Los Angeles daily herald., 1873-10-21
Local Brevities.
Yesterday Threatened rain. !

You may eat turkey, drink wine,
crack jokes, be happy and he thank
full on the 9th of November. The
President says so.
The Congregational Church will take
immediate steps to fill the vacancy in
their pulpit but haste will not inter-
fere with the selection of a man well
fitted for the position. @a @
The many friends of Captain G.. Fl.
Douglass were pleased to greet him
after his temporary absence at the
east. He again treads the quarter deck
of the steamer MohOngO.
Those persons who understood the
remarks of the HERALD as II dig at
the Leroy-Duret troupe, were entirely
mistaken. This troupe has met with
first-class success, but no more nor as
much as their merits demanded. In
all the west there is no better travel
ling troupe.
Harper & Dalton during the year
past, have manufactured $1,000 cans
for honey. From this, some idea can
be obtained of the honey trade.
When the amount and quality Of Los
Angeles honey are considered, no re-
gion in the world can compete with
that in our immediate vicinity.
I'm about ten days the Lafayette
store, p. N. Roth & Co., will remove to
their new quarters beneath the Lafay
cite Hotel. The senior member of the
firm has Just returned from San Fran
cisco with heavy stock of fine liquors,
French English and German preserves.
LII Loo hne a nf
undwear. See by their bills that they
are new selling off below cost.
School Districts Nos. ! and 3 held a
meeting yesterday. The proposal to
build new sch0Ol-hOuse was hotly
contested, and the point was lost by u
vote of % to Is. A committee of three,
consisting of DIR. Franklin and Messrs.
Gavitt and Smith, were appointed to
inspect and look into the interests of
the District. The meeting was held
at Weeds ranch mot G. Weeds.)
Mr.. BrOdrick received whole set of
new brass instruments on Friday last,
San Francisco. They We're Order,d
specially bya gentleman in this city,
with view of organizing band.
They appear to be beautifully finished.
A good brass band is sadly need here,
and there is no reason why, with the
talent in the town, good results should
not be obtained. -..l9n.
A contemporary has terse editOri-
al, fully to the point, about taxing
videyardsits, and the grape trade. The
article is ably written, and may be
found in last nights issue of the Fee
ming Express. To see the grape inter-
ests decline, may suit tee-totallers, but
commerce in general, and temperate
people will feel the loss. AS for drunk
ards, nothing weaker than Il depression
in whiskey affects them.
Mr.. WOlfenstein has just finished
two soft and most artistic pictures of
the young artist, Sam. Piercy, in his
great character of Hamlet-the one
representing him during the sOlilOquy,
and the other, which is far the better
of the two, is taken from the third act,
where during the play scene Hamlet
lies at Ophelia's feet. The pose of the
body is perfect, and the face is lit up
with the only smile that illumines
Hamlet's features from first to last.
Both artist and subject have excelled
themselves, the one by the delicacy of
his work, and the other by the eXqui-
site posture and conception Of the
character.
Samuel Strong, of San Francisco,
found ii ne to pay visit to the HER
AID previous to his departure for San
Francisco. Mr.. Strong is the disco
verer and worker of a fine ledge in the
Liberal District. The ledge is eght
feet wide, and there is any amount of
rock in sight. A small assay, broken
off at hap-hazard, returns $50 to the
ton. The mine will be shortly an adj
ditiOnal source Of prosperity to the
distlict, and Mr.. Strong's visit to San
Francisco is connected with its ad-
vancemint. He will return i'm two or
three weeks.