18 Jul 1879
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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1879
Page
1
Long Washington and Texas dispatches discuss scrip value being misreported by the Austin Statesman and a string of 1879 health notices. Yellow fever outbreaks near Memphis spur heavy quarantines, rail-shipment fears, and exodus of residents. Data include rulings on tax sales notices and railroad extensions toward El Paso, with death and hospital notes.
A wide sweep of notices lists quarantines and orders from Galveston to Chicago warnings against Memphis and Key West fever. Reports note cattle movement, hangings in New Hampshire and Kentucky trials, railroad plans in Texas, labor strikes, opium and tariff debates, storms in Michigan, and a prison escape plot among Concord Junction inmates.
Anti school legislators claim efficiency and economy justify closing schools while proposing tax increases. They avoid improving schools and push new levies including taxes on a quarter race of musk ponies and higher occupation taxes on merchants, calling economy a fraud.
The telegram reports ongoing excitement after the Reuben Morris assassination. Three suspects Reuben Loggins his son and nephew Willoughby are under strong guard. The vendetta is expected to be long and bloody until the law settles the matter.
The Texas vs John D Hunt case heard in Columbus featured defense by Maj West of Austin and prosecution by Seth Shepard. Witnesses claimed self defense while Mrs Killough and others testified to unprovoked murder. Judge Lewis noted evidence conflicted on malice. prisoner’s bail set at 10000 dollars.
The writer Mr. Anderson gives a personal view of Leapvinne Corolano, noting it as a mammoth, busy town with much money, crowds, and mining activity. He describes cold nights, mining shafts, ore hauling, and his cautious outlook, ending with remarks on local news items and a mix of frontier happenings across Texas communities.
Fromlin County Texas reports a big railroad meeting set for Saturday with $21 775 in donations pledged Gov Hubbard to speak on the St Louis and Texas narrow gauge project. A military company formed at the courthouse with 24 sworn in led by Capt A B Jones and Secretary Treasurer John H Hutchinson.
An American guest at the Christmas dinner in Bangkok Siam reports the food was almost entirely canned items from the United States and lists turkey chicken corned beef salmon lobsters mackerel clams potatoes fruits and pies including mince and pumpkin.
Nathan Farrel, a Black man, was arrested in Hearne after allegedly attempting to report an incident involving an 11 year old Black girl. The colored community protests his arrest amid rising indignation.
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