Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-03-03
LIE q the Snowy Rockies.
CAMP IRWIN P. o., /
February 9Th. 1851. I

February 9Th. 1881. !
Editors Banner:
For the past four,months We
have been in prison, The walls
of which are mightier than the
iron bar and guarded by a
watchful and all seeing eye, and
from present indications We are
Inclined to 1. Believe that the
mysterious" will punish two Of
our pafty3 termed the mail rid
ers, I'VE call them riders as they
ride ysnew shoes on snow-slides,
but the rider gets often pitched
loffand the snow-slide gets on
topl to ascend the icy walls and
get the mail that we may learn
Of what is going on in America,
it has been so long since we
have heard from the United
States we don't know but that
Stew or Hog have positions in
Gaffeld's cabinet. We have
nothing OF interest happening
.hete except men being1ost in
the snow-slides, getting froze
up, sc. Christmas passed off
quietly in our burg, we were not
disturbed BY the howl of the
drunkard or noise Of the torpe-
do. Not a single one of our
party got on a bender" cold
icy water was the only bever-
age taken, nothing stronger in
our city to be had. but we are
going to have our Christmas
next month as Judge Brown has
Just made a mixture that he
thinks after lit goes Though a
proper fermentation will addle
the brain, it consists of the
wafer that dried apples were
washed in, corn meal, molases
andlyeass allstirred-upto-g
er, and he thinks it will make
regular bug juice. Major Gee
received a postal from a Bren-
hamite asking for two or three
gold nuggets and a few miners
torpedoes; the former are scar
Ger than hen teeth in this camp
and seldom found in Colorado;
The Texas railroads rarely ever
transport the latter Giant Pow
der).
Mayor Gee may return
to the United States soon,
as he wants to get back to a
country where the oleandcr
and Orange tree blossom. Since
our last $50 below zero is as
cold asst has been, but we are
now having pleasant weather
with the thermometer 200
above zero, and snow melting
fast. Only four deaths in our
district, embracing 5000 people,
during the year ISSo-two from
disease, one from murder and
one from accident. Can any
Texas town, or your own boast
ola more healthy or peaceable
class of citizens1 Yet the re-
cord of our sister city, Lead
vile, is mot 3 very clear over
$50 crimes recorded at police
headquarters in that city during
a single month last fall. Two
New York ladies', ofhigh stand
ing, recently visited all the
places Of vice in that city, in
Guiding the bagnois. Women's
curiosity, we suppose, induced
the tip. The Gen. Sayles mine
is now a real bonanza; it has a
vein of solid mineral over three
feet wide.
Mr.. T. ]. R. now affords a full
beard and mustache, and with
his miners suit his old friends
would NOT recognize him. We
want to build an opera house in
our burg in the spring if we can
induce our friend, Col. Abe, of
Brennan to come up and man
age it for US. S. w. ].
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