The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-08-07


n Austin reports 20 male % female teach
1T erS in attendance as students. OF tn
number % were granted 2 years Gel
IN tificates.
o. Assessment rolls of Titus count
w show an increase of S81, 729, and thos
of of Wise county, 1902, 7SO. 1t agail
looks like the total increase in tn
~ state will be fully 100000, judging
in from these and number of other re
IT. turns so far received.
E. Collector Morris,o Montague county
ut yesterday settled his accounts will
n. the comptroller. AS far as made TIT
r settlements have been very satlsTac
2; tory.
If Comptroller Swain left yesterday tC
r attend the convention of the Knights
j. of Honor at Lampasas. DR.. Charles
# 5. Morse, clerk oil the supreme court
o and chief officer of the grand lodge OF
e the state, is to deliver an address on
a the occasion. The convention meets
e to-day at Lampasas.
e Secretary Laurence. of the land
S board, yesterday received bids to lease
g and purchase school lands in Blanco,
g Ell Paso, PecoS and Tom Green coun-
ties. The bids to lease in these cases
) are small, the largest being for but
: few sections in Tom Green county.
The applications to purchase are as
usual for single section, each by &C.
tual settlers. The sales will be largely
over and leases considerably under
those of last month.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Superintendent of instruction Baker
is receiving additional and quite salts
factory reports Of the operations of the
| Cnpo NOR nnrpn al cohnO1S Tho ratnrnc
yesterday had not been examined.
They were from the schools at Clarks-
vile, GreenvllIe, Dallas, Jacksonville, |
Marshall, Mckinney and Laredo.
| The summer normal at Calvert re-
ports eight applicants for the Sam
Houston Normal Institute. AT the
Marshall normal it is understood GER
tificates were awarded for third grade
| to Misses Vera johnson, Lula Sexton,
Mollie Davis. Miss S. L. Jamison, Mrs.
n. A. Barlow AID Mrs. Lula Merrill,
First grade to + ,ses Matte Turner.
Mary q. Rlgg, Fannie Griffin, Mrs. M.
L. Stuart, j. S. Stuart, G. z. Rains, DR..
Stuart and Miss Mary Young.
AT the Laredo normal, of fourteen
who applied for certificates to teach
eight passed and received certificates
as follows: Miss M. A. Phelps, of
Pearsall, first grade, and Mrs. E. A.
Alice, of Laredo, Mrs. F. L. Thomp-
son, of Pearsall, VIM. Bell, of Ross
vile, Louis Bartlett, of Pearsall, and
Mat Usery, of Laredo, each second
grade, and Miss Mcknight, of Seguin,
and G. w. Mcneil, of Laredo, each {
third grade.
The Attorny General advises Super :
iDtendent Baker that in school dis
tricts having less than twenty proper
ty holding, tax paying voters, no cleo q
ton for school tax can be ordered, !
even il every voter in the district r
signs the petition. The law, he states,
requires twenty or mure signatures i
to the petition, gnd tax laws must be s
strictly construed. He also advises +
that citizens of unorganiZed counties
cannot hold any county office in the h
county to which the county of their f
is attached for judicial pur- n
poses. In several of the frontier +
counties it has been usual to allow at n
least one county commissioner to the a
unorganized attached counties, n
Temple Houston, ESQ.,, who is here n
from the Panhandle, reports that the q
free grass advocates will be on hand
in force at the Houston convention Fl
to beat down the lease system. He y
thinks they will strenuously antago- q
nize the nominees of the convention r
if the lease system Is Endorsed, or !,
rather, if it is not left an open ques- a
tion for the legislature. +,
The collections by the state and the h
United States, of taxes on beer and O
liquor selling in Galveston county, if T
the returns are correct, show differ a
ence of nearly $4,000 against the h
state. n
The treasurer yesterday paid $50 900 n
on the Terrell asylum. v
About one-third of the counties OF f
the state have reported their assess a
ments, aggregating eighteen millions q
of dollars increase in values.
Elk Gov. Lubbock contemplated
last evening to attend the confederate r =
reunion at Dallas. Governor Ireland, =
Adjutant-G General King and perhaps :
Capt. Walsh, the land commissioner, i
and some of the other state officers, =
will leave this morning on the same y
mission. r
LAND MATTERS, ETC.
The land board have before them f
to purchase about 100000 g
acres of land, and to lease about $4,000
acres. Among the former are bids to e
purchase some $1,000 acres in Tom
Green county. There are bids at So
for four watered sections in the same i
county, at So per acre which, of
course, will have to be rejected, as the T
watered sections are not offered. L
The bids in Tom Green are nearly all T
for alternate sections, located under |
Houston 81 Texas Central certificates. l
Gen. Ludlow, collector of customs
for this district. reports collections of
United States internal vevenue as fol- {
lows:
From spirits $500
Retail liquor dealers ........ 8i5.s3
Wholesale ~ ....... 10J.00
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