Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-17
SECOND EDITION.
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WACO.
A Budget of Local Happenings and Social
Incidents of the Day.

A Budget of Local Happenings and Social
Incidents of the Day.
Reported for the Gazette
Wac, Aug. l6.-R. /. Monroe was
elected city attorney t, fill the unex.
pired term of ID. G. Balinger.
The council established the salary of
the principal of the public school at
81 900 per annum and teachers at fifty
10 sixty dollars per month.
A fishing PARTY of thirteen Waco
boys hav1 just returned from success :
tul camp and week rustication. They
caught over three hundred pounds of
fish ana had a geueaal good time. We
are not at liberty 10 say where they
made their hauls, but presumably they
have seriously interterred with Major
Penn's COMMUNICATING prospects on the
Middle Bosque, near Crawford, A GER
! tain creek which empties into that
stream furnished plenty of four ard
five pound old speckled trout.
Mr. ID, w. Lacy returned from st.
Louis to-day. he says it is twenty
five degrees cooler in st. Louss than
in Waco.
Mr.. Charley Smith, the chief sales
man of Cleveland * Cameron, is off on
the Bosque for few days rest and
recreation.
Set it up in double italics-its hot
down here. Yesterday and to-day are
admitted 10 be two of the hottest day
OF the season, the mercury reached l03
I in the shade to-day.
a letter frrm Mr. r. d. Penny of
this place now in Chicago, dated last
Monday the 18Th inst. States that it
was cold enough there to wear over
coats.
Mr.. J. 7. Chamberlain left this even
ing Tor San Augustine, accompanied
by Geo. w. Mcpherson, OF California,
Who is ona visit To friends in this state.
Hon. ! NJ. Moore, the representa-
tive of Eastland county, was in the
city to-day.
Mrs. Joe Mars has been quite sick.
! but she is again convalescent.
/ MI Lewis Moore, residing in the
forks OF the Aquilia ana Bosque, is
| very sick NJ his farm home.
1t was Mrs. j. ID. Wallace not J. T..
whom the wild COW ran over and
bruised up.
The babbling, splashing. dashing
! Brooks at Levine Bros. makes one
| think of How the water comes dow n
al Lodone."
The cigar and tobacco business, to
an uninterested person, seems to be
like IL beef steak at Il reXas hotel
over done.
a Waco weather prophet offers to
bet thirty dollars that il will rain here
IN less than thirty hours. 1t i. easy to
find a syndicate that would take the
bet il they could be assured that they
would lose it.
The most startling news we have to
! report is, it started to rain this after
noon but stopped too soon.
A reporter to-day was anxious to
find news item so startling as to
make the hair rise on ones mead; Il
bald-headed Dutchmau said dot
ish imposebal; I'se tride cherry ting,
and it vount do it,
Waco is the dustiest town in Texas.
Mr.. James Baker shipped lot of
brick to McGregor to day.
The new paper, the Waco Daily
Dtsodtch, to be started here about the
9Th proNimo, will not publish the
associated press dipatches, but its
proprietors will publish a full list of
specials from all parts of the country
The Waco Eedmil,cr owns the fran
| chise to the associated press, II d the
new paper could not publish them if it
desired.
Mrs. W. j. Lacy and children left
this evening for visit to friends in
! Fort Worth.
Mrs. DIR. Streetcr and her little son.
banks, left this evening for n visit to
relatives in Hot Springs, Ark. Dir.
Streeter went with her as far as Fort
Worth
Mendelsohn Singing club met at the
Office of Mr.. w. u. jackson tonight.
The inmates of the city calaboose
made good heir escape last night.
only one was recaptured.
Most of the schools of the city are
announced to reopen the first Monday
In September.
The Examiner of this morning con-
tains appropriate resolutions respect
ing the death Of Captain r.. w. Lusk,
passed By the Waco National Bank di-
reciry, of which he was u Ilemher.
Major J. b. Payne, of the American
sewing Machine company, was among
the incoming passengers on the Mis-
sour Pacific train this evening.