Austin

capital of the State of Texas, and county-seat of Travis co.; on the Colorado river; 230 miles N. W. of Galveston. It derives large power for manufacturing from the river. Besides the State Capitol, the city contains the main building of the State University, four State asylums, the State Confederate Home. The Capitol, which cost $3,000,000, is in a square of 10 acres. The recent construction of a dam in the river has given the city a large and beautiful stretch of water, known as Lake Mc- Donald. The city was onneemy known as Waterloo; was named after Stephen F. Austin; became the capital of the Republic of Texas in 1839; and the capital of the State in 1872, Pop.