The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-12
THE EXAMINER
LOCAL ItftINITIEs.
items of Interest from Our re
portcr-' Note Hooks.

Peaches are being shipped by the Pa
ciiic express to Scdan, Mo.
Many of the bitches dug for the loun-
dations of new buildings are full OF water.
On the 24ih of this month regular
mail service south, on the Mo. Pacific
will begin.
Weather clear yesterday, with light
cirrus clouds dying, showing probabilities
OF more rain.
Sec the offer otJ Il. Elgin n Co. of
some desirable property in our twenty
1--WE cent column.
Very heavy rains fell on Monday
evening as far east us tyler on the line of
tile narrow guage.
The German club had pleasant party
last night at De Francis garden. cumpli-
mentary to Miss Carrie Quincy.
The numerous thunder clouds seen ut
every point OF the horizon from this city
Oh Monday icll In abundant showers over
the surrounding country.
"A wagon load OF melons Yesterday
contained muskmclon weighing eighteen
pounds aud fraction a very heavy
weight for that variety of melon
''OLnt vi lut lhWNtIH hIc ldlhliE hl
going TO Galveston To morrow OF next
day, to attend the bar convention sat
urlay and state convention next week.
Promotion has fallen upon Bunne
ilolliiicld, II worthy WHco boy, who has
for some time been in charge of the tclt-
graph Office at whitney lie has been as
signed to duty at Morgan.
The delay in the progress of the Texas
and st. Louis road has been owing to the
lack Ut iish-plates large consignment
oi them has been received at reNarkana.
1t viii reach the front TO day, when work
will be resumed
No one was ut home daring the fire Of
Monday night, the proprietor being at the
theatre. and the furniture Was total loss.
1t WAS understood that there was an insur-
ance of 500 on the building, but the pol
icy cannot be found.
The mail service by star route from
Bolton to Waco, including Mastorsvillc
and Troy has been supplied. The first
and leaving Tuesday morning. II will be |
discontinued on the Gath.
The negro barber who struck Jack |
Lain, engineer of the Texas q NJ Louis |
road at Tyler. with stone, neatly causing |
his death. has been caught in Tyler, |
where he had been hiding ever since the |
ailray. McIain Is recovering, though
badly hurt.
-Coup's circus jumps from Fort Wnril'l
TO Waco and from this point to San An
tonic. Trains sill bring the people of
Hillsboro, Morgan, Meridian whitney,
Bremond, Marlin, Temple, Corsicnna,
Hubbard city. Calvert, Brcmond, Marlin,
BCltOn, etc, here nj reduced rates. The
,sirs ,knna a, al #
The university S2O,OO0 subscription
fund Is In a STATE OF collapse. Only about
xix thousand dollars have been suhScrb-
ed thus tar, after Il month of effort, and
The call Tor II university m,cring at the
court house on Monday evening tell still
born. At the appointed hour one single
solitary individual slling ON the court
house steps constituted the crowd.
Young ladies and gentlemen contem-
| plating mairimony should not lose n
moment, but look nj n new style nj goods
| just received Mt the ENAMlNER office.
They are the lovrliest, dninlic.t, sweetest,
choicest and prrtticst wedding cards ever
seen, and in the most exquisite taste, and
their use guarantees long life ui we'd
died bliss. Come and see them, young
gentlemen.
| Two new residence buildings are m
der way. the one n handsome gothic cot
tagc tor Mr.. E.W Wilcox on Congur's adj
diion cO-ting about sl,GOO, and the other
"a r, sidcnce Tor MIR Geo. W. Cleveland, ON
Columbus, neal Tenth street on tho beau.
tiul lite east of Mr.. Sparks. The latter
will be Il beautiful edilicc, containing eight
rooms, two stores and French mAnsard
root. Plans are In the hands OF the nichi-
tect.
"A genius who has given the police
much trouble. and who hns been arrested
three or four times, was yesterday raising
II row about hotel, and II policeman not
being ut hand the proprietor Of the hotel
swOre himself in ms q special, arrested the
fellow and marched him down 10 the cal
aboose. The key ot the calabOose was
not to he found, and he let his prisoner
20. The man Afterwards broke out of his
boarding house where lie had been taken
and VIVA locked up,
"A man wearing pistol and having
papers 10 show himself to be deputy
sheriff of a neighborlng county got Into
an alteration with an Austin street mer-
chant and attempted to draw his pistol
when policeman was called and his ar
res attempted. After long run up the
3 alley between Austin and Washington
streets he eluded the policeman and two
nfhosrs on horseback Attempted to find
him scanning the suburbs, but In vain.
We hope every citizen of Waco will
read the appeal OF Sir. J e. Stephenson,
the chairman of the soliciting committee
Tor the endowment OF Waco UNIVERSITY.
The time lett for action Is nearly gone and
llfWaCo is going TO move in the matter
she must do so quickly. We can bring
no stronger arguments to bear in favor OF
: the movement than have already been
6 presented In these columns II every
citizen will feel II his inliyi lual duty to do
what he can, the battle Is won,
"A novelty In the way ~ a railroad A.
Q vcrtisement was brirg distributed ycster-
i day by Mr. Trav Jones, IN the shape OF a
I; very good Japants CSC tan cmbclli-hed with
N touching and beautiful figures on the mar
I gin and an adycl tiscment OF the Burling-
= ton Route tor foreground. The upper
part Of the tan contains the picture OF two
chickens, with green tails, bantcrlr z each
other tor hight And on the lett hid.
cous google eyed old Chine'p mandarin
OF three tails, and on the right an almond.
4 eyed daughter Ut the npwery Kingdom
gazing ON the chickens from an artistic
point OF view. That Is the kind ol
,ccnery the Burlington route shows IT,
customers.
h 1t was a forcible Illustration Of tn,
. progress OF tile times to note the interest
( displayed here yesterday In the bomlarl.
II mrnt OF Alexandria, SO many thousant
/, miles away. And yet uiorr torGihl,
\ iluftTailO Of human prOgre.s WAS afford
ed In the iact that lew hours after III,
British had fired the first gun the cabl'
and telegraph had borne lhc news hl
N these thousands OF miles ard the Exam
K ISKK printers were putting In type thcsi,
tails nj the bombardmcnt. Early In tn
~ afternoon ncwsbuys distributed thcs
Il extras on the streets and hundreds {
r people paused from business 10 read {
10 The newest war In the oliest land. Ele'
W tricity has annlhilalcd space and time 4I
tue world OF to-day.