Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-08-15
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He gave notice of appeal.
The Columbus Plaindeale
reports the arrest, on Monday
evening. of a prominent either
on a charge of rape. The citi
zen is Burglleim. a young anc
popular physician; he denie:
the charge in toto.
r - The Austin Gazette say:
it has been requested to ask the
county attorney if he has shown
as IIuch anxiety in procuring
testimony in murder cases as in
recent cases of violations Of the
Sunday law,
Francis Houghton. who
said he was from Boston
and was a carpenter by trade,
got out of work at Laredo and
in a it Of dependency commit
ted suicide by shooting himself
with a revolver.
The body of Peter Nc
Way, of Courtney, was found
run over on the track Of the
Central railway. seven miles
north of Millican. He is sup
posed to have been murdered
and robbed and his body placed
on the track.
= left. Hopkins. negro. is
wanted at Rockwall for outrag-
ing a white woman and then
numbering her and her child
and finally burning the house
to conceal his crime. The re-
mains of woman and child
were found IN the burnt build
ing.
- AT Hearne, Tom Calhoun,
a bad negro, was fatally shot by
city marshal Bishop. Tom. who
had just been fined by the may
or resisted search by the mar
shall and drew a revolver and
fred at him. Bishop drew his
pistol quickly and fired with the
result stated.
IS. A. Herald: Capt. Lee
Hall has forbid the wearing of
somhreros, fancy top boots, and
carrying ofwhite-handlcd revolt
vers in his command. All
these things are characteristic
of the desperate, and he wishes
his boys to look like civilized
people.
- According to the Denison
Herald of Monday last there
was more whiskey drank on the
previous Sunday in that city
than on any one day since the
glorious fourth of July. This
does not speak volumes for the
new and improved Sunday law
as temperance measure.
= The Comanche Chief mott
fees its subscribers that on aud
after October next it viii re-
duce the price of subscription
to SI.5o year, cash in advance,
and on no other terms will the
the paper be sent. thas learn
ed by experience that credit is
not exactly the thing.
= A country editors work is
fully and aptly described by the
Bonham News man, who evil
IDENTIFY speaks by the card. He
concludes by saying there is
evidently a strange fascination
about the business, so strong
that not one country cdi-
tor in a thousand is willing to
step down and out.
"A brace OF strangers stop
ped at the Presbyterian camp
seven miles east of
and taking their depar-
ture in the night also took all
the clothing belonging to Rev.
Mr.. Copeland and his wife.
About a dozen men were star
ted after the unprincipled sin.
ners but failed to come up with
them.
= Bolton IomNaE The Bel
ton Light Guards have applied
to the adjutant general for
arms. - The total assessment
Of Bell county is s., Cos $40; the
value of lands is s2,l28.82o;
town lots S27o,6o5. - The
temperance council has $50
members. "A stray horse was
sold for two bits.
. A new conner in Mason coun- |
y, named Bailey, went deer |
near a spring. He |
:ook stand" by climbing a
Tree and in attempting to draw
lis gun up by the muzzle it was
discharged. He was found I'M
Ter the tree next morning, still
live and able to say he had az
shot himself; he soon
lied.
= Guthrie and Daniel are
in Paris and members
# the Methodist church. They
10 not live on neighborly terms.
The former preferred charges
Igainst the latter in the church;
lie was tried; charges not SUE
aimed. Daniel, on his was home
he night of the trial, was way
aid by a brother and brother
n-law of Guthrie and severely
= The Austin Statesman
earns that hemp grows wild
verywhere about Austin, and
says if this be so there might
e money made in cultivating
as at present every yard of
agging used in baling cotton
; brought from abroad. Some
ears ago an excitement was
aised about the cultivation of
annie, but Iatterly nothing has
cen heard of it.
= Jake APPEL exhibited at
lie Victoria Advocate office a :
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