Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-03-28
; Whitesboro. a town some

of as suburb of the latter city.
= A number of valuable
mules and horses were stolen in
Bastrop county last week. =
Buckshot is recommended as a
remedy for horse thieves.
= AS spring approaches
geese and tramps go northward.
The Denison Macs reports large
numbers of tramps passing
through that town going up the
country.
= The benefit rendered the
Warde-Barrymore combination
at Dallas, on the 24th, netted
$500. Miss Cummins was pre-
sented with a Roman gold lock-
ct and necklace.
Victoria Advseate:: From
the number of new wagons We
see going to the country loaded
with supplies, implements, ETC.,
we should think our farmers are
prospecting.
= Last Monday was a field
day for the mayor of Denison
He had Is cases on his docket
at the opening of court; a rich
harvest of trimmings was rcaped
by the officers.
= Thirty car loads of pipe
for the Houston waterworks
have arrived from New York.
Before the end of the summer
Houston will be supplied with
water fir ,m the works.
= Fishing parties are all the
rage in various portions Of the
state. They are the rage here,
too, but the fish don't suffer
much as they are not plentiful
enough to be caught.
Weatherford has a variety
show; Oliver Adams, a bar
keeper and Bob Edwards, a
clog dancer, "dif1icultied." Ed
wards killed Adams with dirk
-Whiskey and women.
A cockpit is one of the
established institutions of San
Antonio. Its biggest day is
Sunday. No one living in the
neighborhood can keep a roos-
ter-they steal every one.
Parties are prospecting at
Bolton with a view to establish
ing a wooden factory. Its pro-
posed to invest $4,000 provi-
ded the BeItonites will take a
limited amount Of stock.
in Calvert, on the 24th, a
difficulty occurred in a saloon
between George Morse and
Jack Jones, sheriff. Several
shots passed; Morse dangerous
ly wounded; Jones unhurt.
- Martin Hand, late of Bell
county, but now of Waco was
met at the edges of Bell and
Mcclellan counties by two
maskers in open daylight and
relieved of sI2s in lawful mon
ey.
- The Galveston fire depart
ment will have a parade on San
Jacinto day if the council will
appropriate a thousand dollars
to defray expenses; if not, they
may go on excursion to Hous-
ton.
City marshal Sam Ball, of
Sherman, has been presented
by the citizens with a beautiful
solid gold badge appropriately
inscribed. 1t weighs forty pen
nyweights and cost the donors
500.
Bastrop is to have a fine
stock show sometime in April.
Many visitors are expected and
stock. owners in adjoining
counties are cordially invited
to bring their stock. Bastrop
invites competition.
Bastrop Adue,ase.; A
Knights of Honor lodge will
soon be organized in Bastrop. :
The meetings of the debating
society are exceedingly interest
ing. Twas always thus-with
debating societies.
= A revival is in progress at
Houston in Shearn church,
Methodist. Rev. DR.. John, of
the Texas Christian Advoeate
is assisting and already some
twenty adults have been
brought into .the shelter of the
fold"
= McMullin is a model
county. At the last term ofthe
county court there was not
single civil or criminal case on
the docket and only one pro-
bate case. The people are
quiet, prosperous and peacable.
= Capt. Kendall who is un-
der indictment for killing a man