Waco Evening News. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 53, Ed. 1, Wednesday, September 12, 1888 Page: 2 of 4
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Prof. Dodge of the Department ol
Agriculture estimates the spring wheat
crop at 179000000 bushels.
"Irish agriculture" continues to de-
cline. Last year's tillage decreased by
18000 acres and grass lands increas-
ed by 50000 acres.
The gray wolf is still a very live is-
nue in Butte county D. T. where he
occasionally plays sad havoc among
horses and other farm stock.
In the Spanish Cabinet there are
two men of Irish lineage Senor Pren-
dergast Minister of the Interior and
Lieut. Gen. O'Ryan Minister of
War.
A milk-white gopher snake 1 7 feet
6 inches long and having a portion
of his tial cut off at that has just
been slain down in Glynn county.
A lancher at Puente Cal. has las-
soed a genuine condor and it is now
in the hands of a Los Angeles taxi-
dermist. It measures nine feet from
tip to tip.
The electric button which started
the machinery at the Buffalo Indus-
trial Exposition was pressed by a res-
ident ninety-three years old who went
to the city when it had but a few
houses.
Sept. 15 will see a fine marble stat-
ue of Benito Juarez erected in front
of.the o'd Cathedral at El Paso del
Norte to which that patriot fled for
safety during Maxamilian's ascendency.
A subscription for the relief of the
families of the seven fireman who lost
their lives in Baltimore on Sunday the
ad instant has already reached the
sum of $10000. The sum will be so
increased as to give to each family
the sum of $2500 enough to buy a
modest house for each.
According to the" official estimates
of the Bureau of Statistics there were
130000000 of tons of coal consumed
in the United States last year. The
amount of coal displaced by those of a
natural gas is put at 9000000 and
yet the consumption of coal in 1887
exceeds that of 1 886 by 17182154
tons. These figures show at what an
astonishing rate industrial develop-
ment is going on in this country.
While Harriet Beecher Stowe has
enough of this world's goods to sup-
port her comfortably she has nothing
like the fortune she might have 'had if
she had not sold her copyright of
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" for a song
.Not having reserved the right of drama-
tization the long success of the story
on the stage hns brought her noth-
ing. Mr Herbert Ward the African ex-
plorer met Mr. Stanley and his fol-
lowers as they were setting out on their
present expedition. "I never" he
says "in iiiy life was so struck with
any sight as with Stanley's caravan on
the march. Egyptians Soudanese
Somali's Zanzibaris and others 900
strong;. It took me two hours to pass
them."
The Berthon canvas folding boat is
likely to be adopted for use in the
navy. It has beeu tried and the re-
ports upon the trial are favorable to
the adoption of the boat. It consist
of a frame similar to the keel and ribs
of a boat over which is drawn a
double thickness of water-proof can-
vas. The frame is hinged along the
keel. When the thwarts are taken ou
the sides come together and but little
additional space is required for their
storage. They can be readily adjus-
ted and rapidly placed in the water.
It is not a lifeboat but besides occu-
pying small space on board a vessel
it can be easily launched and when In
the water will carry thirty-seven
men.
Miss Helena Verrier a Cuban hei
ress who resides in Philadelphia is to
be married in a a few days in that city
to Hans Bjorn Grassc a millinarc
banker of Dresden Saxony. Miss
Verrier is the only child and heiress of
the famous Cuban planter of that
name and is worth several millions in
her own right. She is very beautiful
is thirty-four years old and holds a
large interest in the banking house of
which the groom is a member. The
groom is a handsome young German
about twenty-five years old and of
pleasing conversation and manner.
In Chicago on Thursday last Frank
McGurrin who had previously beaten
the world's best time for fast work on
the typewriter broke his own record
suspassing it by about eight words a
minute. He wrote 583 words in five
minutes. Seventy-five people chiefly
stenographers an dtypewriters wit-
nessed the feat.
The pension agent at Chicago is
Mrs. Marion A. Mulligan widow of
Col. Mulligan who was killed at Win-
chester in 1864. For three years
she administered the affairs of her re-
sponsible office with remarkable suc-
cess and in that time nearly $26000-
000 has passed through her hands.
Tho White and Black Caps.
While the Republican papers have
had a great deal to say about the re-
gulators in the South and have de-
nounced their whippings and orders to
people to leave the country we have
seen no emphatic denunciations in
them of the Indiana White Caps who
are doing the same thing attempting
to regulate the morals of a community
but in a far more cruel manner since
not men alone but women young and
delicate are whipped nearly to death.
They have "run" a number of people
out of the country and there have
been not a few killings to complete
the tragic record.
Yet when the Governor investigated
the matter the other day or rather had
the Attorney General to do so the lat-
ter reported that nothing can be done
against the White Caps; that they
have the support of the local press of
the county officers and others. A
number of White Caps have been tried
but it has been impossible to secure a
conviction and Attorney General
Mitchencr is convinced that this will
continne to be the case until public
sentiment charges in Indiana and or-
ganizes to suppress these lawbreakers.
"Unless it occurs" he reports to Gov.
Gray "a general insurrection is likely
to follow and vou will be compelled
to suppress it with millitary power."
In the meantime however a coun-
ter organization the Black Caps has
sprung into existence which places
armed men each night in the roads in
the region most infested by the White
Caps with instructions to fire on the
latter.
Indiana is a Northern State is Har-
rison's own home and is counted on
to help him into the presidential chair.
While discussing the Southern regu-
lator the Northern Republican pa-
pers might draw a comparison between
them and "the White Caps" and see
which is the greater the mote in the
Southern eye or the beam in that of
the North. Times Democrat.
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An Alligator out Visiting.
On Saturday night last just after
midnight a lad about twelve years of
age while coming up town saw some-
thing in a gutter on Bienville street
near Chartres which at first blush he
fancied was a drowned dog. Stooping
down to examine the object he was
not a little startled by being viciously
snapped at. Upon closer inspection
he discovered that the creature was
nothing more nor less than a young
alligator but fully three feet in length.
Procuring a strong cord the youth
formed a noose at one end of it by
means of which alter a lively struggle
he managed to secure a firm hold
about the alligator's neck. Hauling
his prize out upon the pavement the
youth started homeward with his cap-
ture to the astonishment of the police-
men and other pedestrains whom he
met along the way. Hew the alliga-
tor managed to get into a gutter in so
central a portion of the city is a mat-
ter of conjecture. It may have escap-
ed from some bird and animal fan-
ciers' store on Ch.irtri-s strppi nr it ;c
just possible that it may have crawled
up imo me cuy irom the swamp dur-
ing the recent trreat nvnrflmv Tim
Democrat.
Brother Blaine the Republican Bull
of the Woods continues tn rlpfnnri i
trusts; but the trusts Blaine and the
K-epuoncan party will have to go.
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Waco Furniture Co.
WE NEVER FORGET
OUR FRIENDS 9 CUSTOMERS
Atio In order Hint they may realize
tho fact wc will offer for tho nu.t
40 DiVYS
Ko.Icasli Foinoortlio grottiest bnrgnlne
eeroflereil In tlio LonuSfar State.
100 bod room suits prices fiom 515.00
to $500.00.
GO parlor suits from $30 to $350.
40 bookcases from $10 to $75.
25 sldoboards from $112.50 to $250.00.
100 wardrobes from $S to S150.
100 bedsteads from $2 to $25.
100 rood and rntnn chairs from $2.50
to $15.00.
150 leather and plush chairs nt prices
to suit tho buyer.
25 folding bods from $18 to $150.
100 sofa lounges from $0 to $50.-
25 hall racks from $7 to $50.
500 fancy and plain tablos of ovory
description and in fact a full lino
of ovory tiling1 that is carried in a
flrst-clo'ss furnituro stono too Hu-
morous to mention.
LARGE STOCK OF DINING
We also Carry a Full Line of Pictures Picture
Frames and Moulding Frames Nade to Order
IN ADD1MION TO THIS WE HAVE
An Extensive Mattrss Factory
Whoro we make all kinds of
Materossos and do Upholtoring
in the best of stylo. Our Up-
holsterer has Twenty Years
Experience and stands Second
to None.
ABOVE INDUCEMENTS
Wo oiler for tho noxt forty days
to ninko room for our
Which our Mr. Pock has
Just Purchased in the
Eastern Markets.
DNDERTAK'RS DEPARTM'NT
We Carry a Full Line of Coffins from
the Cheapest to the Best
Also a lino of cloth covorod cuskots.
Motnllocasos and a full linoof robes
for gouts ladies and chlldrou.
Arterial Embalming a Specialty.;
Prices to Suit Evorybody.
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