The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-26

FIRST NEwsPAPER-L. K, City. The
Californian, a weekly newspaper of small
dimensions and inferior typographical pre-
tensions. appeared for the first time at Mon
terey on the 10Th of August, 1916 1t was
issued by Messrs Walter Cotton and Robert
Semple by whom it was also edited. Com
modore X. +. Stockton. United States Navy,
was however, the originator of the publica-
ton and it was the first newspaper in the
English, or, indeed, in any language, pub
lished in California. For the sake of the
natives the editors gave portion of the con-
tents in Spanish, but the great part from
the beginning, and soon the whole of it, was
printed in English.
FIRST AMERICAN SCHOOL,. K, City,
The first American school in San Francisco
and the first also in California, was pri-
vate enterprise. 1t was opened by Mr.
Marston from one of the Atlantic States. in
April, 1S47, in a small shanty which stood on
the block between Broadway and Pacific
street, west of Dupont. Here he collected
some twenty or thirty pupils, whom he con-
tinued to teach for almost whole year, his
patrons paying for tuition. 1t is said of this
man that she was not remarkable for his
education, and indeed, possessed none of the
qualifications requisite IN one OF his calling. :"
THE WAR A FAnURE-F. NJ. H, City.
1t was the Democratic National Convention,
which met ON August 80 1864, and among
other resolutions censuring the war acts of
the Government, passed resolution declar-
ingit to be the sense of the American peo-
pie that after four years of failure to restore
the Union by the experiment of war
immediate efforts be made for the cessation
Of hostilities with view to an ultimate con-
vention of the States to the end
that = peace may be restored on the
ha of the EpdpraI nDiop nf tba tafa
"CELEsTIALs u. C. p. Jr., City. The
title Celestial Empire" is frequently given
to China. 1t is derived from the Chinese
words Tien Chan, e., Heavenly Dynasty,
and meaning the kingdom over which rules
the dynasty appointed by heaven. The term
"Celestial" is nickname of English and
Jams in his The Middle Kingdom" de-
clareS that the language could with diff
Guilty be made to express such a patro-
nymic."
CoGswELL PoLYTECHNIcAL COLLEGE,
c. E. c., San Jose. Cogswelrs Polytechni-
cal School is at the corner OF Twenty-sixth
and Folsom streets. 1t is now in session
and James G. Kennedy is its principal. 1t
is also now public High School, under the
charge of the Board Of Education. and called
Cogswell Mission High School, having been
ASoo0u Iva shiCO yVbio'
LAWFUL ENoUGH-S. Med, City 1t is
as lawful to publicly sell the New York
Police Gazette in any English port as it is to
sell any other Journal of general circulation,
provided, always, that there is not in any
edition thing SO prurient or offensive as to
call the attention of the authorities to sup
press the sale oI circulation.
CITY LIMITS II. J. W., City. ~ OF
course the Potrero is in the city limits. (2)
Section 1850 of the Political Code defines
the presen. boundaries of the city and
county of San francisco.
No SUCH DECIsIoN-F. H., City. The
@. c. is not advised OF any judicial decision
antagonistic to the taking of deposit from
an intending consumer Of gas when the
meter is put in.
SLADE THE MAoRI-W. w., City. Her
bert Slade, the Maori whom Jem Mace
brought from Australia, is man over 6
feet high.
The SAME MEM. NJ, City. 1t was
w. f. Goad, the Democratic nominee for
Mayor, who urged before the Supervisors