Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-10
AFTERNOON NOTES.

AFTERNOON NOTES.
E. G.. Freeman is in the city.
"Alone in London" tomorrow night
at The Garland.
No new attachments in the Eaton 4
Guinan case have been issued the past
two days.
Why should not the lightning Of
prosperity strike Waco as we'll as any
other place.
DR.. w. A. Howard has taken the
place Of Mr.. 8. B. Humphreys, No.
2l6, North Fifth street.
The first bale of domestic manufac.
tured at the Dallas cotton and wooden
mills was turned out Saturday.
! The "Bible character study enteii
tainment is to be given on Friday
night at the old McClelland opera
house.
Plenty Of fresh vegetables fresh
from the garden on this 10th day OF
December, in the year Of our Grace,
1888.
Mrs. 8. s. Brown Of Topeka Kan
sas, and Mr.. s. Little Of Austria, N.
H., are in the city on business connect
ed with the recent failures.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment Of the Eaton & Guiuan stock,
the Levine & Levinski stock and
to tie holiday goods Of Morrison,
Risher & Co.
The fine display at Hills Business
college will be open for the inspection
Of the ladies on Tuesday and Wednes-
day, and cordial welcome is extend
ed to all who desire to witness this
fine exhibit.
A number Of wagons on the square
were loaded with cotton pickers and
drove of with their dusky loads to the
great cotton fields, still white with the
Aeecy staple. One week Of good wealth
er will make next Saturday busy day.
Conversations with several parties
show that the leading dry goods stores
have done much better business these
first ten days in December than was
done by the same stores in the same
ten days Of last December.
The advocates Of the single land
tax are not numerous in Waco and
few people know what the single land
tax is except from occasional ridicule.
The land tax men should induce Law
yer Ring, Of Austin, to speak on the
subject, SO that folks might hear from
an able exponent what the blamed
thing is.
The vicissitudes Of business some.
times read like romance and romantic
is the history Of Jefferson, Texas, .
city in the northeastern part Of the
State. Just after the war it was the
great Texas city. Its merchants were
princes and great fortunes were stack
ed up BY many and good fortunes by
oil. There we're NO railroads in those
days and Jefferson was situated ct the
head Of nsvigable bayou emptying
into Red River. Cotton came into JEFF
fersou from hundreds Of mile, even as
far as tho Pan Handle country, and so
great was the glut that old settlers tell
Of trains Of wagons loaded with cotton
six miles long extending out Of the city,
waiting their turns to get in and sell.
The 6ourising days Of Jefferson began
to wane with the advent Of railroads,
and it had no railroad. It went down
and down and down till the proposition
to vote . subsidy Of two hundred thou
sand dollars to railroad was put to
vote in the. county. Property holders
worked against it but the negroes and
non.property holders voted II over
their heads, and that two hundred
thousand dollars put the finishing
touches to the ruin Of Jefferson. FIJI
teen years it was the dullest, deadest
town in the State, with property It
zero, and business houses given up to
the owls and rats. Exit Jefferson, leav-
ing only black spot on the map and
the name in small letters. But the
hills about Jefferson contain the finest
iron in the world. II had lain there
covered up with dirt and scrub pine
TOR twenty million Of years. 1t had
Deen known for many years when
Northern capital was attracted by the
slowly creeping fame Of that iron, and
now Jefferson il the coming city again.