Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-07-05
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stition that sneak thieves con-
fine their operations to cities.
A veritable sneak thiefhas been
captured in Pleasanton and will
be sent to Huntsville to finish
his education.
-Denison offers the best
opening in the State for enter
prising hog raisers. They can
locate just outside of the city
limits, and thus save city taxes
while the whole town is open to
them as a hog rancho.
"A destitute family of white
folks was recently sent to the
Tarrant county hospital. They
complain of the poor fare fur
nished them and think the table
ought to equal that of a first
class metropolitan hotel.
= Henry Pringle is a Dallas
saloon keeper. Gus. Kleavis
owed him six-bits for he r
Pringle collected it by cutting
Kleavis' throat. The wound is
severe but not fatal. Pringle
then ran off and is still missing.
The Comanche Chief man
sends minister plenipotentia-
~ to call upon its delinquent
subscribers and informs them
that he will take anything they
have got, yellow legged chick
ems, runty pigs or stump-tailed
dogs.
= 1t is not warm enough in
Denison so the people propose
heating themselves up by hav-
ing religious discussion. FL
der Scott of the beautiful In
dian Territory will discuss the
question of Inhdelity with Capt.
H. H. Brown, an inhdel lecturer.
The prisoners. twenty
seven in number, in the Gaines
vile jail made m Intellectual at
tempt to escape last week.
They were discovered and driy-
en- back to their cells at tina
muzzles of Winchester rifles
and revolvers.
= Mr.. A. R. Martin, of Co.
manche county, has threshed
out his wheat, averaging nearly
81 bushels to the acre. He
sows the Genesce white wheat,
and says it is the best he has
ever found for this climate, af-
ter an experience of twenty
years in that county.
= Private John E. Hendrick,
of the Lamar Rifles, of Dallas,
died in Houston on Monday,
from the effects of injuries re-
ceived while bathing in the
bayou. He was buried with
military honors by the military
companies of Houston.
On Wednesday last a
United States deputy marshal,
arrested, in Denton county,
Warren Jackson and Ben A.
Key the latter a merchant do
ing business in Denton. The
two men are charged with Civ
in the Bass gang material aid in
various ways. They were ad-
mitted to bail in the sum of
$4,000 each.
The United States bar
racks at Austin are now un-
dergoing repairs and improve
ments preparatory to their oc-
cupancy by two artillery COM
panies of U. S. soldiers. The
barracks will be occupied as a
recruiting station for drilling
troops for the field A number
of officers will be stationed
there.
On Tuesday night an at
tempt was made to kill Jeff
Black, who is sick at the resi-
dence of S. E. Allen at Harris
burg. Black was lying in bed
when some one come to the win
dow and fired a load ofbuckshot
at him, ten or twelve shot
struck him in the face and neck.
He was not badly hurt, Black
is the man of many trials and
spent six or seven years in the
Galveston Jail.
John Sullivan, while under
the influence of whiskey fell
asleep on the Central railroad
track in Dallas. About I o clock
in the morning he was run over
by a train and his right leg cut
off just below the knee He
managed to tie his handkerchief
around the stump, but the
neighborhood being sparsely
settled. he was not discovered
until about seven o'clock in the
morning. He was then remov-
ed to the hospital, where he
died in about half an hour.