Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

The editor of the FL Paso
Lone Star has been almost disabled
by the breaking out of boils on his
right hand. He has been depend
ing mainly on the scissors and
paste pot to edit his paper.
AT Sabine Pass the catching OF
alligators is booming. Several
New Orleans buyers are there run
ming up the price ofalligator skins,
and everybody who has leisure
time goes alligator hunting.
-Prentiss and Chambers the
rape fiends at Denison had n pre-
liminary examatIOn. Prentiss was
committed without bail and Cham
bers was held in n $1,000 bond
which he was unable to give.
AT Big Springs a full flowing
stream of water was struck at the
artesian wells at a depth of 500
feet. The future of the town is
now considered TO be assured as
all apprehensions about supply
of water is past.
"A negro named Sam Deadman,
who lived in Austin county, about
twelve miles from Bellville, is a
deadman sure enough. He went
to the house of one Foster Eddings,
colored, who blew the top of Dead
mans head off with a shotgun.
There was woman in the case.
The Sunset railway has issued
circular notifying all employees
getting salary of s75 per month
and over that from the.1st of May
to the LIST of September their sala-
ries will be reduced 10 per cent.
Tho men do not like it although
dull business is given rs the cause.
Fort Worth has a Chinese
opium den which is managed so
slyly that the police have not been
able TO catch the heathens who are
operating it. The Fort Worth peo-
pie are beginning to find out that
the Chinese are great rascals, they
will steal as quick as Mclean
man.
Donald Mcdonald, aged 95,
died at San Augustine on the LIST
inst. he was in the battle of Lun-
dy's Lane, fought July %, 1914.
He came to Texas at an early date
and helped to achieve our indie
pendence. 1t was enormously stat
ed a few days ago that this old
veteran lived in Bexar county.
1t seemed to the court at Dal-
las that Cammack, the cotton SWIM
dler, chad precoclous propensity
for running away as soon as he
succeeds in making bond" A mo-
ton for a reduction in his bond,
which is now $4,000 and which
keeps him in Jail, was overruled.
-Comanche claims the champ
lonship in the way Of hailstones.
They are reported to have meas
ured six inches in diameter. Ice
factories are of no use where it
halls chunks of ice that weigs five
pounds and upward. 1t may be
that the measure was the circum-
ference instead of the diameter.
Alexander Fisher, a good citi-
zen and stockman of Waller, coun-
ty, was killed on the prairie about
ten miles from Hampstead by
lighting, on Saturday last. The
horse he was riding and another
one that he was leading were both
killed. His body was not found
till Tuesday. Mr.. Fisher formerly
lived near Brennan and moved to
Waller county about five years
ago.
"A big negro meeting was in
progress IN the negro church at
Mckinney on Monday night. Ow-
ing to recent rains the blocks un-
der the house gave way and the
church was thrown violently to
the ground. The coal oil lamps
were thrown from their fastenings,
exploding and throwing burning
oil over a number of the congrega-
ton. A negro woman, Melinda
Rhine, was burned to death and an
other one is fatally injured. Sew
eral others were injured.