Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-15
LOCAL PICK-UPS.


Gus cases of diptheria in town.
Look out for stagnant water and
decaying vegetable matter, there's
millions in it.
Keep the head cool, read the Bible
and don't eat stale vegetables just
now.
The hammer and the saw keep on
pounding and ripping and the pedes.
TRAN still stumbles over bricks and
lumber piles in the streets of Waco.
1t is better to laugh than to cry. the
cotton is coming out all right, any.
how.
Make your preparations to attend
Hills Business College night sessions,
this year. 1t will be money IN your
pockets in after years.
Don't fail to 60 and hear the Rev.
A. A. Gilbert, tonight, at the Chris.
tan church.
Now is the critical time with shade
trees. a few buckets of water ap.
piled now to the roots will save many
a valuable tree which, otherwise, might
die.
One Of the prettiest new homes in
the city is the cottage of Mr.. Lednum,
just finished, on Eleventh and Morrow
streets, in the western part of the city.
1t is just finished.
Times are hard and malarial fever
is bad but both will be forgotten a
hundred years from now and other
folks will be taking a whack at hard
times and fever.
Mr.. Mike Palmo kindly furnishes
Padgitt's Park with all its appliances
free to the Little Five" for whose
benefit the concert and dance is given
tomorrow night.
See advertisement of the old rella-
bic house of Levine Brothers, on first
page. The name is familiar and
household word in Waco. Read their
chat with the trade carefully and look
out for new matter from time to time.
About 10 lots were sold for CITY
taxes IN the spring and they are being
redeemed one by one and from time
to time. Every little while a strag.
gler struggles in to the city collector
to get his property back.
The Democratic State Convention
met in Dallas yesterday morning with
5000 people in the hall, which was fill.
ed with Democratic notices and with
flags and other decorations, and or.
gained at 1890, with George C. Ped
dleton as temporary chairman and COM
mittees were appointed amid great
deal of speech making, and great
deal of enthusiasm. No night ses.
sion was held but instead Dallas gave
a grand torchltght procession and
speeches were made by Gov. Ross
and others.
The annual catalogue Of Paul Quinn
College is laid on our table. 1t shows
the prosperity Of the college in the
list of last years students, and gives
minute information in regard to the
history of the college. its plans and
needs. The catalogue was printed by
the Paul Quinn job rooms, and is an
elegant piece Of work mechanical and
typographical.
In the city court this morning
hack driver was fined one dollar for
drumming for passengers ON the plat
form of the Houston and Texas Cen
trail depot. A number of small kids
were up before his honor charged
with throwing epithets and rocks at
each other, but his honor remembered
the time when he was small boy
and with tear in his eye, babe them
go and let up on further rockthrow-
ing.
DIR. w. +. Buck, which telegram
on our first page records as commit
ting suicide on the 18th inst. at Biard
Texas, formerly lived in Waco and
was here few moAths ago. His wife
and two children died in this city
some time ago and both are buried
here. DIR. Buck is brother of w.
5. Buck, now of Stephenville, Tex,