The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-30
THE EXAMINER
WACO, JULY 30, 1882.
LOCAL HHESITIEs.
Items of Interest From Our He
porters' Note Book.


Weather closdy, hot and sullry.
Thermometer yesterday crawlci M
to rs.
--Remcmber the calico ball tomorrow
night.
Major llinchman is spoken OF tor
mayor OF the city.
The moon is at iull and the nights
delightful Tor driving.
The usual daily edition OF Job printing
sheets did not appear yesterday.
Two cars OF coffee came in from
Santa Fe yesterday over the Narrow
Gauge.
--Dorsnt Mclennan county loom up
with her iuCTea ed taxable values Read
the figures.
"A T. ntleman vocal and instrumental
club Is henry formed under the leadership
ni Prot N, vine
MIR. Geo. u Wood lns Just complct-
ed AMI moved m'u handsome cottage on
North Fourth >trc,t.
Enough melons were brought to
town yesterday tlAt il laid end To end
would reach ton Waco 10 somewhere
about Red river.
THAT doll wedding in the suburbs has
| been p ,spnncd TN account of failure to
re Give the trou.seau. The guests Will be
notified in due time.
"A new steam shelter IL to be put up
at once nj the elevator. Ii will have u
capacity rf20lO To 2.iU bushels per day
and hu,k and shell nj the same time.
The plaza offers unusual attractions
in the WAY of shooting galleries, ring
pitching and u marl eluus machine where
you buy soap aud win priz"s by turning
u whirligig.
Young women and men in Me
Lehman, hin and johnson counties who
IA virc to scholarship In the Sam Houston
Normal institute are r, tcrrel 10 senator
Ross circular published this morning
Yesterday WAS 81 live dav in the way
of auctions, Sparta X llerbelin closing
out their stock OF harness injured by fire.
And Tom Smiths auction house selling
pots aud cr,am pitchers and horses and
buggics and a thousand other articles.
The city council will meet Tuesday
day evening to hear the property owners
whose assessments have been raised, and
to hear the report of the city attorney in
the matter .ot the title TO Mary street
between Eighth and Twelfth and discuss
the same.
The district lodge OF Texas No. %
G. L. o. OF o. +. viii meet IN this city
: Tuesday, August LIST. The welcome adj
dress will be delivered in the courthouse
Tuesday morning, al 10 o'clo X, by Rev
- VIM. Massey. Prominent men from al
ii parts OF the state will be in Attendance
10 I.tl., n "a PRO
: tor Springs Friday, and public installa
o tion AT night, at the courthouse,
"A man trying 10 sell load OF verl
: fine and large melons yesterday for whicl
he asked ten cents each grew irritated up
on the dullness OF the market and in
psroxysm of rage and disgust picked W
, II huge melon Weighing something les
i than ton and hurled it to the ground
! smashing II into a thousand frHgm mt
and bespattered the bystHndtrs and pick
= ed up his lines and drove oil in disgu, /. |
Il, G. look hard to have big melons rein-
I'd at a small price. The crop is not at al
= too big, but the persons To cat are to-
a few.
r. knights OF Honor are looking fOrwar,
b with interest to the meeting Oi the graz,
lodge of their urd,r Tor the state, WIN,
convtnes ut Galveston, Tuesday. Scvert
ACpltes VIII ave nu. Dr. W. II. W likes
e grand medical examiner. VIII, it il under
stood, he "A candidate Tor re election to tina
: position. II thorough competency. stric
IL lmpaTtialuy aud intelligent devotion Il
, duty count tor anything he will undouht
u edly be {. ntinu,d in the place hr has MI
ed So we'll and the duties al which he is ;,
q familiar with. Certainly his Waco friends
:. who are the entire community, hope to
. thutrcsult.
- II is now generally understood by lh
e pastor, officer, and congregation ut The
" SECOND street Prrsbl terrain church thu
the sale will be Consummatci,d spOsing -
;, their house OF worship on South SccO
= street TO the African Methodist (COlored
= congregation. The price is 10000, ,
which $4,000 Is cnsh down and The r.
maindcr in instnllmcn's, possession to >
= given September lst. It's not yet knoA
h whom the PIeshytcrlans will commcnc
!. building a new church, hut presumably
I will not be long, NJ We learn that lat
Il member OF the congregation has gene,
n uusly offered to donate AN eligible build