The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-02-07
LOCAL IBIsEVITEES.
Items of Interest from Our Re-
porters' Note Books

The Concordia Club held their first
meeting in their hall Oh Sunday.
The mud, hitherto so delightfully."-
slushy, his become entrancingly Sticky.
The wet spell placed damper on the
grocery trade. IL is slightly Improving.
The sewing machine men are a little
sulky az the mul. Wagon travel is viz
tuaily stopped.
One single solitlry. saturated, sack
covered bale of cotton was sold on the
squa:c yes erday.
| Work hor. eS are in demand at unusual
prices. Ii you hive stock for sIie now Is
| the time 10 offer them.
The county clerl: and his put-es are
engaged constantly in rec r!irg par crs.
Night work has become n ce>sits.
Remember the grand al b. the Ger
mania Club at their hall Gu Fcortary
10th. They propose making it an e.e5ant
affair.
Yesterday was the day appointed by
law for the sale of eStiay stOcs. Five al
imas were disposed OF ut public auction
at fair figures.
District, county and magistrates
| courts are all in session at Meridian. and
the grand jury is soaring eYil-dOerS all out
| OF the county.
East and west of the city the prairies
are dotted with ponds, in which the fe,-
tive wild ducks, unmOlcsted sport to their
hearts content.
The produce market is very duh. The
principal falling off is in apples, which at
best were very high priced and OF Il quail
ity decidedly inferior.
The boys who have been forced by
virtue of hard luck to spend the past cold
snap in the blisstul embrace OF duSters
wore smiling faces Yesterday.
One OF the Lighthouses in the lake
east of CgmerOn's lumber yard blew over
a few days ago, and mariners on that in
land sea now navigate under difficulties.
Justice Evans disposed of a few gam
ing cases yesterday, a couple OF ebony
cOlored monte dealers were cOnsigGed To
the sacred precincts OF the county prison.
Owing to the careIessness of some
member of the Cotton Exchange, the
white owl Y, ster,iay escaped. The flight
was rapidity Itself, the ascent trighttu To
behold.
The trafficing public are purchasing
their spring supplies Of dry goods. Over
coats are ut a discount, and not Il few are
Offering to exchange well-worn coa,s tor
linen dnSters
There is an opera-hOuSe scheme, in
the event OF the future of the plans hith-
erto promulgated, That will certainly Ie-
suit in what the city wants, an elegant.
opera-hOuse,
The trio arrested on the presumption
and partial proof that they We're burglars
have been released. Their pictures were
not taken, the photographers beng atraid
to place their cameras iii jeopardy.
Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston, have
Just publiched u book OF new and selected
music tor male yoic, cholrs, by L. o. Em
erson. 1t comes Well recommended and
will no doubt receive hearty welcome.
-"Coot" David, upon being twitted
with the mistake made 4 few days ago III
Il marriage license, responded that he was
not the guilty party, and had marriage
down TO such fine point that he meyer
ILL., ,de mistake in licenses.
Houston takes the cake tor mud.
Nothing in the shape of u vehicle, save
street cars, is 10 be seen on the streets, or
hired tor love or mon,y. The mud has
no bottom. Look out Uncle Daniel, - OF
you may get there before your lite lease
expires.
"A couple of Irish gentlemen were talks
i z social drink, and one, slappiug the
other on the shoulder said: well,
AoikC, and what about the election -
w Ell, Pat, don't know ST. much about
he election. but Connecticut went forty
uIliioa M 'rity for Hayes
Incidentally the reporter learned yes
terday that Il lOcket s Glen from Mrs. Mai
ory was found in the ruins OF the COR
crete house on Third street. 1t is sup
posed that the place was Il rendezvous tor
he ight-tingered gentry and that the
ockeL was dropped in the division of the
spoil.
The Cleveland, Ohio, PIaind .aler
brings The startling intelligence that the
ladies of that city engage in the interest
inT game OF poker and bet their money
nigh. The Texas ladies eng re in the =
pClha with II pa. tner and good music.
rhe mari d Cnes sometimes play casino
with Il bro III anG not unirequently make
4 sweep.
The county road beyond RObinson's
pasture has teen changed OF account OF
parties buying and fencing up tie prairie
thu Ough which the cid road pass q iii 60
nally. TIE law road eros cs Il Ialine
three tim IS in q quarter OF Il mile. The
change renders WAGON tratcl lmpGs IDLE.
The county will be compelled 10 bl:ld
three lengthy bridges.
An inebriated son of green old Ire
land undertook 10 eros, the NJ IS uri
Pacific bridge yesterday atterno IL il tie
face OF an approaching ir light lIaln. a
undei took 10 pul hita 70 Cn5
side and in the scuffle III drunken one
fell through the brirge and caught On Il
girder, the train passing over Inn in the
air suspended. We are temperate, but
a que that drunken mans lu-k saved
Pats lite.