The morning call., 1890-09-21

les, Guanajuato, Guaymas, Guerrero, Laguna
de Terminus, La Paz, Matamoras, Mazatlan
Mier, Nogales, Nuevo Laredo. Paso del
Norte, Piedras Negras, San Benito, San
Bias. San Jose and Cape st. Lucas. San
Luis Potosi, Santa Cruz Point, Tampico,
Tehuantepec and Salina Cruz, Tuxpan, Vera
Cruz, Victoria, Zacatecas. To follow all
the changes in the administrations of thirty
years in the above is asking too much.
APRIL FOOLS DAY-O. F. o.. Redding,
Cal. In England, France and Germany the
1st of April has long been appropriated 10
facetious custom, for which no very salts
factory origin has been assigned. April
was in the old Roman reckoning the second
month of the year, but in the Julian calen-
dar is counted the fourth, and among the
Romans was sacred to Venus, festival in
whose honor was held on the first day, con-
tinuing during the month in honor of other
godly celebrities and concluding on the 2Sth
and the four following days with the rotonS
Floralia. One remarkable theory traces the
custom of sending an unsuspecing person
on some bootleSS GRAND on the day to Noah
as sending out his dove on such quest 1t
is referred also to either the miracle plays
representing the sending of the Savior from
ADnas to Caiaphas and from Plate to HerOd,
or to the change in France in 1864 OF New
Years day to the lSt of January, leaving
the LIST of April destitute of anything but
burlesque of its former festivities. More
recently an Identification has been attempted
with the HindoO festival of Hull, celebrated
in similar manner on the 31st of March.
No references to All-foops day have been
found in English early literature. and it
seems that both England and Germany de-
rived the fashion from France.
To BE AN ELECToR-E. L., Vallejo, Cal
You may complicate your query with as
conditions ayaIuciua
on Mare Island, which is a Government
reservation, enlistment in the navy at New
York, discharge from the same at Mare
Island. residence in the meantime in
Vallejo, re-enlistment at Mare Island and
residence there for one year, prior residence
in San Francisco. followed by dOmicies for
stated periods at Vallejo and Mare Island,
the fact remains that if you are citizen, or
one who shall have become such ninety
days prior to any election, OF the age of 81
years, who shall have been resident of the
State one year next preceding the election,
and of the county in which he claims his
vote ninety days and in the election pre-
cinct thirty days, he shall be entitled to vote
al all elections = authorized by law"
4 QUESTION OF CoNsANGUINITY-M. 3.
City. Stripped of its verbiage, your dueryls:
Is ones marriage with tile daughter of ones
half-sister legal? The answer is no, for ac-
cording to the English law-which pro
hbit,On, however, is all but unknown in the
United StateS-a man may neither marry his
sister nor deceased wife's sister, for she is
related to him in the second degree, nor his
sisters daughter (Which legally embrar es
your query. nor his deceased wiie'S sisters
daughter, for both are in the third degree;
but he may marry his first cousin, for she is
in the fourth degree. On the subject of un-
lawful marriages also read LevitIcus xviii.
JURISDICTION ON A RESERvATIoN-E.
L., Vallejo, Cal. ~ Answering cate ori-
cally, the Assessor of Solano County has no
legal right to assess or collect taxes on Mare
Island or the Sheriff of the said county to
levy on property on said island. C2l The
question what jurisdiction the State could
enforce on a Government reservation is 4
delicate legal one, which has not been gOde
very deeply into 1t has been conceded in
practice that the State has none, save such
which the Commandant in discretion or
comfy may permit it, through its repre-
sentative, to exercise.
PRESERVING ORDER IN THE SOUTH
w. III. X, City. One of the employmenis VI
the army in the year 1876 was tU preserve
order in the South and to be prepared for any
disturbance that might arise during the eX.
element of the Presidential elef ton. Llea-
tenant-G General Sheridan WAS instructed to
u " eiVNpS
New Orleans under Brigadier-General
Augur. commanding the Department Of the
Gulf. General Sheridan was in person al
New Orleans.
He Is A CIrIzEN-J. H, City. The
children of persons who have been duly
naturalized, being under the age of q years
at the time of the naturalization of their
parents, shall, If dwelling in the United
States, be considered as citizens thereof;
and the children of persons who now are or
have been citizens Of the United States are,
ton of the United States, considered as citi-
zens thereof.
MUST Be PRoBATED-J. l., City. The
case which you put in your query is that of
an intestate, and to sell the property of the
estate the matter will have to go through the
Probate Court. Ii it does not. the chain OF
title will not be good and the interest OF the
inteState cannot be decided. The conditions
named, that the property is homestead and
the children of age and willing TO sell, do
not affect the question OF probate.
COLLEGE OF THE LAVE. W., City.
What need to ask ''if there is in the United
States a law school which will allow per-
son to remain at home and go through their
course at homer" That can be done right
here in the Hastings College OF the Law,
University of California, which owes its
existence to the muntceuee of ex-Judse
S. c. Hastings, who endowed it with free
gift of 100000.