The morning call., 1891-01-11

| lature, ana ILaI the
cannot be made until after the noon hour OF
that same day. If, instead of concentrating
| your mind solely upon the supposed mare S
| nest which you have discovered, You would
have read further the Constitution, you
would also have found that Section 20 of
Article Xxx provides specifically that the
terms of the Offices provided for by the Con-
stitution shall commence on the first Mon
day after the first day of January next fol-
loving their election" admitting Of no
| further contention. Section 2. Article V,
| does not mean that the Governor shall hold
office beginning on a day four years from
and after the first Monday after the first
| day of January subsequent to his election,
but for four years beginning with that first
Monday.
ENFORCED IN SPIRIT. B. F., San Luis
Obispo. ~ Article XIX of the Constitution
of California which is leyeled particularly
at the Chinese, in guaranteeing protection
against dangerous aliens, fOrbiddiug cOrpor-
ations from employing Chinese, forbiddng
their employment on public works and dis
cOuraging immigration OF Chinese, has been
| attempted to be enforced IN its spirit II not
in the strict letter. ~ The section forbid
ding the empl yment Of Chinese by corpor-
| ations was declared unconstitutional by the
| United States Circuit Court on various
grounds in 1880. Section 4 will be tested
shortly in the United States Circuit Court
in an action for damages again5tan eX-Super-
| visor who had caused the arrest OF ChlneSe
| for failure TO comply with an ordnance CT
! which he was the author, prescribing thelr
/ removal to certain limits Tor residence With
| In the City and County of San Francisco,
said ordinance having been declared uncon
| stitutiona also. Yet in the smaller towns
! in this State the Chinese have been corra!ed
/ and located within prescribed limits.
! SUGAR REFINERIEs-L. s., City. The
! first sugar refinery in this city was the San
! Francisco Sugar Refinery. Incorporated in
1875 and In 1862 merged with new refinery
under the name Of the San Francisco and
Pacific Sugar Refinery. Its buildings were
located or the corner of Eighth and Harri-
son streets, and they together comprise the
! largest buildings in the State with the eX-
ceptiOn OF the United States forts, as was
said of them in 1864 and 1865. bOut tlls
time also the Bay Sugar Refinery now the
! American Sugar Refinery erected its works
on the corner Of Battery and Union streets.
! The California Sugar Refinery was incor-
| porated in 1867, ana located its works al the
| corner Of Eighth and Brannan streets.
BANK OF CALIFoRNIA-A. D. NJ. City.
a. 1t was on the Goth OF August, 1879, that
the Bank of California and the National
Gold Bank and Trust Conn any suspended,
followed by an indefinite adjournment of the
Stock Boards and a run on all the banks,
which latter ceased on the 2Sth. (2) On the
| 18th there was a great decline in the value
Of mining stocks, and by reason OF the
financial disorders the banks could not, for
the time being, meet the demands upon
them. ". c. RalstOn resigned on the 9th
the presidency OF the Bank of California,
making Il transfer of all his prop .rtY to
William Sharon, and few hours afterwa ri
was drowned at North Beach while bathing.
LEGISLATIVE JoURNALs-J. B. F, Sau
Luis OUispo Cal The journal of proceed
ings of the Legislature of this State is pub
lished in DO k form at the clos. of the
session and such copies can be procured
from the Secretary of State. As regards the
daily Journals, also printed by the State
Printer, no one is deputed to mail or circu-
late them abroad, and there is probably no
other way OF procuring them, unless through
some Senator or Assembymdn, or some
other friend al court. The published book
Of la VS., also printed at the close of the
session, may be bought from the Secretary
OF Sta te for So each. But all these things
are regulated by statute.
FICTTrIoUs FIRM NAMEs.-A. D. L..
Princeton. Cal Every partnership trans
acting business in this State under ficti-
tiOus name, or des gnation not showing the
names Of the persons interested as partners
in such business excepting a commercial or
banking partnership established ana trans
acting business in place without the United
States, every change in the members of
such partnership, and every pecial partner
ship must by law be ceTtlfcated and also
published or recorded. Until these condi-
| tons have been complied with the partners
| do not constitute a legal firm, aud OF course
! have no standing in law as q partnership
! firm.
! PEsACH-T. s., Lovelock. Cal. "Pesach"
Is Hebrew word from "pesan" and "pa-
sah,' meaning TO leap over, to pass by" and
has come to mean the passover, in commence
ration of the Israeli,es remaining intact on the
night Of the destruction of the first born in
Egypt Immediately preceding the exodus
from that country. Thus in its meaning of
the paschal lamb, the sacrifice offered at the
feast of the Passover, the Bible saws in Ex-
odus xii 81: Then Moses called for all the
elders of Israel and said unto them, draw
out and take you lamb according to your
families and Kill the passover" the sacrifice
being indicative of the festival.
THEIR NUMBER Is UNKNowN-J. s., San
Diego, Cal. 1t was never ascertaned how
many Indians were killed or even engaged
in the massacre of Custer and his command.
In fact, of the movements Of General Custer
and the five cavalry troops under him
scarcely anything is known. Estimates have
been made that he was attacked by from
2OOO to 1000 lighting men, though official re-
ports reduced the number to $500 TO 5000
and certain it Is that BOYS and squaws were
among the concealed comb tants True also
that General Miles received hostages for the
surrender OF about 1900 Indians only.
SCHOOL LANDS j. b. F., San Luis
obispo. Cal. Under an act of Congress ap-
proved April 4, 1871, distributing the pro-
ceeds Of the public lands among the several,
StatpS nj ha mi pa,o
were granted TO the new States, California
among the number, to be inviolably ap-
proprlated to the support of the common
schools IN each State. The choice of the
sixteenth and thirty-siXth sections Of the
SohgresS-d0nated lands and their sale for
township school purposes is also authorized
enactments.
PRoCroR's WIDow-M r. c., Vallejo,
Cal. The q c. has not read the article in
the Youths Companion by Norman Lock
yer, f. k. s., from which you quote that
there is noble American lady who at the
present time is doing more than all the rest
OF the world put together to bring the facts
OF star life before u.s.; but the reference ia
probably to the widow of the late Richard
A. Proctor, astronomer. 1t has been said of
her that she proposes to establish in South
ern California an observatory which shall
| ton. --'A''A-
IAXIDERMY-F. j. A, San Jose, Cal. The
u u cannot enter into an exposition of the
art oil taXIdermy-the stuffing and mounting
oil birds in your queries. There are cbean
publications on this subject The skin Of
the bird having been removed with the ut
A HUGE COAST DEFENSE VESSEL,