Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-04-25

es of rain fell in four hours.
Everything was literally flood
ed. - = =
AZ Terrell, on Saturday
last, Dick Mitchell, negro, was
shot through a crack in his cab
in and fatally wounded. A wo-
man was at the bottom of the
trouble. 7sxs aag.ts. so
o. lis proposed to make a
flank movement on Austin by
building a cross railway from
Manor to Round Rock thus
leaving Austin off in one corner
to itself. EsH9b-iH -
- The telegram publishes a
dispatch from Palestine announ-
ces the capture of Goodnight,
Merrick and Goodnights wife
and nearly all the money stolen
from Fisher in Chambers coun-
ty. l'yep e'.
- Comanche has a club
which rejoices in the cuphon-
ious name Of THE Chaw Ter
hacker and Spit Yaller club"
It's heightened institution and
meets every Sunday afternoon
on the public square.
Two boys, aged respect
ively s and 1 3, left their fathers
house in Kimble county and ira
veled on foot and without shoes
all the way TO the Gabriel in
Burnet county They were out
five days, subsisting on parched
corn. ~, "a, il.,E.,7r ara,
| oi.-,Caroline Watsony a mar
ried woman aged about IS years
isIin the Sherman jail raving
maniac. She has been married
about FIVE years;:the cruelty and
brutality other husband is said
to be the cause of her unfortun-
ate condition. 9mdsrW anr
aiEA A little boy named Char
Hey Waller fell in a well at Ben
ton city, Atascosa county; there
was damp inpthe'well audit was
some time before Theology was
dfawnCout with grab hooks; he
diedssoon afterbcing rescued.
Last week an item appear
ed stating that a negro in Nc
Lehman county. While digging
for worms found a pot contain
ing $4,000 in gold. The Marlin
Ball re-models the story and,
reduces the amount found to
$685. 10 onii aigggfio
9.h-- Beaver trapping is1all the
gosin the upper country. Atrap-
ping party who were operating
on the 'SaniSaba have gone over
to the Llano river. gThey claim
that; there is more money in
trapping beaver than in stock
raising. .asGiolt1o,sfta % q
- A man supposed to be
Goodnight, alias Black, the par
ty who robbed Fisher Of $1,000
on Galveston bay, was killed by
an officer on Monday as he was,
getting off the train at Palestine,
Black had his pistol in his hand
trying to shoot. 1917 .
ae77 The dead negro found on
Snake creek, Fort Bend county,
last week proves to have been
from Wharton county and was
a professional thief; there is no
doubt but, that he was followed
and murdered; four dollars was
found on his person. ,:, 81
"a Fort Griffin, special to
FthecMrapS says the Kiowa In
dians from the Fort Sill reser-
ovation attacked three men
camped on'Waderer's creek, a
small tributary Of Red River, on
the 18th inst, killing and scalp
ing a man named Earl, ~
1.-The Richmond Refeet0,
saysregular trains on the Santa
7Fe road will be running to Gal
weston by May. Ist- Us Some 80
or 40 hands were engaged in
laying the rails to connect with
the Sunset route; the town has
not yet given the land fora de-
pot. Il, -
/, "A special to the Telegram
from Dayton, says about fifty
men are in pursuit of Goodnight
and his gang, who robbed Fish
er of $1,000 a few days ago. At
Trinity river the robbers were
about seven hours ahead and
making for the Big Thicket in
Hardin county. '','.
b4{ToIn3 the. district court at
BaasstroP a colored prisoner was
convicted of horse stealing, and
when the jury brought in their
verdict he remarked to his at,
torney, using very opprobrious
language towards the jurors,
that's all they are fit for; send.
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