Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-08-12

gubernatorial candidates, are in
Galveston waiting for the convcn-
ton.
On the Brentwood is now tho
watchword with the Fort Worth
Gazette.
Tho bricklaycrs in Temple are
out on strike for So Il day-thcy
had been getting $3.50.
Tho Sherman OIL and Cotton
company's building has been be,
gun. 1t is to be 40 by 100 feet and
three stories high.
There was Il regular exodus
from Waco on Saturday-all the
cxodustcrs went to Galveston TO
help nominate Ross.
Tho city council of Temple
has passed an ordnance prohibiting
women from walking the streets in
Mother Hubbard dresses.
Tho Tablet books Navasota
for 5000 bales of cotton more this
season than last. Ii claims for its
town superior advantages.
- Fine rains have fallen at Abb
lcne and all over that section OF
country The people are in conse.
quence feeling much better.
For two weeks they have been
having fine rains in Haskell coun-
ty; the grass is four inches high
and the settlers are happy.
Temple is q very young town
yet old buildings are being torn
down and new and more modern
ones erected in their places.
Tho Waco Examiner notifies
the boys that the only way to keep
their names out of tho paper is TO
keep out of the police court.
The Austin Call says that the
Denison News, Il so-calIed daily
paper, manages to give its readers
one column OF original slush every
day.
Horny NJ. Parnell was shot
and instantly Killed in a saloon IN
Bolton, Thursday morning, by
Tom Peay, who was arrested and
jailed.
Tho war spirit is rife in Gid
dings and in case of war she pro-
poses TO furnish moro volunteers
than any town OF her size in the
state.
III. T. Davis, a preacher OF
preposscssing appearance, had an
examining trial ut Mckinney on
the charge of theft of over $50 IN
money.
The season of the year has now
arrived when the weekly newspa.
pcrs deem il incumbent upon them
tcIvos to advise the farmers to sow
turnip seed.
Mccullough county wants rail
way epnnecti8n with San Antonio
and 10 that end the people are in
communication with the Arkansas
Pass railroad people.
"A mulatto girl in East Dallas
said 10 be only eleven years old
has given BIRTH to q baby weighing
two and half pounds the child
is healthy and vigorous.
-Giddrngs Advocate: With q
good RAIN IN n few days our county
will make enough cotton to keep
the idle "coons" employed for a
couple or three months.
Tho Colorado Citizen says
owing to the continued hot and
dry weather the catlOn is beginn.
ing 10 she'd rapidly and prospects
are not near so bright as they were
two weeks ago.
Tho Richmond, Fort Bend
county, Opinion says there will be
work for at least five hundred ad-
ditiOnitl families in that and aioin-
ing r4uni!es picking: cotton fef the
next Two OF three HnOnln-.
j. N. Tookc, Il young lawyer
of Faycttc county,is again in limbo,
he having been arrested on an old
charge of swindling. About =
yc%r AFRO Tooko married Il young
lady st Austin, got on q spgcc SOU
aftcIward and deserted her.
"A man named Lcdbclter muir,
dered u deputy sheriff named Rice
near Eddy, on Thursday, without
any provocatiOn. Rice was un
armed and was trying TO arrest
Ledbettcr on a warrant, charging
ing him With assault aud battery
Robert Thornton, of Guada
Iupe county, is in jail at San An,
tonic CHARGED with ahductlng Luz
Martinez, II 14-ycar Old girl. He
ran away with her and her parents
followed them and had him arrest
ed.
Tho Grccnvillo Appeal tells
OF war horse, the property of Mr.
J. |. Foster, OF Hunt county. The
horse was four years old in 1861
and was rode through the war by
a member of Ross brigade. Tho
animal is now twcnty-nine years
old,
Tho governor has sent squad
of ten rangers to Comanche county
to maintain order. 4 special to
News from Comanchc says it is
we'll known that an organized
mob exists in the county, ami that
four-fifths OF the people arc op,
posed to the mob.
Rufus Lcdbcttcr, the man who
murdered Deputy Sheriff Rico at
Eddy, last week, was arrested at q
house not far from the scene of the
murder. He was cought by officers
who had sccrctcd themselves and
who covered HIM with thier guns
before he was aware Of thoir pres
cncc. There was strong desire
in the noighborhood to hang Led
better, and in order 10 prevent 1t
he is said to have boon sent to Gal
weston for safe keeping.