Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-11-29

A woman LIVING nearDen

ison chops down tress and cuts
them up into cord wood. Her
husband hauls the wood to town
and sells it, and as might be
supposed in a case of this kind;
brings the money home.
Illinois greenback journal:
Monday, November q green
back menl Register! You can
not vote unless you register.
Same journal, Wednesday, No
vember 6. "You might as well
have omitted to register.
- Nine De Parguet, color
ed woman, native of Hayte,
is in Dallas lecturing on "Hayti
and the Haytiens; their Man
ners and Customs" She was
educated in England andis said
to be a very fine speaker.
= At Dallas E. J. Garner, in
dicted fol-. killing John Jones was
lately released after years
confinement in Jail, was shot
while setting with his family.
Bill Jones, "a brother of Johns
is supposed to have done the
shooting.
= Jas Paris livery stable, in
Denison, together with SO horses
and rs carriages were burned
on Tuesday morning. The
stable was wood and the flames
spread SO rapidly that the hands
barely had time to escape.
= 1t is charged that gross
Irregularities were practiced at
the Eagle Lake polls in Colora-
do county; among other things
many minor freedmen voted.
A correspondent of the CIhseu
suggests an investigation of
these frauds.
Morgan steamers have re-
sumed regular trips from Indian
ola to Havana with fat cattle.
The company supplying this
trade have enough stock on
hand IN their pastures for two
months supply. They will be
in the market again by the Ist
January.
= In the suit of Shirley VS..
II. & T. c. railway, at Waco,
the jury rendered a verdict in
favor of the plaintiff for SIoI,-
900. 1t was for work done
amounting to sS5oo.4I and ac-
tual and exemplary damages
The railroad will carry the case
to a higher court.
= At Hearne a negro barber
named Winston, attacked a
white man from Milan county.
on the railway track and robbed
him of $40. The man then
made his way to convict camp.
A sergeant started in pursuit OF
the thieving mig with bloohounds
and soon overhauled him.
A preliminary survey has
established the fact that the
town of Mexia can be supplied
with water from springs in the
neighborhood. as the springs
have an elevation of 70 or Is
feet above the town. About
the only thing required to give
the place water works is money.
= Milan county has had
Democratic Administrations, the
county is out of debt and Jury
and county scrip is at par. In
Washington county the case is
very different, scrip is very slow
sale at 70 cents. This shows
the difference between a radical
and Democratic county adj
ministration.
MIR. All. Abeel while re-
turning to Waco from a trip
was encountered by mounted
robber, who invited him to
stop. He reversed his loaded
buggy whip and knocked the
rascal from his horse, after
which he gave him a sound
drubbing and left him laying in
The road.
Bolton Journal "Hancocks
defeat is most certainly mis-
fortune for the district and
sad calamity for the Democracy
of the entire State. Jones may
be classed as an independent
Democrat or what not, but he
was the special favorite of E. J.
Davis, and his election may be
regarded as a defeat ofthe De-
mocracy."
= Bellville Beacon, 23d inst
Wild game plentiful - Gull
lud folks below par election
is over. - But little cotton
now remains in the fields to be
gathered. - The Santa Fe is a
thing for future generations to
think of. - Austin county will
have thousands OF pounds of
meat to sell. - The yield of
corn is not so heavy as at first
anticipated BASE ball on Sum
day. = The ribbon cane crop
is fine. Grinding has eommen-
ced and the yield is excellant.
= August Whitman, an Aus
tin hack driver, was found dead
in a pasture in the suburbs of
that city on Monday, by boys
out rabbit hunting. He had
been shot or stabbed. When
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