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3uag? ESTABLISHED 1865. BREMAM, TEXAS, FEED AY, AUGUST 2, 1878. vol. xm NO. 31 i---iin.ii-'.Mi.j'aiL.L'i. L Jfl T '" J' rVm - ..I. . inui.i..u-.LTn.,.t..TmrrTHJU.i mUMAiJM'UmW.'JgB J 10. a W" T3 s si M r h "m "V ,1 3jL. A N Jl.1i J JL.,1 Hate of Sabmlptloc: IHllv, one copy one year,,. WnUt. on copt ouejear, 89 W 2 CO - Hates of -AarerUtlnp Transient and Legal advertisements- Insert ed at 81 JO pet square ibT first Insertion, and JScentaperfcraare ruriMea subsequent Inser- "Manlice and Obltuarv notices, exceeding eirfitllnej.balfpiice. Editorial notice of n om'.T business character.'lO cenU a lino eaca IneerUos. - .... ,..,., Announcements wlU be Inserted at the fol- lowlnc rates: state ja.w3iw winces, iv County, 7.50f Precinct, S. The money to accompany the announcement, la every In stance. Memphis, Tenn., has establish ed quarantine against New Or leans. Judge Roberts, the Demo cratic nominee for governor, is seventy-two years of age. , iCol Schleicher has been so licited by ' Judge Ireland jto stump the district in company with him. It is claimed by a Dallas del egate that Judge Roberts, of Ty ler, was nominated by the Hubbard men. Tracv, of Radical fame, ad vises the negroes of Houston to enlist with the Greenbackers in the coming campaign. The Rockdale Greenbackers. arc green. They propose put ting Hubbard in the field and running him nolens volcns. The New Hampshire legisla ture has passed an act imprison ing all persons for five years who are proved to bctramps. Itis fair to presume that the Mexia,.- Ledge) is now happy. Hubbard" and Throckmorton have been shelved for the pres ent. - Day by day it is becoming apparant that the Republicans and Greenbackers are about to join hands and put a State ticket in the field. The funny man who does up the funny items for the j,rez;s says: 'The.introduction of the whipping-post1' Thisisavcry funny joke if one can only dis cover the point. An Austin special to the Nczvs says: . "It is claimed Wash Jones has been strength ened by the action of the State convention." "Well!" Well!! A man named Richard How chins, residing near Fluvanna courthouse, Va., on Tuesday last murdered his wife, mother- I in-law and one child, ?.nd then killed himself. Senator Conkling is to' tell the Potter committee "some things." Butler has, it is said, made special preparations to give the distinguished senator a becoming reception. During the year ending June 30, 1878, the government Has disposed ol S5.190.860 worth of kinds in Dckota, Kansas, Min nesota and Nebraska, against Si, 466, 322 the previous year. TiiERE-are 166,000 liquor deal ers in the United States and it is estimated that the enormous sum of 796,882,138 is annually spent for liquor. Thesearc in teresting figures for temperance societies to work upon. The Austin Gazette regards the suggestion of Maj. Bassett for the Supreme bench with great favor, but in view of the fact that the offices are monop plized in East Texas thinks it should be given to Judge Wael der, of San Anfonio. The San Saba News says if those who go to church to en joy a quietsnooze under the mild influence of the gospel will con fine themselves to reasonable limits and not "sleep out loud" the rest of the congregation would better enjoy the sermon. The Austin Gazette in reply to the Banner's question: "What docs it think of Throck morton," eulogizes him and then losing its temper indu'ges in vituperating Hubbard whom it blames withTorockmorton's de feat. The Gazette should main tain its equinimity Trof. Grote; of Georgia; Wm. J. Jones, of Virginia Point, Texas; E. H. Anderson, of Mississippi, and Prof. Corn stock, of Cornell University, have been appointed observers to study the cotton worm dur ing the present seasonv The Illinois Democracy is not entirely harmonious. A congressional convention was held for the 16th district, at "Vandalia, on the 1 8th inst. After 347 ballots the convention agreed to disagree and adjourn ed without a nomination. Murphy, the man who gave away Bass, Iras, at the sugges tion of Major. Jones and Uni ted States 'Attorney Evans, had the forfeiture of his bond set. aside and the docket cleared as i. to him. This is a part of his reward for the capture of Bass. Ireland and Schleicher had a joint debate at Gonzales. Col. S. quoted from his speeches in congress and did not hesitate in saying that time would tell that he was correct. Judge Ireland accused him of acting in oppo sition to the Democratic plat form in 1S76. The board of health of Gal- j veston passed a resolution pro hibiting the landing of any pas senger from New Orleans on and after the 25th inst. and that all vessels and freight be fumi gated. The authorities at Marshall and Jefferson are invi ted to co-operate. Secertary Sherman has been before the Potter investigation committee. He denies having written the Weber Anderson letter although there are some things in it he would have writ ten at the time. Gen. Butler took a tilt at him. but did not elicit anything startling. Tun Waco Telephone was an earnest supporter of Throck morton. It says when he was withdrawn and Gov. Hubbard maintained the lead for twenty two consecutive ballots, partisan and personal opposition should have ceased and Hubbard re ceived the nomination. James McCloskey, he of the defunct Galveston Independent, was recently whipped in the most public place in that city. The San Antonio Express in stead of sympathising with Mac. in his misfortunes, stigmatizes him as a fanatic and gives very good reasons for so doing. . , East StXcuis, Ills, will soon have an established .reputation as a place for rows. Only a few days ago a conflict occur red between the rival police force of the city and several men were killed. On Wednes day last a similar difficulty took place and two more men were shot but not killed. . Anotuer of Mr. Haye's spec ial pets has just come to grief. E. W. Maxwell has beed cash iered from the army for drunk enness and for drawing pay for ,one month five different times. Maxwell was mixed up in the Florida business andwas promo tiatcd from civil life, over the of veterans. Such of the State press as fa vored the retention of the two thirds rule is not especially en thused over the gubernatorial nomination, though they are in clined to accept it with be coming grace. The Banner was opposed to the two-thirds rule and is not in the least sur prised at the result. From a casual glance at a congressional slate kept in this town it is evident that Shep ard will 'receive a majority vote on the first ballot and this with out counting the fourteen votes of Colorado county, which holds a priinary'yection on Saturday next. SbouldColorado county vote for him he will have much morp than a majority. This calculation is made on those counties which have instructed for him. The friends of Mr. Shepard feel very confident of his triumph- , riSniNG ANDPOLITICS- Some days ago N. A. T., the reliable correspondent of the Galveston Noes, wrote to that paper, -giving his experience fishing at Eagle Lake, and also, about the political situation of Colorado county. Mr. Monroe P. Kerr, the very worthy mayor of the city of Brenham, has just returned from Eagle Lake and relates experience to the Ban ner. Mr. Kerr and family, and Messrs. Elliot and Lott, of Aus tin county, with their families went to Eagle Lake, arriving about noon. The party speedi ly engaged in fishing and, in less than an hour, had landed more than a hundred fine fish perch vand trout mostly the latter. Some of the trout weighed ten pounds each. The fish were fried and a dinner was partaken of on the banks of the lake. After dinner fish ing was resumed and a great many were caught before night, trout being the most numer ous. One of the ladies in the party caught at eight pound trout without bait on her hook and landed him safely in the boat. The next morning fishing was resumed with the same luck as on the preceding afternoon. The par ty caught nearly seven hundred fish in all-most of them trout. "They threw a great many fine fish back in the lake, having no use for them. Mr. Kerr-says he never in his life saw fish bite better than on this occasion. POLITICAL. Mr. Kerr had been reading N. A. T.'s account of the num ber of Hancock men in Colorado county, and having some ac quaintances there and many in Austin county, employed his leisure time in looking for a Hancock man; he said he wanted to see one. He inquir ed of every man with whom he came in contact, , but not a Hancock man could he find in either county. Mr. Kerr thinks the solidity of Colorado county for Hancock all a myth. The Houston Greenbackers 1 held a meeting on last Saturday night. An address was read and speeches .vere made by Col. John T. Brady and Col. Charles Stewart, the latter was present ss a spectator, bur, v.a3 called upon for a speech. He told the Greenbackers that he was also a Grcenbacker and a Democrat, and that all wanted by the Greenbackers can be ac complished only by and through the Demociatic party. Col. Tracy also made a speech. The Waco Telephone says of the convention: "It was the most partisan, bitter, selfish and reckless body, taken in the ag gregate, that ever assembled in Texas. Hereafter when a man puts himself forward as desir ous to attend another State convention, it will be sufficient to defeat him if it can be shown that he was a delegate to the convention of '78." This is rough on the convention and rough on the delegates. The action of the State con- -vention in nominating Roberts is variously criticised by the press throughout the State. With one or two exceptions none ot the papers are enthus iastic over the nomination. The action of the convention is accepted as a matter of course. Throckmorton or De vine would have given general satisfaction. A delegate to the Austin convention informs the Gid dings Lone Stat that the Hon. John Hancock claims that he has a majority of instructed del egates over the Hon. Scth Shepard. The latter's friends claim that he has a majority of instructed delegates over Han cock. Next week will tell which is right. The New Orleans papers are engaged in a controversy as to the advisability of publishing the existence of yellow fever at th-it plae THE SILVER DOLX.aH- The people are now likely to get a sight if a new silver dol lars about which there has been so much said and written. Last week the United States treasurer directed a circular to the banks throughout the coun try informing them that they would be supplied with as many silver dollars as they might want for greenbacks or treas ury warrants, the cost of trans portation to be borne by the treasury. There arc about eight million of these dollars now in the treasury. The sec ond day after the circular was issued some twenty banks in the neighborhood took about 5300,000. Many orders are being receive'' most of them from the West One bank in Memphis took S300,ooo. It is expected that, as soon as the circular reaches the distant banks, large orders will be re ceived. On account of the heavy expense of transporting silver dollars by Adams' ex press, an arrangement has been made with the post office de partment whereby all this silver is to be sent in pound bags as mail matter. By this means the transportation will cost the government only onc-hfteenth of what the express charges would be. While Secretary Shcrman gives an equivocal dc- ,nial to the statement that gcen- backs so received are to beheld for resumption purposes, Treas urer Gillfillian says they arc so to be used. By this means the new dol lars will be placed in general circulation, and in the course of a few months, they will be afloat here in Texas. So long as their circulation is confined to the East, they are gathered up for the payment of customs, and gravitate from the custom-house to the treasury and,r;Vr versa. Boston is the moral center as well as the hub of the universe around which the rest of the world revolves. The morality of Boston is again shocked by the discoverj' of another de faulting treasurer. Tappan, had been treasurer of the Bos ton Belting company for thirty years; during all this long ca reer he maintained an unblem ished reputation. He resigned and an investigation revealed the fict that Tappan was $600, 000 short. He was a very proper man worth a million in his own name. He was not extravagant or immoral he simply had a desire for more money, and to gratify that desire robbed the Belting company. The Huntsville Item and other papers say that Hubbard should have been withdrawn the moment he found Devine in the lead. Hubbard was in the lead for twenty-two consecutive ballots. If it would have been right to withdraw Hubbard after Devine got in the lead why was it not right to withdraw De vine while he was in the minori ty. It is a poor rule that wont work both ways. The matter is settled now; none of the as pirants got the nomination. It has fallen to a vety good man; we should endeavor to secure his election. No use quarrel ling over Hubbard, Devine or Throckmorton, the convention has fixed them. The Bellville Beacon has' be come entirely disgusted with the prospects of ever getting the SantaFe railroad through to Bell ville .It says the name should be changed to "Galveston and Great Expectation, Magnificent Promises and Illiberal Railroad" It thinks Austin county had as well rely npon prairie schooners b for transportation. "Old Rir," Col. John S. Ford is now in Galveston en route for Brownsville. Col. Ford has been in Washington for the last six months w orkmg in the interest of the Galveston and Camargo road, lie thinks congressional aid will be granted. He also says that Schleicher will cer tainlv be elected Local Corrssponcfeiics. UNION CHURCH. Editors Banntr: Knowing that the Bnxcr circulates amongst the members of the different denominations-- of, and in the icinity of Union Church, situated on Mill Creek, Washington county, I desire to occupy space in your valuable paper sufficient to impress upon the minds of the people of this vicinity the importance of a duty, which they ow e to themvelv es, to succeeding gen- crations and to the trustees of said Unioirt Church. It miy nqj be amiss to stue by whom, and to whom, said house and lot of land, consisting of tffo acres, more or less, was deeded. It was deeded by Jegalepresen tathes of the I'rhnithe l!aplit church, they reserving one-fourth interest in and to said propertj. The remaining three-fourths were divided equally between the Metho dists, Episcopal, Missionary Baptist (who speak the English language) and the Ger man Missionary Baptist denominations. The house no;v standing on said lot of land belongs equally to the abo e named denominations, as specified in the deed. Know ing that land owned, and houses built, by two or more denominations i of ten the cause of hatred and antagonism ex isting between them, to avoid this, I was careful in drawing up the deed to insert a clause prohibiting any of the parties inter ested from selhng or transferring their in terest in and unto slid propertj to any oth er denomination or private individual for all time to come. The deed has been re corded and is now in my possession. Over twelve months ago it became ap parent to all that the house and fence was in a dilapidated condition and ought to have been repaired. In view of these facts, the board of trustees called on the church members and out-siders (as they are called) to contribute something to enable the trus tees to hav c the necessary repairs done. And I am sorry, yes. ashamed to say it nevertheless, the truth must come, let it please or offend whom it may that up to the present date, only ONE DOLLARhas been paid, and that by Mr. Kavanaugh, a citizen of Brenham. I am creditably in formed that several out-siders are ready and willing to contribute something, when the members of the churches set the exam ple. Mr. Mickcl Miller, in "whom I have alLconfidence in point of veracity, says the Germans would pay their proportional part for the purpose above named. Now, I prop&se to each of the above named de nominations that they collect as much as five dollars each and pay the same to one of the trustees, who will rece'pt for the S3me. and I will assure them that the out siders will contribute as much as ten, or twenty dollars if nece-ary, for it is a fact worthy of remark that those who do notbe long to the church are, as a general thing, more liberal in such matters than member of the church. It certainly docs not auger. well for a convnunity to remain idle spectators of the decay and downfall ol their church proper ty siaiply for the want of a few dollars and a little energy on the part of the trustees to J have it repaired. Then let the community exert themselves to build up rather than pull down. A ear or two after said house was built, a gentleman opened aw celv-day school in it, by consent of two of the trustees. As soon as I was apprised of the fact, I ad dressed a note to my collegucs, protesting against using the house as a school-house My reasons for demurring against their proceedings w ere cogent, being actuated by purer moUv c than those of a selfish nature. The view that I entertained at the time, and I still am of the same opinion, was that the house was built by voluntary contribn tious, for the express purpose of a place of worship and religious exercises, and I know from experience that it is impossible for a school teacher, however desirous he or she may be, to take care of the house and other property, to prevent the seats from being greased and smutted, which of ten result in soiling ladies' and gentlemen's dresses on the Sabbath, to say nothing if the damages by breaking windows, gates and cutting down shade trees S.C, as has been the case at the place above referred to. Again, it was my opinion that so long as we permitted a week-day school to be taught in said house, the people of that vi cinity would not use any exertions to build a school house In that I think I have not been mistaken. There is also danger of fire and other casualties icidental to a school-roon. But, as there are only three trustees and two of them favored the pro ject. I had to yield, ever adhering as I do to the time honored principle of allow ing the majority to rule, let them be right or WTong. I, how ever, entertain the best feel ings towards my colleagues, and hope they have no unkind feelings towards me on that scrire it is simply a difference of opinion. I hav e recently been informed that some parties have, without any evil intention, taken the liberty to pull off some planks from the yard fence and converted them to some trivial purpose. N'ow it does seem to me that the community ought to respect the rights of the trustees, and con sult them as to the propriety or impropriety of any change or improvement that is wont to be made. In conclusion, if any parly or parties have committed an error by tresspassing on said property, they can correct the mistake by coming forward at once and show their liberality by contributing something, either in mone) material or labor andlet the people once more unite in building up the sinking edifice and make it a place of usefulness to society and an ornament to the community. C. G. Cam rum. July 59, '7S. I endorse the abov e article. J. N. Redford. w There is certainly .1 grow ing distaste for conventions. There may possibly be no con vention in this county the pres ent year. Some good Demo crats are wholly disgusted with convention proceedings. San Antonio Ezpress. This sentiment is not by any means confined to the neighbor hood of San Antonio. Georgatown ctvl Round R00X. Ac" ,, TfJJ ,Julrjj:a.';S.) Editors Ba :- "tj did not lively drfr-olaG iness anddwelFnv - r9Bad4l'd Ptle.d':!Jft- penty. One "T5ff" credit cf-the couutjv cy art fas: comple ting a handsome stcnecdurthou-e at cost of 527,500, andthe moneyis en hind to pay for it when completed. George town can boast of as good a college as there is in the State. Leaving Georgetown, I came by way pf Round Rock, which is a wide-wake, thorough business place, and is the main shipping point for the counties of vVdliamsom, Burnet, Lampasas; San Saba and Brown. Some of her merchants carry very heavy stocks and do a thriving busi ness. The lumber trade is immense. Your correspondent was pleased to meet in Aus tin his old friend and.vcteran, Capt Chris man, of Burleson county, who his been in attendance at the convention. Capt. C. was a former resident of Washington county, and one among the first settlers of the Slate. The old gentleman has passed his three score and ton, and et he gets about with as much firmness as a man of forty. The capital seems pretty lively for this season of the )ear, but residents say it is very dull, especially since the adjourn ment of the Democratic convention. V. L. Barbecue at Rock Island. This entertainment or gathering on Thursday, the 24th inst., was characterized by everything tending to render such an affair pleasant fair day, fair ladies and a fine dinner. The little sprinkling of public speaking. I apprehend did not takeaway any of the pleasantness of the occasion. Speeches were made by several candidates, to-wit: Harry ilavnes, Joe. Lipscomb and C C. LocketL This kind of a gathering of the people especially in rural districts where social and political matters are sub jects of public discussion, arc to be com mended and encouraged, as they tend to enlighten on the material issues of the day. One noticeable thing aoout this, as about every white man's barbecue that I have been to, is the fact that everybody on or about the grounds was sober and orderly, offering a striking contrast to the conduct at the "Owl'' meetings, according to report. Crops all over the country are unusjally fine. C. C. L. -" ' - The Marlin Ball administers severe rebuke to Maj. Buck Walton for his intemperate abuse of Gov. Hubbard during the convention. The Cincinnati gas company charges cxhorbitant prices. Four thousand consumers have abandoned the use of gas and taken to coal oil lamps. Bass, the robber chieftain having gone the way of all rob bers died a violent death, the newspapers are now engaged in looking for a'worthly successor. The .Board of Health of Gal veston has passed a resolution to quarantine vessels from al! Eastern and foreign Gulf ports for twenty days. The quaran tine including passengers and reights. The Dallas CWsays the peo ple will not support Judge Rob erts with that hearty good will that they would have supported either of the others, that is, Hubbard. Throckmorton Hub--bard or Devine. Every one knows that a wa termelon in the "onhandiest" thing in the world to carryr "ou can't get hold of it with one hand. A downeaster exper iencing this fact has invented a "harness" to put on a melon so that it can be handled with cjsc T. W, Cutts, ex-supervisor of the City Gas Works, Balti more, and royal arch mason of good standing in that city, com mitted suicide in Columbia, S. C. He was quite old and left a note the effect that he was dis gusted with the masons and himself. An Alabama paper says the leaves and berries of the China tree sprinkled in front of cotton worms will prove a sure destroy er. Austin special to the Awa says the precinct delegations of Travis county are solid for Han cock. . Happy arc they who buy their groceries of C. A. Potter. He always sells first-class goods at the price paid for common articles. vVfllmj OeorgetsnaAns I an cnlcr5risiaH . railroad 'R town will btHc remoevilk uav VHHH rrround r,-i-!v", (n- t"M eorH HRaprosV fbev--w;ll for the rmKr STATE NEWS. Cotton picking is brisk in Austin county. Caldwell, Burleson countyj is new a money office. Galveston has commenced erection of a new jail. ilatured cotton bolls have. :hibjtedat Denton. pectoii JS25 and the is exacted for toting l.fSol. tEe fiddler in of Houston, is dead. He was 'drowned in the bayou. The Mexia ledger is su premely happy over the nomi nation of the "Dark Horse." John Rattan, brother-in-law of J. W. Throckmorton, died suddenly at McKinncy. The mayor of Gainesville plead guilty to playing pool on Sunday and Was fined $5 mit dc hosts. Harris? county convicts arc hired out to Fort Bend county planters, who utilize them pick ng cotton. The Colorado Citizen says cotton worms are reported on several plantations in the vicin ity of Columbus. J. K. Bumpass, of Kauf man county, is the nominee of the Greenbackers ofthe 3ddis trict for congress. Harris county holds a convention on the 15 th of Au gust for the purpose of nomine ting a county ticket. The Civilian reports build ing as brisk in Galveston ; thous ands' of dollars are being put into brick and mortar. Advocate: Victoria has got to spend money either to im prove the health conditions or enlarge the graveyard, One negro man shot and killed another negro man at a negro camp-meetin?, -z. few miles north of Columbus. The Washington Hotel at Galveston has been close. The proprietor, John Summers, says it don't pay to keep it open. Mr. Wm. J-. Shaw, of Arm-. strong county, Pennsylvania, fell dead on the street in Hous ton, He was overcome by heat. Extensive preparations have been made at the U. S signal office at Corsicana' foe observing the eclipse on the 29th.' The Houston Age says every dog has his day, and the Houston dogs are now having theirs. Mad dogs arc abnn dant. A lot of Mexicans from Los Vacas, Mexico, fired fifty shots into the town sif San Fel ipe, Texas. Great excitement prevails. The Greenbackers in Houston are waking up .at a lively rate. They have big meetings and big speakers, Tra cy for instance. Charles Carter, one of Bass' body guard, was captured in thevicinity of Denton by de tective Farley. Carter, is now in jail at Denton. Miss Kate Efnor is now engaged in writing-up Waller county for the American Sketch Book, a monthly magazine pub lished at Austin. Four vagrants were arrest ed in Houston. They were searched and a barlow, an empty pocket-book and a rusty nickel was found. Honey Grove, very appro priately, has a bee man, and that bee man has presented the Advocate man with a jar of the sweetest honey. The editor of the Coman che Chief returns thanks for liberal donations of pumpkins, gourds, squashes and jimson weeds. It's nice to be an editor. The-Hempstead Messenger is dissatisfied with the nomina tion for governor and thinks the people should repudiate the nominee and vote for Hubbard or Throckmorton. A Mexican in San Anton io had a mania for axes. He stole about forty of them from different parties and pawned them. He stole just one two many and got caught. The Mexia Ledger man at tended the Austin convention, He says the free use of ice water(?) had an enervating ef fect on some of the delegates. They looked used up. One George B. Letcher, a miserable cuss with only one eye, wrote slanderous letters from Mexia to a Kentucky pa per. He thought it was smart and boasted of the authorship. The citizens of Mexia informed the one-eyed man that they had a fence rail, half a gallon of tar and two pounds of feathers. Without waiting to find out what they were going to do with all thrse things h" ?lid out. eht The momentous question that now agitates the Caldwell Eagle and the citizens of Cald well is, "Does the weevil fo intd a grain of corn from the out-: side, or docs he come out from the inside?" . L A negro was bitten by a dog in Houston. The negro got very mad and procuring a stick spent about three hours in a fruitless search Ibr the dog and then got madder than ever because he could'nt find himi The Galveston Civilian says that the copper cents which were 'introduced in the city with a flourish of trumpets some time ago have nearly all disappeared from circulation and ate now nearly ''as scarce as hen's teeth." A horse was being sold at auction on the plaza . in San Antonfo. 7Vmcca31iice(rthe looks ofthe horse and asked permission to try him; it wa3 granted. The horse suited the Mexican as he didn'-t bring him back. The Pilot Point Herald has suspended and the proprietor moves his press and material to Denton where he proposes start ing another paper. The Mon itor man forthwith starts a daily and will doubtless soon freeze the other fellow out The Houston Telegrm cau tions the citizens to put their houses in order as yellow fever has appeared in New Orleans. It advises a liberal use of .car balic acid in the yards and out houses. An ounce of prever--tion is worth a pound of cure. Wash Baran, a well-to-do Collin county farmer, returned home and saw another fellow coming out of his wife's room. The man ran leaving his horse. Baran pursued and overtaking hinrcut him sevrely with a bowje knife. An old Texan, Capt. Hora-. tio Chrisman, aged eighty-two" years, was a member of the late State convention, from Burlc sOn county. Capt. C. came to Texas in 1822 and participated in all her struggles. Hewas surveyor for Austin's colony. , Mrs. Madden, residing in",--Houston, awoke and found a big'negro standing by her bed side. She didn't scream but reached for her revolver whicK she snapped at the negro, who took'1 to his heels- She foliorc-j? ed him out 'and shotaJuluni result unknown."- - A nice muss occurred near San Antonio. John DvvyerwaS walking along on the road when he met a Mexican.driving a team. The Mexican's doj bit Dwyer, Du-yer struck; the dog and the Mexican 'struck Dwyer. A fight then ensued and the Mexican was killed; Dwyer surrendered but the dog escaped. A few weeks ago two negroes were struck by lightning on a. farm in Preston Bend, Grayson county. A day or two after w'ards a team ran away and, broke a negro-'s leg. The su perstitious negroes looked upon these accidents as special dis-"" pensations pfpxrv:dence, and in consequence thereof, nearly all the negroes in the settlement have "got religion." The Grimes, county Dem ocratic convention met at An derson on Saturday last and nominated the following ticket: Representative, Dr. R. W. Jan-r es; county judge. E. C Everett? county clerk, W. E. Harry; dis trict clerk. Fred. Cawthorn, as--scssor of taxes. W. C. Steele; collector of taxes, Mark Wom ack; county attorney, John.T.. Buchanan; sheriff, Dan WoocL Dick Fowler, is a Hous ton newsboy fourteen years ol'cL A few days ago Be wds irres ted for stealing gi 8, but escaped before triaL He Bis given the; police the go-by. The other day he managed to Steal S3S0 in gold from a widow woman residing across the bayou. The scamp has gone to Georgia, One Forsythe, a revenue agent, made trouble for some meruhants in Mexia and Corsi cana, by informing on them fcf technical violations ofthe rev-' cnue laws. Messrs. Fishburn. and Halbert, editors of the pa pers at the two places Bdve both had personal difficulties with Forsythe. The Mexia Ledger denounces him for everthing that is bad even to tailing him a pimp and a thief. A good white vest for $1 50. A good summer cos.': for 731 1 00. A complete assortment in Brown, Grey and Black and mixed Cassimcrc suits, closing out at cost, at D. W. Bloom bargh's. Sfif Fresh Groceries, boughtcxpressly ibr the city trade, sc!d at a cry small nrofii anI d'HvcrH fire. C. A. Polte?; , kWA