The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-02-18
LOCAL RREVITEES.
Items of Interest from Our Re<
POrters' Note Books.
Trees are budding rapidly.

cheap column.
-Turnips are growing so fast in bar
rels they 5prout in short time.
The square will do now tor person,
who have moderately high shoes.
School children can again venture out
without danger of being washed away.
The atmosphere was more clear an,
healthy yesterday than it has been at an,
slime for the last month.
Severe colds and pneumonia are hav
ing RON in Waco just now, and old ant
young are alike afflicted.
"A very strong smell of escaping ga.
was discovered by passers-by on Aus,il
avenue yeStel day evening.
Our exchanges are advising the young
III en- that it is perfectly safe to lot th'
III arriage insurance companies alone.
Already the warm sunshine has made
the good little boys and girls talk abOu
Sunday school pic-nicS regardless OF las
years Group.
The burglars strike terror into the
hearts OF the people OF San Antonio al
night, and ma'i-dogs give them the shakes
in the daytime.
"A fresh lot OF Migrants 2em to have
struck Waco. Three or four disgusting
looking specimens adorned prominent
street corners yesterday.
Preparations were made yesteaday to
commence work on the pest house. 1t
will be box building located in the
northern norton of tha rif
-Four drunk and unable were dealt
with by the recorder yesterday. One
party charged with obstrererous conduct
was discharged for want of evidence.
"A New York consumptive came to
San Antonio for cure, and a-ler seeing
the mud, remained one day, and then
decided to 60 back to New \ DIRK and die.
Three years ago the pond in East
Waco would have been a blessing, but
now the city council is about to declare it
a nuisance. There is difference III sea-
sons, after all.
Austin is gel ng as BID whirl by
burglars us Waco did, and the same story
is preached to citizens as was told them
in Waco, but not single burglar has
been killed yet.
The Vokes family are playing TO good
houses in TeXas, and are now in Austin
whore they are having crowded houses
on occJunt OF the Live Stock association
being in session there.
is it so that there is going to be a
wedding in the western part of the city
on Sunday night ard Waco is going to
lose another OF her fair daughters? The
gossips say so, at least.
Various predictions and calculations
are being made about the coming fruit
crop, but it is altogether too early to make
any calculation that can possibly be set
down as even within range OF reliability.
Persons who have been using our
business breyitics column find that il has
been II means OF advancing their business,
Try ii il you are not convinced, and You
will find yourself converted in Il short
time.
The Houston and Texas Central and
international and Great n orthern railways
are preparing to build a union depot at
Austin. Ii is time those roads exceeded
some courtesy to the travelling public Ut
that point,
Elder w. L. Hall invited the men,
bers of the Live Stock association to hear
him preach in the Christian church at
Austin last night, and they accepted. We
are sure they were both interested and in
structed by the discourse.
"A Chicago concern is talking about
extracting this juice from some OF the
lanes west of the city and making Il new
kind of mucilagG out OF it. 1t would be a
bonanza tor them, and a blessing tor those
who have to pass through the lane.
The marshal of Dallas has ordered the
arrest of all drivers who dash over cross
ings and spatter mud on pedestrians and
endanger the Lives OF women and children
by their carelessness- The same annoy
ance has prevailed IN Waco to consider
able extent.
Even though the roads should be
come good we cannot expect to see biz
country trade for some time because the
farmers are all busy in their 1ields. and
being behind on corn and cotton planting
preparations, they will not lose lime to
come to town unless forced to.
We hope citizens. that the weather
nov gives promise OF being pleasant, will
fix up FIRST street cemetery. This is a
matter in which all should be interested
Dy the tenderest ties, and we shall hardly
mention often more the sad condition OF
this home of the dead, for it should re.
ceiYe attention without urging,
The people of Austin are asking fo1
more clerks in the postofIice. They say
they are subjected to tedious delays OH
account of the shortness of help. The
large amount of mail and the irreguarfty
of trains no doubt disarranges work in the
post offices, but a light force also has
something 10 do with delays in other
places as we'll as Austin.
-Herdic coaches are very popular in
San An ohio. and convey people from one
part OF the city to another for five cents
They move faster and.are more convent
ent than street ears because they can run
on street that any other vehicle can pass
over. Who will Start such a line in
Waco' 1t will pay largely during the
hot summer months.
The pest camps at Austin have been
abandoned, but the tents are still standing
and it is slid that tramps are making their
homes in them. It is Il good way to seat
ter small p y broadcast over the state. II
the tt mps were 10 be the only sufferers
the reflection would not be so bad Why
no burn these tents and thus destroy the
probability of this iolthsOme dis ase
being contracted by contact with them.
All persons will please remember that
transient adyeltis ments in orr cheap col
umn are strictly cash. 1t does not pay to
cumber the books with small en.ries Of
that sort and pay a collector for getting
the accounts on the first of each month.
Persons who wish TO put such notices in
the paper will not feel aggrieved wien
told OF this in the counting-room Per
sons having regular advertising accounts
in the paper can of course have those az
counts included in their bill.
The city council of Austin has con-
Guided not to extend its bonded indebted
ness, and the Capitol city will have to
come down to solid retrenchment. 1t may
be hard for those who have so long lived
after the lavish manner OF the radicals
over there and took Il dye into the city
cash-drawer whenever they wanted mon
ey, to get down to studying economy,
but if they will come over TO Waco they
will learn a lesson that will materially as