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CoD1FICATIoN IN NEW YORK.


The New York Times, in discussing
codifeation OF the laws in connection with
the revival of an attempt to introduce the
code framed by David Dudley Field for
that State, refers to California as an ex-
ample of the success of this kind of
measure. 1t is therefore in order to point
out to our contemporary that there are
drawbacks TO the satisfaction which a
code affords, and that these drawbacks
appear inseparable from the American form
of government. Codes have hitherto been
found to work well only in countries where
it was possible TO keep very tight rein
upon new legislation. In the United
States the trouble is that no matter how
carefully the laws may be codifed, the
codifcation will in few years be buried
under deluge of appointments. That has
been the case with US in California. Every
session of the Legislature has added one or
more volumes of amendments to the code,
to the perplexities of practice. and it
is perfectly clear that in the course
OF time this method of supplement
ing and changing the codes must
altogether divest them of whatever
symmetry and harmony they originally
possessed, and bring about crudeness
and confusion in the condition of the law
at least as Objectionable as that which
existed before the work of codihcation
was thought of. Codes, in fact, may be
extremely useful, and even admirable, if
after they have once been adopted they
can be preserved from hasty and unintel-
hgent amendment. But as under our
system OF government a large percentage
of every legislative body is sure to consist
of lawyers. and as the lawyers who seek
political advancement in these times are
not often the most learned and profound
of their profession, it follows that the pro.
posed amendments to the codes viii quite
frequently be blemishes rather than bene-
fits. and that they viii tend to make the
body of law they are applied to less per-
feet instead of more so. Unless there
fore some way can be devised by which
codes may be preserved from rash and
reckless changes, we cannot speak hope
fully of any experiments in this direc-
ton. New York might find codifcation
advantageous at first. but the question is
how it would appear at the end of ten or
twenty years.
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to condone and make light of it. 1t is
equally true that an excessive laxity of the
marriage bond may conduce to profigacy,
and this has been demonstrated in some
States of the Union, to the great injury of
society, and to the scandal of American
civilization. But it is clearly possible to
establish just medium in this regard to
permit divorce for reasonable and thor.
oughly proved causes, and to deny it when
sought on frivolous grounds, or grounds
opposed to the interest of public morality
It is a significant. fact that in all the coun-
tries, save one, in which the indis-
soluble character of marriage is main
tanned, history has recorded the preva-
lence of jnfidelty among married people
The French people may retain their old
custom in this respect, but they can only
do SO at the sacrifice of the happiness of
many lives, and at the risk of great and
constant injuries to the morals of society
There occur marriages which are incapable
Of bringing anything but misery to both
parties. In such cases divorce is the only
rational mode of reparation. II, in such
cases, divorce is unattainable, there must
be either mutual wretchedness, or com
pact for the permission of mutual immor-
atty. The unreasonableness and cruelty
of undertaking to apply rigid and infex-
ible rule of life to such multifarious con-
ditions as arise every day out of mar
riage, do not need to be insisted upon.
Neither France nor any other country can
afford to ignore human nature in the
making of laws, and if divorce is refused,
the consequences of that refusal must be
put up with. There was period when
the Churchs view of marriage was a
wholesome one, but with the decline of
barbarism it has ceased TO operate as a
cement and protection to society, and has
tended more and more to operate as an
obstacle to the development of pure state
of public morals. Thus far the Church in
France has succeeded in keeping its hold
upon the women, and to the influence of
the latter is attributed the strong oppo-
sition which has been offered to the pro.
posed introduction of divorce law 1t
is, however, only question of time for the
change to be made.
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DIVORCE IN FRANCE.

The movement in favor of divorce law
in France does not appear to make much
Roadway, though it is being powerfully
supported. The old ecclesiastical doctrine
of the indissoluble nature of the marital
bond evidently retains its hold upon a
people who have in most other respects
separated themselves as much as possible
from ecclesiasticism. The French view
of matrimony has always been very differ
ent from that which prevails in Anglo
Saxon communities, but there are pecu.
Garities about French social usages
which would seem to render recourse to
divorce almost a logical sequence. 1t
might be an interesting problem to investi-
gate, whether the comparatively low ideal
of the duties of married women in France
which has prevailed SO long is not largely
attributable to the infexible character of
the marriage relation in that country.
When there is no means of resenting
marital infdelity, the tendency must be
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THANK YOU. MIR. BEEeHER.

Mr.. Beechers sentiments on the modern
tendency to makemuch of condemned muir
derers are eminently sound and seasonable.
The practice. purely feminine one be it
said, of sympathizing with these wretches,
visiting them in their cells, sending them
flowers, surrounding them with an atmos-
phere of sham pious twaddle and maudlin
sentimentality, deserves the sharpest and
most pitiless apprehension. The women
who do this kind of thing are not really
humane or tender. They are quite capable
of ignoring all the manifold misery by
which they are surrounded throughout
their lives. They are not the kind of peo-
PIE who do good by stealth, and shrink
from notoriety. They are rather brainless
followers of imhecile fashions, who think
it is correct to JOIN whatever mania
may prevail for the mement. Their slob-
behring's over murderers ere not pathetic,
but revolving, and Mr.. Beecher's vigorous
rebuke to them is just and not a whit too
stern. Such follies can only be dealt with
b the lash, and it must be laid on with an
unsparing hand to produce any good effect.
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In New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at 11S. for As of 1907 1881 for IS Of 1881
III for as; sterling, q slq4 sS1 silver bars,
1l2l
Silver in London, sd consols, 80 1916; per
cent United States bonds, 1O4s IS. I16; As
ll4l
In San Francisco half dollars are quoted at I dis
count to par; Mexican dollars, 9O@9OIc
At Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at ss Sd
@as 10d for good to choice California.
Mining stocks opened quietly in San Francisco
yesterday morning, The volume of business was
small aud the variations 10 value we're Of little con.
sequence to either buyers or sellers, and much less
to She general public.
At San Bnenaventura Sunday night, John Mitch.
ell shot Antonio Pratt in saloon quarrel, fatally
,younding him.
The body Of NJ. Highly, drowned in an Oregon
river year ago, was found Sunday
Warren Goodel, who settled in Oregon in 1913,
died Friday in Douglass county.
There are 30 male aud SO female patients in the
Oregon Insane Asylum.
sulsiin has branch of the Irish Land League
A naked negro. deIirious from smallpox, ere.
ated panic on Broadway and other streets in New
York Yesterday.
The patents OF the Singer sewing machines hav.
ing expired, anybody can now manufacture them
The President Of Mexico has signed the railroad
grant from the Ysku to the Southern Pacific
shocking scandal has occurred at Detroit in
connection with the county Insane Asylum.
Trains viii commence running regularly around
the washout on the Union Pacific Railroad to.mor-
row, new track having been built
The trials of the Land Leaguers at Dublin have
been adjourned to the summer Assizes
Turkey now agrees to cede Crete to Greece, in.
stead Of Epirus
Several Persian tribes have crossed the frontier
and pillaged many viIages
The health of Senator David Davis, of Illinois, is
said to be seriously impaired
At the Mare Island Navy Yard yesterday the rule
for ten hours as a days work went into effect
Amasa Stone, Of Cleveland, o., has given $500 600
to the Western Reserve College.
The loss OF cattle in British Columbis from the
severe winter comparatively slight
Many Chinese laborers the railroad in British
Columbia have contracted the land scurvy, making
workmen very scarce.
Another rich mining strike is reported to have
been made in Cariboo
Chnaman mysterousy assassinated on the
streets OF Salem, Or, Sunday night
General Joe Lane is gradually sinking at Rose
burg, Or, and his death may be expected at any
time.
building fell at Rochester, N. Y, yesterday,
killing one man and iniuring several others.
The Senate yesterday confirmed the nomination
of Levi P Morton as Minister to France
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
recommend the ratification of the Chinese treaties
without amendment.
peculiar and unprecedented case of Tanner.
ism" is reported from Iowa City, Ia
A graphic description Of the funeral of the Gar
at St Petersburg, from the pen OF George Augustus
Sala is given this morning, having been specially
telegrapEed to She RECORD UNION.
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Mortality RepOrf.

For the week ending March 49, 1881, made by
W. c. FARNswoRTH, Superintendent OF the City
Cemetery. Office. No. s04 street
March II Mary R. sOzer, years and 10 months ;
California.
March H. Edward NJ KerseY, 10 years; Ireland.
John H. Doody, % years, ) months and IL days /;
New York. Sarah Emily Warren, years, 5
months and "a days California.
March l6-Isabella Morelli, q days; California.
March 17-John II. Small, So years Maine. James
Matthews, 10 years, 6 months and IL days; Penn
sylvania.
March 1s-Wm. R. Stockton, % years, months
and days California. Hattie Aletha Farr,
year, months and 1 day; California. Anna G.
Mckee, days California. Raymond Mckee, 5
days; California. Long Way, 80 years China.
Besides the above there were brought here for in
terment the following:
March Unknown man found at Washington, Yolo
county.
March III Richard W. Wilcox, So years Illinois.
March 1S-J. F. Reafro, % years, il months and 27
days; Tennessee
March 14-AIary E. Mohler, S5 years, C months and
"a days; Iowa. Harmon B. Lawson, years, /
month and Is days.
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THE QUESTION OF AN EXTRA SESSION

WASHINGTON, March 21st-The newly
constituted Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations held their first meeting to-day, and
promptly acted on the Chinese treaties by
agreeing to report them back to the Senate
with recommendation for ratification with
out amendment. The treaties were accord
Lingly reported TO the Senate this afternoon,
and placed on its calendar for consideration
in due course hereafter. The committees
action to-day, although nominally -unani-
nous, was essentially formal, as it was not
preceded by any detailed considera.
ton of the merits of the treaties.
nor accompanied with any understand
ing that member should thereby
be precluded from Offering amendments, or
indeed from opposing favorable action in the
Senate. It being universally conceded that
these important treaties, which had already
been examined by the former committee,
must be disposed of during the present
session, and it being equally evident that any
discussion which might arise in this commit
tee concerning them would have to be gone
over in the Senate, the favorable report was
ordered by the committee consequently, as
the readiest means OF expediting final action.
1t should be added, however, that aside from
conjecture and some rather vague intima-
tions which may or may not prove to be
significant, there is no special reason to
anticipate that there will be any considerable
opposition to the ratification of the treaties
in their present terms, and on the other hand
there is strong reason to believe, in spite of
all criticism OF the opposition now considered
possible, that they viii both be ratified by the
requisite two-thirds majority without amend
ment
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MaisOn DOree-No. 2l7 KearnY street Dinners
balls, soirees and lunches supplied in the best
style. Tschurr y Dungeon
swain's Family Bakery and Dining
Saoon-No. $50 Market street. Wedding cakes
ice cream, oysters jeliies, etc. constantly hand
Families supplied.
Original Italian RCsfauranf-No. $40 Clay
street, between Leidesdorff and Sansomv
Gamboni, late Manager of Campi Restaurant, has
taken the management. 1t will be run in the best
Italian style.
Palace Bakery and kestaurant-No. s67
The best that the market affords, at the most
popular prices
Fleischman's Vienna Model Fsaltery-No. Dos
kearny street, Roemer Bros, Proprietors Coffee
Chocolate, Lunch, Ice Cream and Oysters All
kinds OF Cakes constantly on hand. Parties and
families sunDlied
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TELEGRAPHIo BREvITIEs

The Senate yesterday confirmed Henry w.
Dwight, of La Grande, Or, as Register OF
the Land Office there; Levi P. Morton as
Minister to France S. d. Horton, of Ohio,
as Secretary of the United States Commits
sioners to the Monetary Conference.
The President yesterday sent to the Senate
the name of Moses NJ Bane, of Salt Lake
City, to be Receiver OF Public Moneys
The Brush Electric Light Company yes
terday opened books at Cincinnati, and $780,.
600 of the stock was taken.
Judge Treat in the United States Court at
St. Louis Yesterday, decided that, the Singer
sewing machine patents having expired, any
body can now manufacture the machines
Dispatches from the City of Mexico dated
yesterday say that the President has signed
the railroad grant from the Yakee to the
Southern Pacific.
The Chicago Daily Necs yesterday morn
ing began the publication of two cent morn
ing edition. This does not, however, inter-
fere with its afternoon edition.
An excursion party from Canada has been
gotten up by the Grand Trunk Railroad, and
will consist of 750 persons in 20 coaches and
with 65 cars of baggage.
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HORRIBLE, IF TRUE.

A brief line in our dispatches yesterday
conveyed the statement, " Roussakoff is
being tortured" This Roussakoff is the
man who has confessed to having thrown
one of the petards by which the Car was
killed. There can be no doubt that he is
deserving of death, or that his execution
ought to be speedy, but the world has
outgrown the possibility of regarding
such a statement as that of the dispatch
without horror and disgust. Is it possible
that the Autocrat of all the Russias thinks
it consonant with his dignity, and with
the responsibilities of his position, to sane
ton the application of torture to this
wretched assassin And is it possible that
he thinks such an act of wanton brutality
can have any other effect than to ALLEVIATE
the sympathy of the world from his house,
and to intensity the animosities and the
fanaticisms which have found their latest
expression in Roussakoff's crime ?
To torture miserable Nihilst,
no matter what his guilt, is to
put Carbon not merely on a
level with, but below, Nihilism. 1t is to
proclaim that Alexanderthe Third, too, is an
assassin that the skin of the Russian has
this time been scratched deeply enough to
reach the Tartar; that Muscovite civili-
zation in hioh Dlaces ia after all mot nuch
travestied by the actions of its lower ele-
ments. We had supposed that torture had
been relegated to the red Indians in
the nineteenth century, and that no country
in the old world was any more to be discred.
tied by that Infamous recourse. Let us hope
that the report about Roussakoff is mere
canard, and that the reign of the new Gar
is not to be disgraced at its very outset by
so shameful and ignoble proceeding as
the subsection of a human being to torture.
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DIED.
Sacramento, March 20-c. C. Hayden, native Of
Massachusetts,, IS years.
Friends and acquaintance are respectfully invited
to attend the funeral, which will take place from
Odd Fellows Temple, this Tnesday) afternoon at
2:30 o'clock
Sacramento, March 2l-Nathaniel A. Christopher, a
native OF Delaware. 81 years and month.
Friends and acquaintance respectfully invited
to attend the funeral, which viii take place from
the A. NJ E. Church, tomorrow "wednesday
AFTERNOON at o'clock
Modesto March IL Mrs Priscilla Noles 81 years
Modesto March 1l-John S. Hall, "a years.
County Hospital, Modesto, March l2-Dayid Smith,
/ 81 years.
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SoTHERN's WILL.-Horace Wall, who
was Sothern's manager and who has Just
returned from England, says " His will
bequeaths fl 900 to his second son Ed
ward the interest on FL, 600 to his daugh-
ter Eva, and the interest on e. 900 to his
youngest son George, or Sam as he is
universally called, until they shall become
of age. To his oldest son and to Mrs.
Sothern he leaves nothing. He was GER
tainly worth 5000, 900. The will will be
contested by Mrs. Sothern on the ground
of undue influence. Sothern's small allow.
ance to his children, l suppose, is explained
by the fact that he has seen almost nothing
OF them for years, while they have been
with their mother.
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BEEcHER. = Beecher complained, the
other day. that churches are good deal
ike railroad trains-the passengers get
aboard and hold the conductor responsible
for delivering them at their destination
without an effort by themselves Accept
ing this situation, Mr.. Beeeher proposes to
show little more activity as a conductor
and little more interest in his passengers.
He has cancelled all his lecture engage
ments and will devote his whole time to
the church. 1t is his purpose also to
properly set forth the advantages of his
line and increase the number of passengers
if possible, holding meetings daily for some
time to come with that object in view.
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cLoTHIERs. ETC.

George LOOmfs-" Plaza Stores (suceessor to c.
r Van Setback Coz Importer Wholesale and
fetal Dealer in Mems Furnishing Goods, Cloth
ing, Hats, Trunks, Yankee Notions, etc, Nos. zoe
TO 72O keany street.
.. !" Germany (suceessorto Germany & Crosette),
Dealer In Shirts and Mems Furnishing Goods
Shirts made to order speciaItv No 25 Kearnv
street, between Market and Post
keane Bros.-Dry Goods Importers Nos. 10Y.
100, III lib and lis Kearny street The largest
mousse tue largest stock, and the lowest prices in
sau sIauclsco. All country orders execut. d with
promptness nd special attention
The White EOuse-The oldest Dry Coo5s Eors.
IN San Francisco. We import direct from The
principal marts in Europe, consequently can sell
lower than any other house in the trade Country
: orders attended to. J. W. Davidson & Co Nos
lo1 and l03 Kearny street, San Francisco.
The Arcade. j.. o'Brien & Co, importers NJ
Dry Goods, Nos. e24, 926 and 92s Market street.
next the Baldwin -Oe'
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BERNHARDT IN INDIANAPOLIS. The
Bernhardt played in Indianapolis not long
ago. On her arrival in the city she was
surrounded by bowling mass of hoodlums,
who greeted her with "Hello Sally"
The car containing herself and party had
to be detached from the main train and
taken to another part of the city, in order
to escape from the attentions of this mob of
bowling wretches. As the hotel was in a
state of seige from the curiosity hunters,
the party took walk until such time as
the coast was clear. This enthusiasm was
not shared by the attendants at the per-
Torrance. There was beggarly array
of empty boxes" and spectators who had
rushed in and paid 50 per seat were offering
them, at the end of the second act, for so
and o. cents
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ELECTRICITY IN SURGERY. Added to
its other valuable functions, electricity
may yet perform wonderful services in
surgery. At the Toronto General Hos
pital the other day young mans leg was
amputated with neatness and dispatch by
an electric current Having placed the
patient under the influence of ether, the
customary flaps were made, and then a
platinum wire, attached to the two poles
of a galvanic battery, was encircled round
the leg under the flaps. In moment this
wire was brought to white heat, and
began to cut its way through the limb. By
the great heat the ends of the arteries were
contracted, and only the larger ones re-
CURED to be tied. Many of the leading
surgeons of the city and large number Of
students were present.
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MILLINERY.


The BandboX- The popular Millinery Establish.
ment b. 5. Hirsch Co., No. 74S Market street.
Strict attention to or ers from the interior
Mrs. j. CoushIan-No 9l9 Msrket street In
porter Of Fine Millinery.
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HARDWARE, IRON, STEEL. ETC.

CarOlan. Cory a CO.-Imr orters of Hardware
Iron and Steel. Agents for the Pittsburg Steel
Works, Northwestern Horse Nail Co. and South
ington Cutlery Co. Nos. l20 and 100 Front street
and Nos. III and l19 California street
VIII a. FiBck-Importing and Manufacturing
Cutters and Belhangers, No. 769 Market street.
Marcus {. BawIey d CO.-Impol L rs of Hard
ware and Agricultural implements, Nos 30l 1903,
305, S07 and 800 Market street San Francisco
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sion to Society, Dimness of Vision, Noises in the
Head the vital fluid passing unobserved in the
urine and many other diseases that lead to insanity
and death.
Dir. MsNTEE will agree to forfeit Five Hun.
dTed Dollars for of this kind the Vital
RESTORATIVE (under his special advice and
treatment viii not cure, or for anything impure
injurious found in it. DE-. MzNTlE treats all
Private Diseases successfully without mercury
Consultation free. Thorough examination an6
advice, including analysis of urine, IS. Price OF
Vital Restorative, SO bottle, or four times
the quantity, SO: sent to any address upon
ceipt of price, c. o. D., secured from observation
and in private name if desired, by DR. A. r.
MINTIE. No. III Aearny Street, San Fran.
cisco, Cal.
DR. MINTlE'S KIDNEY REMEDY, NE.
PHRETICUM, cures all kinds Of Kidney anG
Bladder Complaints, GonorrhGa, elect, LeucorrhGs
For sale by all Druggists 81 a bottle, SIX bottles
for S..
DIR. MIsTEE's DAADELION PILLS are the
best and cheapest DYSPEPSIA and BILIOUS
cure in the marx ct. For sale by all Druggists.
II. c. KIRK CO., Sacramento, wholesale
Agents. mr22-4ply &o9-sw1yWS
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EDUCATIONAL PUBLIcArIoNs

Albert Ayser d C0.-Publishers Pacific School
and Home journal; = monthly 81 per year in
adYanee. devoted to Educational interests of the
Pacific coast. Official Organ State Department Of
Public Instruction. No. s98 Market street.
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DRUGS. CHEMICALS

Langley Il Nichaels- Wholesale DRUGGISTS. I'm.
porters OF pure French, English and German drugs
Northeast corner Front and Pine streets
A. f. Downing d son Wholesale Dealers
Druggists and Proprietary Speeialties No. u
Second street. Grand Hotel Building