The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-02-08
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Items of Interest from Oar Re-
poriers' Note Books
Hook still remains silent.

VIII it be another big rain or
norther;
The Curry vs.. Curry case has been
dismissed.
Justice Davis was busy yesterday IS
suing capiases.
The sheritl7s convention meets in Aus
! tin tomorrow.
The bears seem to have the bulls down
| and cotton is tumoliog.
The merchants began to look
gloomy again yesterday.
Some bets were made yesterday on
the result OF The Bilbo-Seago case.
Justice Evans had day remarkable
tor nothing to do a his last session.
"A Narrow Gauge passenger train
came in last evening with quite number
OF delayed travellers.
One days rain has Knocked all the
benefits that two days drying up htd
given into cooked hat,
New telephone poles are being put
up around town and several addi tDnal
instruments will be put up as son as
they arrive.
Since local option has gone into etl'ct
in Bosque county many of the people are
trading in Hamilton county, amt their
home towns are suffering.
The Concordia club are fixing their
hall, in Odd Fellows building. up IL ell
CANT shape, AMI will soon haye it ready
for Il series of amusements.
In many parts of the country fence
posts have, by the weight OF boarcs and
wire given way in the ground. and many
miles OF fence are i'll bad condition.
Officers, on account OF bad weather.,
are unable to get in the country after wit
nesses, offenders and Others whose pres
ence is wan ed before the various courts.
The Bastrop Advertiser says 1.-The
rivers are flooded with water" Vel. we
-hOuld smile. If they were not flooded
with water they would hardly be flooded.
When the market house circular was
handed round yesterday there was gen
eral kick ard many words OF cOndenIna-
ton. Its text does not seem TO be gener-
allv understood.
One assaulter and and two sOakers be-
fore the recorder at his last morning ses-
sion. \ pa ty charged with carrying and
Il pistol i'll the city limits
jumped his bOni.
The young people OF Meridian, Nor
gan, kOpprrl and kimble, are having
big social time. They haye party first
ut one place and then i'll another. They
had party at Meridian las, n.Ght.
The people of Ne ridian say the Santa
He has been no benefit to the town, cx-
r,f taL-
away lreights. 1t has not helped prop
erty and brought no new enterprises,
The Missouri Pacific road is making
vigorous efforts to replace its disarrangcd
and badly damaged bridges south OF the
city, and get lar enough ahead with
bridges and culverts, so that the track
layers can resume work.
"A young man from Dallas. eloDed
with young lady from Richardson, last
Dccymncr and took her to Dallas and he
cause the old man did not PUT up the cash,
he has now loped OIL and lett his wife OF
few months to go it alone.
Tho Narrow Gauge shows an anxiety
to get its bridge over the Brazos com
pleted, and will now probably persevcrc
until il is finished. unless tie clemens
combine with too much force to allow
60. ,templtted operations TO go on.
between Waco and Morgan campers
can be seen all along the prair.eS. Their
teams have been exhaust by the bad
roads and the Streams being so swollen
that they cannot cross, they were forced
TO camp and wait tor better weather.
The Houston and Texas Central. has
given members of the Live Stock as >Or'a-
lion. balt-rate fare from Waco 10 Austin
p nj return, TO the cOnyienIion which
meets on the I4th Inst. About twenty
two leave fl ON here "a the on the l2h.
Passengers who travel ut night com
plain that pOTterS nj stations west OF here
on the Central have no fires IN the wait
ng-rOomS and are not ut all times civil TO
the travelling public. The company does
not sanction such conduit and should
stop it.
Owing to local option and the fact
that cotton has >, en- nearly all marketed,
Meridian, Morgan and Iraleil ave doing
slow business, but they are nevertheless
having healthy growth AMI the re- ldents
are OF that character who are there 10
stay and work TOR sue rcs~
The Texas Cen. al track between
Ross and Albany Is the best on the COM
pany's en- re road, main line or branch ;.
and is in elegant shape. The pass niger
train Sunday last made the run Waco to
Morgan, fitty-tOur miles, n two hours
and twenty minutes, including tive stops.
The cDntrac ors on tie Texas and St.
Louis bridge aero $ the BRACES. h we got
two offenders down aboutsayen fett each.
1t is thought they will not have - sin1
them us far us the Missouri Pacific lid rs
the rock foundation is not down 81 deep
the farther up the river the bottom is
sounded.
Miss Allie HewertOn, the handsome
young lady OF Cleburne, vino ran away
with man that had Il wife and chi drcn
has returned Il sadder and wiser ill. A.
lie went with Cox as far rs kOppcrl.
where they registered rs man and wife,
and alter breakfast he went out to see the
town and has been gone ever since.
Another old negro gone whose birth
was cOtempOrIneous with that of the
United States. She cOiled off this mortal
shuttle AT Dallas. Dial as is a grea; village.
Those who do not kill some one up there
or get killed, in order to achieve Il name.
live so long that they get one in the lst
of another OF unknown age gore
Persons VINO ride over the ) nta Fe
road say that the company carries pISSen-
gers on cabooses. charging the same fare
as on rcgul passe Iger Irai Is, but they
refuse to leave the waiting. orms open
for them or proyi lie fire or water. This
is accommodation with a vengeance. and
tie papers and people along tue line are
crying out againstit
Vol. l, No. /, of the Immigration
Journal of central Texas, published Mt
Franklin is before us Ii is devote to the
interest OF this portion of Texas, has much
valuable information to the prospective
immigrant, is Well printed and edited and
with the support due it. it VII be Il
great medium tor good, in the section for
which it Is givings its efforts. There is
however, an indispo 'itlon on the part of
the people to appreciate the benefits OF
such publication, and larger part Of
their labor is one of love, hence they do
not live long. We hope it may be other
wise with the Journal, for its start OuJ,
gives promise that it deserve better
fate.