The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-02-06
NEWsY NOTES PICKED UP IN TIE
STATE DEPARTMENTS
YESTERDAY.
Items Of Interest for the People and Ohicial
Figures and Opinions for
County Officials.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.

tine services.
Major Holmes, the private secretary,
having received big lot of Worlds
Fair site literature, occupied much OF
his time in the pleasing task OF writ
ing threatening letters to the secre-
taries. He's kept too busy with Of
fetal business to be throwing away
time on ambitious cities seeking the
Worlds Fair.
STATE DEPARTMENT.
The following charters were filed
yesterday in the Office of the secretary
of state:
The Harrisburg Brick works, of
Houston; capital stock, $4,000. In
corporators: G. M. Milan, j. M.
Matthews, Charles H. MILKY, Andrew
Dow and John G. Tod.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.
Governor Ross has about recovered
from his recent illness and was in his
Office yesterday attending to official
duties. He forwarded to the secretary
of war at Washington long petitions
asking that Fort Elliott, Wheeler
county, be not abandoned. The fort,
as is well known, is situated on the
border of the Indian Territory, near
the Comanche and Apache reserva-
tons, and to withdraw the troops will
leave the settlers at the mercy of
bands of Indians.
The governor also yesterday called
the attention of the encouragement
to suits which have been instituted to
recover lands in the Ronquilma,
Lermo and Ysleta land grants. The
suits are against the private owners of
the alternate sections but they necesa-
rily involve the school sections and the
governor requests that the judicial de-
partment take steps to have the states
interest protected. The lands involved
embrace between 100000 and 2,OOO,-
600 acres and it is important that the
interest of the state be looked after.
STATE DEPARTMENT.
The following charters were filed in
the Office of the secretary OF state yes
terday:
The West Texas Building associa-
ton filed an amendment providing
for the accumulation and loan OF
funds.
The Oak Cliff Hotel company, of
Dallas; capital stock 100000. In
corporators: w. ]. Betterton, Y. l..
Marsales, James d. Thomas, John S.
Griffith and E. l.. Snodgrass.
Comanche Fair Association; CAPT
tai stock $4,000. Incorporators: Il.
]. Holmsley, T. R. Hill, w. o. Hamil-
ton, F. G. Wilson, T. G. Hill and Il. A.
Beeman.
The Bronson Cattle company Qim-
ited) of New York; capital stock
S1SO,000.
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
The following is an explanation of
programmes contained in an outline
of county institute work sent out from
the state department of education,
and is of interest to teachers:
l. AS no one programme will meet
the demands of every school, owing to
the variation in the advancement of
the grades in different schools, two
programmes have been prepared in
the hope that they may suit the needs
of great number OF schools.
2. The programmes here presented
illustrate our plan of grading as well
as the utility OF course of study.
They seek to organize school into
five classes, in which all the common
school branches are taught, and which
contains pupils of every grade, from
those who are in school tor the first
year to those who are completing the
common school branches.
3. In such schools as are here con-
templated there can be no less than
twenty-five Rotations, and in justice
to all grades there should be no more.
But since there are many schools in
which all the grades are not repre-
sented, or in which some two of the
grades can be combined, the average
number of Rotations should be less,
perhaps not moe than eighteen or
twenty. This will enable most of the
teachers to give more time to the adj
vanced classes, and to hear the pri-
mary classes oftener.
4. The blank spaces represent study
time, and the studying of each subject
may Immediately precede or succeed
the recitation hour. 1t is recon-
mended that the study of a subject
should he just before reciting it, with
a short time immediately after the as
Segment of a lesson to clinch the
points brought out in the recitation,
and to fix the new lesson in the mind.
5. No time is given for reading in
the seventh and eighth year grades. No
student can successfully prepare and
recite lesson in each of the eight
common school branches every day.
These grades should not begin history
until satisfactory standard lis at
tanned in reading, then take history
and omit the recitation in reading.
The daily recitation in spelling and
writing may also be omitted in these
grades after satisfactory standard
has been attained.
6. No time is given in these models
for general lessons, as it would be inn