Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-06-04
: Sherman policemen have

Deen PROVIDED With tasty uni
forms.
- In Fayette county the po-
litical pot has begun to boil and
candidates are coming rapidly
to the front.
= A. A. Horton, pile driver
on Texas Central railroad, was
struck and killed by a passing
train, at Corsicana, last Satur-
day.
= Gov. Roberts having re-
fused to commute Quarle's SEN
tence, he will be hung inside the
jail yard at Houston, on the nth
day of June.
&C. G. Lester was cowhid-
ed in Hampstead on Tuesday
by Dixon Quincy, his brother
in-law. Quincy had a pistol;
Lester was unarmed.
: Adjutant general Joncs's
new published list of fugitives
from justice in Texas, comprises
5000 names, about 1000 char
ged with murder.
"A cyclone visited a belt of
country near Van Alstyne last
Friday, demolisliing houses, up
rootingtrees and blowing down
fences, and wounding a child
severely.
Next Saturday the people
of Caldwell precint, Burleson
county, will vote again on local
option, with a lair prospect Of
winning.
The Bohemians Of Houston
enjoyed an excursion to Carlos
Lake a new pleasure resort just
being laid out and improved on
the San Antonio railway, about
50 minutes run from Houston.
The holiness people, or
those who believe themselves
"sanctihed, religiously speak
ing, are making converts in
Smith, Cherokee and other Eas-
tern Texas counties.
AT Columbus, on Monday,
four dead bodies were seen
floating down the river, the
waters of which are very high,
being ro feet above low water
mark.
= Colorado county farmers
have planted one-third more
cotton than last year, and ex-
pect to raise 10000 bales, and
gobble up the nice little sum OF
sI,5oo,ooo therefor.
Some difficulty is being ex-
perienced in San Antonio con-
corning the location Of the In
ternational railway depot. No
definite conclusion, as yet, ar
rived at.
Ed. Chambers, of Collin
county, announces himself in
the Galveston News as candi-
date for Comptroller, subject to
the action of the State Demo-
cratic nominating Convention.
= The Marlin Ball says Miss
Carrie Mills, the accomplished
daughter of honorable Roger
Q. Mills, is a splendid shot.
With a rifle in Waco a few days
ago she hit a fifty cent piece
four times in succession at a
distance of about forty PAGES. ,
AThe Davis rifles, a colored
military company of Houston,
have challenged the Lincoln
Guards, colored company of
Galveston, for a prize drill of
500; the contest will take
place at Houston on the 10TH of
June-emancipation day. v
: Andrew J. Walker, the re-
puted murderer of Green But
Ter in Galveston county, who
escaped Jail at Bryan last sum-
mer, has been arrested by
sheriff Chandler of Trinity coun-
ty, and will be returned to his
old quarters. Walker had mar
ried Miss Jenkins about two
months since under the assum-
ed name of Adams.
The Queen city guards, of
Dallas, are making extensive
preparations to celebrate the
4th OF July in that city. The
different societies will be invit-
ed to participate, and invita-
tons will be issued to the mill |
tary companies throughout the |
State to be present and compete |
for a 500 prize in comparative
drill, to be given by w. J. Lemp, |
of st. Louis, also a citizens
purse of $50.
-Groesbeck New Era. Con-
siderably over one half of the
one hundred newspaper men
assembled at Houston last week
are young men under 80 years
Of age. They are also men of
temperate habits.
All kinds of drinks were as free
to them while they were in the
city, as the water that bubbles
up from the earth beneath. yet,
with perhaps about three ex-
there was not a drunk
IN man amongst them.
S-Southeastern Texan: Jas
per county wants more farm
hands as well as more farmers.
The exodus fever never struck
our freedmen, but the large and
Increasing timber business has
irawn many of them away from
he farms. But we more es-
oecially need farmers; men, or
antilles rather, that will open
Up and cultivate the thousands
If acres of fertile land in our
county now lying in our forests.
These lands can be purchased