The morning call., 1895-02-24

A CALIFORNIA Conc. w. P, Los Angeles,
Cal. This correspondent writes: 81 send you
the impression of a gold piece dug out of the
river bank in this city last week. l have not
been able to find any one who has ever seen
one like it." The impression shows that the
coin has on one side the words Omitted States
of America, 900 Thous. Ten D, Liberty" and
on the other Omitted States Assay Office of Cali
fornia, San Francisco, Cal, 1853" Prior to
August g. 1854 when the United States Mint
opened in a building erected on CONNER
cial street, above Montgomery, on the site now
occupied by the United States sub-treasury,
there were many private coming establish
ments in California that furnished the large
amount of gold coinage required by the in
creasing population and commercial transac-
tons OF the people. Among those who ran pri-
vate minis were Baldwin & Co., Blake & Co.,
Commercial Mining and Trading Company,
the Columbus Company, Dubesq & Co., August
Humburt, Dunbar & Co., j. s. 0rmsby, Kellogg
e. Co., F. d. Kohler, Massachusetts and Califor-
MIA Company, Miners Bank, Moffatt g. Co.,
Moran g. Clark, the Pacific Company, Temple
ton Reid, Shuts e. Co., United States Assay
Office, and Wess Molitor & Co. All these private
money-makers ceased manufacturing coin, and
in 1888 there was but one left. That was
Moffatt d. Co, that for years had charge OF the
United States Assay Office. The coin written
about was one of those coined by that firm.
Dealers in rare coins have some for sale and
charge from $I7 to S25 for one, according to
the state OF preservation it is in.
CREMATIoN-J. c. r., Oakland, Cal. Crema-
ton has made considerable progress in Europe
and in the United States in the past few years.
and the opposition that there was to it on the
ground of custom, associations, religion and
prejudice is not so strong as it was. A large
number have become converted to cremation
on sanitary grounds In Europe, where there
are crematories, may be mentioned Dresden.
Breslau, Milan, Lodi, Brescia, Padua, Rome,
Gotha, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, Hol-
land, Sweden, Norway, Paris and England. The
first cremation in the United States was on the
9th OF Decem Der, 1876, the body being that of
Joseph Henry Louis Charles, Baron de Palm.
The cremation took place at Washington, Pa.
At this time there are cremetories at Washing
ton, Lancaster, Pittsburg and Philadelphia, in
Pennsylvania, Brooklyn and Buffalo in New
York, Detroit, Mich, st. Louis, Mo-, and in San
Mateo County and Los Angeles, in this State.
In cremating body there is no occasion to use
a casket and for that reason caskets are not
used. The body is placed on a specially pre-
pared Slab covered with an alum-soaked cloth
and then placed in the Tetort When the in
cineration is complete the ashes are carefully
collected and placed in an urn.
NORMAL ScHooLs-W. NJ. Santa Ynez, Santa
Barbara County, California. There is no State
normal school at Sacramento There is one at
San Jose, of which C. w. Childs is principal ;
one at Los Angeles, of which E. T. Pierce is
principal; and another at Chico, of which r.
7. Pencil is principal The law of the State
says that "eyery person admitted as pupil TO
the normal school course must be, first, of good
moral characters second, of sixteen years of
age third, OF that class of persons who, If of
proper age, would be admitted to the public
schools of this State without restriction
Ieachers holding State certificates OF the first