Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-03-08
NEWS ITE MS.

Mrs. Cook, who was shot by her hus-
band in Sacramento hotel, is recov-
ering.
The telegraph line between upper
and lower Tacoma has been com
pleted.
The King murder trial is progress
ing in New York, jury having been
obtained.
The scarlatina still prevails in Oak
land, but the physicians report it as
decreasing.
Barnum has shipped grand collec-
ton of animals for his new museum
from London.
The school-house at Plymouth, Anna
dor county, was burned by an incen-
diary recently.
Coos Bay shipped ten thousand tons
of coal to San Francisco during the
month of February.
The COlusa independent has chang
ed names, and is published by Ham,
mond & Weitemeyer.
The cattle and sheep are still dying
off in great numbers in Siskiyou
county, from cold and exposure.
John r.. Walton has recovered ver-
dict of 100 against DR.. Wooster for
malpractice in setting broken leg.
The First National Gold Bank of
San Francisco pays a dividend of one
per cent, on the 10th of this month.
Colonel Vernon who was sent out to
succeed DR.. Lyman as Special Agent
of the Treasury has been recalled to
Washington.
Mare Island claims to have a ghost.
1t hangs up in the foundry and gives
the bold masons of the maynard II
deal of trouble.
The receipts of the Harbor Com
missioners from the San Francisco
wharves for the month of February
We're $22,44S 70.
Sacramento county demands $2,32G
of San Joaquin county as the latter's
share in the expenses of the trial of
George N. Bennett.
The President has approved the bill
to render available the unexpended
balance of the appropriation for the
San Francisco Mint.
The second trial of Blakely, the eX-
Treasurer is in progress at Santa Cruz.
There is great excitement, and the
town is full bf strangers.
Wood pigeons are unusually plenty
in Santa Clara county, three men kill
ing 500 in single days shooting near
the Twenty-oneMile House.
The distress among the famine
stricken people of India increases.
Eighteen persons died in one single
village from starvation in four days.
A man named Job Johnson was Sc
riously hurt in the Idaho mine, near
Grass Valley, OH the Sd. He was
caught in the descending cage and
badly crushed.
The total amount of wheat in the
hands of producers in the States of Illi-
nois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas, Min
nesota and Ohio is estimated at S.
100000 bushels.
The late successes of the Carlists
has awakened the patriotism of the
Spanish people, and contributions of
men and money are pouring in to sus-
tain the Government.
The proposed reduction of the army
will bring the infantry down to TWEEN
ty, the artillery to four, and the caval-
~ to eight regiments, making the
number $4,000 instead of 10000.
1t is currently rumored in the city
of Havana that eX-President Ces-
pedes was killed by some of the San
Quentin battalion and his body
brought to Santiago de Cuba, where
it was buried.
The freight-hOuse of the Eastern
railroad i'm Boston together with
thirty cars was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday. The fire is supposed to
have originated from the explosion OF
o carboy of vitrol. The loss is esti.
mated at $200,000O.
The Virginia City Enterprise says
that DIR. Berthier of the County Hos.
pital has dog of the genuine st. Ber.
nard breed, and that he has shown his
breeding by saving woman who was
lost in the snow a few days ago, and
would have been frozen but for his
sagacity.
The Maryland State Grange is in
session at Baltimore. Forty-sever
out of the fifty-two subordinate
Oranges in the State are represented
The Master in his address congratu'
lated the order on its rapid advance
ment, over two thousand members
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