Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-29

RE dogs. LII all the prairie dogs
had their hides tanned into glove
leather the stock mon would be
happy.
The Gonzales Inquirer says an
alligator thirteen and half inches
long that weighed 500 pounds, was
killed in the San Antonio river q
few days ago. For its length the
weight of that alligator was phcn-
omenal.
"A Sealy correspondent of the
Bellville Times intimates that ere
many more moons Sealy will "sup-
port first-class paper" A first
class paper may be started at Sea-
ly, but the support it will get IS an
unknown quality.
Fort Worth is to be tho head
quarters of the Pan Electric Tele-
phone company. A company with
a capital of 81 900, 900 has been
formed at Fort Worth. This Tele-
phone is said to be specially adopt
ed for long distances.
-Drownings while attempting
to cross swollen creeks are report
cd IN various portions of the state.
1t is strange that persons risk their
lives for the sake of saving few
hours, when their business is not
by any means urgent.
Tho Colorado Citizen of last
week says, the last planting of
corn and cotton is doing we'll. We
expect to raise sufficiency of corn
and an average crop of cotton, the
acreage of the latter being much
increased over that of last year.
The local reporter of the Lare-
do Times rushed out to get the par
tlculars of a reported suicide. He
on reaching the house of the alleg-
ed suicider found him alive and
well. He says he was much griev-
ed, being beat out of a sensational
local.
Fort Davis was visited by
heavy hail and rain storm Sunday
afternoon. Hail stones SIX inches
in circumference fell for twenty
minutes dong great damage to
roofs and killing sheep. Several
stocks ofgoods were damaged by
water.
VIM. MCGUIRE, q printer, who
worked on the Bellville Standard,
was drowned in Clear Creek on
Friday night. He had attended
the barbecue at Buckhorn and
started to walk back to BellvilIe.
The heavy rains had caused the
creeks to be very high.
Billy wofford, an ex-haek
driver, was shot and badly wound
ed in general row with negroes
in disreputable part of Austin.
He names the negro who did the
shooting. There came very near
being a riot, in which case the ne
groes would have suffered.
ON Tuesday Navasota was
completely isolated by high water.
There had been no trains or mails
since Friday last. The overflow
in Brazos bottom is disastrous, all
the low land plantations are sub
submerged and the people have
been compelled to move out to the
hills.
House, the negro who assault
ed several young ladies in Deni-
son, few days ago, plead guilty
to two indictments and was sent
up for seven years in each case.
House is probably the luckiest ne
gro in the state in having the
joints in his neck in good order,
instead of broken.
"A Navasota special to the
News, dated oath inst, says the
Brazos river Is as high as it was
in 1868. People living in the bot
tom have moved to the hills. Re-
ports received here at noon Mon
day report the Brazos as still ris-
ing. though it was thought it would
soon begin to fall.
&C. Chinski, Of Hampstead, pub
fishes card in the Houston Post,
denying any completely in the
billiard sell at Houston last SUM-
day night, and he says that Mag
nus is charged with putting up the
game. Who ever did it put it up
so fine that the Houston suckers
swallowed the bait, hook and all.
1t is estimated that more. wa
ter is running through Chambers
creek bottom, above Corsicana,
than any stream in Texas. On
Friday the creek was a mile and a
mile half wide and it has proved
very destructive to farms. Ander-
son & Huly. who have 1000 head of
cattle near the creek have lost SO
of them.
Tho Democratic county con-
vention of Galveston county met
on Saturday and elected delegates
to the Fort Worth convention. The
same convention elected delegates
the Houstonconventlon. The News
says a good deal of machinery was
in operation and that number of
prominent Democrats were con-
spieious for their absence.
"A gang of horse thieves from
Mexico stole twenty horses from
Judge Haynes, whose rancho is IN
the Brownsville neighborhood.
Pursuit was given and the horses
were abandoned by the thieves.
One of the thieves were captured,
hut got away from his eaptors. 1t
is not stated that he was clos"
but such thing is probable.
Near Fort Worth, last week,
Nathan Lincoln, a negro, in fit
of jealousy shot his wife, a mulat-
to, in the head infieting a slight
wound; she fell and told him he
had killed her. He answered
''that's what L wanted to d." and
walking off a few steps he put a
bullet in his head killing himself
Instantly. The woman then got
up and notified the neighbors.
The account of the killing OF
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