The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-18


some arrangement could be made to get
cashed the school drafts issued to BeXar
county. The comptroller declined, as
there was no law authorizing him to do
so.
The Encouragement and commissioner
of the general land office ruled, yesterday,
that veteran certificates must be located
as headlights.
The Acknowledgement has ordered the
company of rangers under the command
of Captain Roberts to Kimble county. A
camp has been selected, and the company
will assist in suppressing band of horse
and cattle thieves operating in Edwards
and Crockett counties.
The houston and 1 eXas central raIl-
road company having completed sixty
eight miles of road from Waco, yesterday
land certificates were issued for. one
thousand and ninety-seven sections to the
company.
The Encouragement rules that, al
though the law authorizes the purchase
of school lands in as small bodies rs quar-
ter-sections, the entire section must
bring at least two dollars per acre when
there is fresh water on any part of the
section.
The examinations for appointing pu-
pills from this the twenty-tifth senatorial
district to the Sam Houston normal
school at Huntsville will ocC ur at George
Town, Miiiahsoh cOuhty, On the oisI
day of this month. Four pupils VIII be
appointed.
The boards ofveterans yesterday passed
favorably upon the following applica-
tions: Mrs. Miranda Colley, Mrs. Miner
va Sharp, Sidney l.. Cole, John n. Ely,
NJ. G. Wells, Nathan Hamilton, J. S.
Able, Mrs. Rebecca Hopkins, Mrs. Mary
Lawson, Mrs. Glementine Bundick. Mrs
Sallie Mckinney and K. Nj. Love. Three
lnnlfnafinnS anlnanHaH
proof and four because of no record of
proof of three months service. Two ap-
plications were rejected.
The acknowledgement is in receipt of
letters from the frontier counties asking
permission to enroll companies for from
tier defense, under misapprehension of
his recent order to reOrganiZe the from
tier battalion.
The governor will issue proclamation
to-day directing an election for represen-
tatives to be held on September 18th
in the fourteenth, twenty-seventy and
seventy-eighth district.
The Gate City street railway company
of Texarkana, capital stock $4,000 filed
a charter in the Office OF secretary of state
yesterday.
Yesterday the Mutual Cooperative AS
ISOLATION of the city of Marshall, Texas,
filed charter in the Office of secretary of
state. The purpose of the association is
to buy and sell all kinds of goods, wares
and merchandise, and to carry on, a
general merchandising business. The
following are the incorporators: John G.
Butler, ID. II. Dwyer, X. Walker, j. III.
Thompson, l.. w. Lloyd, b. F. Allen, II.
l.. st. James, VIM. N. Moore, W. w.
Cook, +. Ludolph, James Turner, W. G.
Pierce, John NJ. Rogers, Thomas Cum
mings, David Greed, VIM. Batsill, Thomas
A. Barr and Alexander Pope. The capt.
al fo MIA Aaf iNfH cd Mt
five thousand shares at $40 each.
The secretary of state was sending to
district clerks yesterday the t1fty-third
volume of Texas reports.
The Glens Falls Insurance Company, of
Glens Falls, New York, was granted per-
mission yesterday to do business in this
state.
The attorney general yesterday, reply
ing to county commissioners of Waller
county, decides, that said county is sub
ject to corOner's fees for inquests on dead
convicts.
The veteran board yesterday passed
favorably on the following applications
George Neill, b. o. Stout, G. G. Bruner.
Andrew McMillen, William j. Russell,
William G. Hunt, w. f. Nelson, George
w. Pie asants, James Cunningham, Will
liam II. Saddler, Levi Z. Scott and Mrs.
Elizabeth Rogers. Three cases were sus-
pended for further proof of service. One
suspended because of no record of three
months service. The board meets again
this morning at 10 O'Clock.
The following railroad charter was pre-
scented to the attorney general yesterday
for his approval: eve, the undersigned,
being DESTROYS to form a corporation for
the purpose of constructing, owning,
maintaining and operating a railroad,
have entered into the following articles
of incorporation THE name Of the pro-
ohon hn ha
and Southeastern Railroad Company
and its principal office shall be in the city
of Austin, Travis county, Texas. The
road shall begin at Austin, Travis coun-
ty, Texas, and run through the counties
of Travis, Caldwell, Gonzales, Lavaca,
Wharton and Brazoria to Velasco, at the
mouth of the Brazos river, with branch
from Austin, Travis county, through Bas-
trop to Lagrange, in Fayette county, and
another branch from Gonzales, Gonzales
county. through Dewitt, Goliad and Re-
fugio to st. Marys, on Arkansas bay; in
all about three hundred and sixty
miles. The corporation shall begin from
date of filing of this charter In the secre-
tary OF states office and continue for
period of fifty years.
The capital stock of the corporation
shall be five million dollars, divided into
fifty thousand shares, of one hundred
dollars each.
The following persons form the ASSOC
citation, viz: s. &. Griffin, OF Keene,
New Hampshire; cambridge Wadleigh,
of Boston Theodore II. Wood, of Nashua,
New Hampshire John III. Butterick, of
Lowell, Massachusetts, Charles Seepath,
of New York; John Hancock, Z. Ber-
tram, Ii. W. Moeller, William Bruegger-
hoti, Francis b. Forster, Lewis Hancock,
Walter Tips, Frank W. Glenn, Oscar
Samctz, j. T. Breckenridge and j. j.
Tobin, of Austin L. }. Storey, of Cald-
well county b. f. Dunn, of LAGRANGE
5. &. Patton, of Halletsville.
The attorney general has written to
the county attorney af Gillespie county,
inviting particular attention to the ire
quency of stage robberies near the county
seat of that county, and asking what
steps, if any, have been taken by the
county officials to put stop to the rob-
berries.
In the matter of sale of school lands the
attorney general decides that the eX-
penses incident thereto, such as reasona-
Bile commissions to the agent effecting
same, may be paid out of the proceeds of
such sale, but that the expenses incident
to the location of the certificates must be
paid out OF the general fund OF the
county.
The Texas Salt Company. of Calves
ton, capital stock $4,000, filed charter
yesterday. Incorporators, 5. Mayhoh,
A. Druilhet. of Galveston, and Louis
Plass, of Savanah, Georgia.
The governor yesterday issued the fol-
lowing circular to public weighers and
applicants;
EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
AUSTIN, August 81, 1881.
BY the law of 1879, the governor Is re-
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