The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-07-11
THE EXAMINE k
WACO, JULY IL, 1882.
LOCAL BttI:yITIEs.
Items of Interest from Our re
portcr-' Note hooks.

yesterday.
-Cistcrns all filled up with Monday s
grateful rain.
--Lumbcr is coming in freely from
Texas.
"A very light rain only tell ut Moors-
Vile on Sunday night
There are hints OF an independent
candidate for sheriff
Yesterday was cloudy all day and
heavy showers all around
big crowds ut De Francis garden
Sunday afternoon and night,
The thermometer registered between
% and % degrees yesterday at = T.. III.
Peaches OF prodigious size On all the
stalls and coming In bigger and bigger
ever day.
One OF the pcarteSt and prcttIest
babies in town Is one OF Monaghan and
Caucasian parcnmgc..
Sunday nights rain, Il IL feared. did
not extend tar eastward, only u light rain
falling at Hubbard City.
A gentleman who was down the river
reports the rain ~ crossing within few
miles of this city In That direction.
The old lloor in Leasing, solomon q
Co. $ Old bnilling l. being torn mp pnpm
atory TO II general repair and rentting,
The rain hus nludo an extensive lake
In East Waco, with fine scenic effects In
back door yards and among lumber piles,
No change Of schedule time has vet
gone into effect ON the Texas and st.
Louis railroad, though 1t IL expected cy-
cry day.
-Gentlcmon from ten miles west report
Sunday'- rain very heavy, while others
from Forth Worth say il extended to TINT
city nOrthwards.
-Messrs Jamcs Z. and =. Don Amber
son have our thanks for a basket Of mag
niilc"nt Chinese cling peaches, from THEN
Central nurseries.
An old gentleman. name unknown
stepped nti the platform OF the Texas mud
ST. Louis railroad on Sunday night, and
was considerably injured.
PROM n gentleman VINO made sun
day exclusion to Banks, we lotrn that one
hundred cars OF grain have been shipped
IRON that station up to late, and that the
railroad platforms are still piled high with
more grain.
The old forCst trees on Franklin ave
nur, under which once cOppcr-culorrd
squaws were wont to boil succutash and
cook for their lords the flesh of iNt pup.
pics, are hcing cut down 10 make room
Tor mercantile progress.
Mr. Henry, living in the extreme
southern portion OF the city. thinks the
depth ui tine rain fall on SUNDAY NIGHT iu
his nGighburhOod was at least twelve
inches. The estimate might he divided
by four and hit Il very nearly.
Was the defendant stout woman. wn-
the question Hskrd negro woman wit
ness In - salt md ha,IcUIg pssr. 'l
dunno, sah "DOC- IN" look stout
81 as nnh' "Nel, IL she stout 20 ct
dunno, sail nrhcr nad u tusslc wid her. "
FLUSHING IL believing
The building force Of the Texas and
81. l.oui', which has just completed the
freight depot here, was yesterday taken to
Mctirrgor SprlHg- to work ou the depot
buildings ut that place. AZ the ior,c l.
large the union depot at McGrrgur shoulrl
b. finished in three wccks, and before tuut
time the 10 I'd Vii hy received Hud regular
trlins running.
didHtU aYuwing his determination To sup.
port the nominee In spite Of hi. defeat. or
course every good II muoIAt will support
the nominee suppose a member of u
church, who had been spoken oiiur % dea-
con and not being elected should get up
aud thunder ont Brethren though nm.
not elected II nm determined to Obey the
commandments Where would be the
point
The Ladies' Missionary society. OF
Whitney, gave n pleasing entertainment;
lat week at the Tcsid nee of MT Amber.
son Smith, with excellent music hy the
IlilshOrO band and home made ice cream
and lemonade ab libitum Mirs Mantle
Dysart, Miss Laura Morton, Miss Minnie
McClennnn md Miss Clara littlclicld Ms
walters. Miss Ella Peoplcs person fled Il
charming gypsy fortune teller with Mis-.
Sarah l.andman as assistant, and Misses
Mary Littlellrld and Carrie IAndman por.
sonnied the daughters Of 10 the poor In
dian. TO the usual routine was added &
walking match, In which Miss Laura Mar
tin won the cake.
The great aud reasonable rain OF sun
day night began II few minutes after /
o'clock and continued necessarily AMI
| heavily all through the rest of the night
| CthHliS uhlS nv IlHHt' ~ was ulouRi
about by real genuine, solid silVe
norlher, which from mere bank o
clouds IN the north, Il little after clever
spread over the sky rolling. ilmhlni
clouds In lcBs than ten minutes OF time
and few minutes after tac glorious raft
began. A rain could not have been NOR,
srasonablr. Il came at Just the right time
| In illimitlble quantities, and Will De of In
cStimable value, II makes the cOttol
crop, the late corn crop, late fruit aud mel
uns, the grass and hay crop, and late yel,
ctablcs. It was God send.
"A big part OF the colorcd population
of the city Vas attending Justice Dayi.
court yesterday on a suit growing out q
a fight between two colorcd women IL
church. 4 poker, fiat iron and ~ broom
were the weapons; offensive and scandal
Gus accusations agnin-t each other th
casus belli, plair,ifi' and defendant wcr
according Ia the evidence, abOu
equally active IN bringing on the war. Il
handying vile Gpithcts, the cOmlhtanl
We're admirably matched; and In the pro
serutlOn of the battle the planti1 was ~
most vigorous. But the pluntlii -toud i
her own door, when the war began an
the battle was wagrd on hcr own hearth
stone, 40 to speak, and the line - 90 nm
costs In which the defendant wus mulCtc'
was evidently made IN recognition nj III
principle that, IAN Englishman'- home
his castle
a Mr.. Black, merchant, is lying M #
his home ON Eighth street.-The result OF "a
accident which occurred last Friday, o
the blull- OF the Bo.que, tom which hiu
self aud TREND were returning from ii'l
iug, by the "vertnfnlng OF thc lu.k
which they were riding over a steep h1hl
in which Mir. Black hat hi- lrlt nrr
broken and was bndly cut In the nc
Fortunately the gentleman who was dr'
ing and who was not much hurt, wa alb
10 maintain control Of the team and ha
Ing urhitched them, and taken tho ha
noss fiOm one, SIT out In search Of he'll
while MIR Blark, with IL b Oily lacnau
, and broken arm, found place 10 rrclii
: against tree, awaiting h,- friends rrtur
I la tins position examining hl- Wuunu'