Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-30
LOCAL BREVITIES.

unusual sight of a rainbow yesterday.
The services of the Baptist Church
will be held in the German Evangeli-
cal Church to-day at P. NJ.
DR.. Parker will lecture on phrenol-
ogy at Good Templar's Hall, Monday
evening.
The regular morning services will
be held in the Congregational Church
to-day, conducted by Rev. DR.. Lucky.
Rev. A. M. Campbell will lecture
at Leck's Hall this evening, at 1880 p.
NJ, on the "Obligations of the Scholar
to the Bible"
The sailing Of the Constantine for
San Francisco has been postponed un-
til tomorrow. Passengers will take
the p. NJ. train from the depot.
Los Angeles Council r. & S. M. will
hold special assembly at Masonic
Hall tomorrow evening to which all
sojourning companions In good stand
ing are invited.
Mr.. Abram Jacoby, of the firm of
Jacoby Bros. of Wilmington, was in
the city yesterday on business trip.
He is looking, as usual, healthy and
jolly.
Refugio Botillo has at his slaughter
house a four year old hog, which
weighs 1,175 pounds. He intends to
present his porkship at the next agri-
cultural fair.
Rev. DR.. White, of the Presbyterian
Church, will preach at Good Templar's
Hall to-day at II O'Clock A. NJ. and 1880
p. M. Sabbath School will be held at
half-past IL O'Clock.
The Turner's will have another
merry-making at their hall tonight
to honor the birthday of one of the
society's oldest members. Pippen-
berg's new band will furnish music for
the occasion.
Herman Morris, the collector, has
opened an office in No. 4 Lanfranco's 8
building. He will still attend to or
ders left with Simon Levy, corner of
Alameda and Also streets.
A workman in Griffith, Lynch &
Co.'S planning mill, named Weber, while
cutting door-panels, yesterday, had
the misfortune to bring his hand in
contact with saw, thus nearly sew
ering four fingers from his left hand.
Our town clock will be dismantled
tomorrow morning by Messrs. Fisher
& Thatcher, who have the contract for
recOnstructing it. The repairs will
require some two or three weeks, dur
ing which "time shall be no moren
in Los Angeles.
The steamer Constantine was de-
layed one day beyond her expected
time of arrival, and did not reach Will
mington until yesterday morning.
She brought l85 tons of freight, a list
of which will be found in another col
umn.
Mr.. r. 5, Pitt, travelling agent and
correspondent for the San Francisco
Call, paid visit to our Office yester-
day. Mr.. Pitt writes under the nom
de plume of "Deveraux." He will
tell the Friscans what he knows about
Los Angeles, and walk off with our
citizens subscriptions in his pocket.
Last Friday night man entered
the saloon of Mr.. Pippenberg, on Re-
quena street, and made off with that
gentleman's coronet, which was lying
on one of the tables. Mr.. Pippenberg
soon missed his instrument, and gave
chase, overhauling the thief, who
kindly restored the property to it's
owner with ample excuses for his alb
sent-minded freak. No arrest.
Seine kind-hearted individual has
sent us by mail q small sized cleaver
in the shape of a razor, with the in
junction "cut your corns and remarks
to their proper STYLE" The instru-
ment is too large for either shaving,
harvesting corns or clipping items,
but we think it we'll adapted to cut
ting throats. We have given it to
our fighting editor who can be found
at this office at any time. The gener-
Gus donor is invited to call.
A horse attached to buggy in
which gentleman and lady were
riding, ran away on Main street yes
terday. While the driver was at
tempting to check the horse one ofthe
lines broke, and, after this mishap
there would doubtless have been some
serious consequences had not Mr..
George Shearer succeeded in seiZing
the animal by the bit and checking
his flight. Fortunately no serious
damage was done.
Mr.. Chas Kaiser has kindly extend
ed an invitation to the pupils of the
public schools to inspect free of charge
his fine collection of oil paintings in
the salesroom of Messrs. Dewey, Kim
ball & Co. corner Of Requena and Los
Angeles streets. Next Tueoday has
been appointed by DIR. Lucky for the
time for the scholars to take advan-
tage of the invitation, and an hour
will be given to each class, with the
teacher for that purpose, beginning at
"A. NJ. and ending at so p. NJ. This
will give the children an opportunity
to see what will furnish them much
pleasure and will be remembered by
many with benefit in the future.
An auctioneer who has recently es-
tablished himself in the city was ar
raigned before Justice Gray yesterday
on charge of doing business without
a license and not filing the necessary
bond. The complaint was made as a
little piece of spite-work by an Older
firm in the same business here. The de-
fendant proved that he had q regular
license, but there was some informal