Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-12-04
LOCAL BREVITTES.

The Ventura sailed for San Fran
cisco yesterday with Is passengers.
Have you lost any shirts ?p was
the popular inquiry on the street yes
terday. ....l- .. t.
The stairway leading from New
High street to the High School build
ing was completed yesterday.
We acknowledge call from Mr..
Joseph II. Sharp, special agent of the
Pacific Rurai Press who visits our
county on business trip.
The Orizaba is due at Wilmington
this morning, and will sail this after
noon for San Diego. She will return
on her upward bound trip Sunday.
Mr.. Rolln p. SAKE sold one of his
. Durham bulls to Mr.. f. p. f. Temple
yesterday for the handsome sum of
5000. ...........-.
BY card which appears this morn
ing it will be seen that Mr.. Jacob +.
Gerl1ens withdraws from the political
arena as candidate for Marshal in fa-
NOT VI Oilccr IluTTlS. '.
Mr.. H. S. Ritchie has taken charge
of the CULINARY department of the
Kimball Mansion and will spread the
boards there in the usually inviting
style. Attention is directed to the adj
vertisement which appears elsewhere.
The Thirty Fights realized $265
from their ball after paying all ex-
penses. This sum, it is thought, will
hose truck which the boys have in
their minds eye. 81 90
Judge Sepulveda will pronounce the
sentence of imprisonment for life on
Mcdonald tomorrow, in accordance
with the verdict of the jury. The
question of previous acquittal will be
carried to the Supreme Court.
An apple blossom in December
would be something to brag of in some
countries. We saw one yesterday,
picked from place adjoining Judge
Lindley's "Buena VISTA" few miles
from the city.
Messrs. w. G.. Howell & Co. have
established an agency of the Singer
Sewing Machine on Main street, four
doors south of the Court House. At
tention is directed to their card which
appears elsewhere.
The City Fathers are growing un-
commonly pacific towards the end Of
their term. The meeting yesterday
was a sort of millennium in Council
a(fairs-the lion lay down with the
lamb, and all were at peace.
The shell-frames at Dewey, Kimball
& Co.'s will be raffied off on Saturday
between 12 and o'clock. All those
who have taken tickets will please be
on hand, and those who have not set
tied will remember that no ticket Is
sold until paid for.
The Fort Hill reservoir project OF
the Water Company involving the
lease of lot No. s, Fort Hill, has as
sumed a quietus. No report on the
matter was presented in the Council
Yesterday and consequently no action
was taken concerning it. tu I'd.
A meeting will be held at the
County Court room this evening to
select two of the candidates before the
people for members of the School
Board, for whose election united eff
fort can be made by the friends OF ed
ucation. The meeting will be public
and all are invited.
The proposition of the Water Com
pany to purchase lot No. s, Fort Hili'
for reservoir purposes, was rejected by
the Council yesterday. The City
Fathers rightly concluded that If they
should sell the lot they might not SO
easily get it back again, with reser
voir built upon it, when the Watel
Company's franchise expires. aea
A sorry-looking old express wagor
was standing in front of a Main stree
saddlery shop yesterday bearing thu
placard "Hacl1 for Salt River" Th'
''hackn had, no doubt, called at th'
right place but was about five day
too early. Next Monday, the express
with its full compliment of passenger
will 90 meandering up the brin.
stream, starting from the aforemen
toned headquarters. g
Mr.. De Forest and DR.. Ellis, VIII
lately arrived in this city from AM
Arbor, Michigan, have purchase
propertyin Oakland and will locat
there for the present. These gentle
men are highly pleased with Los An
geles and her people and may retur
and take up their permanent residenc
among us, but being largely intereste
in business in San Francisco they al
c6mpeUed to leave us for the presen
Thev are pleasant and energetic ger
tlemen, and should they SD elect
shall welcome them as permanent re'
idents of Los Angeles. ls .r
Our friend Choynski, who fe
months ago invented mosquito ba
that will ultimately destroy the la
Of the sharp-billed family, has no
turned his attention to the preserv'
tion of lambs by constructing, fro
the idea of Mr. III. ]. Stewart, OF Il
Chino ranch, little portable hou
made of upright Stats, with movap
roof. The structure is four feet Q
twelve in size, and is just the thll
for protecting lambs from the rout
weather. These little houses q
bolted together and may be taken
pieces in a minute. Sheep men shou
call on Choynski, at his shop
Spring street and examine this user