The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-06-03

total. Z4.lI4.
Number of pupils instructed in orthOg
raphy, 24,974; in reading PATH; in pen
manship, 22,Sl4; in arithmetic, 23,232; il
geography 1926; IN English grammar
1853; in com position, IL ,4O2 in history
G,O36: in algebra, 1856; in geometry, 499
in natural philosophy, $50.
CONTROLLERS DEPARTMENT.
The following persons and firms were
awarded contracts for supplying the diff.
ferent asylums located at Austin. for tia
quarter beginning June l, and ending
Angst 81:
Drugs Morley Bros, Austin; dry goods
and groceries, John Bremond, Austin;
dry goods and groceries, Mexican, Eilers
il Co., Austin; dry goods and groceries,
W. B. Smith, Austin; dry goods and gro
ceries II, H. Smith, Austin; groceries,
Wayland d. Criser. Austin; beef +. p.
Haigler, Austin brooms, Joe Bledsoe, Aus
tin; wooo, Marcuse g. Anderson, Austin;
tea, II. l.. Pawley, Austin.
The contracts awarded for the Terrell
iunatic asylum were as follows:
Groceries, j. +. Bond Terrell; groceries,
HoskIns e. Racquet, Terrell; groceries, Cox
& Calhoun, Terrell; dry goods, Price.
Perry d Co, Terrell; dry goods, W. b.
Martin, Terrell; beef and mutton X. f.
| Simpson, Terrell.
The awarding Of contracts to different
parties for supplying goods of the same
general class is accounted for by the ex-
| PLANTATION that separate bids were offered
on each article.
Three unwary fish we're Melted by the
comptroller yesterday. They were only
commercial travelling gentry, and the
catch amounted only to SlO5. The last
registered number of drummer's license
is 516S.
1t is getting to be fly time" in the par
ticular of receiving money, and unless
something is done to raise the wind, the
business of registering warrants at the
treasury will become a settled industry.
The comptroller purchased for the per-
manent school fund yesterday $4,000 OF
Kerr county court house and Jail bonds,
6 per cent, at par, principal payable in
the year 1909.
For the past two days the comptroller's
department has been enlivened by the
presence OF two lady copyists, who are
said to be under engagement of an attor-
ney representing the landed interests of
Messrs. Leon g. II. Blum, of Galveston
They appear to be engaged assiduously in
the prosecution of their duties.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
The sum of 800, 4S469 was turned into
the treasury yesterday 100000 TO the
credit of the available school fund and
S40,4S4.69 to the general revenue.
May | never see the back of my neck
again, ""Uncle Frank" Lubbock was heard
to say to Chief Clerk Workman yesterday
morning, but it's bad enough to be poor
at all, but when one has once known what
it was to roll in aflluence, il is
too awfully awful to be
pulled down to poverty and have bills
showed under ones nose that he is unable
to pay" Seeing The STATESMAN man
step in, the state treasurer addressed him
self to him in this wise: eyes, sir; have
seen this vault here plethoric almost to
point of bursting. That was when the
money and securities of the state were
counted under n resolution of the legis-
lature. |, myself, weighed and measured
with a rule
TWO CUBIC CORDS OF SILVER,
besides some other silver coin in sacks.
There was also a large amount of gold
and paper currency. The total amount
of cash balance in the treasury then was
S3,050,000. This was in the early part of
1888, think in the month of January.
Now, you don't know how unreasonable
the need of the money due from the state
can render some creditors. They present
their warrants,and | am sometimes forced
to answer no funds Some of them,
seeing gold, silver and currency stacked
around lose sight of the fact that each
fund has its separate account with the
treasury and its separate deposit, and
that | can no more transfer to one fund
the money belonging to another than the
cashier of bank can pay out Peter
Smiths money on Tom Jones' check"
With that the genial official proceeded
to enlighten the scribe on many subjects
in the history of Texas finance, with
which he had not been familiar before.
LAND BOARD.
Eleven applications to purchase lands
by actual settlers were filed with the Sec
rotary of the land board yesterday.
The next regular meeting of the board
will be Tuesday next, at which large
quantity of important business will come
up for consideration.
Eight applications to purchase, all told,
were filed with the secretary of the land
board yesterday. Were it not for routine
business, several of the departments
might have placarded their front doors
yesterday fishing"
Five applications to purchase were
filed with the secretary of the land board
yesterday, the lands being located in Frio
county.
An application from Charles + .Reynolds
to lease 102 sections of school lands, in
Oldham and Hartley counties, at cents
per acre, was received and filed, and will
be- acted on by the board at its next Tues
days meeting. Clerks of this depart
ment are busted in completing abstracts
of sales to date.
Twelve applications to purchase lands
were filed with the secretary of the land
board yesterday. One application to lease
$50 acres of land in McCuloch county
was also filed. As stated yesterday, there
will be meeting of the board on Tuesday
next, June |.
Also an application to lease 7,l49 &C res
of land situated in Cottle county.
Twenty applications to purchase lands
situated in Lipscomb and Ochiltree count
ties were filed in the Office of the secretry
of the land board yesterday.
The board held its regular monthly