The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-04-12
WACO, APRIL u, 1882.
LOCAL EsREYITEES.
Items of Interest from Our Re.
pOrters' Note Books.

The dust went capering around tewn
yesterday
Families have commenced to put up
theil mosquito canopies.
"A great many persons claim that their
| gar ems are not doing we'll.
Quite a number of Waco horsemen
have gone to the Dallas races.
-lIammocks and cots are being called
! in IT QUESTION tor afternoon maps.
The water sprinkler had all it could
do to keep the streets moist yesterday.
Some fine herds of beet cattle are be-
ing rounded up at points west OF here.
o. Col. Parrot is having the finishing
touches put on the office OF the Il. B. A
-Corsicana will have races the same
time we lave the veterans and prohibition
ISIS.
Dull as business is it is nothing in
comparison with the way vs. items pan
out.
The court room of Justice Evans
was crowded yesterday to hear the dress
trial.
For the past two nights the air has
been filled with myliads OF some sort of
bugs.
The sheriff and his deputy are having
a time summoning jurymen tor disdrict
court.
"A few bales 'of old cotton come in
every day anu there is yet cousid,rab to
reach market.
Mr.. John Rose has bought the Parker
kellum :lace in East Waco, one Of the
incest homes III the CRY.
Fishing parties continue to 60 to the
Bosque, but they always take out more
than they bring back.
The small country towns are very
dull AMI the merchants have plenty OF
time to cultivate their gardens.
The Narrow Guage is now selling
coupon tickets over the Central to Dallas,
Sherman, Denison and other points.
"A heavy rain fell in Hillsboro yester-
day, and showers extended all the way
down the Missouri Pacific to within six
miles OF Waco.
And now the schOolboy thinks he is
tie most ~retched Eerson in the word
because he has 20 stay in the school-roOm
and pore over his books.
See our cheap column notices. In
the last few days several Valurbles have
b en- found and re- urned ~ their OWntrs
through advertisements in it.
The accommodation train between
Waco and CoIsictna makes it easy for the
10 ~
other and get home the same day.
"A great many farmers were in town
yesterday. and they speak rather di-cOar-
agingly OF the wheat prospects, and say
rain is an absolute necessity for cora.
There will be perhaps two hundred
ard fifty veterans in the city and two
hundred prohibilionists, besides the min
iSterS What are We going to DO with all
OF tucm?
The COncrSville club have their ar
nual reunion Wednesday, April 18Th. The
dinner j. gwen shis wear by the Rrv.J *.
Str, and Will be served at the McClul-
land hotel,
Only IL few days remain in which to
provide homes ior the veterans and more
shan half the work vet remains to be ac-
comp iShed. N time should be lost I'M
less we wish to let the credit OF the city
suffer.
We have at onr Office some samples of
wheat brought in by Mr.. Ester rom his
completely destroye.i by the army worms,
and it is feared that they will ruin the crop
in many places.
Standing on the suspension bridge
on gets ali elegant breeze, but the sun
shine also gets far fire ut YOU. Many
persons stand upon The bridge to cool of,
and watch the progress of work on the
Narrow Gauge.
From all parts of the county comes
the cry tor rain. Ony a few weeks ago it
vas said We would not need any more
rain the ground was so Wei, but it is
fact that we need it now as badly As
though it was dry spring.
MIR. Pitkin, from the Leland neighbor-
hoOG, says that he has fifty acre field of
wheat that three weeks ago promised as
fire yield as was ever made in that coun-
ty, but it is now needing rain so badly
and is already so far irju ed for the want
OF it, that under the most favorable Cir
cumstanC eS from now until harvest. not
more than half a crop can be looked for
without rain within week it will be an
entire failure.
We are under obligations to Col. D. D.
Munro for steel-plate engraving OF Bob
by Burns and Walter Scott, large size and
finely executed. They sre given as a
premium to each subscriber to the Scots
man, published III New York city a
bright readable journal Of general new
and devoted TO tie interest and informal
ton of Scotchnen. Col. Munro is
agent for the paper and has secured
number OF rea iers among his friends
here.
The Fort Worth Democrat-Advance
copies the ExANu> Frs article on freight
rates and then undertakes to show Pan;h-
erville as railroad cent'r, and winds up
by calling it the metropolis of north
Texas" This is really amusing to a
Waco man when he hears one OF the most
prominent men in the Fort say that the
place is dead. and he cannot see how peo-
pie will pull through up thtre until the
first OF June. One OF the men in the
Fort came over here and found this
city go much better that he has concluded
to make back here what he lost in the
Fort.
There are many forms of nervous debiii-
~ in II en-, that yield 10 the USE OF Carer. 5
Iron Pills. Those who are uoubled with
nervous weakness, night sweats, &c,
~ nv fT'u.Epr &,