Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-02
AUSTIN.
A Full Budget of the Days News from
The State Capital.

/ Special To the Gazette.
Austin December 1.-The deaf and
! dumb asylum board met to day. After
approving II number of bills and CON
tracts for buildings for the month of
November, the resignation of Col. John
I Ford, the superintendent of the asy-
I lum, was accepted. Applications for
! the position were received from DIR.
! VIM, Shepard, Guilford ID. Everett, II.
! w. Lowry and DIR. Beaumont of Aus.
I tin and II. =. Bee of san
/ Antonio. DR.. Shepard was
elected and will fake charge
of the institution Immediately. The
president of the board stated 70 GA
ZErTE reporter, that the contract for
building the asylum had been fully
and faithfully carried out; that the
work had been done cheaper than on
'ny other state institution; that no
defects in construction are to be found
in the building, and the sole cause of
the postponemcnt of the opening of
the session was that pro-
visions had been made for
heating it by steam instead of stoves.
The appropriation was not sufficient
10 purchase the heating apparatus
without creating deficiency. and in
preferences to these the board decided
to postpone the scheme until the lst of
March, when no fire would bc needed
The sensational reports of serious de-
fects in the building were said by Mr.
Foltz TO be absolutely without any
basis, except that the ilue for the es-
cape of foul air was not extended
through the ioof, hut only to the
garnet, which IL stoves had heen used
would have caus, d conilagration.
The altorncy-gepera has under con
sideration the question of the validity
of county bridge bonds referred To hin,
by the board of education.
The report of Secretary Baker, of the
board of education, will show that in
one hundred and four counties re.
ported. the average school term was
four months, at cost to the state
of ninety and one-half cents
pupil per month. In
seventeen cities the average
school term was eight and nine
teen-vwentieths months, at IA cost To
the state of forty cents per month per
pupil. Returns We're received from
one hundred and twenty-five counties
| and seventeen cities.
The comptroller states that n county
can invest its permanent school fund
in its own or the bonds of any other
county, precisely the same as invest
ments are made of the state perma-
nent school fund.
Secretary Baker Of the state board
of education authorizes the statement
that the article published i'm
the San Antonio Express as
his report was unauthorized, mae
curate and incomplete. 1t differs ma
terlally from the text of the report rs
II will be adopted.
The comptroller to-day invested for
the permanent school fund $50, 900 i'm
Hays county six per cent. bonds and
S3O, 1000 In Hamilton county eight per
cents. at par. This leaves but $3.50 ,33S2
of the fund yet uninvested
Chartered-Comanche College az.
ISOLATION.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany paid in to-day 81 500 as tax on its
receipts for thequarter ending Septem-
Der 3lst.
Kneeland & Harrison of El Paso
nave filed u protest against the survey
OF the Texas & Pacific land grant by
Colonel McComb.
Lieutenant Gillespie of company T.,
stationed near Fort Davis. having
served the usual term, was to-day pro.
NOTED to the rank Of captain.
acquisitions have been issued for
some insurance swindlers in another
state, who beat n Texas institution cut
Of IS, 600
The Texas Associated Press met this
evening in annual session at the Office !
u the Statesman. Present: w. II. |
OF the Houston Post: |
Frank Grice of the San Antonio Ex. |
press w. l.. Malone of the GAZETTE. |
J. Il. Elgin of the Waco |
examiner; John Cardwell
u the Austin Statesman.
lnicers elected: Frank Grice. presi-
lent; y. A. Elliott Of the Dallas Her
I'D, vice Dreaidcnt; r. Eprdenbroak,
'ecfetnry aud treasurer. j. T.. Elgin
ma w l.. Malone were appointed a
'Nnmittee 10 consider general matters
Connected with the welfare OF the asso-
'iaiion IL then adjourned, To meet
u Austin at the call OF the president.