Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-10-11
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have agreed to give out of their
private means as much as is ap--
propriated by the comrnissio-
ners' court for the Improvement
of the wagon roads leading to
town.
j Hon. R. Q. Mills made a
rousing speach to a very large
crowd at Richmond, Fort Bend
county, on Monday. His speech
was regarded by the best men
present as complete walk over
for the Democratic principles.
-Galveston's greenback clubs
held ratification meetings on
Monday night. Each club has
its own favorities and its own
ideas. SO there seems but little
probability of their agreeing on
a county ticket.
= At Denison little boy
named Bobby Cook, by great
presence of mind and GOODNESS,
saved a playmate, a little girl,
who had fallen from platform
into a pond, where the water
was eight feet deep, from drown
ing.
Quite a little excitement
occurred on the passenger train
at Hearne on Saturday night,
caused by the appearance of a
Fayette Co. deputy sheriff and
squad who were searching the
train for the murderer of Capt.
Killough.
-Married.-At Austin, on
Tuesday evening, October 9Th,
Col. ]. NJ. Swisher and Mrs.
Bella French.
Col. Swisher is an old and
highly respected citizen OF Aus
tin; Mrs. French is the editor
of the Sketch Book.
Mr.. William Lochridge,
from near BRENNAN, has located
in Georgetown to engage in the
family grocery business for a
time, and then he will bring on
a stock of dry goods. He will
also act as agent for several in
surance companies.-GeorgetoaoN
SIN.
= An amateur Nimrod star
ted out in the woods near Den
ison to take a hunt; he rambled
about for some time, at last find
ing a partridge behind log.
He fired at the supposed bird.
John Darling's head was filled
full of bird shot. 1t was a mis-
take, that was all.
The East Line Railroad,
says the Marshall Herald, has
been completed a distance of
seventy miles and will soon be
running to Winnsboro, twenty
miles beyond Pittsburg. The
entire road has been built by a
few enterprising men without
help outside of the line.
"A deputy sheriff of Bosque
county recencly arrested Levi
Roach and William Saterwhite
in Hill county on the charge of
stealing mules. They are sup
posed to belong to gang of
horse thieves who Operate bet
ween Bell and Johnson counties.
| - Denton had a big scare !;
quarantined against Dallas;
arrested aDallas miller andJailed
him as a person from an infect
ed district; sent a committee to
Dallas to investigate. The COM
mite went to Dallas /; investi-
gated, found no yellow fever !;
returned home released theDal-
las miller and raised the quaran-
| tine.
-Flatonia Argus:, Gentle
men from the Black Jack springs
neighborhood report that the
vote in that precinct will be al
most unanimous for Hancock.
The colored clement is disposed
to support Jones, but it is sup
posed that many will fly the
track and vote the Democratic
ticket by the time election day
comes round.
"A party of Indians or In
dams and Mexicans are raiding
through the country. They kill
led three girls and a boy, by the
name of Dowdy, at the head
| waters of Johnson's fork of the
Guadalupe river. They have a
large herd of horses and are
making for the Rio Grande near
| Devils river. The scene of the
! murders was Is miles from Kerr
vile.
Freestone county was the
scene of two murders last week.
The Recorder says two young
men, in the southern part of the
county, went into field where
| two negroes were picking cotton
and deliberately shot them down
killing one and wounding the
other. William Martin man 90
years of age and his son were
fired on by assassins and the old
man instantly killed. As usual,
| no arrests were made.
The Navasota Tablet says
it has<been agreed by the exc
cutive committees of the DEM
ocratic and Greenback parties
to hold a peoples convention
the 10th inst. for the purpose of
making nominations Irrespective
of views entertainment on the
question of finace. This plan,
carried ont will result in the