The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-01-19
Austin.
Special TO the Herald

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AUSTIN, January 11.-No new cases of
smallpox have been reported to-day. Doc.
tor Nieberg died last night and was buried
near the camp. Three Others are very
sick. The excitement has abated.
The Comptroller to-day in returning to
Raymond d Co. an account against the
Prairie View Normal school says: "Prior to
the organization of the Board of Regents
of the University and shortly after my in
stallatiOn, a few Of the accounts Of the instl'
tuition, filed in accordance with the provis-
ions of the said act of 1879, were
paid by warrants on the Treasurer.
In investigating the condition of the Uni
versity funds upon the assembling of the
Board of Regents, my attention was par
ticularly directed to the heavy demand
upon the available fund made to satisfy APP
preparations for the support of the Prairie
View Normal School My conclusion is
that this school has no standing in the fun
damental law as branch of the University,
and that no account for expenditures for
| its support and maintenance can hereafter
be recognized as a proper charge upon the
University fund"
AUSTIN, January 12.-The Mercer colony
case, involving the title to about million
acres, including all of Navarro county, is
postponed to Saturday.
The Adutant General to day forwarded
] y
of State troops, at Ell Paso.
Articles of incorporation were filed this
morning by the Examiner Publishing Com
pany, of Waco, with a capital stock OF So,
600.
The Governor is confined to the mansion
by fever resulting from vaccination.
The bond of Mcdonald, Lunatic Asylum
Contractor, was approved to-day by the
| Board, and work will commence very soon.
| No new cases of smallpox to-day, and no
deaths reported.
The Comptroller refuses to issue warrants
on Prairie View Normal School vouchers,
claiming that they could not properly he
charged to the University fund.
! The Sherif's Association meets here tho
| It'll Of February.
AUSTIN, January 13.-TLe Governor to
day commissioned Hon. S. W. Delaney, OF
Colorado county, to succeed Judge Qulnan
con the Commissioners of Appeals kench
| Judge Delaney was member OF the -FOUR
teenth Legislature
| Postmaster DeGrcss received q telegram
| this morning from the mother of the Alison
children, who resides in Iowa, asking how
| they were getting along. The reply was
| thar four out Of the five have been carried
| off by smallpox. Reports from the camp
/ show affairs unchanged since Yesterday, cX-
] cept that Mrs. Engust has smallpox beyond
! mistake. Her little son is also down with
] it.
Work will commence on the Austin q
| Northwestern Railroad in few days.
! AUSTIN, January 1.-THE date of the re-
dcmptiono t land sold to the State by the
payment Of original taxes and interest Will
expire February 9TH. In many eases par
/ ties not paying up to that date Will work u
| forfeiture.
The Grigsby mail-robber who was ar
rested near Lampasas last September, was
! found guilty last night. The use OF deadly
weapons was established.
Higgins. under like charge, will be tried
on Monday morning.
/ The statistics la PREPARATION by the Al
| iutant-General for use in pressing the
! States claims on Congress for frontier pro-
/ lection, show an expenditure by the state
/ on that alone since 1855, of $4,000, not in
gliding the period Of the war nor the APP
propriations made by the Sixteenth and
| Seventeenth Legislatures.
! Smallpox official rcpoIt-new cases, onei
deaths. nonc total cases to date, sixteen;
total deaths. or in dying condition, one
very low, three; conyalescent, five.