Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-08-01

not favored WIN an ADVERTISE
ment and to vent his splecnf the
editor and proprietor, announ-
ced that Dan Rice was dead
and had been III that mournful
condition for more than one
fifth of a century. This asscr-
ton was reiterated several times
until at last Dan Rice. the vcr-
liable and only original Dan,
put i'll Il PERSONAL appearance
and demonstrated his existence
in the flesh. This, too, was
Corrected with the supple
mental remark that Dan was i'll
very bad company.
In addition to managing the
morals of this community and
running the city government,
S. G.Spann, editor and proprie-
tor of the Texas Seminal has
undertaken to run the building
of the Santa Fe railroad, and by
virtue of being the so-called
official organ of the city to give
the only authentic information
concerning the progress of said
road.
Not long since this selfstyled
official organ announced that
the machine shops of the Santa
Fe railroad has been located at
Bellvllle. The BANNER stated
that the shops had not been 10
Gated, but the Sentinel insisted
that they had until at last it was
compelled to back down and
correct"
Grandson Spann, son of S.
G. Spann editor and proprietor
of the Texas Sentinel, not long
since had a difficulty with an
other boy and cut him with a
knife. The BANNER reported
the facts in the case as near as
they could be learned, without
making any comments on the
same. Grandson Spann after
an absence ofseveral days came
back to town and surrendered.
In due time preliminary exam
ination was had before the JUS
tice Of the peace and Grandson
Spann was held in a bond OF
500 to appear before the coun-
ty court. The BANNER duly
chronicled this too. The Senti-
mel then accused the BANNER of
disappearing the facts and
gave garbled extract of the
evidence favorablet o his.son, to
prove it, but wholly neglected
to say that the boy had beer
bound over-perhaps he forgot
this part of the proceedings.
Mr.. Hepple. poor man, the
keeper of a fruit stand was a
witness, and perhaps, giving
testimony unfavorable to the
young Spann, has been the vic
tim of two and perhaps more
personal attacks through the
columns of the moral paper.
In giving an account of the
shooting of Burch in this city,
few days ago, the Sentinel said
that John Hardin took Doran's
pistol away from him while the
shooting was going on. Upon
on the authority OF Doran him.
self we are authorized to say
that this is false. Doran gave
his pistol to John Hardin as ex-
planned in his published state
ment and which can be verified
by fifty or seventy-hve men who
witnessed the transaction. We
relate these incidents regarding
Doran not to defend him, but
simply for the purpose of illus
trating the general character of
the Texas Sentinel, S. G.
Spann, editor and proprietor.
The matters herein stated are
plain facts and are not over
drawn or written-up. We think
they are amply sufficient to
show the amount OF reliability
there is in the statements of the
Texas Sentinel, S. G. Spann,
editor and proprietor. What
we have related are but a SAM
pie" of the general course of
this moral sheet.
The BANNER makes it a rule
to treat all contemporaries
and it thinks the
press of the state will bear it
out in this assertion; there is
nothing we so much dislike as
personal illusions to
any contemporary, but in this
instance we think the course
pursued by the Seminal de-
mands that we set ourselves
right before many of our read
ers who cannot properly I'M
why we should remain