The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-08-19
THE EXAMINER
WACO, AUGUST 10, 1852.
LOCAL BRENiCIEs.
Items OF Interest From Our Re-
portcrs' Note Book.

/ w eatncr NOT ana CLOUDY.
Very few country people in town yes
| terday.
The watermelon is fast disappearing
! from the highways and byways OF the
| city,
| The Methodist camp.mecting qt Bos.
| qseyille, ii is said, is being very largely
attended.
Mosquitoes az long Ms mans arm
and ms teroCous rs Zulus are reported in
| prodigious numbers ON the Bosque,
The river has been tordablc for the
last two or three days though there is
still more than usual water in it.
Heavy rain clouds swept all around
the horizon yesterday Afternoon, ac-
Compani,d with little thunder.
The Gcrmsnia club is to have a
special meeting at their hall on sunday
evening, $50 o'clock.
The compress is being painted and
very handsome top has been built which
gives itan imposing appearance.
The force employed by the city were
busy with the bitches ON Sixth street yes
lerday in the vicinity oil Austin str ct
MIR. Richcy i. having new ties placed
on the Fourth street division of the street
railway, thus greatly improving the road
bed.
~ Some very large sweet potatoes many
of them weighing tom seven 10 ten
pounds each. Were brought into the city
yesterday.
"A gentleman from the Leon, ycster-
day, reports great d,ai vi sickness
chlls and iovcr-un'that slream;but very
little further west.
In the recorders court four cases were
disposed vi yesterday, one tor yagrancy
one for plain druuk and one lOr dunk ami
riding ON the sidewalk
While unloading the columns Tor the
McClelland building, which have arrived
from 81. Louis, one ut them, while beng
thrown from the float, Was broken, yes
teiday.
A dispatch from Ablinc reports un.
usually heavy rain, all along the upper
BralUs day before Yesterday. Hence a
use IN tile river at tins point may be OK
p,clcd,
"A speech by cot i. W Taylor, lie.
lNercd Uoturc the Naco lyoeun, is meet.
ing with great encOmum,. Alr Taylor IL
lately from Alabama aud is tine CONVEX
sHtiOuai,t,
The coming toutmcc between TIE
Arkansas hign--tcppcl aud the Waco iull
blood will, # is SAID, be an exciting one,
ana the Arkansas mlu Will have to step
ont Lively from the nip, To carry OH the
nuuurs.
"A collision between two buggics oc-
/. e..
Thu s Ia, mat, in which one had ail tho
poke ot one iprcwhrol stripped Qua
clear Dy the hub OF the hind wheel OF the
other The darnncss Oh tie night was the
cllu.c.
The sweet potato crop, from spcci-
mems coming in the city and from general
IcpOrts, Will In common with other crops
be very large one this year. one farmer,
who brought IN lond yesterday, claims
his crop will yield three hundred bushels
per acre.
Several days have elapsed without re-
port, ut new buildings either begun or
projected, Mir. McCorclr, Of Austin, who !
had bought lots here, and was to have be |
gun slN thousand dollar residence last |
w,eh, has decided 10 Stay In Austin und /.
not build here.
Reports Of Increasing sickness come
from AL parts OF the county and beyond.
a doctor near Geneva, Tor Instance, had,
We are told, ON thursday night sevcn-
teen calls in a single hour. The sickness, Is
not, rs u general thing fatal, AMI generally
OF n bilious nature.
The freight business done by the rail
roads at present Is immense, both freight
dcpots being considerably crowded with
both outgoing and incoming freight, and
An inspection Of the marks ON the former
shows very strikingly that the Waco job
bling trade Is growing in vast and crafty
ing proportions.