The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-05-15
OUR CRY sIRES.
MIA rb,y DId IN Al onlnfd s,sslon
Last Evening.
Officers elect Qaaliiy-PraIeriuI Petit
tiOn, ~.
And Olher Work Of The BODY.

City council mot ia adjourned session lRs
Oyrning o. the city hail, Mayor Caoell pre-
siding, Abssrt Alderman Gibson
Dr.. j. H. Garter, haa th officer; ". Il
Parry. secret airy; william Johnson, cit
engineer, aud A Whs'tss tupeTl tsndeni
OF wsteT-wOIks, elected by the council a. its
last meeting, took tie oath of office, and
their bonds, together with that OF City A.
lorney w, II. Johpson, who took the oa,h
OF office prior 10 The meeting ofthe council,
We're approved.
This mayor stated that there was la the
city treasury only S737,l3 tor the payment
OF teachers, which Is not sufficient 10 pay
them .or the month by &223. That there
was IN the hands OF the trt asurer 81 3I8 9S
special school iuni, and that Ia order that
the public schools might be taught until
tho l5;h day OF June, which Is about the
time all public schools close, he recon.
mended that an amount sufficient DO
borrowed from the fund aud placed
20 the credit Of he common school fluid FOR
the payment Of teachers, which will give
Bins ana halt months OF schooling. He
said thai the sps 'ial fund wa not Iesdsd
ut y essz,, and that no better disposition
could be made OF IL than in schooling the
children OF tho city, both whits aud col
oTed. He thought IL had better be put TO
use elucatiDe the children Than lying idle
In the bank.
or Inc t SssS''p right Us Of the n. oosnsi
to appropriate such funds for the
Same was discussed pro aud Goa,
asd on a vote the motion OF the mayor was
Jst by "a vote oi O 20 5.
A petition from the City Elevsto- aud
Comores company, asking the city TO deed
TO is any lann OF the city lying within us
walls and that II will In turA deed as much
A.. /. =. nj OANNV aEa
with tho city council Of 1870 was read.
The petition vas granted, with the pro
viso that the Compress company first make
"A deed to the city as DER contract OF 1873
A number Of bids for building the Main
,treet sewer and having train pipes from tae
rear al the old pcst-otiio, block were read
and rejected 10 await the plans and spec
ificstions to be adopted by the council.
The contrac. for tasiag up and rslsying
the water pipe or the paving o. MAN
street from Jefferson street TO Sycamore
street wgs let 10 Campbell Il Renicko.
Permission was granted Air A Me zler
IN erect street scales IN front OF his place OF
uusiness, on the south eide OF Elm street,
Just east Of Sycamore, under the SUPER
vision Of the city engineer, the platform OF
the same to be on level OF tho surface OF
the street, 60 that vehicles csn pass over IL.
The report OF officers were read and
The annual report OF DIR. Newsom the
retiring health officer. shows the city TO BE-
in fair sanitary condition. The Der
OF patients treated in the hospital during
the fisca year, were 23l; died during the
year. SO: whole number OF deaths In the
city, $50; numbe~ of males, 50; females, 1873;
sex uoS given, %: number OF whites, $50;
plumber OF coored, 20; males, 1s6 females,
1872; sex no. given, IL; under 10 years, 100;
from 10 10 20 years,1S; rom 20 to Do years,9I
from 45 to 60 years, 20 over 90 years, 27
age not given. 6l Totol expenses of the
hospital Tor the year, after deduc!ing I'LL
credite, So $50. 20.
The petit n of tbs San Jscinto and Main
street railway compaDys 10 permit them
to make curved connection with flat rails,
at the intersection ct Main and Austin
streets, WAS read ard referred to the DOM.
mittee on railroads.
A proposition from the Belt line street
railway, Offering to pay one.third OF the
cost of constructing stone bridge over;
Dallas Branch on HARDWOOD street, was read
and discussed at length, and the council
finally voted to give $500 towards the con-
struction OF such bridge. Council then
adjourned, II meet sgain Tuesday night.