Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-12-09
Galveston merchants have


ing a church at Sealy. The
Santa Fe railway will carry the
material up free of charge.
The Castroville Quill eau
tons its readers in regard to
eating UNDERGONE pork. Sew
eral cases of trichina have &C.
CURED in western Texas lately.
The Bellville Times esti-
mates that fully one-fourth of
the cotton crop of Austin coun-
ty Will be lost by recent spell
of bad weather and scarcity Of
hands.
The Flatonia Argus mildly
chides the late grand jury for
their failure to indict Valentine,
for incest 1t says but a feeble
effort was made to get the wit
ncsses.
= Mr.. Donohue, an engineer
on the Texas and Pacific rail-
road died suddenly on his en-
CINE as he was bringing his
train into Marshall. He had
heart disease.
"A young lady named HUFF
ford, daughter of a farmer living
near Schuelburg, committed SUI
icide last week. Her brothers
drinking to excess is assigned
as the cause.
At Waco a man forcibly
entered the residence Of Mr.. 1
Landeman and attempted to
chloroiorm Miss Landeman, he
aroused the inmates CT the house
and escaped.
= Lumber is very scarce at
Caldwell but the fault is not with
the dealers; it is with the rail-
road. They have not rolling
stock enough to move all the
freight offering.
Jim Schumacher refused to
be arrested at Whitney and
mounting his mustang fired at
the marshal who returned the
compliment winging Schumacher
in the shoulder.
Last weeks Gonzales In--
quirer contains a lengthy ac-
count of the citizens railroad
meeting at that town; the peo-
pie seem to be in earnest about
wanting a railroad.
= Denison has an ordinance
requiring property owners to
put down and keep in repair
sidewalks il front of their prem
ises. An effort will be made to
enforce the ordinance.
During the recent FIRE at
Kaufman, a cattleman threw
a rope over some burning beams
and pulled the same out of the
flames. The use of a lasso at a
fire is new departure.
The case of ]: w. Hawk
ms, charged with the murder Of
B. NJ. Bell, near Dallas in March
last, occupied the district court
at Dallas all of last week and
went to the jury on Saturday
night. 'il ~
The Giddings Lone Star
warns the boys against the
pernicuous practice Of carrying
six-shooters. One of the boys
was caught with one and made
to pay twenty-five dollars and
costs.
"A shipment of horse hair
was recently made by a Flatonia
firm who sent a lotto New York.
1t sold readily for twenty cents
a pound and had it been longer
it would have brought thirty
cents. VI
= Burglars visited the store
of John Shoaf, at Lockhart,
last week, and being provided
with a wagon and team hauled
off enough family groceries to
do any ordinary household for
a year.
AT Dallas the jury in the
Hawkins case is still out. Tues
day was the fifth day since the
case was submitted to them,
and it is understood that they
will be held till the end of the
term.
= The Jackson county Clar-
ion say that thousands of head
of horses and cattle were killed
by ticks and screw worms,
while, so far as can be ascer-
tanned, not a single mule has
been in the least injured.
John Williams, of compa-
ny D. tenth. cavalry shot and
instantly killed John Anderson,
a citizen and gambler. at Fort
Concho. They were both col
ored and quarreled at a card
table. Williams was promptly
arrested.
= Carson and Bishop quar-
relied about a child, II miles
west Of Fort Griffin. They pro-
ceeded to adjust matters by the
use of shot guns charged with
buckshot. Bishop was killed
very dead and Carson will soon !
die.
= According to the Calves
ton Civilian a negro drayman
named Simmons was thrown
from his dray on the Strand,
but owing to the great depth
and softness of the mud he es-
capped serious injury from the
fall. In some cases deep mud
&c crnnd