Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-03-19
NEWS ITEMS.
kiah is to have a wooden mill.

Jerusalem has had q snow storm for
the first time in fifteen years.
A telegraph station has been estab-
lished at Bethlehem, of Bible fame.
A. M. Winn's paper, the Shop and
Senate, has suspended publication.
Postmaster Stone of San Francisco
will retire from office on the 18th of
May.
Madame Anna Bishop is detained
in San Francisco by property li.iga-
ton.
The fall of snow in England is I'M
precedented and railroads are block
AIDED.
The act to make women eligible to
educational offices has been approved
by the Governor.
There are good prospects of an In
dian war in Northern Nebraska and
Wyoming Territory this Spring.
The opposition steamer William Ia
Dor is announced to sail from San
Francisco for Portland on Saturday
next.
Tekaki, the new Japanese Vice-Co
sui at San Francisco, arrived there on
Monday last and took rooms at the
Grand Hotel.
The Charleston races were so well
patronized that another two days
meeting was decided on for the follow
ing week.
The foot race between Henry Chase
and Charles Hubert, for $500 side,
took place on Saturday in New York.
Chase won.
The AlvaradO Beet Sugar Factory is
to be removed to Santa Cruz, and an
other sugar factory is to be built at
Alvarado.
Farmers are actively engaged plant
ing hops in the Puyalluy Valley, W..
II. A large crop is anticipated the
present year.
The usual tri-yearly dividend of 81
per share on the capital stock of the
California State Telegraph Company
is now payable.
San Francisco has enough water
slowed away in it's reservoirs to last it
five years. 1t is getting ready for the
cold water woman movement.
Judge Lewis Dent, brother of Mrs.
Grant, is lying at the point of dea tn at
his residence in Washington. Cause,
tumor in the stomach.
San Francisco has musical prodigy
"a lad eleven years of age who plays
the violin so we'll that he is to be sent
to Europe to complete his musical ed
ucation.
New York is asked for $125,0OO to
fee lawyers for prosecuting the Tweed
thief ring. 1t costs almost as much
to stop men from stealing as it does to
let them steal.
The sacramento Union indorses bet
ting on horse races, pool-selling, etc.
1t says: "Betting and hOrse-racing
are inseparable, and the best men in
the world indulge in BOTH"
The Chicago Baseball Club for 1874
is expected to arrive in that city soon.
It's Fairgrounds are to be fitted up in
magnificent style-the grand stand
alone seating about 1900.
Judge Dwinelle on Monday rendered
a decision that Chief Whitney is a
usurper, and that the position right
fully belongs to David Scannell. He
also imposed fine of $3l1 on Whit
ney.
The Union passenger depot at Dennis
ton, Texas, Adams Express adjoining,
and thirty freight cars laden with
merchandise and lumber and num-
Der Of trunks, were consumed by fire
Sunday morning. Loss, $4,000.
A fig orchard at Mormon island,
Sacramento county, contains 1000
bearing trees of the white Smyrna va
riety. A full grown tree produces
three crops during the season; the
second bearing the largest.
Burglars entered the office of the
Woodbridge Conn., Agricultural I'm
plement and Machine Works, blew
open the safe, took the contents, fired
the buildings, and escaped. Total
loss, 100000. One hundred men are
thrown out Of employment.
The New York Legislature is con-
sidering o bill for assessing railways
at q valuation Of $1,000 per mile Of
single track for every one per cent OF
dividend declared within year. Rail-
roads not paying dividends are to be
valued at q uniform rate of SIC, 1000 per
mile of single track.
James Ward, the champion of Can
ada. having failed to make match
with Paine, now offers to "shoot
against any man in America, and will
pu. up $3.50 against $500, half forfeit.
Each to shoot at 100 single snowbirds,
20 yards rise, 60 yards boundary, any
rules; H and r ground traps, II ounce
shot"