Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-09-20

AN-Noo aib dSui( lOulE, DC
tween Fort Worth and Wealth
ford.
= Obenchain, Pointer and
Rosser, the murderers of DIR.
Calder at Dallas, have been adj
mitted to bail in the sum of
$1,000 each.
"A Paris paper reports the
escape from Sulpher Springs
jail Of Taylor Pounds, who had
been sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for five years.
The cotton receipts of Aus
tin on Tuesday were 100 bales
quotations 8 to 8 ga. Bren-
hams quotations the same day
were fully half a cent higher.
A concert at Paris. netted
SI5I.75 for the benefit of the
fever sufferers. The Hebrew
Benevolent Association also
sent SIS.
-Tramps ego South" is
the. advice given by the Burnet
Bulletin. Cotton pickers get
81 a hundred in the district
south of Austin.
= A Sherman tavern keeper
has discharged his negro dining
room servants and substituted
pretty white girls. He will soon
have all the boys in town board
ing with him.
One DR.. G. w. Cole, took
charge of the Sturgis Hotel at
Waco, with great horn-tooting.
After a weeks experience he
"absquatulated." The grocers
and butchers miss him.
"A boy named VIM. Triba-
them, was killed while leading a
horse to water in Blanco coun-
ty. The rope became entangl-
ed about the boys arm when the
horse ran off dragging the boy
over rocks killing him.
E. Baumgart, who keeps a
saloon in Richmond, Fort Bend
county, was shot by a man
named J. H. Jones, simply be-
cause he refused to set up the
beer. Bar keepers will take
warning.
Mr.. James Burke, Sr., an
old and well known citizen Of
Houston. and for. forty years a
citizen of Texas, has been deliv-
ering lectures to the colored
people. The lectures are high
ly commended.
On the 2oth of August a
man having three horses, a
wagon, trunk of clothes, ETC.,
etc, camped near. Lebanon
church Dallas county. He dis
appeared leaving his property.
A.foul murder is conjectured.
The Dallas Call gives E.
H. Gruber, the late cashier of
the defunct State Savings bank
a complimentary send off.
Gruber has been accused of
crookedness in the manage
ment of the bank. Gruber now
goes to Colorado.
The Statesman reports the
first highway robbery of the sea-
son in the vicinity of Austin.
An old colored man who lives
seven miles from town, was on
his way home with $50 in his
pocket when he was waylaied,
knocked off his horse and re-
lieved of his money.
The Richmond -Four Com
ties reports a deplorable condi-
ton of affairs in Fort Bend
county. This condition is
brought about by unreliable la
Dor; as an evidence it is stated
that the cotton fields are white,
but deserted. Pickers cannot
be had for money. while the
streets are filled with negro pol
iticians.
On the evening of the 18TH
when the jailer at Gonzales went
to feed the prisoners, ten in
number, made a rush at him.
Jas. Zumalt, a horse thief, was
in the lead ready to strike him,
but the taller being too quick
shot and killed Zumalt. The
others then retreated to the
cage in good order.
= An attempt was made to
assassinate Harry Shelby in
the Fourth Ward in Houston.
About II o'clock at night three
men rode up to his house and
calling him to the gate opened
fire on him. Shelby escaped;
it seems that he is a fiddler and
the shooting grew out of his
hddling.
Hon. R. Q. Mills speech at
this place last Saturday was
very able and eloquent, and
was delivered to a large, atten-
tentsve and appreciative audi
ence. The courthouse was
filled to its utmost capacity,
many not being able to get
near enough to hear the speech.
-BsltOn Journal,
- A very cold blooded at
tempt at murder was made at
the house of a Mr.. Lynch who
lives near Hampstead. Lynch
was called from his bed at two
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