Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-03-27
CITY ITEMS.

Last years corn CROP is coming into
the city freely.
Spring beets and asparagus, home
raised, are in the market.
The thermome ter has been hanging
lovingly about 81 mark all day.
The marriage Of Rabbi Rosenberg
has been postponed from the tenth Of
April to the frst Of May. y
Those who have kept their cowS in
the suburbs are stalking them out. The
grass is growing finely.
A white woman was arraigned before
the police court charged with being
drunk, plead guilty and fined %.
A protracted meeting at the First
Baptist church will begin next Sunday.
Tho pastor, Dr. B. H. Carroll, will be
assisted by DR.. A. P. Graves.
Onions are as large as ten-pins, this
springs crop, raised in Waco market
gardens, are in the market by wagon
loads.
Fair weather and higher temperature
is the signal service predictions for
this part Of Texas to-day and to-mor-
row.
Butcher shops and wood yards are
thick as blackberries. Every fifth
place seems to be wood yard and
third place butcher shop.
WANTED Good pony for his board.
Good feed and very light work. Ap-
ply at EVENING News Office to w. NJ.
Woodall.
Mr.. Jno. F. Marshall is favorably
spoken Of to gil the Office of county
commissioner, made vacant by the re-
moval Of Mr.. j. j. See. No better man
could be found for the vacant place.
The probabilities Of frost are now
very slight, and should it not occur
one Of the biggest crops Of fruit Gen.
trail Texas has ever seen may be cal
culated on with good assurance.
There is q lull in news, but mighty
forces are at work. Let but the cotton
mill subscription and the railroad sub
scription be secured and every foot of
land in Waco has increaaed in value IS
to so per cent.
A meeting of the water committee
was held this afternoon to discuss the
water situation, and special meeting Of
the council will most likely be called
ct once to consider the conclusions Of
the committee.
Judge Lilies, of the firm Of j. B.
Gilmer & Co., has gone to Washing
ton county in company with Mr.. Fow-
Ter, of the firm boring artesisn wells,
to operate in the oil wells of that firm
in that county.
The express companies are doing .
rushing business just now. The pro
duce houses, which have been going
slow since the holidays, are again in
full blast, which makes a big stir in
expressage.
One who has travelled all over the
oaklahoma country on buffalo hunts, on
cattle trails and on survey speaks in
disparging terms of the country affirm
ing it to be with rare and limited ex-
ceptions only granting country.
This is the first spring in central
Texas for eleven years past in which
corn has sold as low as at present %
to 30 cents, or oats which are % to %
cents, fifty cents to one dollar twenty.
five has been the average of spring
prices.
The presidents proclamation, open
ing Oklahoma to presumption settle
ment, is expected to be out this after.
noon or in the morning. 1t will make
an immense stir and there is subdu-
ed excitement in Waco already ovel
the expected proclamation.
Waco has got the artesian we'll bad
A gentleman reaching home for dinner
to-day found his baby on the ground
in the front yard hard at work with q
stick. To his inquiry, what are you
doing, baby, the little thing looked w
and replied, with eyes aglow, CTS dig
ging 'tesian we'll, papa"
The completion Of the last fine bricl
building on Austin street, between
9th and 7th streets, makes almost twt
solid blocks of the finest buildings OF
the street. What adds to the beauty
Of that section is, that with the pave
ment now going down there will b.
one uniform cement pavement all the
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