Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-11-02
LOCAL BIsEVITIES.

The daily arrivals and departures by
both lines of stages will be found in
the HERALD.
Twenty-three of the pupils of the
Public Schools are to compete for the
writing premium at the District Fair.
The members of the Hebrew Be-
nevOlent Society will hold meeting
this evening, in the synagogue, at 7
=. NJ.
The Lafayette new building was lit
up for the first time last night. Mr..
Fluhr hopes to have everything COM
pleted within q week.
Gates & Noyes had quite lively
auction yesterday. They disposed of
five head of horses, several saddles and
brides, u lot of furniture, and some
articles of minor Importance.
Two of the trustees, Workman and
Smith, We're visiting the schools Of
their districts Saturday. This is SO
rare an event OH the part of trustees,
that it has been thought worth chron-
telling.
II. Newmark & Co., will despatch
LIB dry hides from this city to New
York, via Panama, per steamer Ne
vada, leaving San Francisco Nov. 10Th.
This is one of the largest shipments
on record.
The strict morality of the commune
ty was evidenced yesterday morning
by the fact that no culprits appeared
before his honor, either to eXpiate
their offenses or increase the city
funds. 5E+at
A gentleman who has been in the
mountains near the Arroyo Seco
Canyon for some days during the past
week, reports that eight bears were
seen one day in that locality, and that
one was killed yesterday morning near
Mr.. Beckley's, on the Bee Ranch.
Major Hancock is trying new
method of shipping asphaltum, by
running it into barrels and casks while
hot. This is great saving in casks
rs we'll as labor, and wastage is not so
apt to occur while transporting this
product to market. - :
There is ON exhibition at HeinZel-
mann's drug store, an exquisite banana
blossom from Elijah Workman's gar
den. The young fruit may be seen
between the leaves just terminating.
The blossom is just seven inches long
and of a deep reddish brown hue.
Think Of this, ice-bound Eastern
people. = y 8 -.
Since DIR. Lucky's arrival here as
Principal of the City High School,
and City Superintendent, he has ad-
ded three or four teachers, re-Organized
the departments, and placed the differ
ent classes on a very satisfactory foot
ing. An evening school is still very
much needed for hard working boys,
who cannot attend the day school, and
no doubt this will be one Of DR..
Lucky's next improvements. na
The San Bernardino Guardian does
not covet our hotels. 1t says, referring
to the proposed foot-race of mile at
the Agricultural Fair, that if intend
ing competitors will only board at our
hotels, they will soon get thin and in
good training. Considering the PicO
House, Clarendon, Lafayette, United
States and others set better tables than
they ever see in San BernardinO, our
neighbor's propensity for joke must
be huge.
Several applications have been re-
ceived from Professors of Music to fill
the vacancy now existing in this city.
They have been referred, by telegraph
to the house Of M. Gray, San Fran
cisco, with request to Mr.. Gray to
send the most thorough and highly
accomplished gentleman possible, to
conduct the studies of the many
advanced pupils now awaiting tuition.
A Professor will arrive probably on
the next steamer.
A boy named Somerset, who drives
the delivery wagon at the American
Bakery, received a severe kick from a
horse, yesterday. The horse struck
him full in the abdomen. The boy
was carried into the house senseless.
DIR. Orme arrived shortly afterward,
and reported no internal injuries or
any brok ell bones. The boy will be
able to be at work in day or two,
though he is doubtless considerably
bruised and shaken.
At the approaching election of coun-
cilmen in December, the term of office
of the following gentlemen expires,
all of whom, however, are eligible for
reflections: Messrs. Sabichi, Osborne,
Mullaly, Long and Teed. The rest of
the Council remain in, consisting OF
Messrs. Workman, DeCelis, Beaudry, Z
Doekweiler and Valdez. Now is the
time for good men to come forward, rs
In the case Ut Long, resigned, there is
q certain vacancy, nd the rest have
not yet declared whether they intend
to offer themselves for reelection.
The theatre was we'll attended last
night, and the performance very salts
factory. Miss Carrie Leigh is improv-
ing wonderfully, and was the recipient
Of several floral tributes, and her rem
diti0n Of Widow Melnotte was excel
lent. Mr.. Piercy, as Claude, was
thoroughly at home, and gave fresh
evidence Of the versatility Ofhis talent.
Madame Duret played Pauline as she
plays, everything else = artistically,
naturally, and with great expression.
The emotional play of Camille is in
preparation. Many Of our folks would
also like q revival Of "The New Mag
dalen" for night.
Milton Thomas, of Los Angeles, has
had an artesian well bored on his
ranch, on the Los Angeles Ranch;
depth, POI feet; the last 43 feet was
gravel, and the end of the pipe rests
on a clay formation. The pipe was
sperforatele for some forty feet, and
affords water to irrigate three hundred
acres Rorz more. Mr.. Stewart, who
bored the well, says it is the best he
ever bored, and the best in the county.
The ranch Is worth three hundred per
cent more with this we'll than without
it. Mr.. Thomas proposes to plant
trees on the ranch, and have the land
farmed. He has already ninety acres
in English walnut trees. He also
Watera his sheen ut the same well. He