The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-03-23
THE EXAMINER
LOCAL BREy5TLES.
Items of Interest from Our Re-
porters' Note Books.
WACO, MARCH %, 1882.

Items of Interest from Our Re-
porters' Note Books.
Nothing heard of the trunk .tapper;
yet.
What about the driving park associa-
ton?
Some of the stores had coed trade
last evening.
-Amusements in the courts not so live.
| ly yesterday.
The heavens looked kind OF sea-sicI
again last evening.
Many of the lodges find it hard to GET
up quorum. these nigts.
Corn has appeared above the grounC
in some sections of Coryell county.
MIR. Joe Roseis through planting corr
and some OF it is now above ground.
-Sixty-four in the shade was as high
as the thermometer could get yesterday.
See notice OF musical recital at Waco
Female college. 1t will be splendid a
fair.
The cane fever seems to have broken
out and all the young men are INDUCING
in sticks.
Much sickness incident to spring sea-
son is said to exist in some parts of Cory
ell county.
-Croquet is beginning to boom, and in
the early evening games may be seen in
all parts OF the city.
The ground in some places is said to
break up in huge clOds When worked and
in other places is cracking.
All the sheep men say the lambs look
finer and are doing better than any spring
for long time. Very few have been lost.
Three cases for drunkenness and one
for OGstreperous conduct were disposed OF
ut the last morning leYee of the recorder.
Albert Freeman a colored youth who
has been on the dodge for some time to
avoid arrest for monte playing was arrest
ed and jailed yesterday.
Already some OF the rival candidates
are hunting up each others record, so in
case they have TO do any mud Singing
they will haYe whole handful tor dose.
The dog crop is getting ripe enough
to kill. a gross or more of them are seen
ying around doors and on the streets
without owners and cannot be driven
away.
"A great many sheep men who have
fat, heavy weethers are going to shear
them soon and ship them to market. They
are worth here from Sl.50 to 1925 each rs
mu,tonS.
Capt. Bill Ogesby informs us that
wheat and oats are looking splendidly in
Cory ell county, and with no mishap be-
tive en- now and harvest time it will be the
largest yield for many years.
Spring rains have thoroughly washed
the fleeces of sheep and they will not
weigh as heavy as in former seasons but
the better price which clean wool brings
will more than make up the difference.
The different committees appointed at
the veterans meeting Tuesday night
have no time to lose in making arrange
ments, for there are always delays which
come up in such matters ut the last hour
which are never anticipated until they ar
rive.
We hear n good deal of fine range,
lat stock" and all that in the country. but
fail 10 d cover any evidence of such
condition of things in the beef sold in our
city market. The average Waco beef
stock is enough to stager Fee Gee Is
lander with all his bi0odthirsty rrotlivi-
ties.
"A number OF young ladies are anxious
10 look at the moon and stars through the
big gun on the street. No doubt the young
men will hire the instrument and treat
them to a look at Luna AMI other planet
Ii the young ladies anl gentlemen both
get moon, truck it may be a source of in
come for the county clerk and preachers.
MIR. Hassler,the mail carrier between
Waco and Cranfeld's Gap, in Bosque
county, distance of some ii:ty miles. re-
ports that that the roads are now steadily
and will soon be sutablctor
general travel. Wheat is looking We'll
along his route and on III my farms corn
has reached a respectable size. Farmers he
says, are busy as bees and seem cheerful.
Deputy T. 5. Marshal Hunnicut has
made a formal tender of his resignation
of that position. He has also received
advices OF his appointment as a route
agent, in the railway mail service, on the
Texas and St. Louis road. When his
commission arrives he Will at once as
sumo the duties of his new station. Mr..
Hunnicut made an efficient and industri-
Gus deputy marshal, but the office did
not pay him.
--Richard II. Harrison, Esqr., an
nounces this morning as candidate for
county Judge OF McLennan county. Mr..
Harrison is well known to the people OF
this city and section, his father, the late
Col. James Harrison, being one of the
early settlers of the county. The subject
OF this notice has spent all his life here,
and may fairly claim a personal standing,
as well as business habits and legal knOwl-
edge warranting him in aspiring to the
county Judgeship. See his announce
menI in the proper column.