Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-10-24

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the street crossings at will.
- Tramps are becoming
numerous and troublesome in
Bonham and the News Suggests
that they be made to move on.
Dallas expects that rail-
road will be built at once from
that city to Greenville, Hunt
county. 1t is already built on
paper.
= A new station and post
office called Marlborough has
been established nine miles
from Navasota on the c. and
NJ. railroad.
The Denisou Herald thinks
that city should have a work
Nurse for the benefit of those
chaps who arc unable. to pay
their fines. s-a
Ed. Young, indicted at
the present term of the Waller
county grand jury for the muir
der of Finklea, has been releas-
ed on 5000 bail.
Grasshoppers passed over
WaXahachie in clouds going
south. They SO obscured the
sun on Saturday that stars were
visible at II NJ. None stopped
in that vicinity.
Three men passed through
Hardin last week driving SO
horses stolen in Liberty county;
they were followed and two of
the men and all the horses were
captured in Jasper county.
Horace Alsup was shot
and killed by an unknown as
sassin at his home on the Ye-
qua IN lee county, last week.
The shot was fired from ambush
about II o'clock,in the day.
The Bastrop Advertiser
allowed two of its correspon-
dent to get into a controversy
in its columns and it now finds
itself under the necessity of re-
fusing further communications.
While Jack Mcdonald was
playing game Of billiards in a
Bastrop billiard saloon, some
one fired at him with a pistol
and came very near killing him.
No clue to the would-be assas-
sin. afaas2 aa.lET-
Juan Turner killed a Mex
lean on a ranch near Browns
VILE some time ago. It was re-
marked on the street corners
that Turner would not live till
Christmas. A few days ago he
was found dead with four bull
let holes in his body. ~ =
- Bill Loftin, a deputy sher-
iff of San Saba county, captur-
ed one Salliers, a thief. and on
the way to San Saba the thief
captured the sheriff7s pistol and
saddle bags and bidding him an
affectionate farewell rode off
leaving the sheriff to brood over !.
his loss. ~ - -
The Fort Worth Demo-
crat informs its country readers,
as did the. BANNER, that the in
PRODUCTION of the bell punch
has not changed the price of
drinks or the rate of trimmings
in the recorders court and that
the. officers are polite and atten-
tive. .-- d. .''-'''
Digging is going on in the
vicinity of Lampasas-they i'm
agine that the precious metals
can be found there. There is
no doubt but that there is plen-
ty Of gold and silver in the soil
and the best instruments to OBJ |
tain it are the hoe and pillow, not
the pick and shovel. r..
- At Kerrville a man named |
Baker, full of mischiefand wills
key, determined to shoot some
body or something; espying a
bell punch on a counter be
drew bead on his trusty Win |
chester and pulling trigger the
bell punch was reduced to
atoms. Baker was arrested.
= Mr.. Joseph Edmonson
shot and killed Mr.. Gum,
tavern keeper at whose house
he was stopping in Matagorda.
Mr.. Gum entered his room at
a late hour at night and Mr..
Edmonson installing him for a
robber shot and killed him. He
is very much grieved at the un-
fortunate occurrence. |
- The other day two men
rode up to Engle's store at
Bluff postoffice, four miles from
Lagrange, dismounted went
into the store and priced some
goods; one of them then drew a
pistol on Engle and bulldozed
him. They got $500 i'll money
and some goods, after which
they mounted and rode off.
= Nip Walker, a somewhat
celebrated horse thief in north
ern Texas, has just been given
ten years by Dallas jury, with
two more charges veto answer.
Walker has young wife who
was present in the court room
when the jury came in. y far
mer who was in court remark
cd, That's purity rough. feel |
fo- his wife; but this hos5-thiev-
ing business is got to be stop