The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-08-14

e sUNDRY ITEMS.
/, The charter of the Trades and L
Dor Assembly. of Galveston, was file
I, yesterday with the secretary of Stat
Al Incorporators-T. II. Golden, w.
Emmett and Dan1 Mcbride.
L The comptroller deposited S4,0(
with the state treasurer to the cred
l. of general fund.
a j. L. Dougherty, collector of Hida
{. go county, settled with the state.
/ The rolls of Jasper county sho7
S28.1OO, and those of Milan count
d $246.677 increase in values.
r The cases of j. T Barlow, charge
1 with perjury, and d. G. Kerr. wit
forgery in connection with the Pierce
l Wampler alleged land frauds in How
:. ard county, were yesterday called il
Judge Won Rosenburg's court, ant
, continued till to-day. They were boil
witnesses in the Wampler habea
corpus. DR.. Hillyer, a witness il
Kerr's case testified. confirming thu
statements of Kerr the day before
: Fish Commissioner Lubbock has
employed Mr.. j. w. Lindsey as taxid
ermist to prepare specimens for the
New Orleans Exposition.
There are SAT inmates in the lunatiC
asylum.
Prof. Thompson and party of en-
CINE rs of the United Sta es service
are preparing to commence their geo
logical survey of the country around
Austin. They will prepare map of
their work to facilitate geological in
designations.
Capt. Pitts of the comptroller's Of
| flee, has lost one Of the fingers of his
right hand by being bit off by fur
ious hog. He is temporarily disabled
from work in the office.
| State Engineer Bfitton reports the
Missouri Pacific over which he has re-
Gently passed as being in good condi-
ton so far as road bed, ties and bridges
are concerned, but new rails are
needed in some places. The late acct
dent to young Mcmahon, near Whites
boro, is measurably attributed to the
bad rails in that section.
Two petrifed trees over twenty feet
high will be one of the features ex-
hibited at the New Orleans EXPOSE
ton from New Mexico.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST.
AT the meeting of the board of re-
gents yesterday DIR. George Bruce
Halstead was elected professor Of
mathematics in the state university,
to fill the chair made vacant by the
resignation of DR.. Brown. A sketch
of Prof. Halstead will be found in
the local columns of THE STATESMAN.
The comptroller yesterday deposit
ed $4,000 in the state treasury to the
credit ofsthe general fund. He has
returned from Lampasas, where, he
made political address in answer to
Judge Rector.
The rolls of Chambers county show
decrease of $14,094, and those OF
Hunt county an increase of $1,241,-
9S9 in assessed values.
Commissioner Lubbock has young
wild cat, captured in Llano county,
which he will send to the New Or
leans exposition.
The charter of the Navasota ice fac
tory, capital $4,000, was filed with the
secretary of the state.
The encouragement advises that
county treasurers are not entitled to
commissions in transactions in county
bonds.
THE UNIVERSITY REGENTS.
AT the meeting of the state univer-
Sity regents Yesterday for the purpose
of electing professor of mathematics
there were present, Col. Smith, presi-
dent of the board, and Messrs. Hadra,
Harwood, Shepard, Simpkins, Todd
and Wooten. Absent, Judge Clarke.
The balloting was in the room of the
regents, in the university building,
the doors being open to the public dur
ing the entire proceedings. The
ballot, there being but one taken, re-
suited in one vote for Prof. Alexander
Hogg, of Fort Worth, one vote for
Prof. Ragsdale, of Austin, and the
others were for Prof. George B. Hal
stead, of Harvard university. Pend
ing the ballot, not a word was said as
to the vote cast by any member, nor
any intimation given as to the result
until it was announced by the teller.
OTHER MATTERS.
The charter of the Dallas Paint and
Color Works company was filed yes
terda6. Capital, $25,00O Incorporat-
ors: II. Hamilton, w. w. Young and
T. K. Mcfarland.
The ruling of the encouragement
is that a county treasurer is not enti-
tied to commissions on investments of
permanent school funds in county
bonds of his county.
The comptroller drew upon the
state treasurer for $4,000 to pay
balance due for the university build |
ing as approved by the board of re-
gents of the university.
The comptroller paid appoItiou-
ments of the school fluid, as follows:
Orange county, ST. $3.50; Gregg county,
$3.50; Red River county, $23, 355, and
Robertson county, 1924, $3.50.
Assessments of Oldham county
show 1928, 449; Kerr, 1857 ,444: Throck-
morton. $4,000, and Navarr, $612,-
901 increase in taxable values.
W. II. Patrick, county treasurer,
and j. S. McLendon, banker, both OF
Robertson county, called on the comp
troller to-day on business.
FENCE CUTTING.
The following report is made to the
acknowledgement of recent affairs in
Edwards county:
CAMP LEoNA, August s, 1884.
By order of Capt. L. p. SEEKER,
July 25:-
81 left camp in charge of detach-
ment of three men for Green lake,
Edwards county, under instructions to
investigate the cutting of Mr.. G. B.
Greer'S fence; arrived there July %,
was informed his fence was cut the
night of July "a, and that Mr.. Greer
had taken no steps to rebuild his
fence.
concealed myself and scout within
four hundred yards from the lake, and
instructed Mr.. Greer to put up his
fence. While the fences were being
rebuilt by one John Landugan, a man
in Mr.. Greer's employ, four men:
M. d. Hemphill, John Brunson, Henry
Burton and - Mason arrived
at the lake with about 100
head of cattle and asked permission of
Landrigan to water them. Land
rigan told them he could not let them
water the cattle as Mr.. Greer had in
structed him to close the fence and
not to give any one permission to
water seock. Hemphill in reply to
this pulled his pistol and told Landri-
gan if he did not get out of the gap
and let the cattle pass he would kill
him. Hemphill then drove the cattle
in and watered them.
/ witnessed the above from where /
was concealed, about $50 yards off,
but thought it best to remain silent
| until had a sure case
against them, as L was confident
they would cut the fence down again
as soon as it was closed. This took
place the 29th of July at o'clock p.
| m Mr. Greer then closed his fence