Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-07-22

AioS liz S6illS AuuiDSl vi lllIldD-
itantS as Navasota, but does not
quite half the business.
"A greenback club was or
ganized at the courthouse in
Bryan last Saturday night. A
number Of freedmen and few
white men about forty in all,
joined.
- At the Big Spring camp
meeting major Penn made ia
conversions and some sixty odd
were baptized. Round Rock
will be the next scene of his la
borS.
- The Gonzales Inquirer
invcighs against the practice Of
throwing broken bottles, glass
and bones in the streets. Many
barefooted boys have suffered
from broken glass cutting their
feet.
=. Dallas precinct convention
decided that as there are no po-
litical rings in the county there
is no occasion for nominating
county ticket. They favor
| free-and-easy go-as-you-please
race for county officers.
Two tramps were put ashore
from the Central train at Dallas
both were suppose to be men
but were not: they were man
and wife. They had been to
Kansas, got broke, and were
beating their way back to Tex
as.
Grimes county politics are
considerably mixed, there is
likely to be three county tickets
out: greenback, republican and
democratic. If the democrats
ard greenbackers divide the
vote of the republicans will win
the race.
- The fight reported near
Brownwood, the land of big
snakes, appears to have been
TEMPEST in teapot. Two men
were deputized to arrest one
Pickett for illegally using
estrays. They found PUGET in
a field and fired athim, without
hitting him; he then went to
town and preferred a complaint
against them for assault.
-Fayette county in the Fla
tonia settlement is troubled with
cattle thieves. The Argus warns
the thieves, telling them that
they are known and that they
may awake some fine morning
to find their necks in a moose
and their dead bodies suspend
ed to blackjack.
Mayor Thurmond was bill
ed to address the citizens of
Dallas on Monday night in vim
dication of the charges pending
against him in the city council.
He declined fearing a shower
Of mellow eggs. Thurmond is
evidently in bad odor just at
this time.
Columbus Citizen: We
regret to learn of the death of
Miss Lille Foote and Mrs.
Quinn Heard, which took place
at the campmeeting last Sunday
evening" Columbus will soon
have a new two story depot.
The building committee of the
Colorado academy are pushing
work and will have the house
completed and furnished by the
Ist Of September A large
caballado passed through town
on Wednesday. Horse stock is
poor property except in cotton
picking time, then a negro will
pick for a horse before he will
for money.
= Bellvillc Timcs:-In the
case of Henry Loggins the fol-
ing named attorneys were en-
gagged. J. D. McAdoo, John
Buchanan, Boone & Griffin, R.
H. Hanna and ]. NJ. Bethany,
for the prosecution, and Seth
Shepard A. J. Harry, John {.
Mitchell and J. P. Bell for the
defence. - Edwin Holtkamp
and Annie Haak, of this town,
were married in Brennan, on
the nth inst, by Rev. Pfafae.
- Application for change of
venue in case of Scurry Foster
refused and trial set for Mon
day 10Th. - Cotton is begin
ming to open quite rapidly, -
Twenty-eight bales of cotton
were shipped to Galveston this
week.
The BellvilIe Times gives
the particulars of a horrible
outrage committed on Thurs
day. At II o'clack in the night
Mrs. Jansson a widow lady, who
lives on Ives creek, FIVE miles
from Bellville, was awakened by |
some one calling at the gate.
She went out and found a negro |
man who asked for work and |
was refused; he then asked for |
food; as she walked across the |
yard the negro grasped her
throat and threw her down; her |
cries aroused her father-in-law
Mr.. Jansson, who is SO years
old; he came to her assistance
and with an axe struck the ne
gro two or three blows, but did
not stun him. The negro took
the axe from the old man and
knocked him senseless; he then
with an open knife threatened
Mrs. Jansson's life and accom-
plished his purpose. The au-
thorities are in search of the
fend.
Printed Bill Heads.
The law steps in to help the