The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-04-21
4 GreenhOrn's Impressions OF
the New WOrId-TeXas.

WACO, April 20.-On the train between
McDade and Ledbetter last Tuesday, L
noticed a negro in bondage again of the
worst kind, bound by the wrists with
new rope and III charge of sheriff
being taken to BRENNAN for trial, sus-
pected of being an incendiary. Aweek
last Saturday, a negro church, which has
been the scene OF many noisy demon
stations of late, even to fghtings within
and quarrels of any amount, SO that
putting the church on fire, which was
such a dilapidated building, hardly de-
serving the name of church, and con-
sidering the fracuses oft repeated within,
the neighbors are not sorry that
this nuisance has been re-
moved. This negro is sus-
pected but it is almost pity if he does
not escape We thought the guilty par
ty, for perhaps it was the necessary evil,
might be overlooked in a case of
this kind.
A GALLANT MADE To SWALLOW A LETTER.
At certain town in Texas young
man passed through a very severe and
strange experience lately. He had
kind-of-fancied beautiful young lady,
to whom he had been introduced few
weeks ag,, but being faint-hearted he
could not muster up enough courage
to call for her at her home but wrote
hera spoony, foolish letter full of love.
The young lady showed it to her broth
er-in-law, who is her guardian, and who
became furiously enraged, thinking the
epistle contained what it should not aud
he sought for his wOuld-be wife's sis
ter's husband. Met him on the street
in town. Looking daggers at him, with
the Objectionable manuscript i'll his
hand,he asked him if that was his hand
writing. The young man frankly said
it was, not thinking what tempest III
teapot brewed. He was told that his
life was not worth much, but at least he
should be made to swallow that letter.
The young men hesitated, hardly taking
i'll the tuatlon until the indiguau
brother-in-law brought ont his pistol
and pointed 1t at the young mans heart,
at the same time showing that he meant
business, giving him five minutes time
to gulp down shat letter. 1t was a long
foOlscap paper, as every love letter
ought to be, and he had to swallow ii
there and then in the sight of many on
lockers, who undoubtedly enjoyed the
exciting scene. The town is very small
and generally quiet and to have such a
performance once only in life time,
the inhabitants could but enjoy this
very marvellous and serious proceeding.
The young man afterwards said he had
much pleasure i'll writing that letter,
but not so much in eating it, and if he
had been commanded to swallow the
pistol he would have to do it, for he was
taken by surprise and fear He has
learned lesson he will not soon forget,
and if any young lady he
pays attention to again he will
first see whether she has
brother in-law or not. He SAYS he
doesn't think he will trouble himself to
find another until that letter digests.
| needn't add that the above is true. [
suppress the names of the parties, par
ticularly the young mans name, as he
has suffered sufiici ntly for any exuber-
ance of love that might have been in the
letter or verbosity Of sent ment, all of
which he had to swallow.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
7. $. April l9.-About thirty-four emf
grants came into Houston this morning
on the Central railroad. Some going to
San Antonio and other points east and
west-twelve Germans and about twen-
ty-four English.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.