Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-12-16

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II. BuRDlcK, y. G.
s. julius MAYER, II. :.
The Mohongo sails for San Francisco
tomorrow.
A Christmas Eve bail at the Gala
tin school house.
lFive and a half inches of rain fell at
Anaheim.
A Christmas tree Mt Anahein, for
what purposenot yet stated. "a et.
Mr.. Reiser, Of Anaheim, has made
10000 gallons of wine this season.
A petition has gone up to the Legis-
lature from Anaheim for bridging the
Santa Ana river. .....-..-....-....- /,
Postal cards can be sent to Germany,
Prussia, &c., by atfixing a one cent
stamp. &k "a Efs
One hundred sacks of ore were re-
ceived at the depot yesterday from Ar
iona.
From January 1st, the fee for regis
tering letters is fixed ut eight cents,
formerly fifteen cents.
The Mohongo's passengers came up
tOthis city on the Monday morning
train.
The following are the passengers per
steamer MOhongo, from Santa Bar
bara to San Diego.
Rev N Close, S X Mason, J II Alb
bott, d Newton, T Sepulveda, J May
ar, { B Bixby, j Ward. f Fassett.
Business is very lively at the depot,
large quantities of freight coming in,
and teams loading for all points.
Since Governor Downey's with
drawal, Los Angeles is the only town
in the State that's without an aspirant
for the Senate.
A meeting of the Board of Trade will
be held this evening. 1t is hoped
there will be tull attendance Of the
members, as matters of especial i'm
portance will be under consideration.
The meeting for the installation Of
officers of the Los Angeles Chapter Of
Royal Arch MasOns is postponed until
week from tonight. \ full attend
ance is requested.
The shipments from Nietos for the
week ending December Is were 437
sacks--337 to San Francisco; 100 to
Wilmington. In depot ready for ship
ment 100 sacks corn. l'
Subscriptions for Street Railroad
stock are steadily rolling in. II the
owners of,rpal estate along the line Of
the. proposed road understand their
own Interests, it will not be long till
the track Is laid.
Nine teams'left the depot yesterday,
six to San Bernardino, three assorted,
one to M 4 Co, one to f Il r and one
to j III l.. Two to Lone Pine, one as
sorted and onetO IsL d. One to Sage
land to H B \ Bro.
The Express editor pays more atten-
tion to our columns than his. own. If
he would only attend to the business
he is paid for, and -iet the HERALD
alone, the evening paper would pres
ent much better editorial showing,
and he would earn his ducats. rs Il
The Wilmington correspondent of
the Express, who is n very peaceful
military gentleman, in no ways inter-
ested in the matter, does not like the
HERALD on the Breakwater question.
T. A. Saxon has opened night
school at the Bath street school house,
where he will give instruction in read
ing, writing, arithmetic, and English
grammar. Mr.. Saxon is an expert
enced educator, familiar with all the
best modes of teaching, and will
doubtless do great deal of good.
Samuels, the man held for obtaining
money on false pretences, was exam
ined before Justice Gray and dis
charged. Lewis, the man who had
been arrested on complaint of Sam
uels, charged with an attempt to eX-
tort money, did not put in an appear
nnce. A bench warrant has been is
sued for him. F&8
A speck Of war, in the shape Of an
irrate female, loomed up on our east
ern horizon yesterday, and for time
we were alarmed lest an assault would
be made on the HERALD office. She
travelled on her shape, and detiantly
proclaimed that no one should apprO-
pirate her style without getting into
trouble. After considerable skirmish.
ing, she Withdrew before reaching our
lines. ~
DR.. Lee reports that he was hastily
called last night to the residence Of
Mr.. Signoret, and found the family,
consisting Of Mrs. S. and four children
suffering from asphyxia, causedby the
fumes Of charcoal, which they were
burning in vessel in their sleeping
room, to remove the dampness and
chilliness Of the air. The family We're
so prostrated, that only one of the
children was able to give the alarm,
and few minutes more would have
sent them all to eternity. Too much
care cannot be exercised in using this
dangerous stuff, and those using 1t
should be careful that their rooms are
we'll ventilated. .,.Cy