Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-06-14

newspaper WITHOUT money
JAMES Nc CLosKY, of the de-
funct Galveston Mdebendent, is
now in the Galveston Jail in de-
fault of the payment ola SIoo
fine for libel.
= The remains Of an infant
were discovered under a bridge
over a small gully in the Fourth
! Ward, Houston. The child had
been killed. No clue to the
| unnatural mother.
The Falls county Green
hackers are going to put a tick
ct in the field. The Ball says
twill divide the negroes and
will be good thing for the
Democracy.
= The court of Appeals has
reversed the Grissom case be-
cause Judge Cook permitted the
jury to separate during the re
cess of court. Grissom's attor-
neys are delighted.
- The Rockdale Messenger
tells how a whole family was
poisoned by using milk which
was imprepnated with cotton
worm destroyer. After three
dayssickeness they all recover
ed.
The number of convicts
semitic the Huntsville peniten-
tiary continues to increase. On
January Ist 1873 the number on
hand was 1869 and on June Ist
1860 being an increase of 100
in FIVE months.
On Monday afternoon
there was a very severe storm
on Walnut creek in Travis coun-
ty. The rain fellin torrents and
the wind blew hurricane.
Corn was laid fiat and fences
blown down.
= The Georgetown SIM
learns that several more business
men are coming to that place
and that there will also be buy
ers of cotton, wool, bones and
hides so soon as the railroad is
complete. "Jess SO"
The Marshall Herald says
young Keller has been arrested
and taken to Austin IN the post
office robbery case, notwith-
| standing the fact that he had
been discharged by the United
States commissioner.
= Bass is not lost, his where
bouts are well known and not
| less than six different squads
are in the vicinity, each endeav-
ering to catch hun. When last
heard from Bass and his band
were on Hickory Creek ten miles
north of Denton.
Bass and company, when
last heard. from, on Monday
morning, were fifteen. miles
northwest Of Denton, where
they. were supplied with a thou
sand rounds of ammunition and
fresh horses. June Peak arriv-
ed at Denton on Monday night.
= The Waco Mai Fest Asso-
citation find themselves in debt
$3.50 on the last Mai Fest. A
number of persons who sub
scribed have failed to pay,
thinking, no doubt, that they
had done their whole duty by
subscribing.
= Mr.. VIM. L. Boyd, a resi-
dent of Galveston has and enemy
During the absence of Mr.. Boyd
and his family stranger entered
the house and pouring coal oil
on the floors ignited it and
took his departure. A negro
boy who was on the premises
gave the alarm and the fire was
extinguished.
"A Dallas store was burg
larized and the safe robbed of
5000 or 500. The Commercial
moralizes: at is difficult to
find a safe place for money. If
you put it in bank you lose it.
If you leave it in your safe you
are robbed" In this part of
the moral vineyard the trouble
is getting money, not keeping
it.
"A fellow named Lantz
slandered two respectable ladies
in Houston. They armed them
selves with cayenne pepper,
cases and apistol Meeting Lantz
on the street they pepered him
him and applied the canes to his
back, he run off and they shot
at him He then had the tenn
Gritty to make complaint against
the ladies'.
The Mexia Ledge, learns
from Capt. Shead, of Mt. Calm,
that a curious disease has brok-
en- out among some cattle that
he hadgathered. 1t seems the
cattle froth at the mouth and go
mad, after which they straggle
off and soon die. They are in
clined to lie down and to get to
water whenever they can, thus
showing that the disease is not
hydrophobla. The captain says
half the cattle have died of the
disease.
Bass has six men with him,
identified as Underwood, jack |
son, Barnes, Johnson, Carter
and Henry Collins. They are
well mounted and armed. For