Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-25

CRY AND COUNTY.
SEE change in F. A. Eldridge'
ad. in this issue.
SEE notice of Mrs. Norton
spring opening.
ALL kinds of job printing from
visiting card to full sheet poster
neatly and expeditiouslY executed
at the BANNER Office.
The county officials on Friday
opened their hearts and purse
strings and treated the prisoners
to q sumptuous dinner.
RINGENER & Bro, are now com
fortably located in their new and
elegant quarters and are prepared
to wait on customers as usual.
Much credit is due county attor-
ney Rogers for his interchangeable
efforts in investigating and work
ing IN evidence in the recent out
rage case near Burton.
In the Water works case Messrs.
C. G. Garrett aud B. II. Bassett
arc representing the water COM
pany and Messrs. ]. T. Swearin-
gen and R. W. Tarver, the city.
The citizens of Brennan on Fri
day made up purse of about sl25
for the benefit of Mrs. Diehrsen,
the woman who was so mutllated
near BnrtoS last Tuesday evening.
The wizard oil company is in
town giving free concerts: This
is news item, not an ad. Az
thing free, from a concert to a
lunch will be literally Patroniz ed.
THE gospel meetings that have
been in progress in the city for
several weeks have seemingly
awakened new interest. This week
Rev. ]. c. Ely, of Wichita Falls,
is preaching at the Presbyterian
church to crowded houses.
ARM While Miss Annie
Robertson, who teaches school at
the Geo. Ewing schoolhouse, in the
Whitman neighborhood, was re-
turning home from Brennan on
Tuesday last, fell from her buggy
and had her left arm broken.
HENRY MORROW, q negro abut 90
years of age, who had been con-
fined in the county jail as a
lunatic for the past five or six
weeks, died on Saturday and was
buried by the county. He was
brought IN from the Gay Hill set
Element.
PEACE, quiet, good order, owl
meetings, sardine and whiskey
barbecues. lobster festivals and
beer soelables-all incidental to
the municipal canvass-reIgn su-
preme, and in the meantime bus
mess in the mayors and Justices
court is exceedingly dull.
DoRsE BURcHFIELD, one of the
parties implicated IN the recent
outrage near Burton and who was
so badly wounded in the ARRAY
that he could not escape, was
brought to town Thursday night
ai,d lodged in Jail. Burchfeld now
saws that he knows nothing about
the Giro 'umstances whatever-all is
a complete blank to him.
Nick GENrR T.-The body of Nick
Gentry was fou nd in the Yequa, at
Moloch crossing, about thirteen ,
miles from Burton, .Hbout 8 o'clock
Saturday Afternoon, and at o.
clock the justice of the peace OF the s
Burton precinct had started out to
hold an inquest. No particulars l
could be learned beyond the tact
that Gentry's body had been found
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SHERIFF DEvER offers q reward
Of 500 for the arrest of Rebel
McNelly, implicated in the recent !
outrage near Burton. Neither
pains OF money will be spared in
their arrest. There is but
one sentiment in regard to this af- I
fair, and that is intense indignation :.
and desire that full justice shall " :,
be meted out to all concerned IN it. =
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CASTOR BEANs.-The Brennan o
Dbl mill is now offering for sale S
castor beans tor planting purposes. IL
Full instructions regarding Guilt n
7ation and handling will be fur g
nished. The oil mill will buy the al
beans at reasonable price after T
they are raised. Farmers, would, CT
ve think, do we'll to experiment b,
With these beans; it is likely they p,
nay be made to pay. hi
DIED. On the 18th inst, at =
,yons Station, Burleson county, =;
luke X, oBERTs, aged 70 years. y,
he dece, ased was born IN Ten
essee IN l SIG and camO to Texas >,
n 1886, set Ting in Washington .
ounty, where he resided until n
ow years ago. His remains were O.
rought here on Friday evening :,
nd were INFERRED in the city Gem a
terry on Saturday. h
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