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TENNYSON, ALFRED. 



TEXAS. 



Tennyson died of old age, passing away peace- 

 fully after several days of painless illness or 

 gradual sinking. In the afternoon of his last 

 day he asked his son to bring his copy of Shake- 

 speare, of which he turned the leaves till he 

 came to the song in the fourth act of ' ' Cym- 

 beline " 



Fear no more the heat o' the sun. 



Placing his hand upon this, and telling his son 

 not to let it be removed, he kept it by him till he 

 died. It was buried in the coffin with him. 

 The end came an hour and a half past midnight. 

 Sir Andrew Clark, the physician, says : " In all 

 my experience I have never witnessed anything 

 more glorious. There were no artificial lights in 

 the chamber, and all was in darkness save for 

 the silvery light of the moon at its full. The 

 soft beams of light fell upon the bed and played 

 upon the features of the dying poet like a halo of 

 liembrandt. " 



Tennyson had a horror of hearses, and at his 

 obsequies none was used. The London Times's 

 correspondent wrote : "On the morning of Oct. 

 11 a heart-of-oak coffin arrived at Aldworth, and 

 in this the remains of the poet were placed. The 

 coffin was then lifted into a car an ordinary 

 country gentleman's shooting-car 'where it was 

 covered, in the first place, by a pall of hand- 

 woven Ruskin linen, made at the Keswick School 

 of Industrial Art. This, however, was soon 

 smothered in wreaths. The procession started. 

 In front, at a foot-pace, went the rustic car, led 

 by Lord Tennyson's old coachman. Behind came 

 as chief mourners the Hon. Hallam Tennyson 

 and Mi's. Tennyson, and then Miss Maud Tenny- 

 son and Mr. Kitchens, a very old friend of the 

 family. Next came a little pony-carriage drawn 

 by a black pony, heavily laden with wreaths and 

 like tributes, and then a long train of household 

 servants and humble neighbors, headed by the 

 nurses. That was all. The Hon. Hallam Ten- 

 nyson superintended the removal of the coffin to 

 the train, and the funeral party then started for 

 London, reaching Waterloo between half-past 

 eight and a quarter to nine. A further removal 

 then occurred, the coffin being placed in a van 

 and Mr. and Mrs. Hallam Tennyson entering the 

 carriage that was in waiting. Half way down 

 Stamford Street there was a halt, and the Union 

 Jack, suggested by Lady Tennyson as the most 

 appropriate covering for the coffin, was placed 

 upon it. The temporary resting place was St. 

 Faith's Chapel, in the Abbey." 



The burial took place on Oct. 12, in the Poets' 

 Corner, close by the grave of Chaucer. 



TEXAS, a Southern State, admitted to the 

 Union Dec. 29, 1845 ; area, 265,780 square miles ; 

 population, according to each decennial census 

 since admission, 212,592 in 1850 ; 604,215 in 

 1860 ; 818,750 in 1870 ; 1,591,749 in 1880 ; and 

 2,235,523 in 1890. Capital, Austin. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, James S. 

 Hogg, Democrat ; Lieutenant-Governor, George 

 C. Pendleton ; Secretary of State, George W. 

 Smith ; Treasurer, W. B. Wortham ; Comptrol- 

 ler, John D. McCall ; Attorney-General, Charles 

 A. Culberson ; Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion, J. M. Carlisle ; Commissioner of General 

 Land Office, W. L. McGaughey ; Commissioner 



of Insurance, John E. Hollingsworth ; Railroad 

 Commissioners, John H. Reagan, L. L. Foster, 

 W. P. McLean ; Chief Justice of the Supreme 

 Court, John W. Stayton ; Associate Justices, 

 Reuben R. Gaines and John L. Henry ; Court 

 of Appeals, Presiding Judge, John P. White, 

 who resigned on April 27 and was succeeded by 

 James M. Hurt, Judges W. L. Davidson and E. 

 J. Simkins ; Commission of Appeals, Sec. A, 

 Presiding Judge, Edwin Hobby, Judges W. E. 

 Collard and D. P. Marr ; Sec. B, Presiding 

 Judge, C. C. Garrett, Judges D. B. Tarlton and 

 H. C. Fisher. By act of the Legislature, passed 

 at the special session held in March, the Court of 

 Appeals and the Commission of Appeals were 

 superseded on Sept. 1 by three Courts of Civil 

 Appeals and one Court of Criminal Appeals, 

 The following members of these courts (with the 

 exception of Judge Hurt who held over under 

 the Jaw) were appointed by the Governor on Sept. 

 1 and subsequently elected by the people at the 

 November election : Court of Civil Appeals, First 

 district, Presiding Judge, C. C. Garrett, Judges 

 Frank A. Williams and Henry C. Pleasants ; 

 Second district, Presiding Judge, H. C. Fisher, 

 Judges William Key and W. E. Collard ; Third 

 district, Presiding Judge, D. B. Tarlton, Judges, 

 H. 0. Head and 1. W. Stephens. Court of Crim- 

 inal Appeals, Presiding Judge, James M. Hurt, 

 Judges W. L. Davidson and E. J. Simkins. 



Finances. The balance in the State treasury, 

 which was $1,007,193.87 on Aug. 31, 1891, had 

 increased to $1,322,253.21 on Aug. 31, 1892. In 

 the general revenue fund the balance on the 

 latter date was $450,332 ; in the available school 

 fund, $367,543.76; and in all other funds, $504,- 

 377.45. The following bonds were held in the 

 State treasury on Aug. 31, 1892, to the credit of 

 the various permanent State funds : Permanent 

 school fund, $7,821,336.50 ; permanent univer- 

 sity fund, $571,340 ; Blind Asylum fund, $109,- 

 300 ; Deaf and Dumb Asylum fund, $59,000 ; 

 Lunatic Asylum fund, $106,400 ; Agricultural and 

 Mechanical College fund, $209,000 ; other funds, 

 $90,456.19 ; total, $8,966,832.69. The income 

 of these bonds is used for the support of schools 

 and public institutions. 



The assessed valuation of property in the State 

 for 1891 was $856,200,283, an increase of $74,- 

 088,400 in one year. The tax rate for all State 

 purposes was 29^ cents on each $100. 



Legislative Session. -On Feb. 18 Gov. Hogg 

 issued his proclamation calling upon the Legisla- 

 ture to meet in special session at Austin on 

 March 14. Among the subjects for legislative 

 action enumerated in the proclamation were the 

 election of a United States Senator, the reappor- 

 tionment of the State into Congressional, sena- 

 torial, judicial, and representative districts, the 

 passage of laws to enforce the constitutional 

 amendments adopted in August, 1891, and the 

 restriction and regulation of the bond and stock 

 issues of railroads, counties, and municipalities. 

 The choice for United States Senator fell upon 

 Congressman Roger Q. Mills, who received the 

 following vote in each house on March 22 : Sen- 

 ateMills, 29 ; scattering, 2 ; House Mills, 94 ; 

 scattering, 9. Mr. Mills thereby became the suc- 

 cessor of Hon. Horace Chilton, who was appointed 

 by the Governor in 1891 to succeed Hon. John H. 

 Reagan, resigned. His term will expire on March 



