Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-08-26

OF numbering his wife and child.
He was a mover from Liberty
county.
= A gentleman just from the
sugar mills of the cane belt in
forms the Telegram that grow
crs are making extensive pre-
partitions to grind the coming
crop.
"A Victoria darkey, the
other day, swallowe d twenty
six raw eggs in less than FIVE
minutes and would have swal-
lowed more but there was none
in sight.
= The Waco city council it
seems licensed a bawdy house,
they then held a special session
Of the council and resolved to
reconsider the license at the
next regular meeting.
Two men named Reed
and Moore while camped in the
Navasota bottom were fired
upon and killed by one OF a
party of fre-hunters. The kill
ing was purely accidental.
Hon. G. w. Jones returned
to his home at Bastrop on Fri
day last. 1t is presumed that
Mr.. Jones will now rest and re-
cuperate preparatory to tack
ling Hon. Seth Shepard.
= At Decatur town Marshal
Cargill had a fight with Glenn
and Reach Halsell. Pistols and
shot guns were used; Cargill
was shot in the side and one oil
the Halsells is supposed to be
mortally wounded.
= Verdy Yale, frail female,
was shot through the abdomen
by a man named Fuller, who
was in her room reloading his
pistol. The shooting was pure
ly accidental.
: Large quantities of hay
will be gathered on the prairies
in the vicinity CT Hockey. The
grass is magnificent and the
quality good. 1t is said the
grass will yield from 10 to IS
bales to the acre.
u The colored citizens at
Waco held a conclave for the
purpose Of determining price
to be charged for cotton pick
ing. A farmers convention
was also held and it will be seen
which side wins. y
Jack Pope while riding in
hack in San Antonio fell over
board and had one of his ears cut
off. Jack and his ear were both
picked up and taken to a doctor
who tackled the ear back where
it belonged.
The anniversary celebra-
ton at benson will be partici-
pated in by all three of the po-
litical parties on the 23d OF Sep
TENDER. Invitations have been
extended to prominent speak
ers of all parties.
= Rimes, the nominee for
district judge in the Waco dis
tnct. was a dark horse. Each
of the three counties comprising
the district had a favorite and as
neither could win, the dark horse
was put on the track.
= Major Penn has an i'm
mense campmeeting at Cotton
wood springs, Bell county. The
attendance last Sunday is esti-
mated at all the way from 1000
to 5000. Twenty-four converts
were made the first day.
1t cost Dick Bracken S25
to flip a few grains of corn
across the floor of a church, in
Lampasas county, while servi-
ces were going on. If he had
waited until the congregation
had dispersed it wouldn't have
cost him cent.
August Kpetsch,w who keeps
a store 6 miles east of Austin
was called up at 5 o'clock on
Sunday morning, by a negro
who wanted a bottle of whiskey,
and because Knetsch would not
credit him he shot and mortally
wounded Knetsch.
= -Four of the Pegleg mail
robbers, Mack and Bill Porter,
Ball Dublin and Jim Wilkins
plead guilty to stage robbery in
the United States court at Aus
tin and took ten years each.
Had they went to trial they
would have got from twenty to
thirty years each.
= Mr.. L.G. Collins who is
farming near Benton has fur
nished the Pleasanton Monitor
with samples ofsyrup and sugar
made from the juice of amber
cane, both were excellent and
coffee sweetened with amber
sugar was as good as that sweet
ened from other sugar.
MIR. A. A. Porter, of Bur
net, left that town for Austin
some days ago, taking 5000 to
be delivered to a banking house
tin Austin. Instead ofhanding
the money over to the bank
Porter went to gambling in Aus
tin and lost $500. He has now
left for parts unknown.
James Muel, bar-keeper
for Lewis Dreyfoos, in San An
tonic, had been telling tales to
Nine. Dreyfoos about her hus-
band. The madame and two
lady friends repaired to Muels
room before he had got up and
fraateJ him RI n r0Nvtfd5ncr that