The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-22
DEPARTMENT NOTES.
Things Seen and Heard Around the
Offices Yesterday.

The comptroller yesterday cancelled
$4,000 of the Galveston subsidy
bonds issued to the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe railway company.
The Zion cooperative association,
patrons of husbandry, of lola, Grimes
county, filed charter yesterday. The
capital stock is placed at $25. 900, and
the incorporators are j. &. Davis, j.
I. OVERLY, j. 5. Camp, A. NJ. Durby
and l.. Nj. Metz. Also,>a charter for
the "Mascotte" club. of San Antonio,
with $4,000 named as the capital
stock. The incorporators are Leopold
and &. NJ. Michael, Max Samueis, j.
ID. Ball, ). Dulsch, j. 5. Ramsay, w.
j. Scott and j. A. Reddick.
The adjutant general has issued and
forwarded commissions for the fol-
lowing staff officers: Major-general
John M. Claiborne, of Galveston, COM
handing the first division of Texas
volunteer guards; Colonel John M.
Forshey, of Galveston, adiutant-gen-
eral; Lieut.-Col. l.. +. Edwards, OF
Austin, inspector-general; DIR. w. 5.
Rogers, of Galveston. medical dlrec-
tor; Lieut.-Col. Il. &. Finney, COM
missary; Lieut.-Col. Thos. Scurry,
aid-de-camp; Lieut.-Col. G. o. Bing-
ham, aid-de-camp; Lieut.-Col. J. X. r.
Hanna, aid-de-camp: Lieut.-Col. G. j.
McRea, aid-de-ca1mp; Rev. Geo. w.
Briggs, of Galveston. chaplain.
The governor yesterday granted
pardon to r. III. Faucet. Of Anderson
county, who was sentenced to the
penitentiary at the spring term of the
III mi of n ~
years, for assault with intent TO muir
der. The pardon is granted on account
of good conduct, and to restore the
rights Of citizenship, one day before
the expiration of the time, which will
be on the 24th-inst.
Also, pardon to John q. Neal, sem
fenced to two years at the 1881 spring
term of the Gillespie county district
court for the theft of cattle.
and pardoned for the same
reasons as the above, as his term ex-
pires on the 9th proX.
Beaumont fire company No. I, of
Beaumont, Texas, filed 4 ~sharter yes
terday.
Hon. b. NJ. Baker, secretary of the.
Switchboard of education; : esterdaJ r.
ceived the following amounts from
ths Peabody fund though the general
agent, DIR. J. l.. NJ. Curry: For Sam
Houston normal school, at Hunts
vile, $1,000; for Galveston, $500; Fort
Worth, $500; Gainesville, $500; Corsi-
cana, $500; Palestine, $50; Bryan,
$3.50; making a total of $4,000. DIR.
Curry informs the secretary of the
state board of education that further
aid will be afforded these institutions
during the year. The doctor has ex-
allied ideas as to the grand future of
education in Texas.
Messrs. Jas. ii. Raymond &.Co., of
this city, yesterday paid into the state
treasury, for J. w. Carter, forty-two
thousand eight hundred and eighty
dollars, for fifty cent lands.
Also for the same class of lands,
Mr.. NJ. Surratt, Waco, paid in twenty
thousand one hundred and sixty dol
lars.
The comptroller deposited -
nine thousand and twenty-five dGil5'5
and fifty-four cents to the
revenue and school funds. This
makes the total treasury
receipts yesterday $l02,062.54, which
swells the cash balance mp to very
near two and three-quarter million
dollars. The comptroller drew up de
post warrants, in addition to the
above, for $4,000, to be deposited u
the general revcil,r. fund, and 5000
to the available sc..Col fund, received
from collectors in the past few days