Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-03-26
CITY ITEMS.

Waco is like garden with the
bloom Of fruit trees.
Fair weather in Texas with tendency
towards warmer tempature for to-day
and tomorrow.
A cslored boy, one of a party OF base
ballers, is reported drowned in the
Brazos on Sunday.
The wedding Of Miss Queen Jack.
son and Mr.. j. F. Wells, set for Thurs.
day evening next, will take place at the
First Baptist church instead Of Fifth
street Methodist church.
Waco creek is only small stream
and given 10 alternate fits Of running
and stopping. By the flow of the ar
tesian we'll into it, 1t Is made res
pectable and constant brooklet.
VIII some one who is posted on the
attitudes of Northern Texas, and ss-
pecially of the staked plains, give
the date to the NEWS? 1t is desired
for the purpose Of guessing at the
sources of our artesian water.
One of the city candidates, yester.
day, while canvassing for votes, struck
an influential colored man who was
marking cotton, and while log-rolling
with him also rolled cotton for him to
the amount Of hundred bales.
The measels are rife in different
quarters Of the city and are especially
prevalent in colored neighborhoods.
In the language of one who visits coll
ored houses largely for collection pur-
pose, they areplled up two and three
in a::bed down with the measles.
At the last council meeting the
mayor recommended that the meetings
Of the council be changed to the first
and fifteenth Of the month, in order,
by the allowance and payment of city
accounts, to enable city officers to pay
their bills on the usual collection days
The suggestion is good one.
In day or two you can 60 out to
the artesian we'll, get In q bath tub
and let the artesian well water heated
by Plutonic fires and charged with
life giving virtues flow over you ad
libitum. There youth can drink elias
ITCHY, middle age quickened vigor,
and old age renew the virility Of
youth. Waco is the sanitarium of the
state.
Mr.. j. W. Higgins, mine host of the
Pacific, and one man who knows how
to keep hotel, left to-day for St. Louis
and other places in the interest of his
house. He goes armed with placards and
posters setting forth the advantages Of
Waco and whooping up the artesian
we'll, also informing the travelling pub
lie where they can get q good square
meal and nice bed when they come
to Waco, and with these he will illumi-
ante every town he comes to on his
route. higgins is a live man.
The candidates, some of them, are
warm on the trail Of the colored voter
and the willy colored voter is still
Warner after the alleged ducats in the
alleged pockets Of the candidates. One
of the latter started out yesterday
morning to make raise of twenty dol
lars, avering that he could control half
the colored vote in the town. The
tenth candidate to whom he appealed
put the proposition on u pure business
basis, and compromised on fifty cents.
The tumble from $50 to so cents i, a
big one and half the colored vote of
the town cheap at so cents.
The following was made q recon-
mendation by the mayor at the last
council meeting:
Whereas, an immense flow Of arte-
sian water has lately been found to
exist at q very reasonable depth below
our city, believe it would be expedi-
ent for the city to have the water
carefully analysed and if found to be
pure and wholesome, as I have no
doubt it will be, that We had better
then advertise for bids to have two
eight-inch wells bored. Then we are
independent and can say to contractors
we have the water if you will furnish
us the pipes, hydrants, etc., and run
the works on franchise to suit US, all
right. We can certainly arrange with
out any difficulty to build works our
selves. The wells are certainly worth
all they cost in any event whatever.
we want protection As our present con-
tract will soon expire.