The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-05-20
'ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

| POET FOR REVENUE ONLY.
For fame let youthful poets sing,
who ieei not poyerty's keen lash;
Me my reward In solid cash.
III gladly leave the fame to those
who for living need not toll;
Fame won't buy met suit of clothes
or make the family kettle boil.
Every first.class dealer sells Oper,
Pull cigarettes. Avoid injurious imi
tations.
The heavy rains did not effect the
river as much as was expected. IL is
still too deep TO ford.
| Remember that Herr is selling tho
best cigarettes ever brought to the
Waco market.
Geo. w. Mclaughlin will receive
orders for groceries and fill them " it'll
dispatch.
A small dog was run over by the
Texas Il st. Louis train near the de-
pot yesterday morning, and instantly
killed.
Rev. w. j. Phillips, of Bryan, will
preach the sermon on Christian edu.
cation at the commencement of Waco
Female College, June 4.
Phil Baum has young catamount
which was captured in Coryell county
by Mr.. Tom Henry's little son. The
animal. though very small, has n
ierocious appearance.
The prices of Highlands goods defy
competition from any quarter.
The best and most complete stock
of building hardware in the city at
llorsiull Il Cameron's.
Horsfull II Cameron's il headquar-
tiers for sheep shears, wool Irvine and
sacks.
Ragland has the finest assortment
of jewelry and watches ever brought
to this market.
If you want real stylish straw
hat and at low price call ut b.
llabcr's and got one of them, just re-
ccived per express.
Last night there was decided
change in the atmosphere, and the
weather felt more like November
than the ilowcry month of May.
A herd of cows got into Alderman
Tom Smiths oai-iicld yesterday, and
damaged his crop very much. Mr..
smith says if they do ii again he will
believe in strict enforcement of the
COW ordinance.
A farmer told an E1AMlNls re.
these fine days that when he goes 10
Inner he hung his hat Oh the back of
his chair SO he could get it quick and
20 TO the field and commence killing
oockleburs again.
The most etlicacious stimulauis To
excite the appetite are Angostura
Bitters, prepared by DIR. j. q b.
Siegert n Sons. Beware OF counter
feits. Ask your grocer or druggist
for the genuine article.
Uncle Sans mail is now carried to
all the trains, in whcel-barrow.
Enoch Barnes, colored, shoycs the
wagon along, and Enoch says when he
strikes the heavy sand in East Waco
aud he has heavy load of ma !, he
iinds il hard work. As soon as ar
engagements can be made the mail win
be carried in Il wagon again.
The great hardware house o. Il KEEL
x Brcustedt will, in a few days, com
mcnce moving to their elegant new
house farther up the avenue. This
latter is one of the most elegant and
conmodious business houses IN the
city, and has n superb plate glass aud
iron trout, making possible such n
display of line gooGs as is rarely seen
IN Texas establishment.
Prot. A. NJ. Pollock, will tomorrow
take his class in art TO Lovers Leap,
where they will spend the day sketch
ing and painting from M turc. This
is the pro or sic towards practical
knowledge of the art, as there is sell
dom found n more beautiful view
than Is presented from the picturesque
height OF the Bosque. Among the
number who wiz go, are Mrs, Judge
Walker, Mrs. Waties, Misses W hcclei.
Turnbull, Llmbd'r Davidson auu
others. Bravo, Mr.. Pollock.
street Commissioner Neill did some
good work on Sixth between Austin
aud Washington streets yesterday Pnd
Monday. After getting the cutters
in that part of the city liked he COM
menced cutting across Eighth stree >,
where he will put in the last box drain
for the Mary street canal. Amer this
is flushed he viii look after other
places in the city, and viii get around
to all the mud holes and washonts rs
soon as the men can do the work
which he thinks needs attention first.
Mr.. Marshall ii. Levy of Brcmond,
is in the city, and has between 6OO
and 600 head of cattle which he in-
tends to ship north over the Missouri
Pacific.
Yesterday the denizens who do
business near tho corner OF Ausliu
street and the square, was electr'tied
by the song of beautiful bird that
was in cage which swings in II pop
ular drug store. Almost every one
who passed along the street heard the
plaintive song of the bird, and they
would look around to see from
whence came the sound. Mr.. A. Herr
gives the best description of the song
the bird sang, and he says II w..s ex,
| actlv like the noise of n wagon wheel
which had been running for month
in dry weather without having any
grease on ii. Herr is imminently cor
rect. johnnie Willis says 1t is Mex
| ;,o,, nncl inU bird and that it sings IN