The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-09-13
DEPARTMENT NOTES.
STATE DEPARTMENT.


The charter of the Temple Water
Works company, capital stock $780, |
OG0, was filed Tuesday in the Office of !
secretary of state. The incorporators |
are L. p. Early, w. III. Grain, I. S.
Hollingsworth, f. +. Downs, ]. Ii.
Nunneley, Patrick Henry. George Z.
Wilcox, j. E. Moore and Otto Bux-
witt.
The governor appointed w. r.
Caven director of theAgricultural and
Mechanical College, in place of j. ID.
Thomas, resigned.
The governors and other offices of
the several state departments were
closed at noon Yesterday in respect to
the deceased ex-Chief Justice Moore,
whose remains were buried at .
o'clock p. IN.
CoMPTRoLLER's DEPARTMENT.
VIM. Davis, collector of Henderson
county, settled his accounts with the
office yesterday.
The comptroller ruled in answer to
inquiries from parties in Dallas, that,
although merchants are entitled to
advertise their business, where they
have paid their regular business or
occupa+ ion tax, they must pay the
drummer's tax for their drummers'
posting advertisement for them, or
their drummers will be required to
pay the posters tax, the same as if
they were following the posters bust
ness. The provisO of the law that no
man shall be taxed for posting his
own business, is to allow parties to do
so directly, not through agents or
drummers.
LAND DEPARTMENT.
There are four indictments pending
in the district court against j. Il.
Nam, for forging land titles. Ham
ed in Kansas, and after serving a
yrm of five years in the Texas peni-
Tertiary, absconded to parts unknown.
1t looks like Ham ought to be repro
duced in this section by the state au-
thoritieS.
Mr.. Kuechler, who ran the original
lines of the Texas Il Pacific reserva-
ton, will accompany Mr.. McComb, the
surveyor appointed by the state to re-
run the lines of the survey.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
DR.. Swearingen has at last received
areply from Mayor Car on, of Browns
willie, in answer to the dispatch sent
by him some days ago, which was de-
layed by Interruptions in transmits
sion.
Mayor Carson replies as follows:
"Your telegram of the 4th inst.
Just received. The Mexican authori-
ties do propose to enforce quarantine
regulations through their own officers.
No cause assigned for the removal of
DR.. Wolff"
STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
There are now 12O patients in the
new asylum buildings. There have
been twenty new patients received
into the institution since the new
buildings were finished, and thirty
r more are expected soon.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
The following are the first students
matriculated yesterday in the order
named:
1. S. j. Sheffield, Lodi, Texas, law
department.
2. E. F. Jalonick, Galveston, Texas,
law department.
3. III. q. King, Silver City, New
Mexico, law department.
4. r. w. Andrews, Big Springs,
Texas, law department.
5. G. +. Ste Iart, Austin, Texas,
academic.
6. F. d. Perry, Navasota, Texas,
academic.
z. Seth NJ. Morris, Austin, Texas,
academic.
8. J. H. Maxwell, Austin, Texas,
academic.
8. ]. w. Maxwell, Austin, Texas,
academic.
10. A. z. Terrell, Navasota, Texas,
academic.
IL. Miss Jessie Andrews, Austin,
Texas, academic.
IL. A. j. Gibson, Austin, Texas,
academic.
10. c. K. Mcdonald, Austin, Texas,
academic.
A number of other applicants are
awaiting examination. There will
be applicants daily till the session
opens, September 10.
1t is understood to be the express
sion of the faculty that owing to the
limited advantages for education in
this state, it is not proper at the open
ing of the institution to insist fully in
all instances upon the grade of schol-
arship, which the faculty have estab-
lished. This is doubtless just deter
nlination, for the present, in the inter-
ests of the university.
John Slack is in reality not very
slack man. Tuesday he went to the
bar-room of Cook Il Vaughn, who
keep place about twelve miles from
this city. He did not enter the usual
way, but went through the window,
when all were absent, and helped him
self to suit of clothes and many
other articles too numerous to men
tion. Then, it is said, he stole a fine
FLOODED horse from Dave Jones and
left. Deputy Sheriff Brown started in
pursuit, and in less than twelve hours
u slack John was behind the CRATES of
the county Jail.
The district court convenes Monday,
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