The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-05-17
THE EXAMINER
WACO, MAY II, 1882.
LOCAL EsHkEVETIES.
Items of Interest from Our Re-
porfers' Note Books.
dust crop is promising.

Roasting ears are coming into mar
ket.
CHATS are very troublesome on the
prairies.
Peaches will be plentiful and cheap
this year.
Wool wagons have become too COM
, mon to excite remark.
The golden grain is rapidly falling
before the ''cruel sickle"
May is over halt gone without there
being a single ''sot'' picnic.
There was big crowd TO witness the
baptising yesterday evening.
Seriously, there has been precious
little local news for two days.
One fight and one case OF craps enter
tanned the recorder yesterday.
-Roasting ears sell for twenty-five
cents per dozen. Buyers are eager.
The Narrow Gauge is going "whoOp-
ing" over the prairics below town.
Urge the matter Of a theatrical hall in
Mr.. Peter McCIelland's new building.
AT ten o'clock yesterday there were
not less than twenty wagon loads OF wool
on the square.
The season of school concerts is near
at hand We know OF one which is al
ready cut and dried.
We learn that Judge Leland's two
story residence on Third street will be tor
rent about the first of June.
Ripe plums were exhibited in huck-
ster stalls yesterday. Cucumbers have
been in use some time,and so has collie.
Singularly enough those wheat fields
which suffered most from the "wuTumo'
are yielding more grain than any other
1t is told on Capt. Eugene Williams
( that he put up forty ratters tor one of the
sovereighs on one OF the hottest days this
year.
When Judge Gerald gets through
with McLennan county's improvements,
be may consent to run for governor, but
not before.
The grand jury made report the
other day. For further particulars call
on CoOt David or tie efficient sheriff OF
this county.
Every pound of wool that comes to
this market is eagerly gObbed up by
/ buyers, at rates limited only by the top OF
the market.
District court didn't do ANYTHING yes
/ terday besides enter judgment toy default
/ in sci. ia. cases, and it was not engaged all
day at this.
A bag of wool rolled off OF wagon
Yesterday, and before it could he stopped
| in its mad career. was buried in the sand
on the square.
-Hot-vcl, II YOU have any doubt
about the fact, Just examine tie back of
/ this reporters neck. But don't be too
minute in the inspection.
Mr.. Jno ). Moore'~ card will be iH-
/ tercstng reading o most people in Me
! L,nnan county. He is full Il dyed can
uidatc for the legislature.
Tradition ,ays that Carter raised more
! oats than he could stack on the ground.
/ The yield in this county this year comes
very near verifying the tradition.
If Mr. r. was here. he could tell you
exactly how the thermometer stood yes
ttrday No other member OF the EXAM
INER stan ever attended guessing school.
The atmosphere Iadcned with scandal
/ is gradual Y thickcnin@. I his is something
new. 1t means fight when the right par
ties get hold OF it. No one need apply for
particulars.
MIR Peter McClcllaud's new building,
we learn, will have 81 large room on the
upper floor, suitable for theatrical pur-
poses. Here is an opportunity for some
! enterpriSlng man.
The enterprise and ingenuity otye can
| didate is.somcthing wonderful, lie can
think OF more ways to get on the good
side of a voter than any ordinary IndiYi-
dual would ever dream of.
- Many Young orchards which never
bore fruit before will come in this season.
Plenty OF good, sound fruit, freely eaten
by the people, means nothing less than
health for the community.
The first ripe peach OF the season was
plucked by DR.. Tate, at Robinson, yester-
day. 1t was fully matured and sound in
in every part. The outlook is decidedly
encouraging, so far at this delicious fruit
is concerned.
MIR. W B. Tricc has about finished
harvesting oats, and will thresh next
week. Two weeks hence he will COM
mence cutting wheat. 1t is estimated by
experts that he will have 5000 bushels of
grain for sale this year.
There is only half-mile strip on one
side of the road between Waco and Rob
inson unfenced. The posts are in the
ground to fence that strip, and then there
will he a continuous lane for some twelve
miles in that direction, barring cross
roads.
The cigar store of w. Peterson, in
the building OF DOVES q Fort, on Third
street. is in the hands of the laws officers.
4 suit of attachment before Justice Evans
yesterday, did the business. The claim
was tor rent (ot the house,, and amounted
TO fifty round or square dollars.
Yesterday two ladies both of whom
have angelic dispOsitens-were heard
disputing, aud almost quarreling about
whether a certain tree was a plumb or a
haw. Both will be as mad as hornets
when they see this, but then our broad
shoulders and cOnSummate cheek are
equal to the occasion.
We know OF at least three young cou-
pies who have postponed the happy hour
until time shall increase their
benefits in the marriage endowment as
sociations. This is a practical view of the
matter, but if the endowment institution
should bust the sentimental side would
be rubbed tolerably thin.
1t is simply an impossibility to get
anything out of cOuntryman except gas
about fine crops. The song is becoming
2 burdeusome. Every fact relative TO worms,
weather. yield, etc has been discussed in
the EXAMINER so often that there is moth
2 ing left to say. except to re-echo the shout
2 OF excellent crops ofevery description.
The Concordia club evidently means
! to make gala day of its 4th of July cele-
bratiou. 1t is in correspondence with the
Lindenburg orchestra, of Galveston, and
several OF the best brass bands in the state,
with fair prospects OF securing their at
tendance. Several prominent speakers,
new to Waco, will also probably be in
duced to lend their aid.
The Fort Worth Observation-Disclosures
says the Waco EXAMINER takes manly