Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-06-17

10 another man pocket IN the
shape of bets on the result of
the Chicago nominations.
The Brentwood Banner
reports the crops Of cotton in
Brown County have been des-
troyed by the cotton worm, but
that they have been replanted.
- Waco as well as BRENNAN
has some distinguished colored
gentlemen with military titles.
Col. Allen, very black man is
up on charges of general crook
ednesS.
- Strangers are beginning
to put in an appearance at
Lampasas and by another
month it is expected that the
hotels and boarding houses
will be full.
The Texas Trunk road is
still booming. Its management
has contracted with Frank Nc
CURE, Of the Santa Fe, for his
force of fifty MEN to be at Dali
/ las on the 10th inst.
- James Hunter, the Den
ton comfy school teacher, who
was emasculated by masked
men a few days ago will recover.
He says he could identify the
maskers but it would cost him
his life.
Reports from all sections
of the state go to show that
Kansas and Missouri seed has
produced the earliest corn; in
many instances it is from two
to three weeks in advance of the
native corn.
= Crop reports from Dallas
county are not so favorable.
Tuesday they had the heaviest
rain of the season, injuring
wheat in the shock. Com is
assured, but cotton is spindling
and in the grass.
- Bastrop was booming last
week; a mad dog was killed;
the first cotton boil and the first
watermelon was received; the
Advertiser man got mess of
roasting ears and there was a
Sunday school picnic.
= AT Corsicana on Monday
night there was a lively meeting
TO decide upon the location of
the new railroad depot. About
a dozen speakers were on the
floor at "a time and finally the
lights were extinguished.
= Two horse thieves, from
Harris county, were captured
by the sheriff of Burleson coun-
ty, near the Brazos river. They
are supposed to belong to
gang that have been operating
in the adjoining counties.
Tic Brazell murder case
is set for trial at San Antonio
on Thursday. Ryan, Sitterlee
and Cox were once convicted,
but the case was remanded be-
cause the indictment read
statute" Instead of state"
"A shooting scrape occur
red near Palestine on Sunday.
Levi Bennett had a quarrel with
two negroes on his plantation
and had to use his pistol to de-
fend himself. He shot one ne
gro and the other shot at him.
AN artesian well was bored
at Grapevine, Dallas county,
and water was struck at a depth
of 6S feet. Heretofore in the
summer there has been great
scarcity of water in that neigh
borhood, and many more wells
will soon be bored.
= 1t seems that the little
frontier town of Coleman has
two newspapers, and further
that those two newspapers do
not live in peace, but call each
other names and abuse one
another in articles three col
umns long. They finally wound |
up by fight.
Geronimo Grenada, a Mex
lean youth of IS, who lived near
San Antonio, proposed mar
rage to a senorita of I g; she re-
fused him; he went home and
going to bed placed the muz-
zle of a gun to his heart; pulled |
trigger with his foot. His death |
was instantaneous.
= Uncle Stephen Browning |
presented the Hampstead Cour-
ier with the first cotton boil last
week. A colored man presented
BANNER with the first boil this
season. Colored men when
they are industrious always do
well, and it affords all newspa-
pers pleasure to speak in praise
of deserving colored men,
District court convened at
Caldwell on the 9th inst; Judge
Broadus presiding. The dock
ct was very light. But 20 in
dictments were found by the
grand jury, mostly for INSIDE
meanors. AT the present time
Lee and Burleson counties are
in an excellent condition, the
amount of crime being very
small.
San Antonio Express:
Among the MANY peculiarities
Of our city, a German delegate
to the firemen's convention is
especially struck, as follows
"All the squares are triangular;
all the streets crooked, where
ever you go you have to cross
bridge, or take drink, and
every Niger talks Dutch.
The MrEinne,, A d,,ocata