Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14

The Hampstead Courier is
working very hard to have a good
man elected city marshal. The old
marshal, who was invited to re.
sign and who under pressure did
SO, is candidate for recollection.
DIR. Mckenzie. of Weather.
ford, has brought suit against the
city to recover for professional
services and labor performed dur
ing the small pox epidemic there
last year. The city refused to pay
his bill hence the suit. ff
John Wells, negro from San
Antonio, sulcided at Galveston at
o'clock last Sunday morning by
shooting himself in the head with
pistol, at.the corner of Postoffice
and Twentieth streets. He is said
to have been a pool player.
james B. Davis, representa-
tive to the legislature from Lamar
county, while crazy from excessive
drinking, wandered from the juno
ton hotel at Whitesboro Thursday
night and was found next morning
dead about mile from the depot.
I'm the northern part of the
state it has been raining for about
week and the whole country is
flooded. The rain was the heav-
lest and most continuous for years.
Railroads are badly damaged and
wagon roads are washed out of all
shape.
"A Richmond negro stole a
turkey last week; was tried and
acquitted. He confessed to his
lawyer that he did steal the turkey
and wanted to plead guilty; the
limb of the law advised him not to.
Is the lawyer not as guilty as the
negro?
-Bastrop county advertised her
four leagues of school land located
in Fisher county for sale. We
think the county is pursuing bad
policy in selling her lands at pres
emit. Washington county has leas-
ed her school lands for n series of
years.
Wichita Falls Herald: J. N.
Brown, of BRENNAN, has bought
the incomplete rock house on It'll
street and is having it put in order
to receive large stock of furni-
ture. Mr.. Browns brother, G. A.
Brown, will have charge of the
business
"A man was arrested in Denton
for carrying a pistol; he was fined
and trimmed by the city, and then
the county authorities nabbed him
and fined and trimmed him for the
same offense. This Is entirely toe
vigorous an enforcement Of the
law, one fine and one set of trim
mings would have been ample.
AT Gonzales last week during
Major Penn's meeting some mis-,
chievously inclined persons turn
ed the saddle ON a horse; putting it
in such a position as to create
much merriment among the con:
gregation as they came out from
worship. The Inquirer lets them
down easy by saying that they
were guilty of ungentlemanly con-
duct,
Austin had somewhat of SEN
sation the other day. An English.
man who had married his cousin
arrived in Austin. In England
the marriage of cousins is illegal
and the father of the lady was op-
posed to it. He followed the cou-
pie to Austin and while the hus-
band was out on a hunting expedi-
ton the lady and her father start
ed back to old England.
Tho surviving kindred of Ste
phen F. Austin, the father of Texas,
whose remains were buried and
yet lie at Peach Point, in Brazoria,
have applied for leave to remove
and RENTER them in the State Gem
etary, at the City of Austin. The
officials in charge of the cemetery
have cheerfully and promptly Civ
cd their assent, and during the
summer they are expected to be
removed.-Houston Post. i-'