Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-03-01
CITY ITEMS.

l will close out my egg anthracite
coal at $12 per ton. W. d. LACY.
The river is on a, boom.
No meeting Of the Hook and Ladder
company. Postponed.
It looks as if the wood-hauler would
be able to getin his work after ell.
The cotton mill subscription foots
up, as will be seen, $4,000. This is
only $50, 1000 short Of the.:sum sought
for.
The wild geese which few over the
city northwards day or two ago must
have trusted to the indications Of the
goose bone.
At the temple Rodef Sholem this
evening at 8 o'clock, Rabbi S. Rosen-
berg will conduct the services (if the
weather permits). All invited.
What did the governor of North
Carolina say to the governor of South
Carolina, is overshadowed by what the
governor Of Texas said to the governor
of Missouri.
The annual meeting Of the McLen-
nan County Veterans association is
called to meet on Saturday, March I'd,
at 10 a. m, at room No. 4, Chalmers
block on Fourth street.
The late heavy rain clouds have been
central over Central Texas. Tie indi-
cations are, according to the signal SER
vice bureau, rain to-day and clearing
weather tomorrow, with slight change
of temperature.
Harvey McKenna, the champion
billiardist, is in town, aud gave an ex-
hibition game last night at the A.
Herr billiard rooms. The game was
between McKenna and Z. b. We'll, of
Waco; McKenna to play 500 points to
Wells 100.
An informal and quiet opening took
place at the Pacific hotel at noon to-
day, in which a number Of invited
guests partook Of sumptuous dinner.
The dinner was one to delight the heart
of an epicure and give promise of an
unrivalled cuisine at the Pacific under
the new management Of mine host,
higgins.
A very pleasant and enjoyable recep-
ton was given Mr.. w. M. Lewis, the
new Y. NJ. G. A. secretary, at the
rooms of the association last evening.
Addresses Of welcome we're made BY
Rev. Dr.. Halsell, N. B. Sigh, j. 4.
Boynton, H. Z. Brown, and response
by Mr.. Lewis, after which an elegant
supper was served by the ladies.
The renewed activity in the Y. M.
q. Associotion is q matter of cordial
congratulation. The association is ca
pable of silent but grand work. It
has already accomplished much and is
capable of much more which the re-
newed interest in it seems to promise,
There are numbers of work which will
never be fully recognized till the great
and final books are opened and the
works Of the Y. M. C. A. are among
that number.
Justice +. A. Makeig was taken
suddenly very i'll this morning about
ten o'clock while sitting at his desk
writing in his Office. A physician
was fortunately close at hand and ad.
ministered remedies promptly, aud in
the course of half hour he was able
to ride home. AT three O'Clock this af-
ternoon he was resting easy and re-
covering, and is, it is believed as we'll
as hoped, nut of danger.
1t is good thing to have good
deed to follow one into the next world.
If they did follow, but they go before.
Clifton Jackson, whose lamented death
occurred on Wednesday, will be remem-
bered in Waco by an incident quite in
teresting at the time. A mother with
sad history and pursued by the fates,
abandoned q bright little infant at q
boarding house on Eight street. 1t
was not wanted there, and the little
waif knocked at agood many doors ssk-
ing admission in vain. The door Of
the Jacksons opened to it and the lit.
tie thing nestled in the arms Of Mrs.
jackson, and the husband smiled ap-
provingly, That Is the good deed
which went before him to the books Of
the recording angel. The child is