Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-09-05

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tendance large and conversions
by the hundred.
- \ Cemanche niger calls
the local option law the cocoa
loption" and thinks it will kill
the town if carried.
A base ball match game
at Dcnison makes over a col
umn local in the Denison papers.
Locals must be scarce.
- A surveying party.of the
Dallas, Cleburne and Rio Gran
de railway is now fifteen miles
northwest OF Cleburne.
= y gang of three counter
feiters were captured BY mar
shall Shardein at San Antonio /;
tools, metal and woulds were
found.
R. c. Brady, a printer,
who had lately worked in Madi-
sonville and Centerville, was
lately found murdered a few
miles from Bremord.
- Flatonia is keeping fully
up with the times and has es-
tablished a public free school.
If properly managed it will
prove eminently successful.
= At Victoria the people vo-
ted IS for the city taking charge
of the public schools to 2I2
against it. They are satisfied
to let well enough alone.
- The survivors of Ho DIS
Texas Brigade living in Calves
ton held a meeting on Tuesday
and adopted the report of the
committee previously appointed
There is something in the
atmosphere that propogates
newspapers says the B:owns-
vile Democrat. Three papers
have been started in the last
week.
"A fight occurred near Fay
ettcv!lle, a few days ago. be-
tween two Bohcmians; one conf
pfetely disembowelled the other.
BY close attention he may re-
cover.
= John Parle, a braIesnan
on the NJ, K. and I. railroad
suicided at Denison by taking
fifty cents worth of morphine,
He had been taking too much
whiskey.
= An old negro man was
murdered near Hcarne, by one
Mann, an overseer. Mann Was
arrested and in an attempt to
escape was shot and severely
wounded.
- San Saba is much excited
over a case of small pox. The
patient has been isolated and a
strict guard is kept to prevent
any communication with the
patient or nurses.
= An ancient spur of enor-
nous size was recently plowed
up on a farm in Bell county.
1t is supposed to have belonged
to some of the Spaniards that
first explored Texas.
A negro boy was tried by
jury at Gonzales, for disturbing
the peace, and fined SIS. A
new trial was granted; the pris-
oner plead guilty and was fined
S.. He made $40 very easily.
i'm 1872 it was charged that
J@W. Skinner killed John Cur
don in Gonzales county. In
1876 he surrendered and has
since been out on bond. A
few days ago his securities gave
him up.
= Col. R. F. Roundtree,
formerly surveyor of Llano
county has been arrested and
taken to Austin by the rangers.
He has the distinguished honor
of being the first victim of the
legislature land frauds commit
tee. -
--iIouston's quarantine de-
prived the Galveston greenback-
ers ofsthe pleasure of hearing
Wash Jones great greenback
speech. He got as far as Nc
Dade and turned back. He will
talk to them before he goes to
Washington.
= Mack..Potter and Dell Dub
lin, two of the Pegleg state rob-
beers, examined at Austin. have
been held in bonds of $4,000
each. Capt. Roundtree, of LA
no, charged with land crooked
ness has been held in $1,000
bond, having waived examina-
ton.
"A St.Louis detective de-
tected detective named Mey-
ers at Bracket and arrested him
on a charge of robbing the
Adams express company at Os-
wego, Kansas, four years ago.
When arrested Meyers was en-
ployed as a private detective
by Gen. Mckenzie.
- Henry w. Haynie was
tried for horse stealing and &C
Quilted by the Williamson
county district court. He was
SO highly elated at his success
that he did not wait until the
term of court closed before he
went to stealing again. He is
again in Jail. -
"A fearful accident occurred .
at Maj. PENIS Lampasas camp .
meeting. A large coal oil lamp
fell, spiiling the burning oil on
Two ladies and a child; one of