The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-06-29
THE EXAMINER
WACO, JUNE 80. 1882.
LOCAL BREylrIEs.
Items of Interest from Our Re
portcrs' Note Books.

-Buttcr Is scarce and buying nj fifteen
cents.
--Eggs scarce and in demand at ten
cents, wholesale.
The district court has nearly cleared
the criminal docket,
Thermometer bubDIng over the
ninety mark yesterday.
Something over 81 900 has so FAR been
subscribed To the university fund.
Oats were selling yesterday Mt thirty
one to thiily-two and onc-half cents of
| iered.
Wheat, Mediterranean. ninety to
ninety live cents; Nicaragua, sixty to siN.
ty-live.
--"ls the watermelon fruit or vcge-
table, might prOiltably engage n deOat-
ing society.
Immense quantity OF honey in town
yesterday, and selling at twelve and u halt
cents strained.
The county commissioners court
meets to-day to complete their labors IA II
Nhoald ui equalization.
Spring oats are almost complete
failure and ,tlilening In price OF oats may
l We tNpCClPu III consequences,
Ina ralims OF live miles OF Waco more
than a DOZEN threshers are running four
teen hours n day and the county fairly
shakes.
Ten thousand feet OF lumber will be
used in the buildings for the Noksiest Mt
! rector Springs. 1t il nearly all on The
ground,
- dickens are putting on airs, ordinary
| spring fowls or hens refusing Ia be hrOil-
ed or i wed Tor less twenty and twenty
five cents,
"A little jcalousy, some law and Il
sprinkling OF "Cuss' words cost an unrt-
fined colorcd lady eighteen dollars in jus
tice Davis court yesterday.
The district court was yesterday oc
Cupied with the rrill of the state vs.. Laura
Brown, colorcd charged with theft OF
clothing. l hc defendant was acquitted
The telephone viii, it is thought, with
tls' exception of ono wire, be In working
Oper liiOn to-day. Great improvements
have been made in the changes and atcra
tons.
In the case OF Self, arraicned with
VIM. Morris and tried in the district court
on charge OF assault with intent to rob
III" Jury disagreed and the case was con
tihued To next court.
-Bradstrcet's mercantile agency hay,
g. established the agency OF Texas In THU
city with Mr.. Burns at the head. IL Ia fnl
the present located in the Office OF Her
ring, Kelly x Williams.
ain an uuld veteran-rv ftut In min
ny a battle" was his war cry rs the bar
keeper led him out and placed him gently
on the sidewalk, whore the cool eoutt
wind tanned his aged locks.
The candidates Tor county attorney
aud Tor legislators speak tonight on tn,
public square which is the iir.t ID only
appointment our citizens will have OF
hearing them. They should be accorded
n large audience.
Uncle Sam and thirty-cight state.
composing the Union will be represented
in grand pageant car in the vOlks fest
procession. Uncle I'm will he persona
ted by Col. -- and the states by thirty
eight beautiful young ladies.
"A long string OF wagons loaded with
watelmelOns came into town via Austin
street yesterday morning. The hot, dry
weather is ripening the crop Ill at once
The owner OF some in yesterday has ten
acres OF that luscious vegetable.
The cannons engaged for til,
Volksfest WIS shipped from Houston yes.
terday. II is a tour inch bore and the
property of the state and the adjutnnt
general required bond Of 81 900 iron
the committees before loaning II.
The Missouri J. cilic railroad an.
nounccs by posters that during July 81
and Ilh, any where iH the states Of Texas
Indian Territory, Missouri, Kansas ant
Nebraska, tickets viii bc sold at any sta
ton to any other station within 100 milci
at one fare Tor the round trip.
Tile preliminary announ cement o
Coup. great circus, hip ohrOme and men
aGrir appears this morning. This Is o.,
oi tic lrading, II not the leading show II
the world and it will be an event ina lite
time iu attend 1t. Ten thousand peopl,
can be- seated beneath its main pavilion 1
will surely he her" July zzi.
The day fireman On the sun c,mn OF
duly yesterday morning at u. M, in NJ
awful bad temper, ha,i ~ boon kupt awake
hat til night ny II curtain lecture from
his vile, who Is OF n JEALOUS turn OF mind
and being afraid TO sass his wlir took hi,
spite out In pitching in wood and shovel
ing In coal unti The furnace doors Oi tho
mortnls on This globe and some Othl
planets were nearly roasted.
Sheriff Van Hall and county attorney
Joe Taylor, have been I'M able To be viii
the other candidates for election or re-elec
ton who have been cnnvassing the conn
~. owing 10 their duties in the crimina
court now IN session. They are both ~
wei! known in the county that their ab
! .rurp in the canvass viii not be rons triipC
ns meaning any disresp,Ct TO the voters
but rather a. an evidence OF their faithful
ness to the offices 10 viii II they wer,
,lrcled aud which they TAI hlully filled.
In Justi u wis court yesterday wa,
tried a negro woman charged with ns
siulDng, striking b,atinv, pelting, whip
ping, banging, hamnrring, pounding, hit
ting AMI mlulng another negro woman
T with stones. against The peace and dignity
Of the pros Cutur, the stat al Texas AM
rv, rybOiy cl.r. The attendant was h.
ler own counsel bnd proved that she ha,
moi struck, beat, hit OF any hing else tn
iprosrctiOr,w with stone, and also that sh
had rryer thrown stone In hei lie an,
she also cAmr very u ar proving the pros
ryut,ng witness guilty. There seems /,
be- a gen raj war IN the nrighbOrhOo,
where she ll,c' AMI every family there
abouts laying pile Oi slonrs In thci
leisure m lnrnt- for the prosecution %
this intcrnr'iue war. The woman csttl
i.h'l p. rect allbi It the time the req,
, l. q duly shower of stones was going or
proving, by three responsible witnrsse,
I At si!e was in de back gudin pick.i
bec.s.'
The new combination Of Smart Wee