Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-08-23
-Houston's ouarantined st,

but one house.
Mr.. Jack Stewart, who
lives seven miles from Mason,
has captured two panther cubs,
about six months cid. He
keeps his pets at home.
Mr.. Ogden, wife and five
children and another lady and
two children undertook to cross
the Brazos in a wagon, near
Towash, three of Mr.. Ogden's
children washed out and were
drowned.
Go where you will, and in
every gathering of sovereigns
if you wait few minutes you
will hear some one d-n the
Brenham convention or its
nominee.-R0uRd Rock Head
light.
C. F. Grant, Presbyterian
preacher who has been conduc-
ting revival at Bryan for the
past week, proved to be another
man and is supposed to be an
imposter. Upon the exposure
he at once left town.
Bear Bend Grecnback club
of Montgomery county repudi-
ates the Republicans and de-
clares in favor OF supporting
the Democratic county and
Senatorial tickets. They pro-
nounce any individual endor-
sed by Radicals fraud.
= Houston is receiving
considerable quantities of ma
tive hay by the Texas Western
Narrow Gauge railway. The
hay is pronounced equal to
Western and a large trade will
be built up.
-CltlzenS OF Dickinson OBJ
ject to Galveston's quarantine
officers putting off any more.
passengers at that point. The
citizens of Hockey likewise OBJ
ject to Houston doing the same
thing and threaten to shoot
any one put off there.
"A Democratic meeting was
held at Calvert on Saturday,
rouslng speeches were made.
Fifty-hve new names were ad-
dcd to the club. ~ greenback
ratification meeting was held
and participated in by only the
negro Radical element.
"A sick and destitute sec
ton hand was left at the Union
depot in Dallas a few days ago
and as the city, the county nor
any one would attend to him
he made his way to a lumber
yard and when found was badly
eaten by red ants ; he was taken
to the city hospital to die.
-Bellville Beacon Cotton
worms have appeared on sew
eral plantations. Some will
poison and others say the worm
will be an advantage. =. .Coun-
try people all busy picking cot
ton -. Forty-one bales cotton
received for the week ending
Friday the 10th inst.
According to the Houston
Telegram an English gentleman
has been in that city who is
visiting Texas for the purpose
of buying lands; another Eng
fish gentleman has been max
ing an inspection of the piner-
les with a view of opening a
lumber trade with South Ameii-
can ports.
The susceptible and chart
table Dallas merchants were
successfully imposed upon by a
very beautiful girl aged about
fourteen years, who went
amongsthem soliciting aid for
an orphan asylum. An investi-
CATION revealed the fact that the
young miss was a beautiful"
fraud.
Let every Democrat who has
been induced to endorse the
Greenback party reflect that
that arch-Radical, E. J. Davis,
declared in his Austin speech
that the aim of the Greedback |
party was to break down De-
nocracy in Texas, and that the
best way to do it was tor the
Radicals to support the Waco
ticket in a body.-DeNis0A
Weaps.
The Sherman Register warns
other communities to be on
heir guard for a slippery, oily
cuss who. sails under
he name of Banncrton, Walton
Or Bonner, as occasion may re-
luire. He is dressed in con-
,entional black, has a dark
and dark hair, and
S generally progressing in his
and regular lady
liller."
= The Galveston Meas de-
,otes half a column to a descrip-
ion of how an accomplished
;racksman succeeded in rob-
,ing the money drawer of the
Bank Exchanges's faro table of
800 while the game was in
II is said to have
,een the cutest trick of the kind
:ver played in Galveston. The
hiefis supposed to have secre-
ed himself in the house and
loctcrcd the drawer for his OPP
ration.
"A heightened attorney
= G-I