Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-01-19
CITY ITEMS.

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Mass meeting tonight at the court
house
A number Of peach trees in q GER
tain locality of the city are in full
bloom.
See what the Denison Evening !
Journal says Of the Cold Day Co., in
this issue.
A tame bear and his keeper made
fun for the boys on the square this
morning.
The weather of the week interfered
with the usual Saturday trade to-day,
making a dull Saturday.
Shall or shall not Waco have o great
sugar mill, is the question to be settled
at the court house tonight.
Farmers who have hogs are in about
the same condition as those who have
none, for the weather Is too warm to
kill.
Manager Garland has put a new flag
in front Of his handsome opera house.
1t is quite an improvement on the old
one.
The L. A. No. 218O, X. of L., had
q very interesting and well attended
meeting last night at their hall in the
Odd Fellows building.
Morning kilograms report the massa-
ere of four German missionaries and
tie capture Of three more by the anti
German blacks at Tagu. Zanzibar.
Betsy Ann Porter, colored, was fined
five dollars in Justice Harrison's
court for cursing in public. Lot Por-
ter was fined FIVE dollars for assault and
battery.
A party Of possum hunters on the
Bosque, near McClelland crossing,
caught nineteen possums night before
last, and it was not good night for
possums either, A few more such
hunts and the race of Didelphys Vir-
giniana will be extinct in the umbra.
geous wilds Of the meandering Bosqde.
The kilograms of this morning con-
tain the news that the coolest wave Of
the season is swooping down over the
Northwest, the thermometer falling to
forty-two degrees below zero in several
places in Minnesota. The effects will
probably be felt in Texas within forty
eight hours, if it should take this di.
rection, which is hardly probable.
The phenomenal mild weather of
thir winter is not limited to Texas.
The winter is of unusual mildness as
far north as the Red river of the North,
and so mild in Montreal, Canada, that
yesterday, an ice palace being built,
melted and fell and there is no ice in
the river Of thickness and solidity
sufficient to finish it. A comet must
have fallen into the sun just at the be-
ginning Of winter.
| Owing to the absence from the city
of Miss Emma Beer, Prof. A. N. Pollock
presided at the organ during last
nights service at the temple Rodef
Sholam. Prof. Pollock surpassed him
selfby displaying his splendid must
cal talent as an organist as we'll as
thorough bass in the choir. He &C.
companied the cantor and also the
choir without having had any previous
rehearsal.
The State convention of superin-
tendents Of public schools yesterday
transacted no business especially, ow-
ing to the non.arrival Of State Super.
intendent 0. n. Cooper, who issued
the call for the convention, until late
. hour. The informal discussion had
during the day turned mainly on the
alleged grievance Of delay in getting
the pay Of teachers promptly. State
Superintendent Cooper In a speech on
the subject, not OF the payment OF
teachers, but Of the frequent delay in
payment, uttered the sentiment that
= he would rather see the schools shut
Q up for half the session than that the
teachers should have to wait for their
psy. Twenty-three superintendent
Q were present from the State at large.
The convention met At o this morning.