The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-08-01
Items of Interest From Our Rc-
porters' Note Book.

- ut IHSius W bbu anu W AlhtI bullu-
ngs ARE up to the second story, AMI the
Wet LELAND building Is approaching COM
'Ietion.
business is reported by gentleman
who has Just come down ~ booming at |
Fort Worth, with i regular freight
blockade.
-Grrat quantities OF finest peaches
IRE coming in and selling at remarkably |
uw prices, the late crop beng even better |
han ,he early.
"A number of delegates (rolorcdl To the |
grand lodge mrcung & 1. q. .. +. ui |
Manchester, England, umy arrived in
he city yesterday.
The examination OF applicants Ion
scholarships Ton the sam Houston Nor |
NAL Institute will take place August III |
instead ot I'D, as published in sundays |
EXAMINER.
The Cottonwood creek overlooked II,
bottoms with the big rains OF sunday and
the tops OF cotton plants We're pcrping
from the top oI the water Tor "A
long distance.
Citizens of Enst Waco say that the
well Tor draining the lake over there is II
good institution, but 1t is incomplete with
out pump. II the city Will furnish this
they will Ito the pumping.
Another rise of between five or six
feet came down the river SUNDAY
night, caused by the heavy rains of sun
day. Yesterday morning the river though
very high was falling slowly.
There are considerable Inquiries tor
land in the last tcw days nom the other
III.
u large immigration this tail, to which the
big crops are contributing greatly.
"A Waco drummer WAS robbed night
or two ago, together with four or live
others, in Il hotel in Fort Worth, the
thieves taking the drummcr's pants and NIL
their contents. lie was out oi them at the
time.
Immense quantities OF fruit are being
preserved and canned, and the trade in
canned goods will be slim this winter
One firm in this city have sold to date
ninety-two gross OF glass fruit Jars, and
over a bundled gross OF tin cans or y,
Gis pieces.
--Coups circus cxh bit, at our sister
town OF Tyler to day. We can advise the
people over there to 20 and see the show,
Tor II IL certainly one of the best, ii not
the best, that has ever visited Texas. II
did splen1idly In Waco, week ago
despite great disadvantages,
"A man lost a ten dollar biI on Satur-
dry night, the bulk OF q we, rs wages.
and with which he WAS ling down town
TO buy his weeks groceries, with the bill
in his vest pocket. He WIS highly rciuirrd
to find 1t advertised in Sunday mornings
paper and to get il back on Monday morn
ing. Mr., ID, b, Gilmrr WAS the finder.
The card from Rev. ". j. Brown,
chairman of the Baptist education com
mittcc, will De read With interest. not one
by the people at Waco, but bv members
OF the Baptist denomination throughout
the state. The m'ctiug OF the committee
at Dallas on the 10th instant vii! witness
the Inauguration Of active and We hope
eillcaclous work.
A citizen living on the edge Oftlc con-
tested switch ON Mary Street, Is inclined to
be sarcastic over th" attempt OF the city
council to litigatc about the street. lie
says that two years ngO the city con.
dcmncd TINT portion OF Mary street. "a.
''ssing the damage Mt ten dollars and at
the same time condemned Eleventh
street, between Austin and Washington,
and perfected neither condemnation. hay
ing dubbed on wing the ten dollars, and
now the council is p' Knitting j. I. Moor
tn build u fine n sidenDc on the condemned
site OF Eleventh street, md going to law
about Mary street. II he Is correct, il
does look like making lsh If one and
llU-h OF another.
Attention is directed to the advertise.
ment OF the ludson Female Institute
Marion. Alabama, Robert Frazer, prcsi.
dent This is one Of the oldest and best
established institutions Of learning in the
| south, located In u cultured and refined
community, as well rs a very healthy sec
| lion OF country. Graduates al the school
arc TO be found in every southern state,
whose standing and influence bear testi-
! money to the value of the training they
have received at the ,ludson Par nta
with daughters to educate will do well "a
consider the advantages Offered By this
,GhoOl, which, conceded to bc iir.t,clls3
The next session will be the iorty-siXth.
The Missouri Pacific south hound
train lid not reach the city at an sunday
and not until 2:iO yesterday, owing 10 N,
washout Of a bridge over stream nu
miles this side OF West. The last train ?,
pass over on Sunday was the freight No
100, which passed. over at / O'Clock sun
day morning. Before the down passon,
ger due NJ W,st about $40 reached {
heavy rains had lalien. the rayincs turned
into roaring iioods, and the brilg
was washed away, with seventeen lee ~
water under II. The train WAS deiaye
all day until The up tIain achcd there n
q O'clock when baggage AMI passenger
were transferred aud HE two trains inter
ch nged routes. The bridge WIS rebuff