Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-01-27

| years d pIOullHCilt SltlESli vi DSll
county, died OF pneumonia on
Sunday night.
- Hackmen in San Antonio
complain that candidates at the
late city election havn't paid
their hack bills.
= At Houston half a dozen
houses were entered and robbed
between Saturday night and
Monday morning.
- Thomas Ransom, of Ok
ford Ga, slIcided at farm
some eight miles from Dallas,
by shooting himself through the
head.
Rev. Il. v, Philpott,
preached d sermon on the Sab
bath at Austin last Sunday. 1t
had reference to the Sunday
law.
= A large delegation of citi-
zens from Marshall have gone
to Anstin to present the claims
of their town to one of the nor
NAL schools
= The loke on the Denison
Herald remarks that he never
saw a better time to hunt for
news. Times must be dull and
locals scarce.
A man, his wife and two
children-small girls-last year
in Austin county, raised crop
of "a bales of cotton and GOO
bushels of corn.
= Rainwaterville is the name
of a new town just started at a
point fourteen miles southeast
of Giddings. 1t is well named
for temperancetown.
= Maj. Penn, the revivalist,
is in Palestine and is on the
look out with a view to pur-
chasing a residence and making
Palestine his future home.
= Dallas has had several ca
ses of cerebro spinal meningitis
which have terminated fatally,
and some fears are entertained
that it will prove epidemic.
AT Mineola a man named
Coon Brown shot and fatally
wounded Bill Batemen with a
load of bird shot. Whiskey was
the main cause of the difficulty.
: A crazy woman has been
sent from the Dallas poor farm
to Jail. She is sanctifcation-
ist and imagines that she is to
be translated to heaven bodily.
= A Houston boy aged IS
years, working in san Anton
10 printing office, was sent out
to collect a bill of S27. He did
so and has not been seen since
There was a shooting bee
at East Bernard last Saturday.
Three men were shot; all were
alive at last accounts. The
cause of the difficulty is not
stated.
- The Halletsville Herald
and Planter of the 10TH inst.
announces the death Of three
citizens of that county-W. w.
Searcy, Mrs. Nathan Avant and
Mrs. Mayfeld.
= The Flatonia Argus says
that increased telegraphic facili-
ties are needed at its town, as it
now frequently takes several
hours get message off to Gal
weston or Houston.
M. Farrow, convicted for
stealing cattle in Austin coun-
ty, for two years in the peniten-
tiary, made his escape, was re-
captured the other day on the
Jackson and Lavaca county
line.
w. H. Clark, a carpenter,
was found on the streets Of
Columbus, PROSTATE and help
less from pneumonia and pro-
tracted exposure. He died
while being conveyed to the
railroad hospital.
- VIM. Burton, lately sem
tencedto death in Parker county |
is or pretends to be insane. The
doctors have not agreed wheth-
err he is insane or not. Pending |
the decision Burton will remain |
in jasl.
= One of the leading hotels
at Tyler lately employed lot
of pretty waiter girls, but the |
proprietor finding that they
turned the heads of his male |
boarders discharged them and
put on colored boys again.
= Jim Cofield, colored, ex-
deputy sheriff of Washington
county, under Indictment for an
aggravated assault upon an old
lady, near Sempronius, has been
by the sheriff of Austin
county and is now in jail at
Bellville.
john Q. Adams, an old
and highly respected citizen of
Bexar cbunty fell dead on the
sidewalk in San Antonio while
to a friend. He had
heart disease and is the third
of the family who died
the same way.
= 1t is the desire ofthe Jack
son Clarion to make its office
into a sort of temerance tenn
pie. 1t warns possessors of
Jugs 3nd bottles not to bring
them { into its presence as the
very s. Ehtofa bottle harrows its
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