Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-08-26
CRY AND County.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

lily AND OOONA1'
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR THE LEGISLATURES.
w. L. WILKINS, Of Independence,
hereby announced NJ CANDIDATE for Rep
sentative in the legislature, from Washir
ton county, subject to the endorsement
the Citizens convention, If ono be he
Election first Tuesday in November.
RI. MooRE is hereby announced as ca
didate for the Legislature, subject 10 the "
of the voi,,rs Of Washington county, TO
expressed on Tuesday, November ?, 1886.
FOR COUNTY JUDGE
hereby submit my name TO the voters
Washington county, Us ucandidate for COu
ty Judge. Respectfully,
j. Z. GRAY.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
SAM G. RAGsDALE Of Caldwell, is hcrel
announced rs u candidate for District Alto
ncy for the 21st Judicial district, compOs'
of the counties Of Washington, Leo Al
Burleson; election on first Tuesday in N
vember next.
G. G. LoCKETr is hereby announced as
candidate for the office of District Ation'
for the Twenty first Judicial District, cor
posed Of the counties Of Washington, BUR-
son and Lee; election first Tuesday IN n
vember.
SINCE Monday quiet has reigne
supreme.
JOE HOFFMAN has q card in thi
Issue. The Republican conventio
is over.
THE county canvass will ope
Sunday, September 5, at Palm
platform, Pleasant Hill.
A FEW sIckly looking watorme
ons wero brought ii Saturday an
sold at 10 10 Is cents each.
ATTENTION is called to the advol
tiscment of Ant Traps; they ar
said to DO a sure thing.
HoT.-The weather on Tuesda,
was red-hot. The signal servic
thermometer registered 1O2 and Il
many offices it was up to lO4 an,
los. Phcw!
Tue owls held a precinct meet
ing at Sanhedrim hall Saturda,
night, for the purpose of elect
ing delegates to tho owl count,
convention 10 meet. on Monday.
On Monday afternoon Pete
Brown and Wash Young, negro OK
convicts, now in Jail, made an in
eircctual attempt TO overpowcr tn,
CALLER and escape. The Jail Ger
tainly needs reconstructing; it il
badly arranged and unsafe.
"RAzoR PLAY."-Saturday, even
ing, about s o'clock, WHY'S Big
by, esquire, drew a razor and Gu
Mr.. Houston, better known as Hnst
McAdoo in the arm. The difficulty
was purely political. Both are
colorcd. Bigby was arrested.
HERMAN SCHUMACHER, q Ger
man, aged 26 years, was tried be
fore the county Judge and a jury
on Thursday, and adiudged luna
tic. He was rcmanded to jail and
will be sent to the lunatic asylum
At Austin. Schumacher lived VI
Se Yeagua.
2AIK.-Friday's rain and
" out a good deal of open
+he damage is much greater
A.iu somo localities than in others,
1t is estimated that about ten pei
cent. of the cotton that was open
on Friday in this section will
provo a total loss. If We have 3
fair fail and frost does not come
unusually carly a good top croI
will yet be made.
CITIZENS CALI.-Elscwhcre will
be found long additional list o.
citizens calling upon the present
county officials to again become
candidates for the positions now
held by them, and the reply Of al
of them except assessor Hoffman
who did not sign it. Among the
names of the signers will be found
those of number of tho most IN
fiuential men in diffcrcnt portions
of the county.
A SHOT Thursday oven lnG
about 9 o'clock Willie Hamelmann
the handsome barkeeper at thu
Santa Fe saloon, discovered
stranger on the west gallery of the
saloon with a pistol drawn on him
Willie got his gun from hehind the
bar and pulling down on thu
stranger took a shot at him, scar
ing him so that be was afraid u
try TO run off. Policeman Buster
landed tho stranger in jail.
Hon. R. @. MILLs.-Tbe con
gresslonal convention for this, the
Ninth district, met at Waco OF
Saturday, and after some lIttlc op
position, Hon. R. @. Mills was
nominated by reclamation. Thu
action is in accordance with tn,
wishes of large majority of tn,
Democrats in tho district, bu
there was some opposition on thu
part of the prohibitIonists in Nc
Lehman, Navarro and Limeston,
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