Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-05-28
,spiritualism has a large fol-

Iitlng ana slate Writings are
quite fashionable in spirit cir
cles.
-Rusk county has two pot
teries at work in the countS<
turning out annually hundreds
of thousands Of dollars worth of
property.
The Galveston News re-
ports the death Of aunt Betsy
Webster, a negro woman, who
said she was one hundred and
three years of age.
The Henderson Times has
been serenaded, and was SO well
pleased that it requests the SER
enaders to call again when no
one is in the Office.
- Austin Statesman The
pecan trees are loaded down
with nuts, and if nothing occurs
to iniure them we will have the
largest crop since 1867.
y The Navasota Tablet says
that reports and letters from the
Kansas exodusters show that
they arc dissatisfied and eager
to return, but are not able. II
AT Dallas the other day
negro boy aged 2, was playing
with standard old rusty pistol,
when he shot and severely
wounded a white boy aged 4.
= The Meridian Blade is puz-
zled to know how some men
loaf from one years end to an
other and manage to make a
living. Every town has charac-
tiers Of this kind.
= The Brownsville Democrat
is in a wanting mood. 1t wants
a manufacturing boom, it wants
water works, it wants gas works
and all other works that will
give Brownsville a boom.
Il Complaint is made Of dis
orderly conduct, at the colored
school in San Antonio. The
black pupils BLACKBOARD white
children who have occasion to
pass in the neighborhood. I I
w. R. Daniel has retired
from the Lockhart News-Echo
and w. B. Smith, an ambitious
and rising young lawyer will
Echo News to the people of
Lockhart and Caldwell county.
= The Burnett Bulletin says
last year w. H.. Russell bought
1000 ewes at 81 a head. This
year the flock numbers 1913
an increase of nearly 100 per
cent. to say nothing of his wool
crop.
= Cherokee county is infest-
ed with set of holiness peo-
ple" The Corsicana Observer
Index says that powder and
lead or hemp is the only certain
cure for this class of fanatics.
w. H. Lambert, a sewing
machine canvasser, was ARES
ted and jailed at Dallas for hav-
ing a multiplicity Of wives. He
has one in Arkansas and one
in Johnson county in this state
Sam Lissner, a Hampstead
merchant, came near being kill
ed on Monday by a pistol fred
by drunken man. The Cour-
Ter thinks the fine for discharg-
ing pistol in town should be
500 and Imprisonment. oil
The San Antonio Express
tells how Jake Williams, a sheep
raiser, took twenty grains Of
morphine and from its effects
fell in public place. He was
picked mp and taken to a drug
store, where DR.. Graves by eight
hours steady work, saved his
life. 4
Phillips, a IS year old boy,
an orphan living in Bell county
attempted to poison woman,
in whose family he was living,
by giving her an onion top with
strychnine in it. He was search
ed and strychnine was found in
his pocket.
IT. NJ. Walker, Gonzales
county farmer, last year raised
5000 bushels of corn and made
a large quantity of bacon, but
he complains that merchants
will not buy either bacon or
corn, preferring to handle north
ern articles.
The two Laredos gives the
full particulars ofthe boy shoot
ing scrape that occurred in the
post-office in that town some
days ago. Itappears the shoot
ing was purely accidental. He
didn't know it was loaded-un-
till after the damage was done.
- The Weimar Plaindealer
says that owing to the hot
weather or something else beer
would not keep in Dallas OF
Houston last week. As many
men are now constituted they
have a natural antipathy to beer
and drink all they can lay their
hands on.
Jim Kemp, a negro ex-
convict, was arrested at Wei
mar for attempting an outrage
on a Bohemian girl by entering
her room. Jim was jailed at
Columbus; he talks big and
feels that he is quite an impor-
tant character, having served
four years in the penitentiary.
Charles Mitchell distin-
guished horse thief and noted
Desperate was killedin Lavaca
county by deputy sheriff Har-
crrOve and Nose who were