Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-08-29

In bryan. the Sunday law
is very popular. though we in
fer from the Pilot that "provis-
ions" can be had.
= a full grown panther was
seen in Fannin county in the
vicinity Of the section house ii
! BciS d Are bottom.
= Water carts have 4 strange
disease in San .Antosian-they
"keriuInex" and after keriusns
exing arc no account.
-Colorado county is to have
an election on the stock law for
a portion of the county border-
ing on Fayette and Austin,
- Lavaca is becoming 1
summer watering place for the
Eictoriars, Fine fishing and
sea bathing is to be found there.
The San Antonio Herald
makes much fun of the small
pox scare and says one niger
had, it and was counted 1000
times.
Notwithstanding the Sun
day law and the near approach
of the bell-punch, beer is sold
in San Antonio at S cents a
schooner.
A negro witness in Hill
county was asked whenhe last
saw certain person, he replied:
II never saw.him any mo- arter
he was buried"
= The total Vibration Of all
property in Tarraat county is
ss,oI4.I4o. Of which, sS42, SoS
is IN town lots Fort Worth is
assessed at sE7oo.i67.aT
60 J. S. Bennett. of Victoria
county, was found dead in his
ambulance in San Antonio. He
died of congestion Of the brain
caused by eating and drininkg
100 much.
= The Richmond Reflector
reads its young men "the
bloods 80 timely lecture on
rowdyism. Gentlemen do not
get drunk and FIRE pistols at
night.
"A FIRE broke out at 4:,o Mon
day morning in a frame block
of buildings in Round Rock
and before it could be checked
ten houses were burnt. Loss
about $4,000. Incendiary.
= The Denison Herald gives
a two column account of a
grand war dance at Caddo, in
the beautiful Indian territory.
Three hundred good Kiowas in
dulged in a genuine kangaroo
hop.
Fort Worth has a colt only
a year old, that visits barrooms
and drinks beerjust like a. topper
thirty or forty years, old. The
Democrat is fearful that this
colt will fila drunkard's grave
If it is ever buried. s:
!, = The Waco Examiner is
fairly dazed at the number Of
embryo statesmen, lawyer jour
nalists, physicians, scientists and
thcologians that have been dis
covered by the two professors"
who have been feeling the bumps
on Waeo1heads. 55rz} z5lc
IS - Abort Stockton special
to the News says Lieut.. Moxon
in command of a company of
cavalry pursued party of In
dams and recaptured eleven
horses. They were followed
nearly to the Stanton reserva-
ton.
Last week a party Of six
Mexican woodchoppers. having
money, went to Richmond and
imbibed freely; on their road !
home they were robbed of $40
by negroes. who are constitu-
tionally opposed, to manual la
Dor.
"Bunk's Bounce" is the |
way the -Denison Herald of
Sunday heads its account Of the
hanging of the william AXE, at
Austin. In this if follows the |
Waco Examiner, moral
paper, which saves all its MUIR
ders for its Sunday paper.
"A bad negro, prisoner in
the Marlin Jail. picked up a !
handful of lime that had been !
2lacsd inside for sanitary pur-
poses and dashed it M the eyes
of iailor Stubbleheld, who was
standing by the grating; he will
probably lose one of them.
The Fort Worth Demo
crat is patiently awaiting the !
development of Spraguc |
Conkliug affair in its town. I'll
says the parties are a youngi
married couple, and arc con-
nected with and members of a
leading religious denomination
in the city,
= 4 petition is being circu-
lated and many signatures are
!. D e.
being obtained at Marlin, asking
the governor torcommute the
punishment Of Abner Walker
from the death penalty to I'M
prisonment for life. Such pc
titions are two frequently signed.
due, consideration on
the part of the sigrers.
.-ET An Orangc dispatch 70 the
News says that at Sabine Pass
the havoc Of tie storm on Fris
day WAS far greater than at Or
angc. The steamer Ficksburg !!
is i total wreck. many other
vessels were damaged thc-