The Day (Waco, Texas) Vol. 2 No. 306, Tuesday, November 10, 1885

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TODAY’S EVENT.
THK LIVESTOCK SHOW AND FALL JU'RTIJfG,
WACO DRIVING PAKK.
Tho Live Stork Exhibit I his MorningTlie Races
This Afternoon—Mayor Wilkes Suggests
a General Closing Thursday—
General Notes.
There was but one thing lacking to make
a success of the opening day at the driving
park today, and that was a big crowd of
people. The weather was all that could be
a>ked; there were more and finer horses
than at any previous meeting; and there
was a creditable display of live stock. The
restaurants, saloons, etc., on the grounds
were in full blast, but the crowd was slow
in gathering. At ten o’clock, when The
Day reporter reached the grounds not more
than one hundred people were on haud,
Capt. R. S. Ross is chief marshal for the occasion,
md under his chaperonage a tour of
the stables was made.
THE HORSES.
At remarked above, the line of horses surpasses
all previous meetings. One hundred
and eleven animals were counted this morning,
that are here to take part in the races.
These are exclusive of horses entered
f jr the stock show only. AH of these racing
animals are fine stock and many of
them have giltedged records—they have
won purses all over the country and seem
to be in fine trim for their work here. Some
were resting in their stalls, while others,
blanketed with care, were led about by
groom > for exercise, or speeded around the
track. The course, it may be stated, is in
excellent condition.
THE STOCK SHOW.
Up to noon the entries in this department
were for horses, mules, jacks, jennets and
cattle. The sheep, swine and poultry were
lacking. It is known, however, that many
exhibitions in these lines will have their displays
on hand tomorrow. At noon the
live stock on hand were biought up to the
judges’ stand and ranged ru full
view of the grand stand. Judge O. II.
LelanJP enters twoHereford bulls and a
Hereford heifer; also a Holstein bull—all
last spring’s calves and beautiful animals.
Hancock & Harper, of McLennan county,
enter six head of very fine Durham cattle—
one bull, three heifers and two calves. John
Monroe enters a Jersey cow, only two. years
old, that is a perfect beauty. Mr. A. M.
Hamillalso shows some choice specimens of
Durham and Texas longhorns. Hancock
& Harper show a superb jack, four years old;
a mule colt, only cne year old, 15 14 hands
high, and a draught horse only three years
old,all of which will certainly take premiums.
Mr. J. H. Baker, of Crawford, promises to
have some ol bis fine jacks on exhibition tomorrow
and no doubt the display in the cattie,
sheep, swine and poultry departments
will be largely increased by that time.
Awards for the stock exhibits today will be
announced tomorrow.
THIS AFTERNOON.
From one to two o’clock this afternoon
the crowd began to grow'. The band was
present, making the air melodious with one
kind of music, while the poolsellers,
made the vvelking ring
as they sold pools on the races.
It is anticipated that nearly all the school
children in the city will accept Mr. Johnson’s
invitation and attend in a body tomorrow.
Those who do not want to take in the races
can see the fine live stock and go home before
the races open. With reference to the
general closing of business houses Thursday,
Sanger Brothers said this morning:
“We have seen the suggestion in The Day
that business houses close Thursday. We
think the suggestion appropriate and if other
leading houses will join in the movement we
will cheerfully close too, in order that our
employes may have an opportunity to attend.’’
The Day is also in receipt of the following
from his honor,
MAYOR WILKES,
on the subject of closing Thursday. He
says:
Waco, November 10, 1885.
To the Editor of The Day.
Please let the people of Waco know
through your columns that Sanford Johnson
has very generously offered to admit all
scholars of the Public Schools into his stock
and cattle Fair on tomoirow (Wednesday)
free of charge. Mr. Johnson has shown so
much enterprise and public spirit,that I would
respectfully suggest to enr merchants and
business men that they close their business
houses on Tuesday, at least during the hours
of the stock and cattle show', and give their
employes an opportunity of attending. This
would be generous to the employes, cncouraging
to Mr. Johnson and an act of courtesy
to our numerous visito s.
Respectfully,
W. H. Wilkes.
THE RACING EVENTS
for this afternoon are four in number and
as follows: Trotting, three minute class,
purse of §150. Pacing, free for all, purse
ot $250. Running, mile heat, purse of $200.
Home race, gentlemen’s driving horses, two
best in three, driven by owner, purse of $50.
As the racing did not commence until 2:30
o’clock the result cannot be published by
The Day until tomorrow atternooo. It
will be dark when the last event is coneluded.
THE BANDIT KINO.
How it Captiv;tcd the Dallasites the Other
Night.
Dallas Times.
Never was there in the operahouse so
large an audience as assembled there last
evening to witness the Bandit King. Long
before the curtain rose every seat in the
house was sold, and when the opening begun
there was scatcely standing room, and
the further sale of tickets was stopped, despite
the persistent demand of clamoring applicants.
Thus, what has elsewhere happsned
occurred last night. The piece is of
the intensely sensational, as might be surmised
from the title. It also runs over with
the humorous, and is considerably seasoned
with the emotional and the pathetic.
Mr. Wallick, in his several characters of
the Accused Murderer, the Texas Cattle
King, the detective, the accuser, etc., was
quite up to the conception and rendition of
his heavy roles.
Mr. Hendricks, as Kansas Jake, a “Bad
Man from Kansas,” etc., was thoroughly typical
of the bully and bragadocio that characteiizes
the social order of the rough and
tumble style of wild western life, and he
brought round after round of applause.
Fred Lyons, as Old Bob, with his banjo
sonfes, dances and funny sayings is one of
the^eatures of the piece, and kept the galleries
in a roar, and the dress circle as well.
His negro impersonations were very naturally
natural and genuine.
As Adolphus Breezy Gush, the Indiana
editor seeking political fame, Mr. Reibert
was true to the assignment. And this may
be remarked of all the other actors in the
play, for each worked smoothly throughout.
The scenes and stage fixtures operated better
than usual, while the special flies added
much *.u the .success. The knife fight on
horseback yyas, perhaps, the best, as it was
the roost difficult and hazardous of the whole
work. The hbrses, donkey and colts are
thoroughly traflned, as the galloping over
stage, plungingithrough windows, etc., fully
attested.
The piece is only what it professes
to be, a thrilling, sensational creation,
full of.; startling incidents, extraordinary
situations and surprises, bordering on
the marvelous, and yet a true picture of
western life.
If you have the blues go see the Bandit
King tonight, where you will join in the
wildest enthusiasm and greatest laughter.
—The building boom continues. Recorder
Brinkerhoff and Loving & Swanson will
erect a brick block on South Eighth street,
on the site of the burned buildings; Lessing,
Solomon & Rosenthal will build a three story
(and basement, making it practically four
story) brick business house on the Baptist
church lot; Dr. VV. H. Wilkes is building a
residence on^Barnard avenue and Eleventh
street; and Judge Gerald will rebuild his
residence on South Fifth street.
—The information of the jailing of Perry
Nichols, upon which The Day acted in its
publication yesterday, is found to beincorrect.
Mr. Bart Moore, who advanced the
money, informs us that Perry returned the
money, and that the bills were the identical
ones paid out on the check. Perry is a free
man still, and at work on his farm.
—Mr. James B. Baker is building two
brick stores for Judge Brinkerhoff and one
for Loving & Swanson in the burned district
on Eighth street, near the Narrow Gauge
depot. The buildings, when completed,
will be handsome structures and will cost
about six thousand dollars.
—The dengue having worked up the most
of the available material in Waco, is now enjoying
a respite from labor, and will possibly
hunt a more congenial clime, when the
frigid northers begin to exercise their chilling
functions.
—When the reporter makes inquiry for
any one the answer generally is, “Gone to
the races.”
The Bandit King has 4 great comedians
and the strongest company traveling.
Cotton in Waco ToDay.
The square was lively today and the cottou
buyers were bus^trading for the staple.
Tne estimates of tile day’s receipts is 250
bales and prices ranged from 8 to 8:33 and
8:60. The rise of twenty points yesterday
nude an active market and the competition
was lively.
TELEGRAPH NEWS.
Preparing to Adjust the strike—A Feartul Alabama
Cyclone.
Galveston, November 9.—The result of
yesterday’s agreement between the citizens’
committee and the state executive committee
of the Knights of Labor were manifest on
all sides today, every Knight being at his
post. The wharves, railway yards and cotton
presses presented scenes of the greatest
activity. The arbitration committee of ten
was announced this morning and the first
meetingjwas held at 10 o’clock.
The membership of the arbitration committee
is as follows: For the Knights of
Labor, P. H. Golden, Galveston; John
Nugent, Coolville; D. Black, colored, Fort
Worth; C. Clifford, Denison; G. W. Smith,
San Antonio; For commerce—W. L. Moody,
chairman, P. J. Willis, J. D. Skinner, G. B.
Miller, Julius Runge.
It transpired this evening that the district
assembly, Knights of Labor, of this city, tcday
made a very strange request of Mayor
Fulton. The district executive officers,
Patrick Emmet and Samuel Eldridge, addressed
a formal communication to his
honor asking him to dismiss Patrolmen
Davies, Sparks, Debruhl and Warren from
the police force, on the grounds that they
have been indulging in violent conversation
on the street, which, they charge, is ealeulated
to arouse an incendiary feeling and
precipitate trouble. Sparks, Debruhl and
Warren are colored men, and none of the
four policemen are members of the Knights
of Labor organization.
Mayor Fulton replied to this demand,
stating that it was impossible for him to comply
with such a request. The mayor also
stated that he had inquired into the charges
laid against the officers, and could not find
that they had been guilty of anything meriting
dismissal or censure. This movement
on the part of the local Knights is strongly
censured wherever it is known. Another
feature of the situation was developed tonight,
it being learned that the United
States authorities yesterday made a tender of
aid and protection to the citizens’ committee.
United States Attorney Stratton offered to
supply the requisite number of deputy marshals
to protect the trainmen in taking out
freights. This offer was declined, however,
in view of the proximity of the settlement by
arbitration.
Selma, Ala., November 9.—Friday night
one of the most terrific and destructive
storms ever known to this state, passed over
the section of the country just north of here,
washing out bridges, railroad beds and
growing crops, and levelling forests and
houses for miles. A cyclone, accompanied
by torrents of rain and appalling eleclric
discharges, started on Cahaba river and
passed through Dallas, Perry and Bibb
counties, leaving a dead waste of forests,
plantations, houses and villages.
Exploring and relief parties say the track
of the storm was half a mile wide. They
have gone over forty miles, picking up the
dead and wounded, and don’t how much
longer the track is.
Thirteen persons have been found killed
outright and forty or fifty dangerously
wounded, and a number of persons cannot
be accounted for.
Bales of cotton, blown from gin houses,
were burst and scattered evevwhere.
A man driving to tl.e city with cotton, has
been lost. The cotton and wagon were
blown a quarter of a mile, and the man and
mules were carried off and cannot
be found. Growing Crops were torn up
from the ground, and trees and cotton stalks
were even stripped of their bark.
Relief parties are searching for the dead
and dying, and everything possible is being
done to relive the destititue.
The negroes are frightened nearly to
death, and huddle about together or squat
alone, unclad, in brushes and under fallen
trees, stupefied and speechless with fear
and superstition, and unable to tell the
whereabouts of their household goods.
The city is being canvassed for money to
bury the dead and relieve the wants of the
destitute.
The Public School Teacher*.
The McLennan county teachers association
will hold their regular meeting on Saturday,
the 28th instant. The programme is
interesting and will doubtless be instructive
and is follows: Opening exercise, Rev.
Mcjunkin; opening address, Prof. J. N.
Gallagher: primary reading, Miss Nellie
Eastland; work for the coming year, Mrs.
Willie D. House; primary arithmetic, Prof.
J. M. Ferguson; the place of language lessons
in the common schools, Miss Ella B.
Meekins; orthoepy and how to teach it, Prof.
J. T. Strother; teaching primary history,
Miss Mattie Surratt. Prof. S. B. Hamer,
president, and Prof. J. B. Cresap, secretary,
will be present and will have something to
say to the association.
On Saturday Prof. J. B. Cresap, at the
Central school building, examined applicants
for teachership in the public schools of Me
Lennan county and issued certificates to
Messrs. Strickland, Nance, Steinmetz, R.
P. Anderson ani J. C. Foulks, ’ Mesdame
Blocker, .Dunklin, M. Leach and Miss M.
Warren. These ladies and gentlemen were
graded according to their several accomplishments
and capabilities, and will commence
work this week.
AMUSEMENTS.
Baron Seeman’* Magic Wand—Farewell to
‘•TallyHo.”
A broad aisle of light, thrown from a calcium
burner on the Garland balcony, showed
the way to the realm of the “dark art” and
fantastic illusions last night. Time seems to
have but increased the potency of Prof. Seeman’s
wand. His repertoire of necromantic
feats has not only been enlarged, but numerous
new features have been added to the entertainment,
making it replete with absorbing
interest. Electra still remains the insoluble
mystery that it was at first, and the
“Tour’round the world” is, as ever, instructive,
amusing and pleasing. The programme
varies from day to day during the Baron’s
stay, so that the performance is ever new.
No outlay of so small a sum as the admittance
charged, will yield so large a return of
amusement. The audience last night was
goodly sized and more than pleased. Fortune
favored many at the distribution of
prizes, as the numerous handsome gifts evidenced.
The programme tonight will be
specially attractive and merits a liberal at*
tendance.
ACROSS THE WAY.
At the McClelland the superb production
“TallyHo,” and the laughable farce “A
Regular Fix,” failed to draw as they deserved.
Too much praise cannot be bestowed
upon the company, however, for the
careful and conscientious manner in which
they did their work despite the light house.
As before, Downing was grand and Miss
Nellie Cox divinely charming. A heartier
welcome next time, is our wish, should the
company revisit us, for it is composed of
genuine talent that deserves a warm receptien.
A Waco Man Sends a Box ol Cigars to the Presldent.
Mr. Geo. \V. Cleveland, of this city, who
is traveling salesman for a cigar house, sent
a box of fine cigars, the “Cleveland Cigar,”
to President Cleveland a few week ago. The
box was appropriately adorned with pictures,
etc. In due time he got the following reply:
Executive Mansion, October 24,1885.
George Washington Cleveland, Esq.:
My Dear Sir—I have received a box of cigars for
which, I suppose from a card I find with them, I am
indebted to you. Please accept my thanks for the
same, with the assurance that the kind feeling of which
I suppose them to be an evidence is fully appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Grover Cleveland.
For once, it seems, Grover departed from
his usual custom of declining presents. Tom
Padgitt made a fine saddle, worth $75, last
spring, to send to the president, but was deterred
from doing so, lest he might be
snubbed.
Lost Fony.
Mr. Geo. M. Morse’s bay pony has either
strayed or been stolen. The pony is 14
hands high, has black mane and tail, is unbranded,
and has fetlocks cut close. A liberal
reward will be paid to anyone delivering
the horse to Mr. Morse at Cameron, Castles
& Storey's.
Don't fail to bring the children fo see the
greatest and only genuine colored comedian
and banjo soloist, with his comical Irish
donkey, “Calamity Jane”—Bandit King tonight.
Notice.
I have sold my interest in the Hewitt Farmers’
Association, doing business at Hewitt
station, this County, to Mr. John Strauss.
D. L. Chapman,
Hewitt, Texas, November 10—it.
To*Night at the Opera House.
James H Wallick’s New Bandit King,
the greatest equestrian drama ever produced.
Seasonable Qoods.
Spiced pigs’ feet; Celery roots;
Pickled tripe; Parsnips;
Spiced corned beef) Horse radish.
Cranberries; Carrots;
Fresh celery received every other day direct
from Kalamazoo, Michigan, by express;
and the best butter ever sold in the state,
direct from the creamery twice a week.
119tf. Marshall & Heard.
Creamery butter,
Uncanvassed hams,
New cranberries,
Dried beef,
Sweet potatoes,
’ Fresh eggs and chickens,
Just received at
10itc. Moore & Thompson’s.
The Banner House.
The largest house in any theater in Texas
this year was at Fort Worth last night to see
the “Bandit King.”