Burke's Texas Almanac and Immigrants' Handbook for ...James Burke J. Burke, Jr., 1883 |
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Page 17 - This table and the accompanying remarks are the result of many years' actual observation ; the whole being constructed on a due consideration of the attraction of the sun and moon in their several positions respecting the earth ; and will, by simple inspection, show the observer what kind of weather will most probably follow the entrance of the moon into any of her quarter», and that so near the truth as to be seldom or never found to fail.
Page 60 - College; studied law, was admitted to the bar when twenty-one years of age, and has since practised constantly, when not in the public service ; removed in 1850 to Waco, McLennan County, Texas, where he has since resided; served in the Confederate Army as private and afterward as Captain; was appointed District Judge in June, 1865 ; was nominated by the Democratic...
Page 161 - Book manuscript, manuscript for magazines, periodicals, newspapers, and music manuscript are now subject to full letter rates of postage, except they be accompanied by proof-sheets, or corrected proof-sheets of such manuscript, or of which proofs such manuscript is a correction or addition, when the rate will be one cent for two ounces or fractional part thereof. Manuscript as above stated may be sent otherwise than in the mails.
Page 76 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 41 - Opposition to centralization and to that dangerous spirit of encroachment which tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever be the form of government, a real despotism.
Page 17 - The nearer to mid.day or noon, the phases of the moon happen, the more foul or wet weather may be expected during the next seven days. 4. The space for this calculation occupies from ten in the forenoon to two in the afternoon. These observations refer principally to the summer.
Page 45 - The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, established by an act of the legislature, passed April 17, 1871, located in the county of Brazos, is hereby made and constituted a branch of the University of Texas, for instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts and the natural sciences connected therewith.
Page 17 - ... in the table. 6. Though the weather, from a variety of irregular causes, is more uncertain in the latter part of autumn, the whole of winter, and the beginning of spring, yet, in the main, the above observations will apply to those periods also.
Page 17 - Cold with frequent showers. Rain. Wind and Rain. Changeable. Frequent showers. Very rainy. Changeable. Fair. Fair, if wind NW Rainy, ifS.
Page 62 - David B. Culberson, of Jefferson, was born in Troup County, Georgia, September 29, 1830; was educated at Brownwood, La Grange, Georgia; studied law under Chief Justice Chilton, of Alabama; removed to Texas in 1856, and was elected a member of the Legislature of that State in 1859; entered the Confederate Army as a private, and was promoted to the rank of Colonel of the Eighteenth Texas Infantry; was assigned to duty in 1864 as Adjutant-General, with the rank of Colonel, of the State of Texas ; was...