Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-10-03

ing.
"A protracted meeting has
been going on at Bcnham thir-
ty-fve sermons have been
preached but not a convert
made.
- The editor of the Rock
port Transcript proposes max
ing a fortune next year by SOW
ing one acre of Nicaragua
wheat this fall.
Paris has a dog law and the
dog-killer, intent on business,
is charged with killing dogs
while in custody of, and on their
owners premises.
- Prof. w. C. Rote, formerly
superintendent of the Brennan
schools, has bought a lot in San
Antonio and will build a resi-
dence thereon.
A Gonzales fisherman
caught a gar weighing 81 pounds
and now all the other fishermen
are happy as that gar had given
them much trouble.
"A Burleson county man
went to Caldwell to buy a pair
of boots, but couldn't find a fit;
he wanted No. ID but Us was
the biggest in town.
The all absorbing topic at
Giddings is, who will be the next
mayor The trouble seems to
be in finding a man who will
agree to accept the office.
-"Orgies" is the irrevend
term the sinful local editor of
the San Antonio Herald ap-
plies to a colored revival meet
ing at the A. E. M. church.
- Justice Bridges, of Fort
MeKavett, has released De-
barde, who killed a man incold
blood on a bond of $50. His
action is severely condemned.
= The Victoria Advocate
learns that a heavy acreage of
wheat and other small grain
will be sown in Victoria county
this fall-a move in the right
direction.
e. J. Peitzcher's store at
at Sour Lake was fired by an
incendiary. He was sleeping in
an adjoining room and bare
ly escaped. having been cEloro-
formed.
Jules Settegast, his two
children and an employee, nam
ed Peter Burney, living in
Houston, ate milk curd for
breakfast and were all taken
very sick.
&C. C. Rogers, marshal of
Palestine, has it appears killed
Quisenbury without any DEM
on his, Quisenbury's
part. The judicial examination
is in progress.
AT the holiness campmeet-
ing near Corsicana one man ac-
cuseed another of stealing his
bride; the damned lie passed
and a man named Williams got
his arm nicely cut.
- Mr.. c. E. Tiller and Mrs.
whose husband is in
the Milan county jail, runaway
from that county and were mar
RED at Bryan. They then took
passage for Georgia.
Near Honey Grove the
other day difficulty occurred
between Sol. Cleveland and a
nan named Thomalson. Judge
Given interfered when he was
shot by Cleveland and killed.
- Victoria Advocate: On
Monday last the steamer Hugh
IS of the Morgan line, received
1t Indianola something more
han five hundred head of fine |
,eef cattle destined for Havana !
"A great many Houston
men spend their afternoon
hooting prairie chickens this,
We take it, is a pretty good sign
hat business at the upper sea-
'ort" is not as brisk as it might
'e.
"A negro prisoner in the jail
t Columbus succeeded in
Tipping past the jailer, Best and
ocking the door on him. The
ig made his escape and Best
ad to break the door down to
ct out.
B. J. Graves, of Somerville
ounty, was knocked down and
obbed IN one of the principal
reefs of Fort Worth. Two
len were arrested, identified
nd the money found on their
ersons.
- Six convicts we're taken
} Houston the other night yok-
] together by the neck like
Ken. The drove was from San
[arcos and were in charge of
lc contractor for taking prison
s to the penitcntiary.
Dallas county wants Il $780,
20 jail, but has no money on
ind to pay for it. The nc.
lows that to build a jail on a
edit and pay II per cent. in
rest would, i'll ten years, cost ;
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