Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-10-07
LOCAL BREVITIES.

m1ngton from San Francisco yesterday
for New York freight.
For one thousand dollars G.. w.
Morgan will sell beautiful cottage
near the street cars.
The exports from the Los Nietos
Depot yesterday were two ears of grain
and one car of wool.
The Mutual Hid will be issued early
next week. A press of business i'm the
office of the Secretary causes the
delay.
Chapel, who was before L. $. Com
missioner Whiting on charge of cut
ting wood on Government land, has
been acquitted.
A panel of thirty term-trial jurors
was drawn in the County Court yes
terday; returnable the first Monday in
November.
The case of r.. Right VS.. the South
ern Pacific Railroad was tried in the
u. S. Land Office yesterday and con-
cluded. The decision has not yet
been rendered.
Robert Gaines, the party who ma
liciously shot horse belonging to a
neighbOr recently, was yesterday sem
fenced by Justice Gray to thirty days
in Jail or to pay fine of thirty dol
lars.
Edward w. Fulmer the party late
ly apprehended for forgery was
brought before Justice Gray yesterday
and held to appear before the next
Grand Jury. Meanwhile he was re-
manded to Jail.
Five cars were loaded at the depot
and dispatched to Wilmington yester-
day, and large quantity of freight
was held over to await further ship
ping accommodations.
We saw him going down the street
and as he passed, the ladies looked
upon him with admiring glances and
the eyes of gentlemen turned green
with envy. He wore Il suit made by
Fitzpatrick.
Attention is directed to the adver-
tisement of Mr.. f. Laventhal which
appears this morning. Mr.. I.aventhal
is offering great bargains, and we adj
wise all having an eye to that kind of
a purchase to call on him.
Los Angeles Grange meets next
Saturday at Good Templar Hall when
the first degree will be conferred. A
full attendance is desired as the an
swers to the questions sent out by the
Secretary of the National Grange will
be discussed.
The case OF DR.. Fong Chong, charged
with perjury was tried in Justice
y, Tnnrt taStarIaV Tha InStica
has been diving deep into Chinese
mysteries for several days past, and is
now almost an adept in the curious
language and customs of the Flowery
Kingdom. The decision on the case
was withheld.
The "Thirty Fights" held meet
ing Monday night, and elected the fol-
lowing officers: foreman, Charles f..
Miles; First Assistant, w. f. McDon-
ald Foreman of Hose Carriage, Peter
Wilson; Assistant Foreman of same,
VIM. H. Green; Foreman of Hook and
Ladder, VIM. Clayton; Secretary, l..
J. Sacriste; Treasurer, ;. Lacey.
Shominac Tribe of the Improved
Order of Red Men in its embryotic
state held another meeting last even
ing when several additions were made
to the charter list, making the num-
Der now fifty-six. The petition will
be sent to the Great Chiefs, San Fran
cisco for their action. Another meet
ing will be held at their wigwam,
Good Templars' HalD next Tuesday
evening when the charter list will be
closed.
The Southern California Mutual
Aid Association has just declared a
dividend of forty-three cents per
member. This dividend is declared
from the interest received. 1t is not
large, but shows a good, healthy finan-.
ciaI basis. The Oldest association OF
the kind in the State only had divi-
dend of six cents per member the nrst
year. In a few weeks the Los An
geles Association will publish its an
nual financial statement.
The following Grand Jury for the
September term was drawn by order
of the County Court last Monday:
Jacob Miller, Herman Jacoby, Wilson
Beach, III. Chaplin, James A. Cooper,
w. S. Arnold, /. Bowers, j. b. kipp,
Joseph Devoe, w. HI. Swan, Hitler,
Chris. Fluhr, ID. Carter, A. Z. Brun-
son, III. Fleishman, Sam, Hellman,
John ]. Hill, John III. Billings, lsidore
Cohn, George O. Tiffany, G. t. Park,
George Cate, John Benner, Jose
Aguilar.
The Board of Supervisors was in ses-
sion again yesterday. The matter OF
reconstructing the bridge across New
River was referred to two engineers,
Messrs. Crawford and Rumble, to ex-
anime and report as to whether IL
would be advisable TO build the bridge
where it is at present, or at some other
point. A mass of miscellaneous road
and other business was transacted.
Mr.. Woolweber was appointed Public
Administrator, Vice H. M. Mitchell,
resigned. The Board then adjourned
until next Friday, when they Will hear
the report of the Road Commissioners
on the San Francisquito road.
Mr.. Chas. II. Hass brought to oui
office yesterday some fine specimens
of apples and figs, for which we return
thanks. The apples were the Fail
pippin, very large and rich in fiavor
and hard to beat by any fruit-growine
country in the world. They are, how
ever, not above n good average OF the
same variety as it usually grows. we
offer this to refute the ott-repeated as
sertion that the apples of this country
lack flavor. If farmers here VIII only
raise good variety, they Will have as
fine-havored apples as can be grown
anywhere. The figs which MI Has'