The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-03-02
NEWS BY SPECIALS.
Austin


Special to the Herald
Arsrtv. February 22.-'rhc Texas Mex.
ican Northern railroad company, capital
stock $780, 600 filed charter to-day 10
build road In direct limo from apolht at
or near Laredo to q point at or near Eagle
Pass. The directors are John fratt anu
Theodore II. Friend, Of New York T. W.
Gatty, w. r. Chisholm, William Reynoius
and A. r.. Woolston, of Laredo.
The comptroller is notifying tax collectors
tbrouuhout the state that he is about TO
furnish them lists of land upon whlch
payment has been made at ms oilce lpr
taxes of 1880, and that IL nllShU w
advisable that they should withhold any
action causing expense until the lists ar
rive. when they could be used in striking
ont from the printed delinquents in thelr
countics such ms have maze their proper
navments at his office. The receipts from
his scource amounts to $4,000, embracing
several thousau tracts. .,..,,,,-
John Vest, ] 'Iac, jumped thls morn
inc from n Third story WINDOW, in the lun-
attic ASYLUM, breakin6 y,.h legs ana s LI,-
tanning internal injuries. He VIII proDaoly
die. o,;doy of MON
out OF respect to George washington
0ir ArsTiN February 23.--The Fort Worth
Gas a'' Company, capital 100000, filed a
charter to-day. The directors are; ). r.
S Sna;tb r. w. Darby and r. W. Van Seard;;
The sales of school lands have increased
in recent years as follows: April, 1914, TO
November, 1879, 5000 acres; NovemDeI'
is7o to September, 1880, 800, 900 acres; and
In,J 70 February, 1882, 1,27O,C00 acres. Less
NJ ~ " 100 900 acres of these sales were west
of Tho hrindredth meridian.
Tins far fees in the Mercer colony case
have amounted to $4,000, and the ices 10
he allowed for taking it to the unlteu
States supreme court have not YET peeh
eleven hundred and twenty-three dollars,
ooiIacfed from Milt Livingston, the de-
So',Iting collector OF Milan county, were
MD over TO the state this morning..
"A AUSTIN, February 24.-Adiutant-General
King returned this morning from MS tour
of inspection to Ell Paso and Colorado: allu
renorts the citizens at both places hlSnIy
nIeased with the gers. He is considering
the troubles BET stockmen and sheep
,.nisers in Tlano county. One of Major Ky
ans shepherds reports that upwards OF thirty
shots we're fred at himself and herd few
DAYS ago. 1t is probable that the rangers
Vii have TO be sent to quell the trouble.
Cantain Neville, writing from Fort DAVIS,
renorfs having seen two raiding parties OF
Indians while proceeding down the hlo
Grande in boats as the escort of surveying
party, near Del Norte: o,,
Prize Tie president of the Sam Houston nor
NAL school and the local board have written
Hon, o. n. Hollingsworth denying that the
cavern ,r knew that his Texas" had oeen
made a text book in the Sam Houston
Schools curriculum until the voucher was
presented for his approval: o..
AUSTIN. February 25.-The East Line ~
Red River railroad company filed an ameEd-
ment to their charter to-day, providing lor
the construction of q branch ROAD rom
Greenyille, Hunt county, , Dallas, through
Hunt. Hopkins, Collin, Rockwell and Dal-
las counties. -, doo;5od that
n,annfacturers es, whether from their
own vintage or ,Nise, who sell VINE by
the drink, are liable to the tax on reeall
State bonds amounting to S3O53,0Cp were
DESTROYED to-day, they having been con
verified into registered manuscript bonds:
The executive proclamation concerning
the legislature in extra session VIII be lssueu
early next week. .,,o ;oo +b;s
morning by bringing out the governor ior
Judge Terrell is reported as saying that
br Will introduce bill during the extra
session for the erection OF SooVOo ouilo-
inc for department uses on the state S va
cant lots opposite the county courthouse.