Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-05-01
CITY ITEMS.

VI i I i i MS.
The alum we'll discovered at Bos'
queville is dandy.
Give US public park. You cam,
run q city without park.
The praises Of Richelieu are heard
all over the streets to-day.
The band of the Salvation army
hold services on the square every
afternoon.
The Spring Palace committees met
this evening at the Pacific hotel par.
lors at 5 o'clock.
When the Heavens weep the earth
laughs and all nature is now in state
Of delightful cacchination.
watcr pipes, water pipes, water
pipes everywhere, all over the streets.
There are worse things than water in
the world.
1t is to be hoped that no citizen will
be Indifferent to the decoration of
soldiers graves on decoration day on
Tuesday next.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Boggis desires the New 9
to ask and urge all the ladies to meet
her at the Pacific hotel parlors to. NOR
row at 9 o'clock promptly.
Mr.. Eugene Rugg took the oath of
Office this morning and is now United
States deputy marshal, with offices
in the federal building
The committee on graves may add
the name of f. G. L. Wiebush to the
list of Confederate dead and the grave
can be pointed out by any member of
the family.
The programme at Richelieu last
night was an elegant bit of art on fine
satin q present to the players by the
firm Of Leasing, Solomon. Rosenthal
and Company.
A nice looking young man and a
Respondent looking old man, each
plead guilty to the charge of intoxica-
ton before his honor the mayor this
morning, and were fined five dollars
each.
On the road from this city to San
Antonio. q distance of nearly 200
miles, McClelland county is rather
behind in state of crops. But the
beautiful rains Of yesterday will set
that ali right.
Tho cases set in the district court
for Tomorrow are State VS.. Lafayette
Biyens, charge rape; state vs.. Will
Scott ct al, charge assault with in
tehd to murder and state vs.. Albert
Black, charg thefc.
The headquarters of the joint com.
mittee on flowers and decorations is
In the Jones building on Franklin
street, near the NEWS office, and there
all flowers for decoration should be
delivered next Monday.
In the district court to-day Doc.
Wade charged with theft of hogs
from w. r. Kellum, was found guilty
and sent to the pom for two years. In
the case of State We. Eddie Hood,
charge burglary, the indictment was
quashed.
Sam Dow while being taken back to
Jail was the observed of hundred COL
ored people. He went off Laughing, but
in the court room his furtive enquiring
glances about tho court showed
that he begins to feel the gravity Of
the situation.
AT about half past eight last night,
while parties were going to the theatre,
q man on horseback dashed up to the
side Of car on Fifth street and
pointed and shot his pistol startling all
on board and badly frightening q lady
passenger, and then gslloped away.
The two new artesian wells, the one
on Bells and the other on Dickeys
hill, are waiting for lumber for frame
work and will be put down simultane.
ously when begun, which will be in q
few days The we'll at Bremo7d is
down between five and six hundred feet
The protracted meeting, at the Fifth
street Methodist church, is sweeping
things like cyclone. The assisting
minister, Mr.. Burnett, is said by some
to be fully the equal Of Sam Jones.
There were ten conversions last night
and twenty-five pepitents went forward.
Confederate Camp Pat Cleburne and
Grand Army Post Oliver p. Morton