Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-03-12
NEWS ITEMS.

formed in Pennsylvania.
It is reported that Gladstone has
resigned the leadership of the Liberal
Party.
The Pacific Mail lines new iron
steamer Granada has arrived at San
Francisco.
The Independent party movement
in Oregon seems to be confined to
county tickets.
Gilroy is building a hall to cost
$4,000, and will have it completed by
the lst Of May. - -
1t is again ruinored that the health
of the German Emperor is in pre-
cari0us condition. . ss
Another terrific snow-storm in the
mountains is delaying the trains on
the Central Pacific.
The rumor of the death of Cespedes,
ex-President OF the Cuban Republic,
has been confirmed. = - III
The name of the Postoffice at Big
Meadows, Plumas county, has been
changed to Prattville.
The death of .Cespedes, ex-President
of the Cuban Republic, at the hands
of Spanish soldiers, is confirmed.
Joseph Menana was hanged at Port
Townsend, Washington Territory, on
the 9Th, for the murder of Dryer.
Professor Swinton, who resigned
his chair in the State University a
few days ago, will return to the East.
The tunnel of the North Pacific
coast railroad through Whites Hill
near San Rafael was completed last
Saturday.
In the Blakely trial at Santa Cruz,
the jury were unable to agree, nine
standing out for conviction and three
for acquittal.
Proceedings have been commenced
against the Tichborne claimant for
conspiracy to get hold of the Itch
borne estate.
An act to prevent the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors on election days has re-
ceived the Governors signature and
become o law.
John Il. Goodman, the late proprie-
tor of the Virginia Territorial Enter
prise, left for the East last Sunday, on
u pleasure trip.
James Leach, who killed Horace
Rouse in Suffer county last December,
has been found guilty of murder IN
the second degree.
A steam plow built on the Paroin
pattern is in course Of construction ut
Sacramento. The engine has been
tested and works well.
There are one hundred and ten
Oranges organized and in working
order in Oregon, and twenty-one in
Washington Territory.
Four Cinnamon escaped from Jail at
San Leandro, Alameda county, on
Saturday, by burrowing through the
wall. They were all recaptured the
same day.
Oleomargarine, or bull butter, is
eclipsed. A factory has been estab-
lished on Boar river to manufacture
butter from the fat of the sea lion,
which is exceedingly plenty in that
locality.
The largest farm in Illinois ran the
owner 100000 into debt, while the
premium given by the Agricultural
Society of that State, for the best
managed farm, was awarded to one of
forty acres. t.EtG.k &
Mary Drenk who has been conf
dencing the San Franciscans with
bogus jewelry, has been sent to the
county Jail for sixty days, and the
papers are aggravated at the breyity
of the term allotted her. =
The Governor has appointed Joseph
w. Winans Of San Francisco, and J.
Mora Moss of Oakland, Regents of the
University, to fill the vacancies occa-
stoned by the resignation Of S. F. But
terworth and r. p. Hammond.
On Friday night man named Nc
Carly fell distance Of 225 feet in the
shaft of the Caroline mine at Phoebe
and was instantly killed. He was
stepping from the cage at one Of the
stations and missed his footing.
The Iowa Legislature has adopted a
bill regulating the rates of fare that
shall be charged on the railroads OF
that State. 1t divides the roads into
three classes and fixes the fare at
three, three and half, and four cents
per mile.
Brigham Young's latest maneuver
in Utah is the organization OF the
"Ordcr Of Enoch;" the first duty OF a
niember Is to turn over all his property
to the church. Hundreds are joining
the "Order," but the more intelligent
Mormons are In rebellion against tho
new move.