The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-01-22
LOCAL BREYITHES.
Items of Interest from Our Re.
pOrters' Note Books.

LOSAL bkENIEEES.
Items of Interest from Our Re-
pOrters' Note Books.
1t will do to plant onion sets now.
Lay aside your umbrella and oyer.
-Boot-blacks were out in full force YES
terday. '
No applications for marriage licel
yesterday.
until next Sunday.
-Plasterers have commenced work
the Downs building
The lightning rod man and or
grinder are out again.
Quite an amount of trading inasr
way was done yesterday.
A new barbcr shop has been op
up IN the TaylUr building.
The justices courts closed yestc
without doing any business.
REID Our churchiirectpry to-day,
will find some changes in it.
-4HiIy E'lIiItes are hoping JnaJ the
spring crop Of chickens and eggs will soon
be ripe.
Go to church to-day and make mp
for what time you have lost on previous
Sundays.
The. mud unlcr the influence of sun
and wind, was drying up last yesterday
| morning,
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yesterday morning. Not single case on
the docket.
Quite a number of strangers in the
city yesterday and last night and will
spend Sunday.
County court adjourned over until
Monday yesterday morning without
trying any cases.
The city marshal had gang out yes
terday cleaning street crossings, and some
OF them got coat of gravel.
Those who are lying on beds of sick
ness will be glad TO know that sunshine
and balmy weather has returned.
The Enterprise Literary and Social
Club have Il meeting at 3 O'Clock this even
ing at the residence of Mr.. NJ Goldstein.
-Washerwomtn will be in demand this
week. The clothes lie has, like every
thing else, been taking rest for some
time.
"A gentleman of this city yesterday re-
cCivcd a l. tier rom TcXarkana. written
on January II. This might be called
rapid time.
Evil doors in the country are having
on OF immunity from prosecution.
because the officers are unable to travel
over the bad roads.
A few indies. tempted by the warm
sunshine. came down town Yesterday eye
ming, and the streets looked more cheer
tuI by their presence.
There was plenty of wood on the
square yesterday. but it ne wanted to buy
more than ore co. one would have to sell
his home teaG to do it.
"A cor spondent of the Siftings,fn the
last number OF that paper, pays Waco
some handsome comp iments. 4 ntckei'S
worth OF tally i"r dollars worth oftradc
There are now 80 bales of cotton IN
he compress. and about 1000 in wards
and warehouses. which will probably be
prcs>'d and shipped soon, if the weather
remains fine.
MIR. Ash will open the bOx-Sheet for
II ict kuk' Wednesday morning. ard
p0-ryely no special facilities tor securing
eligible seats will be extended to any one.
tlrst come, first served.
The auctioneer tried hard TO get n
crowd 70 stand in the mud ankle deep on
the square yestt rdly 10 hear him expati-
ate on the good qualities of a few old
racks OF bones, familiarity called ponies.
When the sun shore out clear and
warm lesteruay morning, the faces OF the
merchants. which. for the last two weeks,
have b, en- Rs long as boot-Jacks, began to
contract. and by night they had some
thing OF the old time look.
Contractor John j. See. if the weather
continues iair. proposes to have the brick
work on the third story OF the new Jones
hotel done this week. and the roofing
cornice and inside work will be pushed :
forward As fast as possible thereafter.
The Narrow Gauge train coming this
way Friday night. wien near Tehuacana
bridge. ditched one of the elegant new
Passenger coaches. 1t WAS the first time
It had been over the road. Inc paSsen-
gers came In Yesterday in box car.
Mr. Tom Sellman states that when his
=
terday morning they all ran back in the
house and crawled under the bed, think
inT the world was coming to an end.
they had been reading Mother ShiptOn
during the bad weather.
KEY. S. a. King preached very i'm
pres>iye funeral sermon over the remains
OF the late Ashby Gribble, at the Second
street Presbyterian church, yesterday eve
Ming, and after the last sad rites had been
performed long. and sOrrowful coItege
OF relations and friends followed the re-
mains to their last narrow and silent
abode.
Members of the Gotten exchange state
that the operations of the bucket shop
in the room OF the exchange does not in
anywisa impair the status or efficiency of
the exchange. Ithas its committees rules,
etc, and holds regular meetings. The in
PRODUCTION OF the new feature is purely
incidental, and it must not be supposed
that the exchange is merged into the
bucket shop" The two are absolutely
independent of each other.
The EXAMINER has the. pleasure of
pr' scntin@ lis readers with an exquisite
composition from the pen of Miss Clara
ee fuckctt, whose contributions have
ever attracted deserved admiration. The
exquisite sentcnce-'Ilelp tor the living,
Hope tor the dead is woven into poesy
no less fascinating than the recent dis
course II ON which it is taken. Those who
read Col. lngeTsoll-s latest funeral address,
published in the EXAMINER a few days
ago, viii recall the sentence quite readily
Mr.. Garland says the Indictment
weather haS deferred him from seeing
what he can 10 with the prODOsed opera
house subscription list. As vet he has not
placed any names on the list save MIR.
Peter McCleland's, who originated the
proposition. Mayor Sturgis and other
leading capitalists, whose well-known
lib. ralliy and public-spirit warrants the
assurance that they will respond cor
lially. will. he first approached md Mr..
Garland Is hopeful that the enterprise will
soon assume tangible shape.