are be-
ing made and one new house
is now nearly finished. The
Item will soon be out in all its
glory.
Waco wants two hundred
and fifty thousand dollar cotton
factory. We are afraid she
will want it some time. Sever
! al other places want the same
kind of a mill.
The Hampstead Courier
says the Radical state for coun-
ty officers, is nearly completed.
The places are all dished up to
white men of Hampstead leav-
ing but one minor office for a
negro.
= The Richmond -Four COM
ties says a good hotel with a
polite and sane proprietor
would pay in Richmond. We
presume that the present hotel
proprietor at that place is a
lunatic or insane.
The Telephone saws that
the greenback movement is not
heard of in Waco. The same
paper suggests that candi-
dates for county offices make
known their wants by announc-
ing in the papers.
Fort Worth will soon vote
for or against the repeal of the
hog-law. The city council is
divided about equally on the
question. By submitting it to
the people, the question can be
finally disposed of.
- The Canadian authorities
have been distributing arms and
organizing companies at var
ious points along the border.
They are preparing to welcome
the Fenians, with bloody hands
to hospitable graves"
= A duel was on the tapis
in San Antonio, between one
Burns and Lieut.. Turner, U. S.
A. Turner was the challenging
party; Burns reported the chal-
lenge and Turner was arrested
and confined at headquarters.
MATT WooDLIEF is now safe
ly locked up in the Houston
Jail. We learn from Col. LAM
bert that deputy sheriffs FAINT
and Morris, returned from Fort
Smith, Ark, on Sunday morn
ing brining Woodlief with them.
The Bellville Beacon puts the
name OF Hon. Seth Shepard at
its mast head as a candidate
for congress, subject to the ac-
ton of the State convention.
1t gives Mr.. Shepard a warm
endorsement and hearty sup
port.
An enthusiastic one-legged
railway meeting was held at
Hampstead on Friday last.
Twenty thousand dollars is wan
ted to complete the road to
Hampstead. A committee was
appointed to go out and look
for the money.
Cattle thieves are getting
very bold in the suburbs of
Houston, one gentleman had
his cows and calves to come
home with their ear marks
changed, horns sawed off and
tails cut; another gentleman
has lost six head outright.
"A refrigeratin house
has been put up at Houston for
the purpose of cooling vegeta-
bles preparatory to shipment in
refrigerator cars. The temper
ature can be reduced to 500
but is usually kept it from 400
to 500.
THE Waco Telephones May
Fest edition, containing a birds
eye view of the city of Waco,
shows commenable enterprise.
The mails, however, are not so
enterprising. We received
three numbers of the Telephone
by the last mail.
There is a movement on
foot to organize new county,
to be composed of part of Bell,
Coryell, Falls and McLennan.
The Examiner advises the peo-
pie to go slow. The organiza-
ton of a new county costs
money.
= Denison had one more un-
fortunate. Mollie Ritter. She
deserted her husband; came to
Denison; took the downward
track, getting lower and lower
until at last dose of morphine
and a grave in the paupers bury
ingground closed a miserable life
Lehman Brookmey er, who
eight years ago. whenssonly II
years ofage, was captured by
the Apaches and sold by
them to the Comanches, has at
last been returned to his mother,
He has entirely forgotten his
native language, the German,
but speaks little English and
much Indian.
A man named Robert
Mackey was shot and killed by
7. M. d. Turner. at Eureka. FIVE