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

10000 or moro, but won't get 'cm
all.
-Twcnty-scvcn negroes were
arrested IN one day over IN Free
stone county for stealing water
melons.
Weeds arc waist high IN the
courthouse yard at Fairfield. The
Recorder wants tho fence put in
order and the weeds killed.
"A largo number of cattle from
the MIlmO ranch IN Mexico have
been brought into Texas at Laredo
for shipment into the interior.
Tho Wharton Independent is
authorized by the citizens of Whar-
ton county to say that one thousand
cotton pickcrs can gctstcady work
at good wages.
"A white man named Canthon
stabbed colorcd boy in the back,
near Millican last week. 1t is said
that Canthon is very much 10 blame
tor his rash act.
Tho wife of Andy Jackson who
lives near WhitosbOro, elopod
with fellow by the name of Bell,
leaving her four children, the old
est only nine years OF age.
Parties from Cucro report at
least forty buildings blown down,
among them Dunn's largo store
containing largo stock of goods ;
the railroad shops and two or three
chruchcs are wrecked.
According to tho Tablet there
arc seven hundred members of the
Farmers alliance in Grimes county.
An alliance store will be opened in
Navasota on the LIST OF September.
Tho Houston Ago says it Is
understood that laborcr Vasmcr
goes into a combination against
tho Democratic ticket with tho
Knights of Labor vote for his stock
in trade.
Tho Moxia Ledger does not
say that local option is systematic
cally violated in Mcxia, but it docs
say that whiskoy is sold and that
there is as much drunkenness as
formerly.
Col. o. T. Holt of Houston, posi-
tlvoly declines to be a candidate
for the state senate and the Hous-
ton Age suggests the name of Hon.
George Goldthwait for that posi-
ton. The judge would be an
honor to the senate.
"A Democratic meeting was
called at Crawford the other day,
the original purpose of the call
was TO endorse Anderson Tor con-
grcss in opposition to Mills. The
Mills men were in tho majority
and the other fellows took walk.
The prisoners in the CotuIla
Jail, eight in number, escaped last
Sunday; they knocked the jailcr
senseless and left him for dead.
Qnc Of ting men, Fellx Taylor is
charged with having murdered
three Mcxieans 4 few months ago.
| john Lotion lives Two miles
IRON Fort Worth. He was mar
ricd some ten days ago and the
other night an attempt was made
to blow up his house with dyna-
mite. 1t thought young man
who was q candidate tor 4Oiton;s
wifq's hand did the deyiltry.
Col. Mills was screnadod at Cor
sicana on Saturday night, The
people wcre wild with enthusiasm,
bonfrcs were made and anvils were
fired; all of this was done to testi-
iy the appreciation in which he is
held by the pconI", a few prohibi-
tionists to the contrary notwith,
standing.
"A Laredo special to the Gal
weston News says tho Mcxicans are
massing troops along tho Rio
Grandc in order to invade Texas
should war be declared. Because
President Cleveland has gone
afshing IN the Mountains of New
York the residents on tho Texas
botder are unhappy.
AT Lavaca, twelve miles above
Indianola, about fifteen houses
were blown down or washed away.
Never before was the Texas coast
visited by so generally destructive
a storm. 1t extended for 100 miles
inland, destroying thousands of
houses and involving a pocunlary
loss aggregating millions.
AN attempt to nominate y
Democratic county ticket for Wal
Ter county proved q failure at
Hampstead on Saturday. The
country and town delegations fail
cd to harmonic. a mass meeting
for the whole county will be called |
TO meet at Hampstead on Septcm-
Der II to formulate Il citizens ticket.
Prohibition has been tried in
Limestone county and found want |
ing; 1t has failed To prohibit, not
because tho law is defective, but
because it did not have the moral I
support OF a majority of the people.
An effort will now be made TO do
away with local option. 1t will he !
submitted to 4 vote Ct tho neXI
election. The MeXja Lodgcr is OPP !
posed TO local option.
-Indianola Is 4 complete wreck
not more than three or tour houses
having escaped tho destructive |
force of the water. Dr.. Fischer,
quarantine officer, his wife, Capt. |
Malone, Capt. Steinbach and q ne
gro woman who were ut quaran- /
tine station were washed away and /
forced to take refuge in the large .
salt ccdars and for nine long hours
they chung to them until rescued.
This last disaster ut IndIanOla will |
probably wipe it oil the map. !