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TEXAS. 



The State students number five from each sena- 

 torial district, and four at large. 



The Prairie View Normal School is in ex- 

 cellent condition, and is doing a good work for 

 the colored people. During the summer of 

 1883 a summer normal institute was maintained 

 in each senatorial district for white, and one in 

 each congressional district, except the eleventh, 

 for colored teachers. The same number were 

 maintained during the summer of 1884. 



Of fifty-one cities and towns having control 

 of the public schools within their limits, only 

 seventeen made reports to the Educational De- 

 partment for the year ending Aug. 31, 1883, 

 and of fifty-one, only thirty-four made reports 

 for the year ending Aug. 31, 1884. The public 

 schools in the cities and towns have been emi- 

 nently successful. Seventeen cities and towns 

 have assumed control of their schools since the 

 apportionment for the year 1883-'84. 



The following are statistics for the year end- 

 ing Aug. 31, 1884: 



The University of Texas has 13 (2 in law de- 

 partment) instructors, and in 1883-'84 had 219 

 students (169 academic and 50 law). It is en- 

 dowed by the State. Tne Agricultural and 

 Mechanical College of Texas, near Bryan, Bra- 

 zos county, has 9 instructors and 136 students. 



Penitentiaries. The State has two penitentia- 

 ries, one at Huntsville and the other at Rusk, 



the latter recently organized. "The penitentia- 

 ries and convicts were leased to contractors 

 prior to May 15, 1883, when the State assumed 

 control. At that time the convicts were dis- 

 tributed as follows: At Huntsville, 419; at 

 Rusk, 277; on railroad construction trains, 

 662 ; on Brazos farms, 949. 



The number of convicts Dec. 24, 1884, was 

 2,632. On Nov. 1, 1884, the 2,539 convicts on 

 hand were located and employed as follows: 

 At Huntsville, 660 ; at Rusk, 555 ; on railroad 

 construction, 176; on farms, 1,148; total, 2,539. 



The total amount received from all sources 

 from May 16, 1883, to Nov. 1, 1884, was 

 $584,438.49 ; the amount paid out, from May 

 16, 1883, to Nov. 1, 1884, was $569,242.45. 



Charitable Institutions. The Deaf and Dumb 

 Asylum has 9 teachers and about 120 pupils. 

 The Institution for the Blind has 100 pupils. 

 These, together with the State Lunatic Asylum, 

 are in Austin. The North Texas Lunatic Asy- 

 lum, near Terrell, Kaufman county, is approach- 

 ing completion. 



Railroads. The following is a summary of 

 the railroads of the State : 



Political. The following were the State ticL 

 ets of the Democratic and Republican parties 



For Governor, George W. Jones was 

 candidate of the Greenbackers and Independ- 

 ents, and he obtained a large portion of 

 Republican vote. On the 4th of November 

 the Democratic ticket was elected by large 

 majorities. The vote for Governor was as 

 follows: Ireland, 212,234; Jones, 88,450 ; Nor- 

 ton, 24,557. The Democratic vote for Lieu- 

 tenant - Governor was 236,685; Republican, 

 51,387. The average vote for Presidential 

 Electors, as officially declared, was: Demo- 

 cratic, 222,652; Republican, 88,745; Prohibi- 

 tion, 3,368; Greenback, 3,297. The returns 

 from El Paso and San Jacinto counties, re- 

 ceived after the official count, raised the Dem- 

 ocratic vote to 224,210, and the Republican 

 vote to 90,156. No returns for Presidential 

 Electors were received from Oldham and 



