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County Court.

Friday.-There was no business
transacted on the civil or criminal
docket and the time of the court
was taken up with probate matters
The final account of the guardian
in the estate of Arthur Knolle, q
minor, was approved: also the final
account of the guardian in the es.
tate of John Sterling and Eva Smith
minors.
The annual account of the guar
dian in the estate of the Neinast mi.
nors was continued in order to per
feet service.
In the estate of C. T. Armstrong.
a minor, the final account was ap.
proved and the guardian was dis
charged.
The last will and testament of H
G. Mcintyre, Sr., was admitted to
probate. II. c. Mcintyre, Jr., was
appointed administrator without
bond, and Messrs. 81. X. Harrison.
&. B. Rivers and E. L. Salley were
appointed appraisers,
In the estate of W Fl. Vinson, de
ceased, the homestead was set aside
to the widow; also one thousand dol
lars for a years allowance and five
hundred dollars in lieu of exempt
property.
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As is his custom to do about once
a month, Mr.. j. F. Estes, the county
jailor, made the rounds of the differ,
ent cells in the county Jail on Friday
In which prisoners are confined, for
the purpose of inspecting them with
view to seeing that there was
nothing concealed with which the
prisoners could make their escape.
The sequel showed that he made
the search just in the nick of time,
not bit too soon. In the cell OF
Randolph Finn he found a case
knife, a piece of corset stay and a
file. They were wrapped up in a
blanket which he had rolled into a
pad and made a seat of. With the
file the prisoner had made saw OF
the steel corset shank. With these
he had sawed two of the bars or
CRATES to his cell in two and for a
little more would have been able to
have gotten out into the runaround.
After that he could have managed
without great deal OF difficulty to
cut through the soft brick wall.
When the file, case knife and shank
were discovered the prisoner had no
apology to make for their being in
his possession and reminded Tailor
Estes that he too would have used
them if he had been placed in jail
under the same circumstances. He
said he had the file and case knife
about his person when he was put
in jail and that he was accustomed
to use the file to sharpen his hoe
when he chopped cotton and carried
it in his bosom. This instance will
go to show the Importance of thor
oughly searching prisoners prior to
putting them in jail. Randolph
Finn is the colored man who killed
his wife, or mistress, at Chappell
Hill on the 18th of last June.
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Another Shooting Affair.

Mr.. W. K. Haynie, who was in the
city on Friday from Chappell Hill
brought the news of a colored shoot
ing scrape which occurred near thai
place the night before. Austin
Flewellenis a darkey who is living
with his second wife about three
miles north of Chappell Hill and has
number of step-childrcn, among
whom are two or three troublesome
boys just growing up. On Thurs,
day night Flewellen had disagree.
ment with his wife. Whether he
was badly mistreating her or not
was not learned but one of the sons
interfered in her behalf and took mp
his mothers quarrel. Austin ther
preceded to turn his attention to
the youngster and was in the act of
administering a drubbing to him
when brother of the boy seized a
shotgun and hlazed away at his step
daddy twice, shooting him in the
face both times. The gun was not
loaded with buckshot and at last &C.
counts the colored man was still
alive, but is reported to be seriously
if not fatally hurt.
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A BAPTIST ANNIVERSARY.

Rev. DIR. Rufus c. Burleson, prasi-
dent of Waco Baylor University,
who formerly resided and taught
school in this county, writes that the
tiftieth anniversary of the Union Bap-
fist association, the oldest in Texas,
will be held at Sealy on the Friday
before the third Sabbath in August.
1t is desired to commemorate the
day with suitable services, and Gen
eral Barnes, a. Burlington, L N.
Camp, ". H. Cleveland and a. S.
Poindexter have been appointed a
committee for arranging a jubilee or
memorial services.
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A LOCAL republican who is men
toned as a candidate for Office in
the coming county election, in
formed the reporter of the BANNER
yesterday that the republican execu-
tive committee of Washington coun-
ty would meet in this city on the
Goth of August, and intimated that
without going to the trouble of
holding convention the committee
would put out a ticket for county
Offices to be voted on in November,
The Banners informant further in,
timated that some of the candidates
on the democratic ticket would be
endorsed for the sake of preserving
harmony and keeping down hard
feeling, which would result if every
candidate on the ticket should be
opposed.
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CARD.

EDITOR BANNER: In yours of the
10th Instant you publish an article
in regard to the death and mental
imbecility of my son NJ. H. Hervey
caused by cigarette smoking. The
cause of his death was hurt re-
ceived in the region of the right kid
ney in q romp on Christmas night,
producing an abscess; whilst almost
sure of the abscess we failed to To-
cate it until it broke into the bowels,
lungs, and ultimately into the kid
neys, discharging vast quantities of
pus, producing exhaustion, from
which he died. His mind remained
perfectly rational during the time, in
fact + often thought he conyersed
unusually well.
During his illness he often smoked
cigarettes, though not Unexpectedly,
and he seemed soothed and quoted
in his great pain.
Persons suffering from gun shot,
or other wounds do not lose their
desire for smoking or cqaee, as in
other fevers.
During my long service as con-
federate surgeon had many oppor-
tunities of observing
I send you testimonial from few
gentlemen that were with him a
great deal of the time for sixty days
and nights.
As you seem fond of preach
ing to the youth of the land little
dissertation to you would not be
amlss. Hereafter, before you invade
the grief of stricken family on what
''they say" (for he is always busy
fellow hey say ISL be sure of
your authority, and even then char
ity, that great cardinal virtue, would
stay the hand of most preachers,
and respect the grief of a wife and
mother and not needlessly increase
their sorrow.
The youth of this country are
preached at too much by mouth and
pen, and to little by examples in
their elders.
Respectfully,
/. p. HERvEY.
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Real Estate Transfers.

n. j. Wheeles and wife to Henry
Boenker, IS acres VIM. Pryer league,
$50.
Sam Arnett to R. P. Boyd, 8 81
100 acres, VIM. Pryor league, $500.
Andrew Lee to A. S. Whitener, Jr.,
Lots 1 and 4 in Block 25 Wilkins ad-
dition to Brennan, $3.50.
P. W. Hunt and wife to W. A.
Wood. .33333 acres P. Coe league,
S1159.
Mary L. Jones to T. D. Morgan,
lot sd" in City of Brennan
$1,000.
Hermann Elder Jr., ard wife to
VIM. Johle 40 acres Chas. Fleasnor
headlight ] league, James Beardlee
league; 5000.
r. E. Iuhn to VIM. Wehring 1879
acres Thos. S. Saul league, $4,000.
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A Difficulty at Burton.

On last Saturday night a rather
serious difficulty took place at Bur,
ton between Messrs. Frank Watson
and Ernest Knitted, two well known
and prominent young business men
of the place. They had not been
on the best of terms for quite q
while and it was not hard matter
to provoke trouble between them.
They were engaged in playing a
game of billiards and got into a
trivial dispute about the game,
which led to the fight. Ernest
Knittell is said to have been the ag.
gressor. He attacked young Wat,
son with a knife and stabbed him
three times about the throat. Wat
son with the billiard cue in his
hands administered some terrible
blows on Knittel's head, wearing
the cue almost completely out.
Both young men were badly used
up, and although not in any great
danger, both were compelled to take
to their beds.
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The First Bale.

BRENNAN has received her first
bale of cotton of the season, but it
was not raised in this county. 1t
was raised by W. Schmidt in Austin
county, near Industry, weighed five
hundred and twenty three pounds
and was ginned by Mr. R. L. Ford
tran. The cotton was purchased
by E. NJ. Knolle, an Industry mer-
chant, for thirteen and a half cents
pound, to be delivered in Bren-
ham. The bale was brought in at
twelve o'clock on Monday night, and
on Tuesday it was decorated with
small flags and driven around the
streets by negro man on float.
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The semi-centennial session of the
Union Baptist Association will con-
vene with the Baptist church at Sealy
on the 18th of August. I am au-
thorized by Mr.. H. G. Thompson,
the polite and obliging general pas
senger agent of the Gulf, Colorado
& Santa Fe railroad, to say that tick
cts will be sold to all who wish to
attend at four cents per mile for the
round trip. Tickets will be put on
sale at Galveston, Caldwell and other
intermediate points on the main line
and at all points on the Houston and
Navasota branches on the 18th of
August, good to return until the 10Th
of August.
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Theatrical Attractions.

Following is a partial and incom-
plete list of the attractions that
have secured dates to appear at the
Grand Opera House in This city dur
ing the coming season, which will
be opened some time during Sep
TENDER: The Fast Mail company,
the Sam Houston historical drama
by the Madison Square company, A
Brave Woman, Mortimer's Comedy
company, Lizzie Evans, Jim the
Penman. Patti Rosa, Bluebeard, Jr.,
Prescott and Mclean, Jarbeau COM
edy company, Held by the Enemy,
Penalty company, Our Country
Cousins, Nellie Walters. A Barrel of
Money, Alvin Joslin, Jane Coombs
and A Social Session. The blue
beard, Jr.," is an opera company of
sixty persons and is so far the finest
attraction billed to appear in Bren-
ham. The above list does not rep
resent probably more than a third
of the companies that will be billed
during the season, and, as usual, the
best ones will be those that are
booked later in the season.
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SHERIFF DEvER and Consta
Bile Boyd left on Tuesday morning
with a lot of attached witnesses,
both white and colored. for Bolton
to attend the trial OF Joe Lewis, Il
colored man, who is under indict-
mert for the murder OF his mother.
in-law in Bell county. The negro
and his mother-in-law were both
from this county, and the relatives
of the woman made up purse and
have employed Judge Kirk to assist
in the prosecution of the defendent.
Judge Kirk accompanied the sheriff
and nconstable.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-07-31

The democratic Judicial and Aoto-
rial conventions of the districts
composed of Washington, Burleson
and Lee counties will meet to day at
Caldwell for the purpose of nomina-
ting a district attorney and foto-
rial representative to the legislature.
Major Ragsdale having declined to
be candidate for reelection it is
safe to say that Beauregard Bryan,
Esq, of Brennan, Will be nominated
for the district attorney without op-
position.
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Mr.. c. ABENDRoTH, prominent
farmer who resides in the western
end OF the couaty near the Fayette
county line, was in the city yester-
day, and reading in the BANNER
about the statement of DR.. S. Bow.
ers to the effect that the census man
had not been out that way, Mr..
Abendroth says thN he was MT
enumerated and that his neighbora
are in the same fix.
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Mr.. FAUsTINo KBER, who is trav-
cling il his native country, writes
back that he met with all agreeable
surprise and quite a coincidence.
He was visiting a Catholic cathedral
at Ludiano, Switzerland. and while
examining painting happened to
observe the name of the artist and
the date of execution Of the paint
ing. Tie date OF the painting was
~ 1853, and the artist was the
2Teat.great grandfather Of III. HI
Ue-.
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The close season for shooting
prairie chickens will be up on the
first day of August and several par
ties have already been organized i'll
Brennan to go down the Santa Fe
to Wharton and Colorado counties
to shoot chickens. They will leave
here on the 31st, and will be on the
grounds bright and early on the
morning of the LIST to begin the
work OF Strengthening chickens.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-07-31

AIRs. HoNs, who died suddenly at
Burton on Wednesday. had walked
about one hundred yards instead OF
expiring or the depot platform i'm
mediGtdiy after stepping from the
cars. i ncuse and carriages went
up from this city to attend the fun-
eraI, which was delayed Oh account
OF tie absence from Burton of DR.. J.
NJ. Hons, the son of the deceased.
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SEVERAL, farmers west of the city
having laid by their crops and hav-
ing nothing to do are enjoying life
camping out with their families on
the Yegua. Besides those who
went from Berlin last week, Mr.. J.
V. Buster and family spent two or
three days on the Yegua and had an
abundance Of fish. Mr.. Tom Gen
try an1 family will disport on the
banks of the creek this week.
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all who own Mules and Horses,
take notice:

AL " NJ "" anu ALOAo No,
take notice:
For six weeks we have had an
average of from four to SIX sick
mules daily with bots and collie on
my plantation. in Fort Bend coun.
ty. We used the bots and Collie
Specific" put up by c. F. Jensen &
Co., Burton, Texas, and lost only
one mule. Col. l.. A. ELLIS,
Austin, Tex.
This Is the best medicine for
bots and collie on record.
G. W. REDDIoK,
Manager of L. A. Ellis & Sons
plantation.
Remedies advertised in this
paper put up by c. F. Jensen &
Co., Burton, Texas, are tor sale by
Jos. Tristram.
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W. G.. KELLI.
Recording Secretary
NOTICE"

There will be a competitive exami-
nation held at the courthouse in
Brennan on the 18th of August
1890 to examine applicants for ap-
pointment to the Houston Normal
school. Messrs. E. W. Tarrant Os-
car Samuel and u. D. Campbell will
conduct the examination. All who
desire to compete for appointment
will present themselves to above
named board.
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In letter to his father from Idaho
Springs, Col, Lewis Bryan says
that the thermometer never gets
higher than eighty degrees and that
snow can be seen on the mountains
all the time.
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The Huntsville, Navasota, Bren-
ham and LAGRANGE road is still in
allegiance. There ought to be anoth-
er meeting in order to get up little
enthusiasm and excitement. It is to
be feared the projected road will be
allowed to sleep long sleep.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-07-31

SINCE the receipt of the new and
latest style of records the county
clerks Office has caught up with the
deeds fled for record.
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The game of baseball which was
played on Sunday afternoon on the
hill south of town near the old fair
grounds between Brennan and In
dependence resulted in favor OF
Brennan by score of 81 to 4.
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LOCAL NE WIS.

The farmers on Kentucky Ridge
south of town are getting ready to
pick cotton.
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Mr.. W. 81. MURPHY won the horn
chair which was ratified on Saturday
night by Rudolph Koch on throw
of ~, and F. W. Wood won the
dressing case.
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LATE on Thursday evening Con.

LATE on Thursday evening Con-
stable Boyd went out to Fisher &
Weis' slaughter pen and arrested
Sam Mobiles, colored, on charge of
disturbing the peace. Sam is quite
a notable darkey whom nearly every
body about town knows. He is very
fond of his dram and had been on a
drunk for two or three days. On
Thursday he amused himself by
procuring a gun and chasing all OF
the other hands about the place
away from their work. While it was
fun for HIM it wasn't for the other
fellows. Hence his arrest.
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HENRY LEE, colored, was arraigned
in Justice CurrY's court on Monday
morning for disturbing the peace at
Lou Clark's gambling shop Sunday
evening and was fined 81 and costs.
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NJ. NJ. FIELDER,
Representative list Dist.

The young nan Waldmann Cor
whatever his name was) who figured
in this city as an insurance agent and
victimized the Exchange hotel and
local business men, seems to be a
regular confidence man. Mr.. August
Lindemann, who takes the San An
tonic Free Presse and another Ger
man paper published at New Or
leans, showed the BANNER reporter
articles in which his deceptive meth
DDS in those cities were exposed.
In addition to gong by the name OF
Waldmann, he had the aliases of
Wiese, Hildebrandt and other
aliases. He is wanted in Denver,
Col, California, Arkansas, Kansas
and several other places.
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A FARMERS named Platte, who lives
a few miles south of town, came in
on Sunday and reported to the Off
GERS that white man whom he had
hired on his farm, stole a horse, a
pistol and fifteen dollars in cash
from him on Saturday night The
officers kept a sharp look out for the
thief, but although he is said to have
been seen here, he had not been AZ
rested up to latest accounts.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-07-31

The protracted meetin at the Bap-
list church at Gay Hill will continue
during the present week,
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THERE is a bet between a promi.
nent physician of an adjoining coun-
ty, and a gentleman of this city that
Hogg will not get the nomination
for governor. The bet, however,
was made several weeks ago.
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The party of young people who
went out on Saturday night to
camp on New Years creek, return
ing Sunday, had only moderately
enioYable time.
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OK Thursday morning Mrs. Otto
Giesecke and children left BRENNAN
for Lampasas to spend some time
recuperating. Between 2 and 3
o'clock in the afternoon Mr..
Giesecke received dispatch
from his wife, dated from
Caldwell, telling him TO come on
at once, that their youngest child, a
son eighteen months old, was very
i'll and couldn't live. The intelli-
gence came to Mr. Giesecke like a
clap of thunder in a clear sky. He
boarded the first freight train and
left in response to the summons.
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WIN. BRADy and willie Grant. tu

WIN. BRADY and Willie Grant, two
colored young men, were driving in
a sulky in Camptown at noon on
Monday, when the horse became
frightened and ran away, upsetting
and smashing up the sulky and
slightly bruising both of the dar-
keys, one of whom was thrown
against a barbeG-wire fence.
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JUSTICE CURRY's monthly term of
court was begun on Monday with
a small docket. A few cases were
dismissed, few judgments were en-
tered by default and other cases
were set for trial during the term.
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The Hon. NJ. M. Fielder, of Chap
pell Hill, is announced in this issue
of the BANNER as a candidate for
representative in the legislature. He
has already served one term and has
made faithful record, of which any
member should be proud. He is
the regular democratic nominee and
is all right on the railroad commits
sion. He is representative citizen
of the county.
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AS will be seen by advertisement
elsewhere, there will be competi-
tive examination held at the court
house in this city on the 18th OF
August to examine applicants for ap-
pointment to the Sam Houston Nor
NAL school.
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Mr.. HENRY ScHwEck, of New Ulm,
was in the city on Thursday, and re.
ported that the killing of Henry
Hess, the Cat Spring saddler, at
New Elm, by Adolph Poeschel was a
mistake and that Hess is alive and
well. The report of the killing
grew out CT the fact that Proeschel
got into a little trouble with George
Use, from Cat Springs, and cracked
him over the head several times.
Subsequently the dead body of a
man was found on Sealy prairie, and
the report was at once started and
spread abroad that the dead man
was the party whom Poeschel had
struck.
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Mr.. J. T. HARDY, who was in town
on Monday, reported that while he
was coming along he got soaking
wet in a heavy shower of ram which
overlook him on the old Sharp place
six miles north of town about half
past ten o'clock in the morning.
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JOIN DAY JACKSON, one of the most
prosperous and prominent young
farmers of the Chappell community,
says that the cotton worms are slay-
ing the crop and are eating with
coming appetites.
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THERE will be no regular services
at the Giddings Memorial church all
during next month.
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THERE seems to be considerable
doubt as to how the election on the
location of the courthouse of Grimes
county resulted 1t required a two
thirds vote to change from Anderson
and on the day after the election a
dispatch from Navasota claimed that
Navasota had won by an overwhelm-
ing vote. Since then, however, the
Anderson people have denied the
claim and say that all of the north
ern portion of the county went solid
ly for Anderson, and that Navasota
was guilty of fraud in running in
and voting hundreds and! hundreds
of negroes.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.

We are authorized to announce NJ. NJ.
FIELDER as the democratic nominee for Rep
resentative from Washington county to the
odd Legislature.
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A REPORT of sale in the S. D.
Lauderdale estate was fled in the
county clerks Office on Monday
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NEXT week Messrs. E.. G. Lang
hammer and family, B. S. Rogers
and wife, August Koch and family,
a. NJ. Krug and family, of this city,
and Mr.. Chas. Langhammer and
family, of Bellville, will go down to
the Bernard to enjoy camp life for a
week. They propose to live while
away on fish and prairie chickens.
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oaLzT POTATOES Of this years crop
have come into the market. There
was a supply in town Saturday.
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EARLY Saturday morning it was
reported on the streets that Mr..
". H. Wheeler, of Hampstead, who
is we'll known in BRENNAN and who
was here with the Hampstead gun
club at the fourth of July celebra-
ton, had been killed the night be-
fore in that town. The report
spread rapidly and private kilograms
of inquiry were sent to Hampstead
in reply to which it was stated that
there had been no killing.