Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-18
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The Sisters school is again in ses-
sion.
The Grand Jury was in session yes
terday.
st. Vincent's College re-opened yes
terday.
The Ventura will sail for San Fran
cisco and Santa Barbara tomorrow.
George and Joseph Young, natives
of France, were yesterday admitted to
citizenship.
We learn that Mr.. Ltchenberger is
expected home to-day, after his ex-
tended trip to the East.
The wine-makers from the vicinity
of Anaheim report that they will
have fine crop of grapes this year.
Grasshoppers are rather feeble ami
mails to stop railroad train, but they
are doing it in the northern part of
this State.
Our fellow-citizen M. j. Santa Cruz
was made the happy father of ten
and-a-quarter pound boy, on Sunday
morning last.
fever, which has been quite prevalent
among the children of our city, is rap
idly disappearing.
A special meeting of the stockhold-
ers in the Cooperative Nursery and
Fruit Company, has been ordered for
Saturday, Sept. 5th.
The Board of Supervisors yesterday
awarded the contract for building the
San Fracisquito Canon road to Mr..
o. P. Robbins for the sum of s., 400.
Cyrus Sanford was arraigned before
Justice Gray yesterday for threaten
ing the life of Philip Wiseman. The
trial will come off on Thursday next.
An attempt was made last Sunday
night to break into house in East
Los Angeles, but the burglars were
frightened away by the barking of
Watchdog.
Miss Meyer, the German star
actress, who is stopping in the city
with Mr.. Herberger, was the recipient
OF complimentary serenade last Sun
day evening.
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Board of Canvassers on the recent Lo-
cal Option vote taken in Wilmington,
Compton and Los Nietos. The results
of the ballot are already known.
Coroner Richardson, ex-of1icio Sher-
iff, was yesterday ordered by the Court
to summon fifty jurors for the trial of
the case of the People VS.. Bernard
Newman. The venire is made return
able on the 25th instant.
Application was yesterday made in
the U. S. Land Office, by the proprie-
tor of the Golden Chariot Mining
Company, for Government patent to
their property, located in Banner Dis
trict, San Diego county.
1t is reported that Messrs. Wilson &
Shorb are progressing finely in laying
out the site for their new town of AL
hambra in the Lake Vineyard prop
erty. They have completed dis
tributing reservoir of the capacity of
100000 gallons.
Members in good standing in the
Improved Order of Red Men are re-
quested to meet at No. Al Temple
Block, on Tuesday evening, August
25th, for the purpose of taking into
consideration the propriety of organ
izing Tribe in Los Angeles.
The Senator will sail for San Fran
cisco and way ports on Saturday, Au-
Just 22d. Passengers by this steamer
can avail themselves of the excursion
rates-$18 for the round trip return
ing on vessels Of either this or the
Goodall, Nelson and Perkins line.
The following named criminals were
arraigned before the Grand Jury yes
terday, upon charges as specified
Edward Moore, attempt to commit
murder; John Mcdonald, murder; j.
II. Lambert, alias Frank Edwards,
murder; All Gu, attempt to commit
murder; Chas. Brown and Juan Fe-
lipe.
The Bee-keepers' Association held o
meeting last Saturday, at the residence
of John Huld, Ell Monte. No business
was transacted except the serving of
notice that at the next session a mo-
of meeting from ii o'clock A. NJ. to l
P. NJ. The next meeting will occur on
the third Saturday in October, at the
same place.
Alta session of the city Board of Edu-
cation, held on Saturday last, the
election of the assistant teacher of the
High School was postponed two
weeks. Mrs. Carter was elected as
sistant teacher for the Bath street
school, at which time there are now
nearly ninety pupils of Spanish ex-
traction. Mrs. Parder, of San Jose,
was elected a teacher, vice Miss Jew
ett, declined on account of ill health,
The following is list Of the passen-
gers from San Francisco, per steamer
Ventura, for San Pedro, August 18th:
Mrs. IT. w. West, Walter Rogers, H.
G. Corest, Ernest Kuppenheimer, r.
Harkins, J. Tennyson and wife, Mrs.
e. G. Crowell, Mrs. Petit, Mrs. n. ID.
Valentine, John M. Brown, HI. Fra
zier, r. Orr and two children, Col. d..
e. Buell. r. G. Warren, A. Hill, j..
Hill, J. Smith, DR.. J. II. Yocum and
family.
A horse attached to light buggy
and hitched in front of the Orient Sa-
loon, yesterday morning, became
frightened in some way and dashed
down Main Straaf at n hrao x neck nace