The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-02-11
LOCAL BEsEYETsES.
Items Of Interest from Oar Eee-
pOrters' Note Books.

Head our cheap column.
Good hand-organ weather.
The mud is drying up awful fast
Valentine trade is moderately good.
Mail matter still arrives rather irrcgu-
larly.
Our business breyities please our adj
yertisers.
The Wholesale trade is looking up
somewhat.
Everybody is talking about going to
Mardi Gras.
And we are going to have the rurim
ball after all.
One marriage license issued by the
county clerk Yesterday.
Justice Evans spent yesterday as a
witness in county court.
The weather prophets say it is going
to be dry clear and warm.
An eleven pound turnip attracts at
tention at Jno. F. Marshali's.
Cotton, corn ana wool is coming in,
bur only from short distances.
A number OF people were seen work
ing in their gardens yesterday.
Justice Davis tried a crlp-shooter and
file several civil suits yesterday.
Several of the Oscar Wilde stlye of
drnmmers visited the city yesterday.
1t seems now that the prospects for an
opera house are be ter than ever before.
Not a single fish was caught in yes
terday mornings drag of the recorders
court.
"A music-box, with harp attachment,
furnishes sweet sounds at HOrner's drug
store.
All trains fad more or less trouble in
making time, and they are ottener Dehind
than on time.
-Turnips, onions and potatoes are so
anxious to get start that they are grow
ing in the barrels.
The ladies, after being so long forced
to remain at home, We're out in large
numbers yesterday.
Look out for the spring crop of book
agents. They are coming with the lie and
character OF Guiteau.
The bridge gang of the Missouri
Pacific is busy at work try Ing o keep out
OF the way of the track-lay ers.
Such weather as yesterday is calcu-
lated to paralyze the appetite for oysters
and whet the appetite for young water
melons and chillS.
"A yellow woman who went up Austin
l.,
tracted the attention OF all the dogs and
disguised all the people yesterday.
The Concordia club has purchased
the stage and scenery in the Sturgi> build
ing on Bridge street, and will place it in
their hall in ODD Fellows building.
In the past month the Building Asso-
citation has erected sixteen new houses.
mostly small residences. the most eXpen-
sive one being eleven hundred and fifty
dollars.
WEEKLY EXAMINERS were in demand
yesterday. We still have few copi
left containing the account of The wreck
which occurred Tuesday night. and the
cOronor's inquest Wednesday evening.
The Narrow Gauge should make
good use of their time while pleasant
weather lasts, to get tie cyIin iels Tor
their bridge down before the spring rise
comes down u second time, as it often
does.
AT the shcrifs' convention the Gal
weston News proposed to take all dis
patches from sheritis relative to stolen
horses, with descriptions of men aud
horses, and pay tor the dispatches ana
publish them free, provided the sheriff
takes the paper. The proposition vas ac-
cepted.
The presence of a few burglars in the
city seems to have impressed some people
with the idea that they have permission
to disch Irge firearms whenever and
wherever they please at night. 1t would
be much better and safer to wait until the
burglars are seen,than shoot at random
Just for fun.
We were informed yesterday on the
best authority, that in few days, one OF
our county ollicirs will wed. This is tell
ing things pretty plainly, for Geo Og.es-
by is the only official we know of that
is single except "COOt" DAVID and the
girls are all afraid of him.
Morgan got terribly excited over
what it thought to be a genuine case of
smallpox. 1t now seems that a man came
there from somewhere on tue Mexican
border and out of his head, 18th syuip-
toms like those OF smallpox 1t Is, how
ever, thought that he is suffering from
cOncus ion OF the brain ana the spots on
his lace a1e ieyer-sores.