Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-11-01
Z. c. MARSHALL, Attorney-General,
State Board of Examiners.

DESIRABLE CHANGES. - The matter of
changing the hanging Of all the doors of the
city school buildings so as to make them
swing outward, instead of inward, as origin
ally hung, is warmly approved by all who
visit the schools and notice the change. This
was done last winter by our present Board of
Directors with a view to greater safety in case
of fire. and is one of the many improvements
effected during the past year. The ventils-
ton of the school-rComs and outbuildings has
also been greatly improved. At the Sacra-
mento Grammar School building the outdoor
closets stand twenty or thirty feet from the
main building, but as if this was not near
enough to contsminate sufficiently the atmos-
phere in the school.rOoms, fIe5 were origin
ally constructed from the closets and run at
an angle of about forty-five degrees to the
school building and connected with fue in
the wall, through which the effiuvia passed.
Recently the Board condemned this disease
breeding process, and erected large ventilat-
ing pire, which stands perpendicular from
the closets. This ventiletor is about two
fest square and forty feet in height, and has
not only diverted the cesspool fumes away
from the school-rooms, but also made the
premises entirely wholesome when there was
much good reason for complaint before.
other school buildings.
PREVIOUSLY AFTERWARDS. The New York
Times, in one of its issues of last week, gives
an account of the establishment of an ostrich
farm in Florida, and starts out by saying :
1.-THE stock for the first ostrich farm in the
United States was shipped from this city
yesterday. i consisted of three pairs of
three-year-old ostriches. The destination of
the birds was Sylvan Like, Orange county,
Fla, etc. The writer Of that article must
be near relative of Rip Van Wrinkles, or
he would have seen some Of the many &C.
counts in the RECORD UNION and other coast
papers, which have been copied in various
Eastern pspers, that have been published
during the past two years, in reference TO the
! ostrich farm which has been in successful
operation in the southern part of California
during that time. At this rate of stealing
California laurels, the Police Commissioners
of some obscure city will soon be getting up
decapitated, double headed police force, and
applying for patent IS original inventors.
TnlPERANoE.-The first of three temper
ance meetings, under the auspices of the
Good Templars, was held last night in West
minister Presbyterian Church. A large au-
diencs was present. Colonel c. n. Goulding,
Grand Lecturer of the Order, delivered an
eloquent address on the question, "Who Sells
| for Cash, and who Pays the Tsxes?' The
force of his address was that ssloon-keepers
sell for cash, and that other men generally
pay the taxes. He is one of the most
| trenchant temperance advocates that has
visited Sacramento. He speaks tonight and
tomorrow night, on which evenings Mrs
| Richardson. General Superintendent Of Ju-
yenie Work. ]. o. G.. T., will sing. Her
ability in this line Is we'll spoken Of by the
press.
PgoM1SESr AUCTION SALE.-On Thursday,
November Ssh, the fac residence of George
Cadwalader, situstcd on n street, between
Seventh aud Eighth, will be sold. The 10.
has $50 feet frontage on n street, and ex.
| tends leo feet back TO the alley. The sale
/ includes the household furniture, parlor, bed.
room, diniog-room and kitchen effects; also,
/ large stable. with horses. carriages, harness,
! etc. Mr. CadwalaCer's family has removed
/ to San Francisco, which is the cause for sell
ing. Ths sale will be conducted by ID. j.
! Simmons, whose Office Is at 10l3 Fourth
street, who will give any information con-
corning the property desired.
WAITING. Over two months ago d. O,
Mills presented the State Of California with a
statue of Columbus, and ever since the mar.
BILE form of the great navigator has been
nailed up in its box prison under the Capitol
dome. Three hundred and ninety-one years
ago Columbus stood in the halls Of Isabella
and waited for ship which was to bear him
away upon voyage, the results of which
would elevate the then unknown Genoese
sailor TO the pedestal of fame. To-day he
stands in q box Of straw and sswdust, waiting
for the pedestal to be chiselsd out whereon
be may stand, as monument to fame real
izsd.
THE POLICE SLArE.-0n the police slate
st o'clock this morning were the names OF
John Filand, for misdemeanor: Chas. Her.
man, drunk VIM. Sprout and Frank Smith,
for vsgrancy also George Fox aud Charles
Wood, arrested for carrying concealed
weapons and having in their possession a full
| lie oF burclar taaiz