TEXAS. 



TILDEN, SAMUEL JONES. 815 



RACE. 



White 1,122 



Negro 1,470 



Mexican 264 



Indian 8 



Males.... 

 Females. . 



SEX. 



2,814 

 45 



NATIVITY. 



Natives of United States 2,519 



Foreigners 8*0 



Annual Products. The following is an exhibit 

 of the amount and value of State products for 

 the year ending Aug. 31, 1886 : 



Values. 



Cotton, 1,369,208 bales $54,768,320 



Wool, 23,433.219 pounds 4,686,643 



Hides 1,84-A3-.'0 



Cattle 6.727,415 



Horses and mules 2,223,918 



Lumber and shingles 4,326,41 1 



Grain and hay 7.416,321 



Cotton-seed, cotton-seed cake, and oil 3,6*4,722 



Miscellaneous products, including sugar and uio- 



5,421,618 



Total $91,037,688 



Drought. A meeting of county judges was 

 held in Albany,.Shackelford County, December 

 29. It was shown that in every one of the ten 

 counties represented there has been a partial 

 and in many parts an absolute and complete 

 failure of all crops, and in consequence of such 

 failure of crops of all kinds there is great 

 want among the people, and that there is an 

 existing imperative need of and demand for 

 relief in the way of food and clothing for about 

 30,000 people for five or six months, or until 

 crops can be raised ; and there is a further ne- 

 cessity for donations of seed for planting and 

 other relief for a much larger number who are 

 not yet in absolute need of immediate supplies 

 of food, but who must have aid to enable them 

 to remain at their homes and make a crop next 

 year. It was the opinion of the meeting that 

 the want could only be relieved by aid prompt- 

 ly extended by the State and national Govern- 

 ments and the charitable public, and that any- 

 thing less than $500,000 would be inadequate. 

 The counties affected lie in the northwestern 

 part of the State. 



Political. The Democratic State Convention 

 met in Galveston on August 10, and was in ses- 

 sion four days. It nominated Lawrence S. 

 Ross for Governor, T. B. Wheeler for Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor, James S. Hogg for Attorney- 

 General, R. R. Gaines for Justice of the Su- 

 preme Court, Jobn D. McCall for Comptroller, 

 R. M. Hall for Commissioner of the Land-Office, 

 Frank R. Lubbock for State Treasurer, and Os- 

 car H. Cooper for Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction. 



Later in the same month the Republican 

 State Convention made the following nomina- 

 tions: For Governor, A. M. Cochran, of Dal- 

 las; Lieutenant- Governor, L.McDaniel; Comp- 

 troller, J. M. Brown; Land Commissioner, A. 

 Zadek ; Treasurer, Frank Cleaves ; Attorney- 

 General, C. W. Johnson ; Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, H. Cline; Supreme Judge, 

 W. H. Burkhardt. 



The Prohibition State Convention, held at 

 Dallas, adjourned on September 8, after nomi- 

 nating a ticket headed by E. L. Dahoney, of 

 Paris, as the candidate for Governor, and S. G. 

 Mullens for Lieutenant- Governor. It provided 

 for a permanent organization of the party. 



The Farmers' Grand State Alliance met at 

 Cleburne, and adjourned on August 7. 



On November 2 the Democratic ticket was 

 elected. The following was the total vote for 

 Governor and Lieutenant-Governor: 



Governor Ross, 228,776; Cochran, 65,236; 

 Dahoney, 19,186; scattering, 102. 



Lieutenant - Governor Wheeler, 231,950 ; 

 McDaniel, 66,562; Mullens, 15,339; scatter- 

 ing, 136. 



Eleven Democratic Congressmen were chos- 

 en. The Legislature of i887 is unanimously 

 Democratic in the Senate, and has only six 

 non-Democratic members in the House. 



New Capitol. The Capitol Building Commis- 

 sioners report as follows: 



Every portion of the building lias been done strict- 

 ly in accordance with the plans and specifications as 

 amended to date, and is first class in every particular. 

 At the date of the 'closing of this report, Nov. 1, 1886, 

 the interior and dome walls of limestone and the gran- 

 ite superstructure have been completed above the sec- 

 ond story, and the iron- work of both stories placed in 

 position ; the boiler-house of the building has been 

 finished, and the . sewerage-work completed, and all 

 the work is going rapidly forward in a satisfactory 

 and workmanlike manner. If the same rate of prog- 

 ress in the construction of the building is maintained 

 during the next two years as has been made since last 

 January, when the work of constructing a granite Cap- 

 itol was begun and we see no reason wliy it should 

 not it is confidently believed that our new Capi- 

 tol building, with all its appurtenances, will be com- 

 pleted and perfected in all its parts in every particular 

 according to contract in 1889. The contractor, how- 

 ever, has until Jan. 1, 1890, in which to complete the 

 building, and the work has not been, and neither will 

 it in any respect be, pushed faster than safe, solid, 

 durable, and first-class workmanship and construc- 

 tion will admit. 



Work was begun under the original contract 

 on Feb. 1, 1882. The corner-stone was laid 

 March 2, 1885. Granite was substituted for 

 limestone for the exterior walls by a supple- 

 mental contract of July 25, 1 885. 



TILDEN, SAMUEL JONES, an American states- 

 man, born in New Lebanon, N. Y., March 15, 

 1814 ; died at his country residence, Grey stone, 

 on the Hudson, Aug. 4, 1886. He traced his 

 descent to a family of good standing in Kent, 

 England ; and three of his ancestors served as 

 Mayor of Tenterden in that county. Joseph 

 Tilden was one of the consignors of the " May- 

 flower " ; and Nathaniel Tilden, the first of the 

 name to emigrate, sailed for America in the 

 ship "Ann" in 1634, and was one of the 

 commissioners to locate the town of Scituate, 

 Mass. The Tildens in the second generation 

 settled in Lebanon, Conn., and from that place 

 John Tilden, grandfather of Samuel J., moved 

 to Canaan (afterward New Lebanon), Colum- 

 bia County, N. Y., in 1790. There Elam 

 Tilden, father of the subject of this sketch, 

 married the daughter of Samuel Jones, who 



