The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-04-11
THE EXAMINER
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LOCAL BREVETEES.
EteEas OF Interest from Our Ege-
pOrters' Note Books.

EteEms OF Interest from Our Ege-
porters' Note Books.
Dew berries are ripe.
The easter egg is now no more.
A Big church festival in embryo.
-Bremond begins to look tor summer
visitors.
Our Catholic ana Episcopal friends
are gay again.
Showers are badly needed i'll most
parts OF the county.
Union Sunday school picnics have
broken out in north Texas.
Summer suits are fully ripe now AMI
winter toys have been laid away.
Special meeting of the council to-
night on the pond and switch question.
The DAILr EXAMINER reaches Temple
etigh hours In advance OF any othcr paper
oh, for 4 camp-mecting, picnic or a.
well any excuse to get out in the cool
lraiy woods.
The suit over three dresses in Justice
Evans court was continued until . O'Clock
this morning,
No hee beer in town Yesterday AMI
the candidates had to pay ior ten and lit
teen cent drinks.
The Missouri Pacific has made GOOD
rock crossing along its line from the river
bank to the depot.
Stephenson, Tibbs n Steiner have
commenced TO move into the house lately
occupied by W. n. Grand.
-rapa's gate hinges DO not have halt
rs nice time these warm evening rs q
livery horse has on Sunday,
In places where the wind had q chance
to fan YOU. it was cool yesterday, but on
the sunny side OF the street, Oh. Moses.
Mr. J. L. Horne has sold ont his in
tcrest in the transfer business to NJ. j. u.
Houston, the firm now being beware ~
Ho lstOn.
One bar-room IN Dallas claims to sell
sixteen barrels OF beer every day. And
still there are people up there, they say,
who never drink.
The city council OF Dallas is having
about rs big time over sravenger mat
tiers us the Waco council is over ponds,
switches, market hou1e. etc.
Seven eases in the calaboose Yesterday
morning, including DRINKS, crap shooters
and assaults. Part paid up and the bal
ance joined the street gang.
The German population OF Dallas, vot-
cd tor the tax for public school purposes.
thereby sitting down on o. 4, ideas and
showing their own intelligence.
Many people 90 down to see the
Narrow Gauge bridge. The gang are now
working on the last OFFENDERS, and the
super-struCture ON the east end.
MIR. w. n. GRAND contemplate en-
glging in the sheep business. We hope
lie viii not 90 so fur away that we will
not see him in Waco occasionally.
"A bad pond stands on Austin streetia
front of the Prather block. The water s
damned up and unable to escape on ac
count Of building material in tue street.
Texas Is blessed with two or three
government officials WHO are travelling
Hc0g and keeping one eye on Uncle Sans
and the other Oh viOlators OF
the law.
"A depot has been established here for /
Rochester bottled beer. and The price has /
been reduced. so that 1t is u fraction be .
low Anheus"r. Competition Is good .
thing after all.
Some persons have, in the last few !
nights, been stealing corn from the rrIb o;
Mr.. Jas. b. Baker. THY are liking 10 :
strike the pearlv gtc7 with their boots Oh
and their rotunda full of buckshOt.
The ExAMiSER lately has had more .
calls tor back numbers and sample copies .
than ever before known iii Waco new spa +
per history. This shows how the intUr- .
nation it gives Is appreciated abroad. /
Nearly al the Old corn has reached .
market and the rat. which all win er looked F.
SO fat and sleek, will have to go to the I
prairie and live on green truck like the .
balance OF animals, until the new crop Is /
made.
MIR. Geo. Patton informs us that /
wheat has not been injured in the least III
his section by rust, and there never was ii
finer prospect fora wheat and DAT crop /
Weeds in some places are getting the /
start OF corn.
"A pile of timber belonging to the Mis-
Stili dtliit- HIS llIttCht'l lI' ono Fitit Vi
Jackson stte-t between FIRST and Second ,
streets for the past three months. Docs
tie company nall the street OF right |
ofway along ii?
County Clcrk. EIrWood. at Dallas. re- +
fuses to be a candidate for reelection. F.
Wonder if there are rs many who want (
To- step into his shoes n there are who /
want to wear the mantle OF our county /
assessor when he steps out.
-MeSsrs. j E. Horne and } w. Baker .
have purchased ont thousand acres of land /
at Crawford in this courtyard nov have
iwenty-eight hundred acres OF land in one
body. which they will put under fence .
and engage in the stock business
1t is of 40 particnlay local Interest. +
but rcpOint our Faber to remark that Gal .
V, ston and S1n Antonio a'e both anxious /
to capture the state democratic c0nvcn- .
ton. and express our surprise that Austin (
is not Jockey for it, II she docr not want +
that convention, it is the Hrst thing OF the F.
kind she has not wanted in a long time. (
The music at the Catholic and Episco- /
pal churches was unusually fine on Easter /
sunday, and the decorations tasteful and
attractive. Attendants at the Catholic /
church recognized in the choir the full /
rich voice OF MISS Maggie RiorCan, who /
has done so much toward giving the choir /.
tile just popularity it sustains as beng
among the best in the state.
Col. A. NJ. Gregory. erewhile of Waco !
a few nights ago organized Il ccloryd com. I
pany OF fifty members at Dallas, and (
called them the ''Norton Greys." We dc .
not know whether Norton viii take that .
rs a compliment or not There was a /
time when the sight OF the grey rave /