Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-03-20

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Ground has been broken for the Sac
ramento smelling works.
At the city election in Marysyille on
the 10th the Independents were sue
cessful. Htt ..-
One hundred persons are in the en-
ploy Of the California Powder Works
Company of Santa Cruz.
Ukiah is to have wooden mill. 1t
will start with machinery for making
cassimeres and flannels.
Stockton has sent committee to
Sacramento to look after the scheme
for improving the San Joaquin river.
Miss Winnie Ream has entered into
a contract with the authorities of
Brooklyn to make a bust of ex-Mayor
Powell for $1,000.
A Washington special says that the
Ways and Means Committe will unan-
imously recommend the total repeal
of the mOiety laws.
The wrestling match bet ween J. H.
Ryan and Joe Hughes took place in
New York on Saturday night for 5000
a side. Ryan won.
An autopsy on the body of Senator
Sumner shows Justification of the left
carotid artery, and other abnormal
conditions of the heart
General Wolesly, of Ashantee fame,
will go to Malta i'm order to meet the
remains of Dr.ELiYipgstone and ac-
company them to London.
Owen Manghan, in New York City,
threw lighted kerosene lamp at his
wife on Saturday and burned her so
badly as to cause her death.
The first through freight train since
the commencement of the SNOW block
ade of the Central Pacific Railroad az
rived in San Francisco on Saturday.
r. E. Wood, who lives on Bear
Creek, Santa Cruz county, manufac-
tured 5000 gopher traps last year. He
sends most of them to San Francisco.
The colored citizens of Sacramento
held q meeting on Monday evening
and passed resolutions expressive of
their grief for the death of Senator
Sumner. sSsS&.Stg.s. & ~
Judge Lewis Dents condition, which
was quite serious on the night of the
18th, and was unchanged the following
morning. 1t was not believed he
would last throughout the day,
A correspondent of the Walla Walla
wv. IT, Spirit of the Times, writing
from Dayton, says: "About 1000
bushels of fax seed will be raised in
this part of the county this year."
Charles Busing, aged 26 years, ma
tive of Oldenburg, Germany, and for
merly u Professor in the German Col
lege of New York, committed suicide
by poison on Sunday. Poverty was
the cause. 4F'i' NV@tiitfta IaiN@
An official statement of the exports
from Philadelphia for February gives
the value at So, l2l 300, of which s512,
600 was for refined petroleum, $40, 200
for cotton, $4,000 for provisions and
and $2l4, 800 for wheat, - :, .,.,.
II. G. Strong who was sent to this
penitentuary- from Mendocino county
for alleged cow-stealing, and whose
wife was recently murdered under re-
voting circumstances, has been par
doned by the Governoraist 4pauor
Shorty Hayes and Jacob Clark were
sentenced last Monday at Auburn, to
thirty years in the penitentiary for
stage robbing. This added TO the
twenty-one years they had previ-
ously.-receiyed for the Shasta rob-
berry, will dispose of them pretty
much as long as they will live.S III
Cincinnati pork-packers' returns
show that the number of hogs packed
in the season of 1884 were 5sl, 259
against 62e, 1896 last year, but according
to the average weight of the hogs
packed last year the aggregate of the
season just closed is only 535, 235-a
shortage in weight and numbers Of
$4,000 head. bel O., IN fI0aidkJ edr
Representative Page introduced q
bill on Monday for the relief Of settlers
on public lands within the limits OF
lands once withdrawn on account OF
railroadgrants, but afterwards restored
to, the public domain on account of the
failure of the railroad company to
comply with the law requiring the
construction of the road. .ii ~ q aalne
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