The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-09
CAPITOL CULLINGS,
As Cleaned from the Statesman
Reporters Note Book.

Reporters Note Book.
The charter of the Kennedy pasture
company was filed FRIDAY with the
secretary of safe. The purposes and
objects Of the company are to contract
for, purchase, improve and sell lands
to breed, raise, buy and sell cattle,
horses and mules, sheep, goats and
swine, and to ship or drive the same
alive, or the products thereof after
slaughter, to home or foreign ports and
markets; to import, breed, buy and
sell, all classes of fine and i'm
proved stock to carry on general
mercantile business; to buy and sell
produce, goods, wares and merchan-
disc; to do general ranching business;
to bui d and establish slaughter houses,
shipping pens and wharves, and operate
the same for the purpose of carry ing out
the objects Of the corporation. The
capital stock of the company is one
million of dollars, divided into
shares of one thousand dollars
each. The board Of directors are
Miffiin Kennedy, Thomas NJ
Kennedy, James W. Kennedy, John G.
Kennedy aud Edwin Mallory, and the
prin' ipal office of the company is at
Corpus Christi.
The Rio Grande and Pecos Railroad
company filed its charter yesterday. The
road is intended to run from Browns
vile, up the Rio Grande and
through the counties of Cameron,
HidGlgo, Starr, Zapata and Webb, to
the coal fields in Webb coun
", and thence through Webb,
| Kinney and Crockett counties, to the
Pecos river, total distance of five hun
dred miles. The principal office of the
company shall be at Laredo; the capital
stock OF the company is placed at $500
$50, and the following gentlemen com.
pose the board of directors J. w.
ThroCkmorton, of Collin county Wilson
Waddington, of New York Louis Car
lille, of Webb county Aleck G. Hunt,
OF Denver, COL: Henry L. Clarke, Mark
A. Shaffenburg, Santiago Sandhez, AL
bert w. Wilcox and L. o. Howell, OF
Webb county. ...
The charter of the Rio Grande
del Norte Canal and Irrigation
company filed its charter yesterday.
The purposes of this company are to
construct dams across the Rio Grande
del Norte, at FL Paso, for irrigation, and
construction of canals. for navigation.
The domicie of the company is at FL
PasO, with the following board of dlrec.
tors; Josiah F. Crosby, of Houston;
Geo. b. Tim pleman, Everard T. Eggles.
ton, Nathan G. Shelley, James V. Der.
gen, of Austin; Thomas P. Martin. of
Jefferson, and Robert Messer, of Lon.
don, England. The capital stock of the
company is fixed at s., 500, 900.
Clerks were busily engaged Frirday
in the treasurer's office, counting specie,
the deposits of tax collectors. In one
amount, $4,000, about sixty dollars of
uncurrent coin was found; e., coins
which have been punctured or otherwise
defaced. The treasurer cannot receive
this kind of money, except at its de.
preciated value, hence collectors should
be careful in counting their funds for
transmission to the state treasury, and
throw out all that is uncurrent, which
means every character in the least de.
faced or mutilated.
The governors proclamation, conven.
ing the legislature, in extra session, on
Thursday, April 6, appears in another
column of this mornings STATESMAN,
He submits ten distinct subjects for leg
islative consideration.
The following is copy of memorial
which has been submitted to his Excel
lency, Governor Roberts, and signed by
forty printers and publishers
"YOur memonaIIsLs, representing the
printing and publishing interests of Tex
as, would respectfully call your attention
to the manner in which certain portions
of the public printing of Texas has beer
contracted for and done outside of the
state, and the parties doing such worI
also assuming to vest in themselves the
copyright thereof. We respectfully sub
NIT that this system has in the past, and
will In the future, if continued, he inju
riOus and expensive to the state, as wei
as UNJUST towards an industry that, in a.
great degree as any other, has beer
loyal and true to the state and all her ma
terial interests. We ask that a law BIZ
passed, vesting in the state of Texas the
copyright of all works published under
authority of the state, and that all print
ing that may be done, wholly or partial
ly, at the expense of the state of Texas
shall be done within the state"
!. The STATESMAN is authorized by thu
: comptrolltr to announce to parties who
may bid at the sale of land on which
taxes are due, in unOrganized counties
now in progress in front of his Office, thu
following:
, |
who may be present, and who may com
! pete for the lands offered, as bidding il
good faith, with the intention of payin.
the amounts of their bids.
2. That all parties, to whom the lan(
! may be sold, will deposit promptly a
such time as may be hereafter designated
by the comptroller, the full amount o
their liabilities, according to their bid
| IN oh fI Al
to deeds, according to their bids.
3. The sales clerk will keep an az
curate daily account of the amounts du,
from each bidder, and the bidders ar
| requested to also keep accounts of tn
amounts due from them on the bids.
4. When all the tracts of land vii
: have been sold, announcement will b.
: made of the several deposits reuuiret
: for each bidder to close his account a
, made with the sales clerk, and the de
posts must be at once made in cash.
81 5. Reasonable time will be allowed
, after deposit of the amounts due from
: ! bidders, in accordance with the sale
> clerks account, for purchaser to exam
> inc the records of any department ant
ascertain as to whether there be defect
, in the title they may acquire at the sale
should defects be found that are appar
ent from inspection of the certificate
of the proper officer, the amount depos
, tied as bids for such purchases, on land
4 Improperly sold, will be refunded.
g. Moneys will not be required to b.
. deposited each day, covering the bids
except under the contingency occurring
| tunder rule z.
z. AS the foregoil g rules may no
reach the notice of all bidders who ma,
i be present, each bidder will be REQUIRED
= to sign an agreement accepting. the term
, of the foregoing rules and in case of re
. fusal he will be required to deposit Attn
close of each bid in which he may beth
: purchaser the amount of his bid g.,
: A charter for railroad from Browns
: vile to Laredo, and from Laredo I
: Eagle Pass, was rejected yesterday, bt
cause of the informality of application
1t will be corrected, when the cha1te
will be filed. te.k 9a' =
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!, Killed by the Cars. .,t H..
Q Information was left with the STATES
J. NAN last night that on Tuesday nigl
q last, at about o'clock, as a passengt
: train was nearing the town of Cause, o
[ the International and Great Norther
I railroad, a white man was run over b
o the cars, both of his legs weresscI
I off, and his body otherwise horribl
r mangled. He died almost instantly
a The unfortunate man was drunk an
= asleep on the track, and when the el
: gineer saw him it was TOO late to stop I'll
y train. Our informant did not furnis
L the mama Of tho oaaead hut eaid :