Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-23

looking horse and n stolid mule, were
turning the corner of Fourth and
Austin streets, the solitary cavalcade
came to a sudden stop by front
wheel of the wagon getting sud-
denly tired and breaking down,
smashed into jiblets. It seemed to be
a last straw, and the poor man and
care-worn looking woman, standing
leaning back against the wagon
wheels, without dollar in the world.
In city of busy people, was bit of
silhouette in misery quite touching.
They stood there nearly an hour not
knowing what to do, and the unsym-
pathetic mule fell asleep, when Col.
Hall came to their relief by taking up
collection. A new wheel costs four
dollars, and the kind-hsarted Colonel
made up enough to purchase it and
give little purse to the family, and
sent them on their way rejoicing. A
few days before, the same movers who
are going to Anderson county, had
another piece of bad luck, one of
pair of oxen they started out with
dying, while the other they had to
trade off for feed.
The Waco Installment Company
can satisfy any one who needs furni-
ture. They will either rent furniture
or sell 1t on installments so low that
any one can pay for it. They have a
fine large stock of all sorts of furni-
ture and they sell very cheap. Don't
purchase elsewhere until you have
given them call. They move and
pack furniture cheaply. Prather
Block Austin street.
The telegram in last evenings
NEWS headed, "a Horrible Fate" and
dated Breckenridge, Colorado, Aug.
81, has somewhat local application.
The fearful fate of q poor man laying
six days with broken limbs in sight
of water and unable to reach it, with
out food and in the terrors of death
and dying when rescued, was story
of suffering such as would make a
humane heart bleed. Mr.. d. s.
Durie who read the sad tale knew
the poor man well, was satisfied that
he has brother John d. Lee, living
in the Norwegian settlement in Bos-
que county. To make sure, he tele-
graphed to a party in another part Of
the state and being assured that he
was right wrote John d. Lee last
night an account of his brothers. fear
full death.
Chas. Rast's grocery corner Sixth
and Austin streets, handles butter,
eggs, vegetables and other country
produce on commission and is enabled
to give customers the benefit of prices.
You can always find country produce
there, fresh and cheap, besides every
thing else in the grocery line.
A highly indignant and exasperated
farmer rushed up to Marshal Neil
this morning to complain of an Ital-
ian to whom he had sold q load of
water melons. There were one hun
dred and six melons in the load and
they were sold at ono and q half cents
a piece which came to one dollar and
fifty-nine cents. The buyer would
only pay one dollar and fifty-fivs
cents, disclaiming the odd four cents.
Marshal Neil could of course do moth
ing and the farmer eventually took
the one dollar and fifty-five cents in
money and the other four cents he
used up in denouncing the buyer in
language that was eminently terse,
pithy and expressive.
The toniest barber shop in town is
that of jeff Williams, the old 20. K"
stand, Austin street, near the square.
He has four tonsorial artists unsur-
passed in the state, and nice cool
room. Everything kept nice and in
the best of order.
The Gabert Brothers, fashionable
tailors, under the Pacific hotel, carry
the biggest and finest stock of goods
in Waco. They are just receiving a
large stock of new goods, domestic
and imported, and have tailors just
from the east so they can get up suits
OH short notice. Best of fits and styles
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