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THE HOTEL IN YOSEMITE.

There were few short-sighted people,
and some journals, that ought to have
known better, who objected to the State
building hotel in Yosemite valley, and
ridiculed the idea as absurd But the
Legislature wisely thought differently, and
now the hotel is to be built, and is to be
located beneath the overhanging glories of
Glacier Point, where good drainage is as
sured, and ample space at command is al
ready beautifed by natural gardening. OF
course no reason can be advanced worthy
consideration why the State should not
erect, own and control the houses upon
her own property 1t is the only way she
can properly administer the splendid trust
placed in her by the Federal Gov
ernment. 1t is the only way she
can assure the tourists against imposition,
and guarantee the people good accommoda-
ton when they visit the valley. For years
she has endeavored to control those who
sell accommodations in the valley, and has
regulated charges for services. 1t is there
fore eminently proper that she should
have a decent hotel building to rent to
landlords. 1t will contribute to the travel
to the valley, enhance the value and rental
of the privileges the State lets in those
grounds, and will stimulate the desire of
the people of the world to visit the valley.
In fact, this great possession should be,
and will be, a source of great profit to the
people Of California, by drawing to our
State visitors who else would never come
The Commissioners should not be niggard
in building the new hotel, but get the best
possible building for the money, and we
do not believe the people would murmur if
it costs something more than the sum al
lotted, for it is clear that the appropria-
ton was not nearly so large as the need
demands
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delightful fragrance, which has heretofore
been comparatively unknown to the fash
ionable world, and has wasted its sweet
ness upon the rough hunters of the noun
tain nights, and the few who have. in
summer, worshiped in Gods first temples.
The foliage is packed into stout muslin
case. Over this comes the embroidered
cover case-and here is where the mani
festations of art tastes come in. These
covers are of linen, canvas, pongee satin,
pushes, silks and other rich fabrics. En-
broidery hosses, of all possible kinds and
shades, are used, and the work OF decora-
ton begins. These pillows are adorned
with all manner of devices and symbols
perhaps a design of fir tree a cone, a
mountain, bit of landscape, etc, as taste
and ingenuity suggest. So, too, they bear
notices, such as "Give me of your balm,
o fir tree" or The murmuring pines and
the hemlocks :" or "Dreams of the for
est" or "The breath of the fir we have
always with u.s." These pillows are far
superior to the ordinary sofa pillows, are
decidedly more healthfuI, and for the
heated brow and aching head are soothing
influences. They pervade the air of the
sick chamber with their gentle and restful
odors, and bring to the weary dreams OF
the mountain side and the glories of the
b;Ils
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would be to put an end to the system it

would be to put an end to the system it
sell.
Let us carry out the Bulletins logic to
its legitimate conclusion. If it is unjust
that county should pay to the State more
than it receives back for school purposes,
it is unjust that one part of district
should pay more for school purposes than
it receives for the schools of its particular
section, and therefore the populous end of
district would be justified in seeking to be
set off from that part of its own subdivision
that contributes a lesser amount. But
to go further still, those who have no
children to be educated would have a
stronger case in justice in Directing to the
levy of any tax upon them whatever for
school purposes, and, that being conceded,
we should be handicapping paternity, Of
fering by actual exemption premium
upon celibacy and a prize for the crime of
infanticide and the prevention of concep-
ton. Yet it is logically demonstrable that
this is the legitimate outcome Of the Bulls-
TINS theory.
But, viewed in purely commercial
light, the argument of the Bulletin is
equally as fallacious. 1t is obviously to
the best interest of the metropolis that the
population of consumers should be pushed
to and maintained at the maximum Now
whatever tends to render country residence
undesirable tends to retard its develop
ment and to lessen the consuming popula-
ton. To handicap the advantages of edu-
eating the children of the people is to
drive them to localities where no such
disability exists, and thus the commercial
interests Of San Francisco would suffer 1t
IS scarcely necessary to consider the moral
side of the question, and the relation of
ignorance to crime; nor yet the economic
side, and the relation of general intelli-
gence to the economies of State govern
ment.
The immediate occasion for the latest
attempt of our esteemed contemporary to
break down the present system is the act
of the State Board of Equalization in re-
fusing to consider this alleged inequality
of taxation in equalizing the assessment
rolls of the counties. To be logical and
consistent the Bulletin should have also
cited to the Board that it is a fact that
San Francisco has not for many years paid
her due proportion of poll-tax, while in
the outlying counties it is collected
very closely. An examination of the Con-
trollers report will show the Bulletin that
in this regard the city of San Francisco
has long been delinquent in contribu-
tions to the school fund.
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A NEW CRAZE.

1t was looked upon as certainty that
with the decadence of the crazy-quilt
craze, some other mania would seize upon
the female population. 1t has come lit
tie sooner, however, than was anticipated,
for the quilt of many colors has not yet
entirely "lost its grip" The new craze is
the making and decorating of " fir" pill
lows. The disease has seized with full
force upon the good ladies of Maine, and
the symptoms have appeared in Massachu-
sets. Firs, pines and spruces are the objects
now OF great solicitation, and much of their
foliage no longer fall to earth to manure
the soil. 1t is torn from the parent stem
by taper fingers, or for them, and chival-
rous young manhood is sent out upon
knightly errands for the fair, to conquer
the evergreens of the hills and bear the
palms of victory to the feet of its god
Sess. 1t is said that up in Maine women,
old and young, can be seen tramping
through the streets ladened with these en-
blems of conquest over the resinous kings
of the mountain tops. The foliage is dried
in the sunlight and yields healthful and
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LIFE AFTER DEATH.

DR.. Richardson, according to the Popular
Science Monthly, has recently propounded a
rather startling question, :" May not life be
restored to the body after actual death ? "
As men now understand the theory of life
the response must be in the negative. But
Richardson cites some testimony that gives
ground for an affirmative answer. Thus,
by combining artificial circulation with
artificial respiration, dog was restored to
life an hour and five minutes after having
been killed by an overdose of chloroform,
and the heart having become perfectly still
and cold and was passing into rigidity.
Again, animals that have been killed by
sufiocation and partially disseeted were
brought to such state of muscular irrita-
bllity that the experiment was stopped for
fear that they would return to conscious,
sentient life. Frogs poisoned by nitrate of
amyl were restored after nine days of APP
parent death, and in one case after signs of
putrefactive change had commenced The
action of peroxide of hydrogen in reani-
mating the blood and restoring heat in a
really dead body is quite startling. From
these observations w. Mattieu Williams
thinks the conclusion is iiustifable that " a
drowned or sufocated man is not hope
lessly dead so long as the bodily organs
remain uninjured by violence or disease,
and the blood remains sufficiently liquid
to be set in motion artificially and supplied
with little oxygen to start the chemical
movements of life"
OF course until science has actually
brought to life human body that has
been actually dead, that is, from the state
which we define to be death, the whole
subject must be one of speculation But
assuming that the theory is possible of de-
monstration, and that one, in whom the
circulation of the blood and the pulsations
of the heart have actually ceased, and the
breathing of air into the lungs has come to
an end-one from whom consciousness has
departed and in whom sensation has
ceased-assuming that in such body life
may be revived and consciousness restored,
what becomes of the doctrine that the
body is dependent for its vitality, not alone
to physical conditions, but to occupancy by
the immaterial part-the soul? If that
has once severed its relation to the BODY,
and life may be restored, 1t involves the
rehabilitation of the casket with the es-
sence of life, intelligence, thought, reason
and all other soul attributes. OF course it
is prohtless to speculate upon a mere the
DRY of this kind, but when an approach is
made to restoration of life symptoms, it is
at least well to be kept informed of the
theories of science and the cropping for sup
posed new truths. But in this case the
reasonableness of the belief in the soul, in
its Immortality, and in its severance from
the body at death, gives the lie to even the
possibility of science ever restoring life to
the body which has been once dead.
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The Dismissal of Cases

EDS. REcoBD-UNIoN see an article in
the Democratic paper the Sun, under the
head, "a Bad Precedent" stating that
Judge Van Fleet ought to be censured for
dismissing the cases of Wilson and Mead.
Now | would like 10 say few words
through your valuable paper in vindication
of the act, although not an attorney in the
case, nor have l any interest therein It
was precisely such case as the law points
out where dismissal may be had. Sec
ton 1877 of the Penal Code reads as fol-
lows when defendant is held to answer
on charge of misdemeanor, for which the
person injured by the act constituting the
otfense has remedy by civil action. the
offense may be compromised as provided
in the next section, except when it is COM
mitted-first, by or upon an officer of JUS
tice while in the execution of the duties of
his office; second, riotously; third, with
an intent to commit felony"
Section 1873 reads as follows ''If the
party injured appears before the Court to
which the dispositions are required TO be re-
turned, at any time before trial, and &C
knowledges that he has received satisfac-
ton for the injury, the Court may, in its
discretion, on payment of the costs in
CURED, order all proceedings to be stayed
upon the prosecution, and the defendant
to be discharged therefrom but in such
case the reasons for the order must be set
forth therein, and entered on the minutes
The order is bar to another prosecution
for the same offense."
Section 1879 reads as follows: &c No pub
lie offense can be compromised, nor can
any proceeding or prosecution for the
punishment thereof upon compromise be
staid, except as provided in this chapter
This is what Judge Van Fleet did in that
case in strict compliance with the law, and
there is no law in the Code authorizing a
dismissal of the case upon compromise
only when a person has been examined in
the lower Court and held to dns1ccr to the
Superior Court yet l know of practice
in the lower Courts, of weekly and almost
daily occurrence, dismissing cases on a
compromise and on payment of 50 80 costs,
and on motion of the prosecuting attorney,
and no notice is taken of it by the Sun or
any other paper that know Of
Section 1882 provides for dismissal of
cases i'll the Superior Court on certain con-
tingencies not necessary to mention here.
Section 10 of the Penal Code makes it a
misdemeanor for the Clerk of the Police
Court to receive the 81 so costs. He is only
entitled to costs in cases of conviction, and
a compromise is not a conviction. But
these things are winked at.
|. S. BROWN, Attorney-at-La
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THE SCHOOL REVENUE SYSTEM AND
THE BULLETIN.

Our contemporary, the San Francisco
Bulletin, is possessed by a nightmare on
the subject Of the support of the common
schools by uniform contribution by all the
State. Periodically it revives the subject,
and on each occasion grows wilder con-
corning it. Reduced to its essence this is
the trouble with the Bulletin Under our
present system the school funds are appor-
toned among the counties, according to a
rate measured by the number Of children
within school census ages. In the nature
of things, this gives some outlying counties,
thinly settled, more school money than
they pay into the school fund, while some
other localities pay out to the school fund
good deal more than they receive from
it for school purposes. Of this latter
class is the city and county of San Fran
cisco.
To this state of things the Bulletin
strenuously objects, denouncing the system
as unjust 1t is obvious to any intelligence
equivalent, in dollars and cents, to the
sum it contributes, there would be no need
of the State acting intermediary between
the collection and the payment out Of the
fund. So it would amount to this, that
each school district would support itself.
Now it goes without saying that such a
plan is the most primitive of methods, and
would strike at the very foundation and
root of the system of popular free educa-
ton. 1t would follow that the feeble dis
tricts would be unable to maintain schools
at all, since the taxation would be heavier
than they could possibly bear. The pres
ent system is based upon the oneness of the
eoplesinterests in the matter of the schools
Of the State. County and district lines
and boundaries are mere geographical con-
veniences for the more economic and ready
administration of the affairs of govern
ment. There is but one sovereignty in a
State, and that is the State. The counties
are not sovereign nor independent in any
sense whatever. The citizen gains no
right by reason of such geographical di-
visions. The system on which the COM
mon schools are supported and conducted
is State system, with certain local gov
erning and administrative functions con-
ferred upon districts as mere matters of
convenience, and these exist only at the
pleasure of the one sovereign-the State
which may change, narrow, enlarge or
withdraw them at will. The principle on
which the school revenue system rests is.
that the interests of all the people are in
the education Of all the people. To change
this to read, "The interests of the people
In the common school system are limited
by the capacity of school Districts would
be to say to the new counties, and those
as yet not fully developed, You shall be
handicapped your children shall not en-
joy equal privileges with those of more
thickly-settled sections; you shall be pun
ished because of your distance from popu-
lous centers, and the lack of inhabitants
as compared with the hives of the cities.n
Obviously, to enunciate such a doctrine
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DEFICIENT LAWS.

The dispatches dilate upon the discoy-
cry that young American woman has
been found in an Italian insane asylum,
where she has been confined for two years
by a dissolute husband, in order to rid
himself of her, though she was perfectly
sane. 1t is sad case, of course, hut there
can be no question that there are many
sane people confined in our private, and
possibly, in our State, insane asylums. We
do not appear to have attained a condi-
ton in government in which such things
would be impossible. In this very matter
we have not progressed step in the last
century, and it is no more difficult now to
lock up troublesome relative, on the plea
that he or she is insane, than it was
hundred years ago. Only the other day,
IN Pennsylvania, woman was released
from an insane retreat where she had been
confined for quarter of a century by
jealous relatives who coveted the manage
ment of her estates. Though the woman
was sane and without mental flaw, she
had, under the laws of our civilization,
found it impossible to secure her release,
and it only came at the last because she
had outlived her prosecutors. Yes, in this
matter, our laws are wofully deficient, and
afford rascals the broadest opportunity to
perpetrate great outrages
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The washington Gambling Cases.

EDS. REcoRD-UNIoN 1 observe that your
paper states that the complaining witness
in the Washington gambling cases stultified
himself, and the whole thing was made a
farce by dismissal of defendants without
any testimony offered. Permit me to say
that as it was known that gambling was
being carried on, and also who were pres
ent, the arrests were made with the ex-
pectation that by making these witnesses
who attended the games. and knew of the
playing. the necessary testimony would be
obtained. When, however, it was found
that the faro games were stopped as soon
as the arrests were made, the entire object
was accomplished, and l did not care to
prosecute further, and hence the dismissals.
There are, however, Chinese tan and lot
terry games still running near by which
should be suppressed. They are Getri-
ment and disgrace to our community. If
it were investigated, it will be found also
that money from the rents of the buildings
in which the unlawful concerns are carried
on go into the pockets Of officials who, in
stead of profiting by them, should promptly
close up and suppress them. l. n. GILL.
Washington, Yolo county, Oct. 2, 1885.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
lFiled Septemher anLh. -. !

p
September 30th, 1SS5-Catharne Kehrer
to Ignatius Kehrer-lots and 4, D and E,
Ninth and Tenth streets $500.
September 18th, 1SS5-Henry ". A.
Nicholson to John f. Schwiers-swamp
| and overfiowed land survey No 344 Sac
| ramento county.
September '30th, 18S5-William Gilmore
to Edwin K. Alsip-part of the west half
| OF southwest quarter of southwest quarter
Of section 81, township s north, range )
east, containing 10 acres
Filled October LIST, 1885,
September 30th, 1SS5-J. w. Wilson,
Sheriff, to Frederick Meckfessel-lots /, ,,
3, 4, >, 6, and s, J and K, Twenty eighth
and Twenty-ninth streets $1,450.
March 9TH, 1SS5-Frank Meckfessel to
Frederick MeckfeSsel-block between and
K, Twentyeighth and Twenty-ninth
streets $1,000.
September 1st, 1857. Meckfessel to H.
Dehn-block between and h, Twenty
eighth and Twenty-ninth streets
July I'd, 1565-Charles Croker to Sam
uel W. Palin-lots 4, 5 and 6, in block /,
town of Gait 800.
October LIST, 1SS5-F. S. George to Frank
Dupoister-north half of lots 5 and G, f and
G, Twenty-second and Twenty third
streets.
September 30th, 1SS5-Charles W. Pierce
to Mike Bryte-half interest in lot 10,
Sheldon grant; $4,000.
September 30th 1SS5-Charles W. Pierce
to George Bryte-half interest in lot 10,
Sheldon grant entire lot containing 724
acres $4,000.
Filled october I'd, 1856.
October LIST, 1S65-Lillie Winters to Sol
ONION Loorya-north half of south half of
north half of lot s, ] and X, Second and
Third streets 81. 500.
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PASSENGERS FROM THE EAST,
SPECIAL BY TELEGRAPH TO THE aEcoRD-uNroS.l

PRoMoNToRY (Utah), October 2d-The
following overland passengers passed here
to-day, to arrive in Sacramento October
4th: Miss E. Head, Redwood Miss D.
Witterff, Driscol; Mrs. r. D. Bogart, Santa
Barbara Mrs. C. L. Higgins, Mrs George
Higgins, Denver; A. w. Clark, Mrs. C. w.
Clark, Salem; II. B. Chindler and wife, J.
n. Hughley and wife, Mrs. Watson, Miss
A. c. Nichols, ]. Foley, A. New, San Fran
cisco; Mrs. Jennings, San Jose L. Wolf
and wife, Chicago; D. M. Truer, Passenger
Agent n. Y, w. and B.; H. Dabrey, C. II.
Ripon, Sacramento; Miss L. Bishop, Cleve-
land Maggie Young, Green River; P.
Smith, Butte; B. Nath, G. g. Nabb and
wife, r. L. Marley, Stockton H. Bullin,
England; P. Prisswork, Switzerland.
NEwHALL, October 2d.-The following
overland passengers passed Newhall to-day.
to arrive in San Francisco October Sd
j. r. Farrell, San Rafael j. s. Robertson,
Judge NJ. c. Blake, Mrs. f. J. Lowell, Mrs.
E. j. Bassfield and daughter, ]. NJ. McNa-
mara, George F. Hafky, San Francisco J.
B. Banning Wilmington J. c. Cline, Los
Angeles; DR.. J. B. Hogerty, Oakland
David Kissar, Albany H. Menager and
wife, Tucson, A. 7.
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Postohice Civil Service.

The Democratic civil service reform y
is working beautifully, and is filling Demo-
cratic editors with delight. The labors of
this reform seem to be divided pretty
evenly. The President writes the letters
full of promises to carry out the civil serv-
ice. law, while his heads of Departments
are busy night and day in violating both
the spirit and letter of the law. AS proof
of this are the thousands of Republican
officials, against whom nc charges could be
brought, removed to make room for Demo-
Gratis. All this is done under the charge of
offensive partisanship." How insincere
and hypocrltical these pretenses are appears
in the case of the Sacramento Postoffice.
Chris. Green has been the Postmaster
there for years, and he has been an ex-
ceedingly good and efficient one There
has never been any complaint against
him. This Administration thought so
well of him that ii appointed him a
Commissioner to select the site for the
new Postoffice. He was a few days since
removed on the ground of offensive par
tisanship," and Russ Stephens, Demo
crat, appointed in his place Green was
strong in his faith in the Republican
party. Russ Stephens, who takes his place,
was just as strong in his faith in the Demo-
cratic party. If there is any difference in
the two men Stephens is the most active
partisan. The true reason for the removal
is not the one given. Green, the Republi-
can, was removed to make room for Ste
phens, the Democrat. The charge of often
sive partisanship is hypocritical pretense,
and does not deceive anybody. In the
Sacramento case no harm is done, because
Stephens is likely to prove as good an Off
Ger as Green has been, and we are not criti-
cising the personnel Of that appointment.
We only point out the cant and insincerity
of this Democratic administration in its
civil service professionally arysyille APP
peal.
GOOD APPOINTMENT.
Under this caption the San Francisco
Spni. of the Times says Russ D. Stephens,
of Sacramento, has been appointed Post
master of that city, vice Christopher Green,
suspended. We consider the selection of
Mr.. Stephens most excellent one in
every respect He is a Democrat, but not
one of that iconoclastic crew that only take
delight in destruction. He is an old resi-
dent of Sacramento. and enjoys the respect
of his fellow citizens, and will make first
class officer and give satisfaction to the peo-
pie. If all the Presidents appointments
were and are as opportune as this one, he
might consider that he was born under
lucky star. We congratulate Mr.. Stephens
on his appointment, and the people Of Sac
ramento on the selection made by the
President.