Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-09-26

dies.
= Sugar cane and new sweet
potatoes are abundant in Vic<
toria.
All. Wear, a Leon coun-
ty lawyer, has been arrested
there for land crookcdness.
- In Gonzales county the
fall crop of cotton is growing
and doing remarkably well.
"A. II. Wear, of Leon coun-
ty, charged with land crooked
ness, has given bond in $4,000.
- The residence of F. A.
Naylor, at Nayasuta, was total
ly burned on Monday morning.
! -yIn Fannin county the.sup-
ply of cotton pickers is unequal
to the demand. No excuse for
tramps.
- Eastern cotton buyers are
well represented at Hearne and
are paying Galveston prices
less freight.
- A negro woman was burn
ed to death near Montgomery,
her clothes catching fire while
she was cooking.
= Jesse McCaleb's gin to-
.. gether with a lot of lint cotton,
on his farm, near Willis, was
bnrned last week.
- Col. Johnson. for twenty
six years a..citizen ofMcLennan
county, died at his home at Ro-
binsonville, lately.
- At Calvert the other day
Ed Geary shot Sip Meyers,
very bad negro, in the thigh.
Sip wanted to fight Ed.
- Bob Green was prosper
Gus and respectable negro in
Bonham; he stole a pair Of shoes
and lost his responsibility.
- Comanche county voted
GAG against and 40 for prohiA
bition. The people evidently
prefer saloons to drug stores.
- Archie Peterson, a negro
has been arrested by Harris
county officers on a charge of
obstructing trains on the Cen
trail.
- AT Comanche number
of citizens prevented the-escape
of the prisoners in jail by their
timely arrival-hfty men got
there first.
A young man named Trim
let, in the employ of Runge &
Co.. Indianola, made an ineffec-
tual attempt at suicide by shoot
ing himself.
&C. w. Crozier, tried at
Bryan for the murder of S. NJ.
Hunter, was acquitted. The
killing occurred some two or
three years ago.
- Col. A. c. McKeen, form
erly a well known merchant of
Galveston who lately removed
to Bolton, died suddenly at that
place last week.
There is strong probable
ity of Maj. Penn stopping over
at Austin to convert few sim
ners before he comes to Wash
ington county.
- Pleasanton has a home
minstrel company-they gave
a show, and it was pronounced
by the Journal to be the "boss"
thing of the season.
- Fishing is the one subject
that agitated the public mind at
Gonzales last week and the In
quirer had half a dozen lokes
about fish and fishermen.
At Austin Kate Banks
charged Charles L Mitchell with
breach of promise. both parties
are off-colored. The case oc-
cupied the justice of the peace
all day.
= w. H. Norris was the pro-
prietor ofthe Coliseum theatre
at Fort Worth-the theatre
didn't pay and neither didNorris.
He skipped leaving nothing but
S225 in unpaid bills.
- Cotton worms have ap-
peared in force on Brazos bot
tom plantations near Hearne.
Grasshoppers in considerable
numbers have appeared south
west of Weatherford.
The gin house of Jacob
Fox located at Victoria was
burned together with eight
bales of cotton, last week. The
fire is supposed to have origl-
mated from some one smoking
pipe.
: Samuel Kershaw was bru-
ally murdered on stockranch l
On Pearl river in the Panhandle s
~ noted desperate and horse S
hief named Geo. Taylor, who
vent to the ranch to kill a man
famed Johnson.
- Frank Hollain is either :
wretch or a cold corpse. He =
wed in San Antonio and some ;,
i've months ago married a young
nd beautiful servant. girl He
5 now missing and has either !,
'eserted or, been murdered. :. \
--Denison. has a.ghost too. C
\ young man sleeping in the n
DOM in which the late Justin h
,aynal died, saw or thought he t
aw that gentleman walking \
bout the room at time O night n
verybody ought to be in bed: n
- About ? o'clock on Tues Il
ay morning nine prisoners in r
lie Marlin jail made hole in t.
lie brick wall and regained n
1eir liberty. All were white
lei. Bill Trimmell under life
for murder is one. of a
lem. Y
S. P. Mann. who Uas had n