Daily Alta California, Volume 36, Number 12438, 6 May 1884 — OAKLAND ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

OAKLAND ITEMS.

> fBrportedJvr On AUa.] . . The Democrats of ] the Third Precinct of the Pirst Ward \rill meet nt Cashin's Hall this evening. At the meeting of the City Council last night an ordinance •xtm introduced to redeem at par Main Lake -sewer bonds of the face value of $20,009, held by the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company. Referred io the Judiciary Committee. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, the noted temperance lecturer, will speak on Friday evening at the First Presbyterian Church, under the auspices of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, of which body she is a high officer at the East. On Saturday afternoon she will be given a reception at the mansion of Mrs. J. H. Glenn on Jackson street. The two State Insane Asylums are so crowded that many lunatics, dangerous to be at large, have to be sent back to the counties where they belong, and most of these in the case of Alameda county are now at the County Infirmary, where there are eo proper appliances for treating them or confining them in case of an outbreak. The condition of things is becoming a source of no little perplexity to the Board of Supervisors. The building for the new Wentworth boot and shoe factory at West Oakland will be commenced this week. The machinery in the old factory at Berkeley will ba removed to the new building. There will be accommodation for 200 hands. The County Board of Education has made -three important changes in the text-books in use in the county schools, adopting the Bancroft Readers, instead of the Appleton ; White's Arithmetics, instead of Milne's, and the Eclectic Geographies, instead of Harper's. The bids accepted were in each case the lowest. In the case of readers, under the terms made, exchange may be made at any time during one year from date of adoption. A pupil may, at any time within the year above specified, exchange any old reader which he does not want for any grade of the new reader which he docs want, on payment of the exchange price. A pupil who has no old reader to exchange, may purchase a new reader at the introduction price at any time within 90 days from the opening of the school to which he belongs. Exchange and introduction prices on arithmetics and geographies will hold for the period of six months from July 1, 1884, and copies of them will be sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of the retail price.