The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-06-17

whom 10 cannot read. Total number o
children, 6S3. Total number last year
$50.
Town of Beaumont-Total number o
white children, 2O4. Total number Of
colored children. 22l Total number O.
children, 425. Total number last year
1O5.
Houston county-TOtal number Of
white children, 300, of whom $50 can
no. read
Total number of colored children 2,4S'
of whom 1850 cannot read.
Total nuber of children. 51SS.
Total number last year, 53l1.
Concho cOunty-Total number of white
children, 13l, of whom cannot read.
Total last year, IA.
Chambers county-Total number OF
white children, 326, of whom % cannot
read.
Total number of colored children, al
of whom As cannot read.
Total number of children, SEQ.
Total number last year, 45S
Callahan county-Total number of
white children, 1880.
Total number of colored children, 4.
Total number of children 1884.
Total number last year, 1148.
Guadalupe county-Total number of
white children, Pap, of whom 145 cannot
read.
Total number of colored children, 1894,
of whom 2O9 cannot read.
Total number of children, 3639.
Total number last year, $500.
coMPrRoLLER's DEPARTMENT..
The clerks in the comptroller's office,
yesterday, were busy with routine work,
and Mr.. Finley the efficient deposit war
rant clerk, paid into the treasury $1,000,
all of which went to general revenue.
Yesterday the comptroller paid into the
treasury $4,000, to the credit of the avail
able school fund, and $4,000 to the gen
eral revenue.
The proctor of the university turned
over $4,000 matriculation fees, paid last
year, and the amount was placed in the
treasury to the credit of the available
school fund.
The comptroller yesterday cancelled
two Oldham county court house bonds of
81, 900 each.
To-day he will pay into the state treas
ury $4,000, SO the credit of general
revenue.
The tax list of lands in the organized
counties was forwarded TO the Houston
Age yesterday for publication.
The comptroller paid into the treasury
$4,000, half of it going to the available
school fund.
MILITARY DEPARTMENT.
The following correspondence received
by Adjutant General King, explains ITSELF
WASHINGTON, d. c., June 10, 1886.
Commanding General, Department of Texas-San
Antonio:
Your proposition to send two companies
Of infantry, with band, from Fort Concho
to state encampment at Lampasas, is dis
approved by the secretary of war and the
lieutenant general.
j. G. KELToN,
Assistant Adjutant General.
Official copy respectfully furnished to
the adjutant general, state of Texas, for
his information.
d. L. STANLEY,
Brigadier General, Commanding.
Department of Texas, San
Antonio, Texas, Jnne II, 1886.
The following was received Yesterday |
by Governor Ireland and turned over to |
he adjutant general:
Hon. John Ireland, Governor State of |
exas, Austih-DEAR SIR: Yourself and |
taft are cordially invited to attend our
drill to be held from August
o 10, inclusive, and through you we most |
invite all the heads of the
'arious departments of state, and officers
If militia under your command.
In accordance with usual customs, we
would ask that you appoint a competent
'flicer to take charge of our camp.
In conclusion, we beg to assure you that
he committee will leave nothing undone
o make the drill a success, and earnestly
sk your hearty cooperation.
Respectfully,
A. w. SHANNON, President.
STATE LAND BOARD.
Letters containing applications to pur-
hase, from actual settlers, continue to
'our in, nearly all the applicants desiring
o locate in the northwest.
The board paid into the treasury yes
erday, 100000.
The citizens of Fisher county have sent
Town 10 the state land board the following
,etition:
FISHER, Texas, May %, 1886.
% the State Land Board, Austin, Texas;
HoNoRED SIRs-We, the undersigned tax
payers and settlers of Fisher county, feel
ng that the work of surveying, as done
~ Messrs. Chalk, Hall and Bagley for the
louston j. Texas railroad company and
he state land board, i'll this county, is be-
ng done in
VERY UNRELIABLE
manner, and learning that many deviations
md changes from direct course and ac-
ua' distance is being made by them to the
,reai prejudice and injury of many set
lers, therefore we respectfully request
hat an immediate halt be called in the
york and that either the survey be left as
t was January l, 1886, by which the set
lers of this county have located and inn
proved, or that on the other hand
COMPETENT AND RELIABLE
urveyors be placed in the field, who
Till commence at established base lines |
nd run direct section lines, one mile
part, parallel to each other, with corners
ne mile apart by careful measurement
r at crossings made by other lines run
n like manner at right angles to the for