The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-05-19
THE STATE CAPITAL.
The Acts of the CONGRATULATIONS and
Appointments.
The Office Of State Engineer Is in Great
Request.
Fish CommiSSiouer-The Officer Get
ting Down to Business.
The Cowboys Of Oldham County Sick
Of Striking.
Granite A Possible "Pick Up" for the
State,
As the Contractors will not be On, q
Pocket.
Late Decisions of the Higher Courts.

AUSTIN, May ls.-[Special. l-Char,ers
hled: Abita land and live stock company
Houston capital stock, $4,000, Navarro
artificial Lake and park association, of Cor.
sicana; capital stock, $1,000; the Texas in.
vestment company, Fort Worth, flied an
amendment to their charter.
The Governor to-day pardoned J, ID
Woodward, sentenced to two years in th,
penitentiary from Rusk county in 1851 fo,
mansaughter, the pardon to take effect one
day before the expiration of the sentence.
The governor to-day appointed T. W
foltz member OF the lunatic asylum board
vice Il, NJ. Swearengen, resigned.
The comptroller paid into the treasury TO-
day Sll $50 general revenue.
The governor has received twenty seven
applications for the position OF state enei.
aeer. He will probably select in few dsys.
Fish Commissioner Lubbock Is in receipt
OF letter from s. +. Baird, secretary of the
Smithsonian institution and United States
Fish commissioner, saying he has made ar.
rangenents and will send George S. Tolley
OF Boston, to collect the fishes of Texas for
the national museum, with view of iden-
uiylng the species and prepar.
ing, special catalogue. He asks
authority TO use seins, which has been
granted. He also informs the state com.
mittee that he can furnish u limited mum.
Der OF gold fish and thinks he will be able
to send them down with the carload OF
shad that are to be distributed in Texas in
u few weeks.
Lieutenant Hoffar writes the adiutant-
general from Wheeler county, shat the
cowboys in Oldham county have aban.
doned their strike and gone back to work
at old wages, but trouble is feared at the
general round-ups in Green, Hardeman,
Willbarger and adjoining counties, and
STOCK owners have requested the presence
OF rangers and they will be furnished.
stock Is in fine condition AMI health of
men good.
Lieutenant Gillespie, writing from, Fort
Davis, says all is quiet on the Rio Grande,
but there are rumors of Indians about the
Carizzo mountains. and he has dispatched
rangers to the vicinity.
Nothing new has been developed in
Comptroller Browns account with the
state.
The governor returned to-day, but ex-
presses no opinion about the granite quar-
rles. The board has no power to make a
change in material that will involve add.
tional expense. The proposition to substi.
tute granite for limestone comes from the
owners of granite quarries in the
Northwestern Railway company, and
they think tney can offer Inducements
that will be iayorably considered bv the
contractors, and enable them tv get the
granite into the walls as cheap as the lime.
stone OF the quality they are mpeled to
use. 1t was this proposition that led the
governor to visit the quarrit that he NAV
act inlelligently If the question is ever laid
before the capital board. In conversation
this evening with the contractors they ex-
pressed their entire willingness to substitute
granite II they can get 1t IN the walls without
additional expense, or will erect the build.
ing OF granite II the state Will pay the add.
tionsl expense but whatever is done must
be done at once, as they have selected the
limestone quars and are now preparing
to build railroad to it, The Capitol
erected with granite would probably be the
most beautiful building in the world, and
give the stone which apparently is mex.
bahstible reputation and commercial
value beyond computation.
THE APPELLATE COURTS.
The supreme court affirmed Williams
vs.. Rogan et al, from San Saba county;
Prendergrast VS. Beal, from Navarro coun.
ty; Newman vs.. Dodson ct al, from Wash
ington county. Reversed, and rendered tor
appellant: Williams VS.. San Saba county,
from San Saba county. Following motions
were overtued to dismiss appeal Hille-
brandvs Mcmahon, from -- county. To
strike out statement OF facts: Crescent
Insurance Company VS.. Griffin Il Shoot,
from Hill county. Certiorari granted.
Houston Il Texas Central Railway vs..
Watson Il Bro, from Limestone county.
Referred back to counsel for
argument; Larance vs.. Marchbanks, from
Johnson county. Submitted on briei for
both parties; Loeb VS.. l.. Il Ii. Blum, from
Navarro county; Springfield Insurance
Company VS., McKinnon Il Hall. from Hill
county; Scarborou hvs Burkett & Murphy,
from Milan county. On briet and oral
argument for both parties, FARMLAND vs..
Cassiday, from McLennan county. On
brief Of both parties and written argument
ofappellant; HildeDrand vs.. Mahan, from
Mclennan county.