Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-15
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
CAPITOL NOTES.

duced from the Assembly Committee on
Education, is receiving the careful and active
attention of the many now in the city from
the various localities where it is proposed
they shall be located There will probably
be reduction from the amount first agreed
upon by the committee as an appropriation
for the purpose, SO as to make it in all about
5000, 000 for erecting the buildings There
will be strong opposition to the measure by
portion of the members, on the ground that
the educational interests of the State do not
demand the number of Normal Schools pro-
posed that further appropriations would
be required to complete the buildings, and
that when completed they would
require from the State each year about $780,
600 for their support. Those active in pro-
curing their establishment set forth that one
Normal School for the whole State is made
quate and only of local benefit; that the
other locations selected are centers of large
areas, and which cannot appropriate any
benefit under the present system, and that
the State has not as yet provided sufficient
educational advantages for the general well
fare of the State. On the other hand, Sena-
tor Langford regards the whole educational
system as too expensive and plainly defective,
and has introduced Senate Bill No. 436-"To
ascertain the will of the people of the State,
touching the propriety of so changing our
public school system as to place the
education of children more under pa
rental control, to render it less ex-
pensive and better adapted to the wants of
the rising generation than is practicable I'M
der the present system" The bill proposes
to obtain, by of special ballots at the
State election the present year, an expression
of the people upon the subject of amending
the Constitution to make it conform to any
or all of the seven propositions named in the
hill fIkp r,oiutc f,rOnOced IN he St,hrp Tod
are: First Compelling parents, who are able,
to educate their own children. Second-For
the State to assist III support and education of
those whose parents are unable to do so.
Third-Declaring against State aid for
those whose parents are able to educate
their children. Fourth and fifth relate
to freedom of parents to select schools for
their children, and prohibiting religious or
non-religIous instruction against the parents
wishes. The sixth provides for the branches
to be taught when at the public expense and
seventh, that the business of educating the
young shall be open to private enterprise and
free competition, but requiring the State to
provide such schools may be required and |
IS private enterprise shall fail to establish.
Considerable interest is manifested in As |
semby Bill No 397, providing for the survey |
and sectionizing Of all unsurveyed assessable |
lands for the purpose of classification and as
sessment according to qualities. The bill re-
quires all such lands to be surveyed before
the first of next December, and the expense |
to be paid by the owners of the land SO sec
tionized.
On Saturday forenoon the famous Indian |
scout Captain Jack was at tine Capitol, dressed
il, his buckskin Indian costume, and his heavy
bus,Sy cloud of hair tied loosely back at the
neck a I'D reaching far down his back, with
bare head and wigwam moccasins to match
the outfit. He was the very personi6cation
of dime novel, blood curdiing Indian TRACE
dies, and his never-harbered head OF HAIR
with his aboriginal makeup, gave him such
decidedly wigwamisn look, as to make the
observer feel himself inyoluntarlly trans
ferred to those frontier regions and scenes
which only imagination and cheap literature
can picture. He made visit to The
Assembly, where be was invited upon the |
floor and accepted seat with Mr.. Maybell, !
and chatted freely. While thus seated and
engaged in conversation, member of the
Assembly informed a lady sitting in the hall
that Captain Jack was sitting over there
with Ir. Maybell, pointing in the direction. !
'sWhere?" inquired the lady, aud by which |
time several others in the group had Joined
in trying to catch a sight at the famous
stranger.
There" answered the member, pointing, |
"that rumple- headed, wild. Injun- looking
fellow there, near the cooler, sitting with
Maybell-those two sitting there together"
'fOh, yes, [ see them" she continued, eager
"; (which one OF them is the 1njun ?"
And then the gentleman started off to trade
the conundrum with fellow member.
A HUSBAND SLABS HIS WTE-Evidently
the north wind has maleGcent influence
There were quarrels, fights, shooting and
also cutting scrape yesterday during the
prevalence of the "norther" The latter
case occurred at the Eldred House, K, above
Tenth street, early last evening. Mrs Eliza
Smith, a woman aged about So came to that
hotel week ago last Wednesday, 1t was
understood that she had lived with her hus-
band, Ghas Smith, near Gait, and some time
ago, he going to the mountains, Mrs. Smith
broke up housekeeping, came to the city and
put her three children in an asylum and went
out to service. The husband returned from
the mountains recently, and called on his
wife at the Eldred House. They had several
interviews but the wife remained at the hotel,
where she. seems to have made friends
and to have deneaned herself properly.
Yesterday the husband appeared at the hotel
again and paid for a weeks beard for his
wife In advance. Later he came to the house
under the Influence of the devils ewn-strong
drink. The husband and wife had talk in
the parlor and soon after passed out into the
hall, when struggle was heard and parties
running out found Smith with one arm
about his wife's neck, while in his right hand
he held an open pockes-knlle, having blade
some three inches in length, with which he
was attempting to stab the woman. She
threw up her left hand, however, in such
manner as to receive the blows upon it just
as help reached her she tainted Smith, on
being seized and denounced for the assault,
simply remarked that she was his wife aud he
Lad a right to attack her. lie was taken 70
the station house and locked up. Mrs:
Smiths wounds are in the left hand only and
consist OF few cuts in the palm and between
the fingers, none of which are serious
MERCHANDISE REPORT. = The following
freight for Sacramento passed Ogden March
11th: For Holman, Stanton & Co., box
hardware. / rack wringers; Billingsley& Co.
II boxes sieves racks lap-hoards; Hall,
Luhrs Co, pals tobacco, IL boxes cards !;
Huntington, Hopkins & Co., 20 bundles
crank-pin steel Ga bundles iron pipes 5.
Iipman 4 Co., 2 boxes dry goods, bundle
cotton piece goods; w. J. O'Brien, 8 boxes
boots; Z. Stone & Co., 2 bales saddlery /;
Weinstock & Lubin, box millinery goods,
case clothing, box shirts. boxes hats, l
box mitts Lindley & Co., II boxes matches.
CRY PAYHESTs.-The following sums were
paid into the city treasury for the week end
ing March 18th: BY w. C. Earnswortb,
cemetery dues, SAL Is; R. D. SERVER,
water rates, 81, 039 Is; n. A. Kidder, har-
Dor dues, SO; E. 81. Mckee, for sale Of
wood, 81; w. A Henry, Court fines,
81; George A. Putnam, city licenses,
$3.50 so !; dog licenses, 50 60: street assess
ments, 1892 so. Total, 81, 555 20.
CATTLE YARDs.-It is understood that the
Central Pacific Railroad Company is consid-
ing the propriety of laying off ground here
for cattle yards. to render the shipment. and
Al Erarrr~
wilkinson and jerome g. Davis, Trustee
elect. have had consultations on the subject.
1t is under consideration to locate the yards,
if at all, at some point near G and Fifteenth
streets.