The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-02-14
LOCAL EsREVITlEs.
Items of Interest from Our Res
pOrters' Note Books.
Mud everywhere,

Items of Interest from Our Re.
| pOrters' Note Books.
Mud everywhere.
Nothing done in county court yester-
day.
Justice Evans is engaged on his civil
docket.
Justice Davis had no cases in his cour
yesterday.
No train out on the Narrow Gauge to-
day except freight.
No New York papers have visited our
sanctum i'll the last ten days.
ALI the cases were continued in the
city court yesterday morning.
The river roared along in its rise Sun
day night like lake in !; storm.
Persons who planted gardens had
them well wet down in the last rain.
The Missouri Pacific train will be able
| to pass oyer the washed track at Abbott
to-day.
| The livery men are getting awful blue.
| Horses are eating their heads of and doing
nothlug.
| Some OF the children could not get
| to the school-roOms yesterday on account
| OF the mud.
The rain kept many away from church.
Sunday morning and evening, and the at
tendance WAS light.
Country trade hos fallen Oft again
and sales are confined to city customers
| and railroad camps.
Read our cheap column, carefully
each day, you will always find something
interesting and profitable in it.
See r. S. Mills advertisement this
morning, and the inducements he is offer
Ing in tirst-c!ass family groceries.
The charter of che Waco Driving Park
association has come back from Austin
and work can commence at once.
We hope the Missouri Pacific will not
use the weather as an excuse for not fixing
those crossings tor another SIX weeks.
THE late rain has again made the
| Missouri Pacific grade south OF the city,
Il complete porridge and retards work.
Immense drOves of blackbirds were
seen dying over yesterday evening and
| many concluded norther was coming.
The extract from the letter to the
New Orleans Picayune from Waco. which
we publish elsewhere. will be found inter
esting and tull OF truth.
The river was having a high old time
yesterday, but as the rise was entirely
from local rains, it is probable it will soon
get down to a sober gait again.
Persons who were at Whitney on
| Sunday say the rain there was the heayi-
est for months on Sunday, and the whole
face OF the country is under water.
The grand lodge [. 90. +. have de-
cided to defer the location of the Grand
lodge building, orphan school and
Widows home, until next session.
ALI the ponds around town are filled
with water again. The lake east OF che
undergrad in East Waco is deeper thau
ever, and the lighthouse which blew
down in recent storm is halt out of
sight.
AT the Germania entertainment, We'd
nesday night February 10. Col. D. ID. Mum
70 will dance the original Highland Fling
in costume aud also the Blue Bonnet. Il
favorite dance with Scotchmcn, at the
close OF the ball.
Inc w AGO attendants on grand IOd eI
l. .. o. +. AT san Antonio report having
had most harmonious session and a
world of pleasure viewing the sights of
that quaint old city and enjoying the hos
pitality of its people.
Our exchanges all speak in such terms
uf the late Major WaShburn as to show
that he was esteemed by all classes ana |
his death generally II GREETED. The jour |
mails in the large cities have all published |
lengthy articles In reference TO his history |
and labOrs.
We learn that Mr. Geo. p. Halcomb, |
intends to start his paper. the Evening |
Press" in Waco in 4 short time. He states |
that the reason he did not get out the first |
issue ut the time announced tor its appear
ance, was on account OF financial matters, |
but has since disposed of some property
and is now prepared to go ahead.
In our article Sunday morning, we
spoke of Or. Willis,as owning the proper
~ from the Garland alley to the corner |
OF Washington street, when we should |
have said Geo. ID. Wood owns eighty -sey-
en- and one half feet front on Forth street |
and the corner. DR.. Willis owns the lots |
from his south line to the Garland alley.
d. NJ. Ferry & Co., the great seed |
dealers of Detroit, Mich gan, have our
thanks for a copy of their elegant seed an |
nnal TOR 1882. Praise would be supertiu- |
Gus tor everybody has heard of ID. NJ |
Ferry IL Co., and no flower or vegetable
gardener can well afford te be without Il
copy OF the Seed Annual,
"A huge cottonwood log got lodged
against one OF the piers of the Missouri
Pacific bridge yesterday, and yartl-en- |
zine, grab-hoOk and line had to be called
into acquisition to pull it aside and let it |
go down the stream. When it got loose |
it was hard to tell whether the engine |
was going to hold the log or the log the |
engine. Quite a number OF persons wit |
messed the clearance from the bank of the |
river.
IN speaking of the building which |
DIR. Joe Willis is gOiHg 70 erect tor Les
sing Solomon & Co., in our Sunday |
morning edition, we mentioned it As one
story. Yesterday we learned that it will
be be 81 l-2 feet front, and handsome
two story structure. A wall will run
through the center OF the building, divd-
ing it into two store rooms, both of which
will be occupied by the firm. In the rear
part of the premises will be erect, d |
Wareroums for reserve stock, packing
rooms etc. 1t will be built with special re-
ference TO the business the firm are carry
ing on.