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By the first of January it is proposed to have all outstanding mat-I ten closed, and a prompt reply will save further trouble in collecting bills. Our friends, regardingthis as business, will not fail to respond. HOW LEGISLATION JIAKEN DICANTg ANI THAJII'S. OF THE "The pension bill passed last week by Congress, and signed by the President, will take $100,000,000 from the treaa-j ury, and prevent the further reduction of the public debt, unless Congress im pose much heavier rates of taxation than those that now obtain. The East and all tariff mongers voted for the wasteful measure because it renders a reduction of customs duties impossible, and since the tariff en- riches the East, and those $100,000,000 are taken mainly from the South and expended wholly in the North, it will be readily seen how the South is made tt af laaar nf fh rnsr nf I this magnificent scheme of charity, 1 conceived ss a means of buying votes in the presidential election in 1S80.

The bill was forced through Congress ht a pnmnhhvA TATA ni thR npma- gogues of that illustrious body, and even Southern Democrats approved because the interests of the wparty in 1880 required it. The l'resident did not veto we uiu. If he had done so, his own adherents would not have had the moral courage to sustain him. The animus of these party leaders is further illustrated in the death-blow given William and liary College, the next most venerable and most honored of all American beneficent institutions Federal armies V. annllAil 4 A rAVnh ill A stl i TJniyersity of Alabama, and it was only asked that buildings and books burned be restored.

Strange to say. he proposition was defeated by North- srn TTwaocratic votes, iwpuDiicau par- laartpra ftnnrovinnr the nronosition. -ri i Randall and his whippers-in were vio- ilently hostile to the measure. They declared that they could not stand up bef3SHbeir Northern constituents and defend action if they con- --Ce'iled such booa to. Ib VJUU- Intelligence and wen South, and yet these same Duuxocrats, when the poverty Southern soldiers a infinitely more universal and more ltolerable than that which befals Northern veterans, and wh3n the South must feot the bills and receive not a dollar in the face of these facts and of the rejection of the bill to recon- tpnrt "William and Marv College, even many Southern Democrats, reckless of patriotism and of the burdens of tax-mnn.

atnnd bv Randall and his crane. 1 and voted for the ono hundred million pension bill. And will somebody tell where this 1 process, inaugurated by vicious Repub-licaa legislation," is to end Hare we see the State giving to each citizea of Texas one hundred and sixty acres of laud. It also concedes to each household $5000 homestead, and yet when a million dollars are taken from taxpayers and given for no possible or conceivable good to wandering peda-gogues for three months of invaluable idleness the pedagogues and mendicants still demand more. Not only is the independent, industrious, toiling citizea forced to pay for the tutelage of the children of the worthless or mean and selfish owner of a homestead hard-by, but his money must go to distant counties that never pay a dollar into the common fund.

This process of converting governments, State and Federal, into grand eleemosynary institutions has gone so far that honest, toilinx people begin to contemplate governments much as they do highway robbers. Tty begia towef-tbspecWf Ca! line, as painted by Cicero, who said of the unblushing villain that his only virtue consisted tn the fact that he was nidui alitni ptvJigui sui as prodigal as he was avaricious. Such are governments from the highest to the low est, and yet we pretend to admire the philosophy of Jefferson and Jackson, who uniformly declared that government best which governs least, And shall we have government conducting schools and training children to rely upon government and not upon the family or themselvest Must 'hey be trained from childhood as dependents upon this public charity, and must they owe the State more than the father or the mother that gave them life. The theory of the public free school system is wrong tr personal and local freedom and inde-y eodence are wholly wrong. The State of Texas, giving millions of acres of Lad, has done enough for her proper cliUren.

They are miserable mendi-eants it they ask for more, and since the Federal government, as administered by politicians and demagogues and wretched trading party-leaders, exacts one hundred millions from us to La distributed in charity, it becomes cur Legislatare to retrace its steps and retrieve its errors. A million dollars asted on worthless peripatetic last year, should be reUined tXhose who toil for iU Mendicancy be the last Usca inculcated by Ite'f Txas, Cocjttt treaeurera receive 2 per cent, for receiving and 3 per cent, for paying out school fund money, or 5 per cent. Tbcy mast come to Austin or receive draft. Eicb county jidge roctives $303 as ex officio schcol superintendent, and he employs all the teachers of his county. They become bis adherents, and be uses them to perpetuate bis tenure of ofSce.

There are in ach large county three months wet weather schools. In each school. having three trustees, appointed by the county ju4ge, each trustee gets a commission printed as large as a "saddle blanket." These "sheep skins' or "diplomas" coat a pile of money. When a Sencgambian goes to tne pofctcllice and receives oDe of these broad certificates of intel ligence and genius for building school houses and employing pedagogues he nearly struts himself to death, and swears ever more that the county judge whose broad seal is appended is a heap bigsjer man than old Grant." lie belongs ever afterwards, soul and body, to that coanty judge. Each large county is entitled to about one hundred and twenty saddle-blankets.

nigs lull oi tnese commissions are printed at the coat of the State and distributed by demagogues for elec tioneering purposes, and no conceiva ble good is accomplished. Wby not have a county superintendent to report to the county court and separate the schools from party and local politics? Now the school system is the strongest lever wielded by county judges to per petuate their control of county offices. If the Legislature mean to enforce practical ccinomv let it reform ths school fytrrri. Tue mortality among attributed to the poisoned air of the Capitol, attracts the attention of the whole country. The wretched ventilption of the congres sional halls is doubtless chargeable with much of the mischief.

The two chambers in which Senators and Rep resentatives hold their sessions are sit uate within larger hails. They are boxes within boxes. Fresh air and the golden sunshine are barred from these chambers of the highest Ameri. can lawgivers, as though they were twin imps of darkness. The air as cends from beneath the floor through funnels which serve at once as ven tilators and spittoons, and the light staggers in painfully through glass roof of double thickness, There are no windows, the chambers being disconnected from the I exterior walls of the building.

Members rush out of this choking atmos" phere, in the small morning hours, into the night air, which in Washington at this season is anything but mild. Is it to be wondered that colds and pneumonia and nervous exhaustion mark the flagrant violation of the laws of health? In view of the facts, the wonder is that so few congressmen die under circumstances fitted to break down the strongest constitution and yet there are more candidates for congressional honors than ever before, and even Texas does not lack men that would thus knowingly woo the fell destroyer. Senate Judiciary Committee No. 1 reported a bill Monday to suppress and punish tramps. The bill is almost identical with the law of New Hampshire on the subject.

No other Northern State, excepting this one, has successfully protected itself against the tramp, nuisance The bill as reported should be passed. Vicious Federal legislation, in the interests of corporate power in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, has given rise to this evil, and Texas, responsible for none of it, should thoroughly guard against it. After the war with Mexico the United States government issued 40, GO and ISO acre land warrants, and the smallest sold for the highest relative price. It mty be true, therefore, that those who object to the use of small warrants in land office operations will object to the use of small four per cent.bonds by the Treasurer and Comptroller in paying bounties and in taking up eight and ten per cent. State bonds.

But the proposition should be adopted and taxpayers' burdens lessened. It is proposed to have the United States court hold its sessions for Northwestern Texas at Williamsburg. We have before us a note from Mr. Speaker Cochran, who says that Williamsburg is in the midst of a rich and beautiful country in the center of Throckmorton county. Coal and coal oil are said to abound in that vicinity, and through that village the (Denver) Rjcly Mountain Xeict says the Colorado sjster of narrow gauge roads will reach the capital of Taxes.

There is a law of Congress, now in force, to pay all persons for losses sus tained from Indian spoliation. Claims must be presented within tnreo after the loss, or the claim is barred. To recover the spoliation must be fixed upon a particular tribej that the value of tbe loss may be retained out of annuities extended the different tribes. A Rkd-hot meteor, shot flaming from tbe skies, the first ever known in the world's history to come on such an errand, penetrated the body of Leonidaa Grover, in Newton county, Kentucky. Tbe bed and roof and floor of the house in which Grover was killed and in which he slept were pierced by the meteoric stone.

It was found buried in the earth beneath the house. Wuilk the value of publio free schorls is being discussed by many in our midst there are others who make opposition to them on the high ground that tbey operate towards political demoralisation. Probably the learned professors now in this city could find who would discuss this point with them before the public Tns nomination of Hon. Thomas Bait to the Assistant Attorney Gen eralship has been, confirmed by the Senate. The same result may also be announced as to Mr.Templeton for the Secretary of Statesbip.

Dos. V. W. Laxo, chier of the Grangers, is in the city. It is said Governor Roberts will appoint him one of the three commissioners of the penitentiary.

The cSce is a lucrative cte. Texas Facta and Fancies. Brenham enjoys excellent health. Pneumonia is prevalent in Iloustor. At Meridian, they are fighting the dog Mrs.

John T. Brady, of Houston, we are grieved to say, is no more. Fort Bend county ships wood over the Santa Fe road to Galveston. G. Bordenweiper, an old German resident of San Antonio, is no more.

Tyler has an iron and brass foundry that will take corn in exchange for plows. The newspapers of Texas are pre paring to bear Reavis each of their Dr. EUphalet B. Partin has parted from bis friends in Bonbam and gone to lTockett. The body of Mr.

Schleicher, while in state at Sin Antonio, was visited by people. The Dill as papers are mourning over the fate of Fort Worth. They are very sorry about it. Queensbury, tried for the murder of the Gray sod at Palestine, was de clared not guilty. W.

A. Ellis, who is under indict ment for swindling at Dallas, had been arrested in New lork. Mr. A. Robeira, a druggist of Gal veston, took too much morphine and chloral and died of it.

And now the Marlia Voice, that sounded so sweetly on greenbacks, is stilled in newspaperdeath. QTbere is much clamor all over the State for the abolishment of the Ad jutant General's department. In the Quisenbury case at Palestine, the mother, sister and brother of the defendant testified to an alibi. The Brenham Banner thinks Texas of sufficient magnitude to have a re spectable State house at Austin. It is said Roger Q.

Mills is laying his pipes towards the Senate Chamber. Why shouldn't be as well as others? John Ireland, it is said, favors the election of James T. Miller, of Gon zales, to succeed Mr. Schleicher in Congress. Tbe Greenback rally called in Gal veston never made itself seen, and we are anxious about tbat one ppoken of in Austin.

Tliey sent Col. Taylor's certificate of election by telegraph from Bonham. He forgot it, but didn't forget he was elected. Tbat was exceeding courtesy on the part of the Telegram to publish the Governor's inaugural before he delivered it The Telegram was not at all pleased at the high price charged to hear Ja-nauschek thought the acting did not warrant it. A bill has been reported favorably in tbe United States Senate, appropriating 40,000 for the establishment of a military post at El Paso.

Salon Randle and W. R. King, at Waco, quarelled and shot at each until King was mortally wounded. Randle received a wound in the hip. The proposition of Mr.

Wurzbach for the State to become the owner of the Alamo property is generally approved by the press of the State. The defaulting Galveston cashier, Reed, carried off with him $10,000 of State bonds, pensions and other papers deposited by a Gonzales banker. In Ellis county a young married couple have separated twice within the last two months and reunited as often, and now a suit for divorce is pending. Crooks, of the Sherman Courier, has been challenged to fight a duel. He should substitute Martin, whose threadlike form would defy any amount of bullets.

Col. A. B. Easley and H. G.

Howard, both model citizens, the latter having lived in Grimes county forty and the former twenty-five years, are no more. Therei9no city in Texas that is busier than -me except Weatherford, whither Tom Scott's road is going vehemently they think over there. One Green deserted his wife and children of Indianapolis and turned up as naturally as could be at Dallas, where he seduced a good girl on promise of marriage. Miss Strickland, of Coryell county, was instructed by her parents to quit receiving the attentions of a certain young man. She took strychnine and obeyed the stern command.

The people of ITill county have lately been stirred up about the supposed ineligibility of their newly-elected sheriff, who hss been discovered to owe the county over $2000. The blowing porpoise killed in the bayou at Houston, weighing 334 pounds, is not tbe editor of the Age, as commonly supposed. That institution was on the Avenue yesterday. The Age sums up the worthiness of Lieutenant Governor Savers, and is en tirely satisfied with the man. In truth, but tew, if any, better men in all respects have been fashioned.

Laudanum won't put a fellow to eternal sleep in a wide awake town like Dallas Cora Gaines, a Cyprian, tried it in vain last Saturday night. The doctors pumped it out of her. Mr. Gibson, of Waxahachie, is earn est in bis endeavors to have the dog tax repealed. Three hundred people in his county were indicted for failure to pay tbe tax.

It is a cruel and un just law. If Rev. Veal will lecture in Dallas he win a raw tbe nerd after him as never did a calf before. He need only read the Galveston account of bis achievements to burst Thompson's variety snow. riner's machine for mailing news papers is approved by all who nave tested its virtues, and now Murray ap plies for a machine which puts a bead on newspapers, lie uses two imposing stones, we believe.

Congress donates to the family of the deceased Congressman Schleicher the remainder of his salary as a mem' ber of the Forty fifth Congress, and recommends the same action to tbe Forty-Sixth Congress. The special car that received Mr. Schleicher remains at Uemsoo was fitted up at the exaense of the Central Railroad. Tbe floral decorations and the arrangement of the catafalque are aia 10 nave oeen oeauuim. A negro girl in Fannin county, by enrolling all tht little pickaninies in her county, gets $60 per month for three months from the State treasury.

Tbe good done consists in making Mary Jane the colored belle of Fannin. The custom of driving big herds of cattle from South Texas to Kansas appears to be on the wane. The big stock owners of that section prefer to ship. Many of the old drivers to Louisiana will forego their usual trips this sprieg. The Rockdale Jfcttenger is simply immense, hating eight broad, well-filled pages.

But then it cant be helped. It will grow huge like the babies of any towa where they are all named after tbe atUcbees of the Statesman. Docan, editor, Texan, Arkansi an and North Carolinian speech-maker far Congressmen, is lecturing oa woman out west. Donaa should visit Austin and compare his strength and genius with that of the illustrious, unique and herculean Reavia. Miss Stork, niece of Mr.

Schleicher, who accompanied the remains from the national capital to San Antonio, arrived in this country only about four months ago. The young lady is said to be highly accomplished, speaking tbe English language fluently. The sweet blushes that sufTjsed the face of Mr. Finlay all through yester day are ascribed to the circulation of the Commercial on the floor of tbe House. That paper says he is the handsomest man of the body," and it nearly kills Mr.

Finlay. Multitudes of sheep and cattle were killed everywhere on the plains by the recent northers of two weeks' duration, and it is even stated that the demand for grain will be lessened because of the loss of stock. this be true, corn and wheat may decline in price. A gentleman of Parker county treated a tramD to his breakfast and left him at his home to find, on his return, that the villain bad attempted an out rage upon his wife. He had also gone to a neighbor's and helped bimseif to a good horse and left for parts known.

The Toilet says a bulldozing cise is being brought up by United States derutv marshals and others against Messrs. Wood and Scott, at Anderson, in Grimes county. No bill, we are told, will be found in this case. The grand jury is a good one, and no fool ish prosecutions will be instituted. Last vear in Texas there were four subordinate granges organized, four teen surrendered their charters and eight consolidated with ot There were 1165 granges in the rotate, but onlv 2S0 are reported as active, the rest being delinquent or dormant.

Sj reports the secretary of the State Grange. The musical accompaniment of Bro. Penn was not the prosecutor of the managing editor of the Texas Baptist Rib (Mr. Hart'e) letters were aliened to have been opened and a letter is put lished from the late Federal oi strict attorney at Houston, in which it is de clared that Mr. 1'opc had violated the law but no true bill was found against Pope.

Bob Olive escaped the law and went to Nebraska, where he passed under the name of Stevens. He had procured an appointment as deputy sheriff and was killed in attempting to arrest one Ketchum, who, with another maD, was burned at a stake. His remains were brought to Williamson county, where he formerly lived. The Bonham Keics give9 currency to that absurd story about the cracking of stones by freezing in the new Fed eral building at Austin. Nobody should know better than the editor of the Setcs that dry stones don't crack, while those full of moisture and just withdrawn from their hiding places will show great fissures -if exposed to intense cold People who live in San Antonio know nothing of the terrible ravages of smallpox, suid to prevail in the ven erable city.

A good woman who spent a night there came howling away, mis taking the red iga of four auction eers on the old 1'iaza tor those that float in melancholy winds before pest houses, bhe gave currency to tbe lr repressive rumor. Tbe Navasota Tablet should know that attachees and employees of the Statesman are not "barnacles." None of tbem bave sought an olhce here or elsewhere. An editor proper is never an ofhee-seeker. If properly trained and fit for the task he assumes and the place he holds, there is no official position he could secure which be would have. An old man of Washington county, named Bremer, while riding by Long Point got mad at a number of dogs that ran out to attack him.

Iu draw ing bis shot gun on the canines, using the butt upon them, and with the muz zle against bis breast, one barrel was accidentally discharged, the load tak ing effect in his breast, instantly kill ing him. Yesterday Mr. Philpott and other members of the Legislature looked through the Statesman office and were not only highly pleased with its ma cbinery and appurtenances, but were surprised at its magnitude and the amount of work being carried on in all its different departments. At the time there were over forty men in its diiler ent departments hard at work. The neadlight, like most of the news papers of the State, approves the prop ositionto make every man in the State who votes at least pay a poll tax.

If a fellow's head be exceedingly light he should be excused, but it doesn't fol low that the organ of Round Rock taste and intelligence will go untaxed even though they do sometimes reverse the order of the two words constitut ing the name of the pretty newspaper, Little Willie Johnson, not two years old, the last of a family who went to Brazil with the McMullen colony in 1866, has just fonnd his way to rela tives in Waco. On the ship bringing them back from Rio de Janeiro last summer died first a child, then th father and then the mother. The cap tain of the vessel took charge of the child and gaye it to an orphan asylum in Galveston. At last little wes heard of at Waco, and the child is now with kind relatives. The Brenham Banner tells how showman was treated at Sempronius.

Fred Graham was exhibiting to 125 or 150 persons, when about fifteen armed men, under the innuenci of liquor, en tered the tent. Some of them mad an attack on Mrs. Graham, blackin her eyes and abusing her shamefully. They afterwards put coal oil on hi tent, and but for the interference of citizens would bave burned it up. Tbe citizens of Sempronius afforded him protection.

A cyclone struck Lockhart Sunday at 6 p. h. and destroyed nearly one half of the place. A letter from Sena' tor Storey tells tbe story. Mason Hall, roof and upper story of Houston'i Hotel, twenty or thirty residences be longing to hcpeless and helpless good colored people.

We should help tbem. The court house was much injured and front of the postoffice blown away, The fury of the tempest was confined to the eastern part of tbe pretty vil lage. "Youthful Days and other Poems'' is the title of a little book of two hundred pages, for a copy of which tbe Statesman extends thanks to the author. It contains the poems of R. B.

McEachern, who was the first popil that entered the Blind Asylum in Austin. This was in 1857 when the institution opened under the Pease admin istration with Dr. a. w. xaker as superintendent.

Mr. McEichcrn graduated from the institution in 1802, and since then was engaged in teaching music at Rnsk, in Cherokee connty. In the mean time be has cultivated the muses, as his admirable poems attest. The book containing them will prove a most agreeable acquisition tn any library. The author in "Youthful Days" writes through many starxis most glowingly of Austin, closing with "Adiro.

dear Aootint If ay tbe fan ne'er shine Tpo tbe mu who works for thy dociito. The capital of Texas, cut and wet. To a 1 oar common tntereeta (sited bt. Bought with tbe biood of beroea, to contain The preckme archiree of oar Tart domain Tbon ttaBdeat proadly. thy hiUa ot tone.

And all the people hail thee as their own. Be thorn a living monament to prove. The crateral memory of a patriot's Iotc." Matt Cabtxxtkr is respectable, at least intellectually. He is certainly the ablest lawyer in Wisconsin; but his manners and morals are bad, while Logan has neither brains nor morals. Illinois, as represented in the United States Senate, is to be pitied Wiscon la tolerated.

Extract from Senate Journal. Senator Grace presented the memo rial of many citizens of Fannin county akmg for the repeal of the present law mposing occupation taxes. Read and reerred to Judiciary Committee No. 2. Senator Lair presented tne petition of the grand jury of Collin county ask ing the passage rf a law sgamst rolling on ten pin alley or betting at the same and giving many forcible reasons there for.

U'sad and referred to the com mittee on State A flairs. Senator Terrell introduced a joint resolution "proprosiog an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas regulating suffrage." Read by caption and referred to Committee on Constitutional Amendments. Senator Swain introduced a bill to be entitled "An act to provide for the speedy and authoritative publication of the opinions of tbe Supreme Court and Couit of Appeals of tbe ctate of Texas in the Texas Laie Jvurnal." Read by caption and referred to Judiciary Committee No. 2. Senator Storey introduced a bill en titled "An act to set aside the available school fund remaining on hand for tbe fiscal year ending August 31, A.

D. 18i9." Read by caption and referred to the Committee on Finance. Senator Saannon introduced tbe fol lowing bill entitled "An act to regelate and control the assessment of taxes on real estate." Read by cap tion and referred to the Committee on State Affairs. Also a bill entitled "An act to amend sections nine aud thirty-six of an act entitled 'an act to provide for the election of justices of the peace and to define their powerand jurisdiction approved August 17, 1879. Read by caption and referred to Judiciary Committee No.

1. Senator Gooch introduced the fol lowing bills entitled "An act to pro vide for designating and working public roads and streets and sidewalks in incoiporated town and villages." Rjad bv caption and referred to Judiciary Committee No. 1. And "An act to validate certain acts of notaries public, who have used seals with tbe word 'Texas' engraved be tween tbe points of the star theron. instead of around tie margin thereof." Read by caption and referred to tbe Committee on State AfTiirs.

Senator D-ivenport introduced a bill entitled "An act to amend section 15 of an act entitled 'an act to organize the district courts and to define their powers and jurisdiction approved May 11, 1846. Read by caption and referred to Judiciary Committee No. 1. Senator Ledbeiter introduced a bill entitled "An act to authorize the own ers of land in unorganized counties, who themselves are non-residents of said counties, to render their lands and pay their taxes on the sane at tbe Comptroller's office." Rwad by cap tion and referred to Committee on St i Affairs. Senator McCormick, by leave, intro duced a bill entitled "An act declar ing tbe amount of the capital stock of railway companies heretofore char tered by special acts of the Legisla ture of this State." Read by caption and referred to the Committee on In ternal Improvements.

senator Houston introduced tbe fol lowing bill entitled "An act to au thorize county judges to solemnize the rites of matrimony and to validate marriages heretofore solemnized by them." Read by caption and referred to Judiciary Committee No. 2. Senator Grace, by leave, introduced a bill entitled "An act concerning incorporated cities and towns." Read by caption and referred to Judiciary Committee No. 2. Senator Edwards, uy leave, introduced a bill, entitled "An act to regulate the county finances of the several counties in this State." Read by cap-tion'and referred to Judiciary Committee No.

1. Also the following resolution Resolved ly the Senate of tlie State of Texas, thellowse of Ilejtresentatives concurring, That article 7, section 3, of the Constitution does not require the Legislature to set apart any part of the revenue derived from ad valorem taxation for the benefit of the public free schools unless the annual revenue is more than sufficient to meet the necessary expenses of the State government exclusive of the public free schools. Read and referred to tbe Committee on Finance. Hon. J.

D. Sayers, President or the Senate: Your Judiciary Committee No. 1, to whom was referred a bill to be entitled "An act for the suppression of tramping and punishment of tramps," have carefully considered the same. We are unanimous in the opinion that tbe social problem, which the rapid increase of the tramp element presents, can only be solved in Texas by timely legislation and adequate penalties. The essential features of the bill are borrowed from the statutes of New Hampshire, where the law is in force, and has in that State suppressed the evi'.

I am unanimously instructed by the committee to return the bill with the recommendation that it do pass. Terrell, Chairman. lion. J. D.

Sayers, President of the Senate: Your committee appointed agreeably to concurrent resolution passed by tbe House-of Representatives and Senate of the Sixteenth Legislature on the fifteenth day of January, 1879, delegating a number of Senators and Representatives to meet the congressional delegation having in charge the remains of the late Hon. Gustavo Schleicher, would respectfully report that your committee proceeded to Denison wbere they joined the congressional committee and received the remains from their hands and placed them in a car provided specially for that purpose; and would further report that the request of this honorable body was made known to Mrs. Schleicher, surviving widow of the deceased, tbat the body of her late distinguished husband be deposited in the State cemetery, at the city of Austin, which was respectfully declined, for the reason tbat the city of San Antonio was the burial place of two of their children. From thence your committee, joined by the congres sional committee, proceeded to the city of San Antonio, wbere our distin guished charge was received by a com mittee oi tbe municipal authorities tor interment. The body was then laid in state and visited bv thousands of our fellow- citizens.

And after appropriate funer al services the remains were borne to the cemetery, accompanied by the con gressional. legislative and municipal committees, military and a large con course of citizens, and there deposited in tbe tomb. The committee take this occasion to 3 express their grateful acaaowieug- ments to the International and central Railroad Companies for courtesies ex tended, and especially their obligation and thanks to Messrs. Jordan ana cave, of the Central, for their consideration of the comfort of tbe committee and their uniform, kindness and attention, All of which is respectfully submitted LA3E. cnairman.

Executive Ofpck, State or Texas, Austin, January 27, 1871. To the Honorable the donate and Iloase of Rep- reeenuuvee. In scaelon aeseiniuca To increase the force and efficiency of tbe iudiciary the following recom mendationa are respectfully made: At the last session of tbe Legislature there was a strong sentiment on the part of many perrons tbat the judicial system I j. adoptea in tne cons-Jiuuun ui io was verv defective. Subsequent ex nerience has verified the accuracy of their iudsrment.

At the solicitation mm distiQCUished eentlemen, I then drew no a "judicial department. which was introduced in the Legisla tare as an amendment to the consti tion. It was not adopted. It is again laid before you for consideration, hav ing been republiahed for tbe purpose and placed upon yotr tables, not so much to recommend iti adoption now as an entirety as to throw light upon that which is recommended for the purpose of perfecting gradually that which is found defective in tbat department. And, first, aa to the Supreme and Appellate Courts: The business of the Supreme Court haying accumulated until it was found impracticable for tbat court to keep up with it, the Court of Appeals was created to give the necessary relief in the dispatch of the business.

It has not done so. or at the end of tbe last judicial term of said court, thirtieth of June last, there were over nine hundred cases left undecided in tbe Supreme Court, and over two hundred ia the Court of Appeals. This showed en increase, rather than a diminution of cases left undecided notwithstanding the diligent efforts of both courts, wotkin; day and night for nine months in the year. The leading objects of a court of last resort, should be, first, to decide rightfully; second, unity of ac tion, and uniformity of decisions; and, third, a prompt dispitca of business before it. To accomplish these objects, I re spectfully recommend that the Constitution be amended so as to bave one Su preme Court, composed of nine justices.

one ot tbem being as now the chief justice, with a power by themselves exercised at each term of forming three sections, composed of three justices in eiich, one of which shall hear and determine criminal appeals as long as there are any during each term, and the other two shall decide civil causes by such divhion of them as may be by them agreed ob from time to time dur ing the term. Ia each section a concurrence of all three justices shall be sufficient to render a judgment, with the right given to auy one of the justices in any of the sections to submit a case to the whole court, composed of all of the justices present, when a majority of those acting shall determiue tbe judgment. By a provision in said amendmeut, the presrnt justices of both courts could be retained, and three more elected by the first Monday in October next, eo as then to take their seats on tbe bench. With the continual increase in the population, wealth and consequent litigatioo, it is not probable that fewer justices could ever promptly do tbe and if it should so happen, an amendment of the Constitution could readily be adopted reducing the number. This unity of action with a power of division would be less expensive than two except the increased amount of tbe salaries, and greatly less than two courts and a commission, and it is believed would be more satisfactory to the public generally.

And as it is now evident that something must be dooe, and that quickly, this is what I believe would be best. Another amendment of the Constitution that I respectfully recommend is tbat district attorneys be appointed by the Governor in each judicial district, to hold their office for four years, removable at the pleasure of tbe Gov ernor, and to be given the same salary at the district judge, without auy fees of office. My reasons for this are: 1. That the district attorney is peculiarly an executive officer representing the State. And as the Governor is re quired by tbe Constitution to see tbat the laws are executed, be should be given full control of the attorney for the State, to enable him to do it, and then he may be justly held responsible for it.

As it is now, every district attorney and county attorney in the State is an independent executive officer, with full discretion as to how he shall conduct suits and prose cutions for the State and as to whether, in any given case, he will do it at all or not. 2. That tbe district attorney ought to be as good a lawyer as the district judge, which will rarely happen in the elective plan, because there is a pre vailing and deep seated opinion among the people, upon which, from long habit, they constantly act in voting, that the district attorney's office belongs to some rising or clever young lawyer, and that it should be given to him to give him a start upward in his profsssion. The result is that, if he succeeds, he soon leaves it, and if not, tbe State continues to have a deficient officer not competent to defend its in terest against more able lawyers em ployed against it. And, thirdly, to give him such a salary would be a saving of expense to the State.

The district and county attorneys now receive from the State treasury for the year ending August 31, 1878, for fees, for salaries of six district attorneys, $3000; making in all $41,000. If all of the twenty-seven districts bad bad district attorneys, the amount would have been $51,970. In addition to these fees and salaries, the attorneys are allowed ten per cent, on collections for the State. A salary of $2500 for twenty-seven districts, without fees and commissions, would amount to if they were given a standing salary of $2000, the amount would be $54,000. This amendment should abolish the office of county at torney as it now exists, it having been found to be so clearly a failure, with an occasional exception, as not to require any comment to elucidate its impracticability.

I respectfully recom- raend the amendment oi tne constitu tion taking away fiom the county court all civil and criminal business, except that which relates to its jurisdiction mi as a prouate court, tne wording of section 23, of article 5, of the Constitution, that gives the Legislature the power to increase, diminish or change the jurisdiction of that court, when considered in with section 15 of the same article estab lishing said court, may be regarded as not justifying clearly the authority of the Legislature in dong this by the passage of a law. This plan of establishing county courts has often been tried, and has just as often failed to meet expectations, and has been abandoned after trial. Competent judges will not be generally elected. It is ex pensive in several ways, but especially in tbe allowance oi salaries to toe judges by the county courts, whether rightfully done or not. If tbe members oi ne legislature will ascertain and collate thai mmgraft amount of such allowance tbey will find, it is believed, the amount greater than that paid by tbe State to all of tbe district judges.

Therefore, if the transfer of its business to tne aistnci court should double tne aistricts tbe people would lose nothing in tbe expenses of the courts by tbe change, while they would gain much in tbe manner in wmcn tneir cases wouia be decided. If tbe Legislature should desire to adopt an amendment of the entire jadicial department in accord ance with the general pian presented in tbat which was submitted to the last Legislature, it might be modified by substituting the above provisions or such others as thev might deem proper. The difficulty in tbat, however, is that it would require much legislation to put it properly in force, and for tbat reason it should only take effect at tbe next meeting ot tbe Legislature. Should tbe Legislatare not desire to adopt and submit an amendment of tbe Constitution in relation to district attorneys, then it is respectfully recommended tbat a law be passed providing for the election of district st-torneys in all of the districts snd regulating tbe division of fees between theoTand the county attorney, accordingly aa they may be required to act separately or conjointly. It is submitted also whether the civil and criminal business be taken away from tbe coanty courts that the number ot judicial districts should be increased S3 as to secure a certain dispatch of the whole of the business at each term.

It has not been thought proper to refer to many other subjects npon which the legislation might be improved, because tbe rr-i and digested codas are now the Legislatare and bars bee blislied at so late a day that it has impracticable to ascertain what improvements bave been therein inserted for the consideration of the Legislature. It is for tbe wisdom of the Legislature to determine whether these codes shall be taken up and acted on at once or deferred until the matters relating to the financial affairs of the State and other nutters of pressing necessity shall have been acted on. As the executive must act continually upon official business, but little opportunity will be 6lIorded to examine the codes during the session of the Legislature, and therefore he must greatly rely upon the cautious investigations of the Legislature, should they be submitted to him for his approval. It is especially recommended tbat the learned gentlemen who have digested and revised the statutory laws be continued in their positions and directed to prepare and submit a full set of forms of indictments, bonds, recog-niztnees, writs, petitions in ordinary suits and other instruments, so far as may be practicable, to be adopted as parts of the codes. It is respectfully recommended that there should be ia each house of the Legislature a standing committee upon court expenses, whose special business it should be to see that the necessary expenses are properly provided for in all of the courts, from the highest to the lowest.

a subject that doc not directly attract the attention, of either the Finance or Judiciary m-mittees, and, as I have ha occasion to know, does not alwajg get the special atttentton of either. There are no reports male to the Comptroller or any oiher department of such expenses, and thereto- th Comptroller is not prepared to make estiinatis for thrin, -otherwise than it has usu illy been done prt vinus ly, and not in relereuca to any rertuin information of what i actually rtijuir- ed. lue judicial department, it is believed, cuuld bo improved, and its expense iu all of tbe courts u'd be reduced by a critical examination of copiiuitter-s raised every session for that specilic purpose. There may be other provisions for increasing the forc8 and tfficieucy of the judiciary, som of which appears in the report of the Attorney General, and others will occur to the members of the Legislature. I have presented to your considera tion onlv such matters as I desire to call to your special attention.

Inasmuch as- the session had ad yanced a week before I caire into office and the reports of the different de partments have only very reccutly been accessible to me, and I was not, uatil a few days before my inauguration, informed of what measures would be recommended by the Governor in his message. I trust I shall be indu'ged ic presenting for your consideration the facts pertaining to the existing condition of our Slate government and my.recommendations thereon, 88 I may be able from tinis to time, and as early as I may be able, to collect and exhibit them, without waiting the time necessary to combine them in one message, O. M. Roberts. House bill No.

12, entitled "An act making an appropriation to defray the contingent expenses of the Sixteenth Legislature," was referred to the Com mittee on Contingent Expenses. Extracts from House Journal. Mr. Sledge introduced a bill to amend sections 15 and 16 of "An act to regulate tbe laying out, opening and classifying and working of public roads in the State of Texas, and fixing penalties for a violation of certain sec tions therein named." Raad first time and referred to Committee on Roads, Bridges and Ferries. Mr.

Estes introduced a bill to amend the seventy-first section of "An act to regulate proceedings ia the district courts." approved Miv4l3. 1846, as amended by an act spioved Mav 22, 1871. Read first tunc and referred to Committee on Judiciary No. 2. Mr.

Reeves introduced a bill to re fund to any person all money that has been paid into the State Treasury on any note or obligation given for uni versity lands and not' properly credited to the same. Read first time and te erred to Committee on Education. Mr. Gausc introdued a bill to define the duties of commissioners' courts when sitting as a board of equalization Read first time and referred to Com mittee on Assessment and Collection of Taxes. Mr.

Polley, of Wilson, introduced a bill to amend section 2 of an act enti tied "An act to regulate the license and practice of attorn -at-law." Read first time and refura to Committee on Judiciary No. 1. I Mr. licck intro ed a bill to pre vent and punish hiring or harbor ing minors agai the consent of Read first time parents or guardiuna and referred to Jo Jommittee on Judi- ciary No. 1.

Mr. Guy introduced a till to amend section 5 of "An act to carry into effect sections 22 and 23, article 10, of the Constitution of, the State of Texas, authoriziup the'pwsage of stock and fence laws." first time and referred to Committee on Constitutional amendments. lion. John II. Cochan, Speaker of the Uooee of piesentaliviFf Your Comuf tee on lucation, to whom was rierred the resolution of inquiry to lie propriety of extending the echoMtic age of those entitled to the bendy of the public echool fund from sii to eighteen years, and of changing tfe timiof commencement of the rcholatic year from the first of September ths first of November, have had theiame under consideration, and instruct me to report that in the opinion of yur committee it is inexpedient at thi.

time to increase the number of bencCciaries of tbe public school fund or to, make any change in (be time of tbe commencement of the scholastic year. Henderson, Chaiimao. Adopted Mr. Wupbnch, chairman of Commit-tre on Atessment and Collection of Taxes, fulaitled tbe following majority report Hon. John Cochran, Speaker of tbe noose of Represent Ives: A maprity of your Committee on Assessmet and Collection of Taxes beg leaV' to report that they have had onder cfisideration House bills No.

32 and instruct me to report tbe accom paying bill as a substitute forthe said bils, and recommend tbat tbe same dqpass, and tbat 100 copies be printedor the uie of the House. Wi'Rzbach, Chairman. The ollowing minority report was submitsd from Committee on Assessment ad Collection of Taxes: Hon. Jon H. Corbrso, Speaker of the House of BeprefOtatiTts: "We, undersigned, a minority of the Committee on Assessment and Collection of Taxes, beg leave to state that ts do not concur in the report of the ijonty, which report relates to the ctnnassions to be paid to assessors for reason tbat, in our opinion, tbe pay 'ill be too large, and we respectfully submit the following rates as mar in the interest of trne economy wbfc sutl giving good pay to assessor Oa be first of btate tax, 5 per cenia; on Hi: tcond f-jOOO, 4 per cepim; on third 3 perceBtam, anin all sums above this, 2 per cental; on the first $5000 of county tax, 3 it centum; on all sums above this, 2 er centum, except npon special cnty taxes, npon which the commu-4 so for assessing shall be one (1) per citum.

We beg leave to offer this as substitute for the majority report, of which is respectfully submitted. A JIM C. Gaithkk, W. H. Kixa, IIORITZ MiF-DCIX, O.

II. Goodsox, Oa motion, 100 copies of each report 100 copies tbe bill submitted by eoznraitlee were ordered printed fur Je use of the member. Flavoring Extracts Eminent Chemists and PhvsiHfinn rrrMfv thnt thRA cood are free from adulteration, richer, results than any timers, ana tout families. DR. PRICE'S STEELE PRICE'S LUPULIN YEAST CEMS.

Tht lltt iMTff Up Temtt it tht World. STEELE Chicago, St. Louis, and Cincinnati Unexcelled in Economy Unsurpassed in Ccnstructicn. Unparalleled in Curability. Uniisjntea in trie EROAD CLilil Mil tbe VERY BEST OPERATING, AND MOST PERFECT CQOKIHG STOVE zvza cpfzsid fos ths MADE ONLT BY ESLOELSIOn 612.

614, 616 Sl 618 N. MAIN IN SOLID GOLD MOUNTINGS Lefevre Ring, (I. The art lull ns Set of Studs $1. nlov roprwi'Tite! are I containing Til WO.Dl:Ul LEI THE ONLY PERFECT FAC-SIMILE OFTHE REAL DIAMOND IN THE WORLD Ulilrh for Wear, ltrllllmiry, and Beauty are aot excelled bjr th aatural The womlerfnl Lkfkvrr IMamond Is of the purest whiten, rut, and I possesses the hanie rcfraclivu qualities aud "The- wonderful Lrr-m Diawotrn it a marwlnui and Company ire entitled lit treat creJil tr llieir enrrev, in tinr Tlie I.KFKvttK lliaMitNiM art? OfttuiuK iuu icrrat'rvur in a beautiful aa the ruuln j-wel. The unipanj (lulilinh brmted gems ia told." Andrew Bator.

We will swnd Free by RKI.IVTFRF.n ON RECEIPT OF ONE DOLLAR TTiuTvvinit I of the newwt nty uf rich tiuM Jt-wt-iry mtd Wau.itfi UUI iiUili.i'Uu till lJi.Llln.11,1.-.. ii.liLuili AMERICAN JEWELKY COMPANY, 5 Arcade, Cincinnati, 0. We refer to an established bualnest bouse or the Dreaauf aata onr iwuntaUon fur fair anJ fetatutfila cWaUn. NEW ABV'KItTISKTIICNXS. JOTICE.

Is hereby elven that' thirty days afterdate hereof 1 will ap'ily to the Sixteenth Legislature of the State of Texan, for the of an act directing tbe ConimiHHioner of the Land nfllre to lepiie to me a certificate for 83ti seres of lard as a balance due me on mv heaciriht of 1 170 acres, to which I was entitled under the law of Texas, ha vint; heretofore only received WO acres from the State on account thereof. PHIUP llOWAKD, By DeCORDOVA M. KINNEY, Agents. January 18. (I.

A FINE FARM FOIl SALE. On rcaponahlo contains 23M) acres; Improvements Kood; IKIO acres In cuiiivalion. with pisture, or Ittiid will lie cat np to nuit purchasers. One mile from Manor depot, Travis county Teas. For particulars adfl' ess S.

UhOfKKTT, Manor, or Mrs. A. K. PAKSONK, Tiinuii, Williuineon county, Tenn. jiuilwlin FREE TO ALL Our lUnirtratssd Priced Cat, loffue of I'UnU, Hernia, Treaa, etc, with Colored Plata of New Piaata, onatatua uarfui Interna' tlou, deacriptiuQ, etc.

Tweotjr-0v Trtihotjra. Wo jruarmxite good to be of Itnrt quality, geitd Utree-cent auuup tur poalmge. Addrem X7AXZ NETJNEI lX)UlbVlLLL, KY MY Pains In the Back, Side or Loins are cored by HUNT'S REMEDY, Th UllKAT KlDNKT and Livkh Mkiii- ink. It Is not a new compound, having been used by all classes for 30 years, and saved from llDRerin? disease and death, hundreds who have heen given up by Physicians. IU NT'S cures all Diseases of the Liver, Kidneys, liladdcr, and I'rinary Organs, Dropsy, Gravel, Diabetes, and Incontinence and Ketentinn of I rine.

II UNI 'K UE.VKUV cures Bright's Disease of the Kidneys, General Debility, Female Wvakness, Nervous Disease, Inten-pcrauce and Excesses. IIUNT'M HOKDl cures Bilious Headache, Sour Stomach, Cosliveness, Dyspepsia, Strengthens the Uowelsand Htomsch and makes the Wood perfectly pure. HI NT' KK.H-KDV, le prepared EXPHKNnLV lor I bene dlaeaaex, and liaa never been known to tail. One trial will convince yon. IICNI' is purely Vegetable, is used by Family Physicians, ana tne ntinoM reliance may oe placed in it HUNT'S KE.nRUV encouraees sleep.

creates an appetite braces up the system a Da renewed health is the result. Send for Pamphlet to WM. CLARKE, Providence, R. I. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.

jaa9wlyr JSO.TICE. Anplicatton wi'l he made to the present Legis lature for tbe passage of an act granting neirs or u. uroesnccic a certificate for lands located and patented by General Land Of fice en the Salvador grtnt In Jasper county j. u. L.KUtv3i;r.i;K, j-itMlm or the heirs, OLD, RELIABLE Wholesale and RetaJJ- CUH STORE eT.

O. Xetmeclfy Is better prepared then ever to famish the State of Texas with UKEECH fcl'NH, erXGL- AND DOL'BLK BAkKEL hlltT GLiiS, from 13 sad upward. A fall stock GUN, BIM.ES. PirroLi, ete. Of the best ar.d most Improve! Er.r!ll and Am trie Bu-blacuu-e.

Ao a fall suck of PAPER AND BHIM WAXitt, CAP acd fill tiae of ribiiijiG TACK LI. Repatrrajr aad furnishing for runs a specialty Be will guarantee as irood work aa scientific K.i.-. caa prod ace. Cail add see kin. Ja ths DtttriH Court of ths United -Mates for ths W'vAem.

Uistrict of Tcx.it: fa the mi't of 1 t.C. BakTOJJ.V la Vuikrvpuy. Bankrupt. I Western District of Texts, 8.8. Tbe Bfcdf-rrtrued h.

rrby s-te not tee of his s'-potntiaetit as a inee if J. C. HmrUta, of liryan. tn the county of ftrasvie, ar 4 Male of Texas, witbia said iXtirtct, wbo baa been ad ttuifad a bankrupt ipoa bis emtitofa' peuuca by Ue district cart of n.4 A U. wOUHiijS, Asr'-jnea.

"0 more effective, produoa better they use them In their own UNIQUE PERFUMES are the Gems or All 0.1orn TOOTH EN E. Aa agreeable, bealUtfu Liquid Dentifrice. LEMON SUCAR. A Substitute for Lemons. EXTRACT JAMAICA CINCER.

From I ore Koct- MANUP'G STREET. ST. LOUIS- MO. DOLLAR! (Ths Shsh) Stud, $1. Lsfsvre Esr Drops, $1.

Rnnrniit! to ho solid gold mountings EVKK ltlAMUMD. exact proportioi.ii aa the rual uluiuoutl. iwrfrrl imitation of th ral rrn. a4 th American Jwlr llr tn mount tben nnlid oll for 1.00." On ft JtofWrfW. the wurld of fkahton, and a far aa apiMtrucM go, ar Jnal au MUraaUog caiaiugu la bICss Ui nlaWtj uf Lma eav MAIL to any Adihwa In America, EITHER OF THE ABOVE ARTICLES liu lliliillln.liHli mill ill n-ll -I I 1.1 winch we waiiuUclure.

Atklrtu ull o-dtrt la CONGItKfcS A. VEN IB, AUSTIIV, TEXAH. CHINA LACS a ki ueens wak Children's Carriages, Cutlery, UEr'UIUERATOKS, ltKER COOLEUS, 33ar dly Fixturosj, myfl MARRIAGEs AS MM aim mmmm mm quictliv DR. BOUAKNAMS tlUlfOU.IHtf-lV.llt trtrsrh-ali him- quutdvc feuiiji! knue oe 11 1 II 'I'V1 l- m.m -fc-i m. m.

m. rewiannpt) onm Wl Sfi-ui I trwmirm hov to rur til kind T)fftt4a, with httndrtMlt ofVtMril rs'ipf, hoihJ'id niBri7.tKeiiiipHimaut to mat th(r hsv-tureaadtMrc. Trrauon ftll Iis-ar( tuiiy iaifm th-ir cati-. mpfumaand mranatorurti if im tim only rt-alljr riet.tifiC Work with- kind rW puhiiin-4, tui iiconpi-l in rrtry rKx-t. ftent vMrtly tcalrd on rript of rli Qristadosg es DYE flthtnf-ttn4 lnttftaUntii Ik ftrMn find it rtruj th moat tuujrul lisvl'i of l)tvk Lruwa.dirf aula tat a th akin.au etalr iMH'l ts a ftiandavrd rrrKtraUnn, and a favn Uxia avary trilft ir iivty or mriutlw Kt.r aala WLSTAOORO.

Proprietor. lrirr(-r and 12. Naw fork J)ROP03AL8 FOU LABOl The as tur Dki-aktiiest, Wasiiikutom, D. Jauuary 1M, 1H79. Sealed prop 'Mai a will be receive 1 at this office until.

February II, IHT.t for all the latter required In mixing mortar, 1 ylng brick and suiting stone work for tbe sopors i run ore of tlie United Mates Court llonse and Poctoffice at Austin, Texaa.ln accord tnce with drawings and speciflcalions.coplesof which, and any additional Information may be bad on application at this office or the ofllce of ths superintendent. JOHN UtAftKll, Sg4t Acting Supervising Architect. Is hereby (riven tbat I will apply to the M-teentn Leg stature of tbe Stats Texas for passage of an act to an hnrixe tbe CouimiMloit-er of tbe General Land Office to Issue a patent or patents to tbe heirs or e-slgns of John Keichner for MO acres of land to be locaU by tbe assigns ay heirs of John Kvicbnar, to which number of seres of land tht 4ft niMimi Him by the boars) of land eommiMlo'iers of lUalrop coanty, on tLs sixth dy of Kt CilAKLKM WUTZ.eU. Sole hMr of Curlrwa rVvr xocr. assign of John Keichner.

JiM(d. WU Mill! tA hi. I EXAS LAND WANTED. We are now having calls from every sect Ins of the State for land suitable for farms sod rstu brs. hales are mostly nude to actual settlers for part cash atd balance, with 10 per cent, tm nun, ocerevi venaur im.

red by vendor's hen. Parties wishi! to Bake sales tor oagb as will ease send tn papers with power to sell and lLrnciliM. i. Biuiuua price, terms, etc. dclwSa Ansun.Texa EOPOLD SCIIUNGEIl .1 Hereby (rives notice that ha will apply to the Legislature of tbe Stale of Texas, now la se' loo, for toe pass aye of a sp-srial Jaw aiiowiii? bin to sell wine and beer Id Trkvlseoanty wl' h-out psylnv the special Ux tbereua for the county and State.

This Aastin, Jmnavt urm. lhoi-old fcci.iu.i JSsluww LNE FaARM AND STOCK KASCH FOB SALE. I win sell mv tne Farm and Work nnrh aboot WO acres mostly a ader good f-tee, situated eboet etght miles from Leek hart u. twenty milea from Aostia: also aboat SO bead of cattle and aboot twenty be id of borscs, on very reasonable Urma. Cueoe aad see it.

VI UI take IMM bead sheep ia Part payment. JOllSl KlcHARrf. LackXart, Ttrat. KovmUrtX. NfiH.

JOTICE. Application will be made to the preset Leclsiatare for tee passage of as act apprt.v,i.a; tbe claim of Geo. W. lloi-v foe servirc aa hisie Treasurer from May 7. iiT.t, eutil l'aliy tated la 1873, at three tkwaaaod doiurs per ato-aam.

M. D. MILLK5. JaU dltww Attorney for Geo. W.

Booey. JkTOTICE. Vavna's Orrrr-s. I January lT. Proao-mls will bt received at th5 offlr nntil ftatirday, February jer, at Is o'clock for biiJdi) a stune ach brulite over a brabeh oe Rots A' Are street, between e-aa Asloauo sd ntts streets.

speriSrtticns caa be aeea at I he office of I tee city clerk Tnetuly fesetveatuerbt to reject iy sail ail b.l. J. Jiajoc. oo..