Waco Evening News (Waco, Texas) Vol. 6 No. 117, Thursday, November 30, 1893

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Vol. 6, No. 117. WACO, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 30, 1893. 50c. Per Month.
“Save Money” “Save Money”
6 <THE CLOTHIERS.”
SPECIAL
SALE
OF Hen’s Fine Suits ^ Overcoats
J-JOLIDAY STOCK now open. We have been buy-ing-
right along, and at such prices, you will un-derstand
how well we bought, when you see
our low selling price.
Ten Dollars.
Twelve Fifty.
Ten Dollars.
Twelve Fifty.
$10.00
$12.50
Fifteen Dollars. $15.00 Fifteen Dollars.
Seventeen Fifty $17.50 Seventeen Fifty.
Twenty Dollars. $20.00 Twenty Dollars.
]y[ore Value to the Dollar in any Suit or
Overcoat that we are now selling at above
prices, than was ever given before.
We Have a large .Stock!
Bought UNDER Market Value and we are
going to sell them fast.
We Make the Prices,
THE PEOPLE DO THE REST.
High Class CLOTHING.
GOOD DIMERS
How the Hotel Men are Making Their
Patrons Thankful.
The hotel men of Waoo deter-mined
to make their guests thank-ful
for a good dinner, at least, if for
nothing else.
Mine Host Hunter, of the Hotel
Royal laid the following bill of fare
before his patrons:
zlnfandel claret,"
Creme a la Jackson Consomme Impeiial
Pulled Bread
Oysters a la Creme
Radishes Olives Celery
Boiled Red Snapper Anchcvj Sauce
Potatoes Holland&ise
Roast Turkey, Cranberry Sauce
Loin of Beef, Sauce a laSpaniole
Saddle of Veuison, Currant Jelly
Spring Lamb, Mint Sauce
Wild Duet, a la Macedoine
Trltot of Chlcten, a la koj al
Bibs of Beef, ala Cbamplgnon
I amb Cutlets aux Petit Pols
Banana Fritters, Glace au Rhum
Macaroni au Parlssierne
Boiled and Masted Potatoes French Peas
Baked Yam Sweet Potatoes New Beets
Stewed Tomatoes New Turnips
Ruta Bagas, a la Commons.
COLD—Boned Turkey, Dressed. Lettuce
Roast Beef Turkey Ham Tongue
Chicken Salad a la Francais
Hot Slaw, American Style
Snow Pudding, Vanilla Sauce
Engllfh Plum Pudding, Wine Sauce
Mince Pie Lemon Custard Cranberry Pie
Apple Dumplings, Port Wine Sauce
Lady Fingers Jelly Cake Angel Food
Waco Cake
Pine Apple Sherbert Ambrosia
Mexican Oranges Apples Bananas Grapes
Mixed Nuts Layers Raisins
Pine Apple and American Cheese
Crescent Crackers
C AFK NOTES ^
Bart Moore, of the Pacific, made
his guests revel in the following:
MENU.
Soup—Rock Port Oyster.
Relishes—Celery, lettuce, radishes,
youDg onions.
Fish—Tenderloin of Trout, Tartar
Sauce.
Boiled—Sugar Cured Ham.
Roast—Prime Beef, Drip Gravy;
Turkey with Cranberry Sauce;
Haunch of Venison with Jelly.
Entrees—Young Chicken Boiled
au Petit Pois; Pine Apple Fritters,
Grange Sauce.
Vegetables—Mashed Potatoes,
Sweet Potatoes, Sugar Corn, Tur-nips.
Pastry—Lemon Meringue Pie,
Mince Pie.
Desert—Lemon Ice Cream, As-sorted
Cake, Nuts, Fruits, Crack-ers,
Cheese, Ioe Tea, Coffee, But-termilk.
The News goes out to its readers
early today. It has been such a
paper reoently that its employees
deserve a half holiday, and so they
will take it today. If you want to
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A New Through Sleeping Car Line
FROM CHICAGO TO SEATTLE
Via the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul and Great Northern rail-ways,
has been established and first-class
sleeping cars will hereafter
run daily from Chicago at 10:30 p.
m., arriving at Seattle 11:30 p. m.,
frjprth day. This is undoubtedly
the best route to reach the North
Pacific coast.
For time tables, maps and other
information apply to the nearest
ticket agent, or address D. C.
Beady, Southern Passenger Agent,
C., M. & St. P.. R’y 237 Fourth
Avenue, Louisville, Ky,
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ON POSTAL AFFAIRS
Postmaster General’s
Annual Report.
DEFICIENCY GREATER
Than Estimated by Last
Postmaster General.
THE FREE DELIVERY SYSTEM
The Wholesale Discharge of
Democrats Condemned.
Washington, Nov. 28.—The
following abstract of the annual re-port
of Postmaster General Bissell
was given out today. The deficien-cy
for the year ended June 30,
1893, was $5,177,171 instead of
$1 ,552,423 as estimated by Mr.
Wanamaker, and instead of a sur-plus
of $872,245 for the current
fiscal year as estimated by Mr.
Wanamaker, there will be an esti-mated
defioit of $7,830,473. The
estimated gross revenue for the fis-cal
year ending June 30, $84,427,-
748;gross expenditures $90,399,485,
leaving an estimated deficiency of
$5,971,736.
There are now 610 free delivery
offices. After a thorough trial of
two and a half years, the experi-ments
in free delivery tried in 460
towns of populations ranging from
900 to 4000, have not proved the
desirability of establishing the sys-tern
generally, which the postmaster
general estimates would necessitate
an-annual outlay of $10 000,000.
The appropriation of $10,000 for
the trial of rural free delivery was
inadequate for a fair test and iha
plan is not approved.
Under the order of April last
postmasters tave been held so
strictly accountable for the timq of
their carriers that the making of
overtime has practically oeased.
He suggests that postal notes be
abolished and rates charged for all
domestic money orders be reduced
and form of order simplified.
Great improvement is noticeable
in the star, railroad and steamboat
transportation service, length of the
routes being 453,632 miles.
The postmaster general states
that his desire is that wherever the
general service oan be advanced, use
will be made .of rapid transit, city
and subarban car lines.
He urges such legislation as will
provide a reasonable amount to be
paid the widows and minor childaen
of railway mail clerks killed while
on duty and estimates that $20,000
annually will be sufficient for the
purpose.
Regarding the ocean mail subsidy,
the postmaster general says he is
unable to ascertain any positive
advantages accrued from either a
mail or commercial point of view by
reason of the contracts thus far put
in operation under the act of Maroh
3, 1891, and therefore no new eon-tracts
have been entered into.
There has been a marked inorease
in the speoial delivery business.
The entire number of such pieces of
matter delivered is 3,375,693, an
increase over last year’s business of
22 per cent. The department
carried last year 301,000,000
pounds of second-class matter, an
increase of 14 per oent.
Concerning this, while Wana-maker
estimated the profits from
the sale of Columbian stamps to be
$2,500,000, Mr. Bissell’s estimate
is only $1,000,000.
On JuLe 30, 1893, there were
68,403 postoffices in the United
States, an increase of 1284 over the
previous year. There are 3360
presidential postoffices, a net in-crease
of 163.
The postmaster general devotes
considerable space to the discussion
of civil service reforms. There are
28,324 employes in the classified
civil service in the post office estab-lisbment
of the government. He
makes special comment on the
wholesale removal of Democratic
clerks in the railway mail service at
the beginning of the last adminis
tration. The important rule estab-lished
by Mr. Bissell that fourth
class postmasters shall not be re
moved before the expiration of the
four years of incumbency, unless
for cause shown, will, he thinks,
have a tendency to dignify the office
by placing it on a par with presi-dential
offices as to tenure.
Mr. Bissell makes speoial men-tion
of the needs of ten of the
largest postoffices of the oountry,
to-wit: New York, Chioago, Phila
delphia, Boston, St. Louis, Cinoin-rati,
Brooklyn, San Franoisco, Bsl-timore
and Pittsburg, which yield
one-third of the total revenues and
recommends that these offices be
placed in a olass by themselves and
appropriations made for them by
oengress direct without the inter-vention
of rules and methods prop-erly
applicable to other postcffioes.
Probably the most important
order made iS the one which de-dares
that postmasters shall devote
their time to the duties of their
office. In this connection, he states
that the time has passed when post-office
appointments should be held
as a political sinecure.
Security of registered mail is
shown by the fact that of 16,533,376
pieces oarried during the year the
actual loss found in only 1346 oases
of the 3923 oomplaints investigated.
COMMENDING COKE.
Chairman Hill says he Repre-sented
Texas Properly.
Special to the News.
Gilmke, Tex., Nov. 29.—The
following is a oopy of a letter sent
Senator Coke:
Hon. Richard Coke:
In representing, as I believe it to
be, the true and expres ed senti-ments
of the Upshur County Demo
oracy, I heartily congratulate you
upon your able i fforts and faithful-ness
to the Democracy of our nation
during the late congress, in your
unoeasing attempts to carry into
effect a measure, that we must pre-sume
would relieve the masses of
our country of the present and
growing financial depression. Hop-ing
that the fight may continue, and
that you and others who have stood
by your pledges to the people, may
yet be crowned with success, I am
as ever yours, J. B. Hill,
Chairman, Upshur County Demo
cratic Executive Committee.
Gilmer, Tex., Nov. 23.
NOT THANKFUL.
Twelve Men, Good and True, Who are
Not Raising Joyful Voices.
There are twelve men in town to-day
who do not feel in a very thank
ful tnood, and whose hearts and
voices are not raising in praise.
They are A. B. R. Ball. Ollie
Buchanan, G. W. Chum- ey, Miller
Moore, Frank Lockwood, E. D
Russell. J. C. J. King, Jr., Jno. F.
Herbert, P. A. Allen, M. D Smith,
P. S. Sparks and A. K. Brown
The whyness of their want of
thankfulness is found , in
the faot that they are on the Kone-
McCay jury, and occupying such a
position must be kept together, un-der
the watchful eye of the bailiff.
They were impannelled yesterday
afternoon and didn’t get started ‘in
the case, but they were subjeot-ed
to the rale that keeps juries in
criminal cases together, and so they
refuse to shout.
See Stark West for fire insurance
To our bald headed friends:
‘4711” will make your hair grow.
Dismuke will guarantee it; get a
bottle from him.
ANOTHER ,
Mammoth
Shipment
of Ladies’,
Men’s
and Children’s
Shoes
Just
Received.
SLEEPER,
CLIFTON
& DUKE.
A Popular Couple Married.
Yesterday evening at 7:30 at the
lovely home of Mrs. F. Wetbery,
on Paik avenue, amid sweet strains
of music and beautiful flowers, Mr.
Gary. Little, of Reagan, was united
in holy bonds of matrimony to
Miss E. B. Baeknor, of Carthage,
Illinois, by Rev. J. H. Cockrell, of
Reagan. No oards were issued;
none but immediate relatives and a
few friends witnessed the happy
event. Miss Buoknor is regarded
as one of the loveliest, most
accomplished and popular young
ladies who ever brightened
Carthage society. During her
visit to relatives here, though
brief, she has won many friends.
Mr. Little, whom the gods have
blessed with the companionship of
one so fair and oharming, isNme of
Falls county’s leading young men.
He is manager of Jones & Robin-son’s
extensive farming interests
near Reagan. He is popular,
clever and has a legion of friends
who unite in wishing for him and
his bride, all the joy and sunshine
that marital life can possibly bestow.
The floral decorations of the parlors
were tasteful and beautiful, consist-ing
of hot house flowers and plants
and Christmas evergreens, mistletoe
and berries. Similar decorations
lent their charm to the dining room,
where a sumptuous repast was
spread, to which the party were in-vited.
To the admiraole tact and
skill of the hospitable hostess and
her daughter are due the success
and -enjoyment of the evening by
the whole party, and each depart-iDg
guost bore with them happy
memories of the gracious enter-tainers.
Very respectfully,
Jno. B. Thornton,
1513 South Fourth Street, Waco,
Texas.
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