Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07
: The greenbackers at Cal

Saturday night. 4 here are 100
members in the club. Gen
Hannah was elected president
and said he was a stronger
greenbacker than ever before.
Richmond, Fort Bend
county, has allowed its corpora
ton to die out. There has been
more or less rowdyism in town
and now the people begin to
clamor for a revival OF the cor
poration, together with the par
aphernalia for enforcing order.
An engineer on the SUM-
set route counted g tramps on
the road between Luling and
Kingsbury, a few days ago.
Employees on the freight trains
are compelled to wear arms to
defend themselves against this
element.
w. A. Kincaid, of the firm
of Edell & Kincaid, of Round
Rock, has been arrested on a
charge of arson, having been ac-
cused of setting FIRE to the store
Of the firm on Saturday last.
He was held in bond Of $1,000
for his appearance before the
district court.
= John Jackson. an Indian,
served out his term in the
Sherman jail for carrying pis-
toll and was set at Liberty. He
loitered around the gate for sew
eral hours, seemingly preferring
confinement and plenty to eat to
liberty and no grub. So says
the Register.
"A man in Denison is talk
ing of buying a tract Of land
midway between the towns Of
Denison and Sherman and estab-
fishing a resort to be called the
"Half-Way House" II prop
erly run it would draw all the
"bloods" from both towns and
also get their money.
"A bloody affray. resulting
in the death Of two men, occur
red at Henderson's store, Co
lad county, on the 18th inst.
Two men, Lockhart and Hen
derson, got into quarrel when
both drew pistols. Lockhart
killed Henderson and a brother
of Henderson's in turn killed
Lockhart.
"A San Antonio man some
months ago lost a $3.50 watch
He offered $50 reward for it;
Some 1ittle niggers" found it,
a big policeman found the lit
tie niggers and took it away
from them. receiving the reward
from the owner. The little nigs
didn't get a nickel.
= A main of cocks was
fought in Denison on Saturday
afternoon. but the great and
good Herald. supposing its
readers all to be of a moral and
humane turn Of mind, did not
send a commissioner to report
the said wicked and cruel pro-
ceedings. In spite Of all this
there was a big crowd present
who had "lots Of fun" viewed
from their standpoint.
Dallas county maintains
her reputation for disorderly
conduct. The last case was at
a ball at Perrys house near
Trinity mills. One Roberts be-
came noisy and G. w. Gray put
him out. In the yard Roberts
shot at Gray several times, one
ball wounding him slightly. Du-
ring the shooting ball passed
through a panel in the door and
wounded the daughter Of the
host in the calf oftheleg. The
shootists were arrested.
- Sometime ago an account
was given of three young wo-
men whipping another young
woman, Miss Cole, in Dallas
county. Miss Cole is friend
less orphan. The three went
before the grand jury and en-
deavered to have Miss Cole IN
dicted for threatening their lives.
The grand jury refused to find
an indictment and the whole
affair, says the Herald, smells
of persecution.
- The Waco Examiner tells
a curious story. A Hill county
man and his son on their way
home camped by the roadside;
early in the evening lone wo-
man appeared in camp telling
woeful story and asked to re-
main during the night The
man and boy slept in the wag-
on; two or three hours after
laying down the supposed wo-
man arose and appeared at the
wagon dirk in hand; the man