Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-07-12

= Maj. G. Ragsdale assum-
es control of the Caldwell Eagle
for the next few weeks. Maj.
R. is an old printer and exper-
fenced newspaper man.
= There seems to be a strong
probability that the Texas and
Pacific Railroad will soon be
extended from Fort Worth to
Weatherford in Parker county.
Col. John II. Herndon
died at Boerne, Kendall county
on the 9th inst. He was 65
years of age. Col. Herndon
was an old Texan having came
to the State in 1887.
= That steam engine has ar
rived at Hampstead, but as it
brought neither cisterns or hose
with it. the Hcmpsteaders have
for the present to content them
selves with looking at it.
"A train on the Texas and
Pacific road went through a
rotten bridge a mile east of
Bagwell's station. An old lady
named Mrs. Bagwell was killed,
and ten or twelve other passen-
gers were more or less injured.
The Galveston Wears notes
the arrival at that place of 500
bars of railroad iron and the
necessary spikes and fish plates,
for the Santa Fe railroad. A
contract for grading seventeen
miles of road this side OF Rich
mond and to the Austin county
line has been lei.
= We have often heard of
bottles picked up on the sea
coast, but it remained for some
Milan county fishermen to dis
cover bottle in the Gabriel.
1t contained the fly-leaf of a
book inscribed; Come up after
me. l am captured. Yours. J. c.
White"
"A adctachment of The Giles
pie Mounted Rifles has started
out from Fredericksburg for the
purpose of capturing man
charged with attempt to COM
NIT rape. The capture order to
the men was; Don't shoot UNI
til it is necessary; but | hope it
will be necessary to do SO.
= Two colored women, Eliza
Kelly and Patsy Jones, engaged
in a free fight near Eagle Lake
Colorado county, Tuesday, soon
It was discovered that Eliza
was getting the best of Patsy,
when Jim Jones, husband of
Patsy, pulled Eliza off and STAN
ped her, from the effects Of
which she died.
= Denison has just enjoyed
a very choice bit of scandal. A
we'll known citizen about a year
ago got married. A few days
since he had an occasion to
leave home on journey to
Sher nan; upon his return he
discovered that his trusted and
dearly beloved wife had eloped
with his own brother.
: The Waco Telephone on
general principles is opposed to
mob law, but in view of the fact
that not night passes but one
or more houses are burglarized,
it thinks a dose of buckshot or
suspension to a lamp-post
would have a salutary effect,
provided, however, that the
burglars be caught.
The Austin Statesman
commends Throckmorton for
saying that the fees of assessor
and collector is too high and
that the costs of courts and
criminal is excessive. The gov
ernor does not make the laws;
hei simply an executive officer
These matters should be rene
died by the Legislature. Bad
laws should be enforced; that
makes their repeal certain.
The Comache Chief says
the people living in the vicinity
of Proctor, Comanche county.
want a good gin, grist and saw
mill in their community. The
neighborhood raises about 500
bales of cotton annually, which
would be ginned there if they
had a gin. This offers a good
opening for some man with
means.
The Goliad Guard says
the farmers of Goliad county
are enthusiastic over their sue
cess in wheat culture this year,
the general average being from
twenty to twenty-five bushels
to the acre. 1t is predicted
that next year there will be
from three to five thousand
acres sown in that county,
against about two hundred
acres the present year.
The Denton Homie, says
that Frank Jackson told his
brother Bill that after the en-
gagement of the rangers with
Bass & Co, on Salt creek in
Wise county, the time Johnson
was killed. they remainedin the
thicket fully an hour awaiting
the attack of the rangers. This
ceomc RI rorroborate the state