Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-05-14
CITY AND SUBURBS.


yesterday.
The Common Council meet this af-
ternoon at o'clock.
The Mohongo will leave Wilmington
for San Diego next Friday.
There is telegram in the Western
Union Telegraph office for Dr. Bryant.
The San Luis, of the Goodall, Nelson
q Perkins Line, arrived at Whining
ton yesterday morning.
Mr.. S. Levy has clipping of wool,
brought from Santa Cruz Island, which
measures fourteen inches in length of
fibre.
The Board of Directors of the Mutual
Aid Association adjourned their meet
ing yesterday until Saturday next at
10 O'clock A. M.
The Esperanza store prides itself on
possessing the finest express wagon in
the city. 1t is thing of beauty and
joy fOrever-and cost $3.50.
Littlefield, Webb & Co.'s latest cir
cular states that the San Francisco
wool market is growing weaker, quot
ing the average bury clip at lS0l9
cents.
The M. E. Church social was held at
the house of the pastor, Mr. Campbell,
last night. We hear that it was a
very enjoyable affair. )
1t was Mr.. I. M. Hellman. and not
J. w. Hellman, who was elected one
of the Trustees of the Public Library
last Tuesday evening. The types Of
our report were in error
Yesterdays edition of the HERALD
was entirely sold out before o'clock
in the morning. Our subscription list
increases with such rapidity that we
find it difficult to keep up with the
demand.
1t is said that the Important, on
Main street, under the Lafayette Ho-
tel, is the cheapest store on the Pacific
Coast. All those who have not visited
the Important will do we'll to go there
and see for themselves.
Uncle Josh Talbot tells us that he
sold yesterday seven chances in the
rattle for his wonderful gun, which
will come off at Signoret's next Satur-
day evening. He still has thirteen
chances remaining which he wishes to
dispose of.
John McDonald's restaurant, Com
mercial street, near the depot, has
been greatly enlarged and improved,
and now affords all the delicacies of
the season. Board and lodging by the
month at special rates. Single meals
or beds, % cents. Give him call.
The body of Amos Green, who died
of hemorrhage of the lungs at the
Lafayette Hotel, Tuesday night, was
yesterday inferred. We understand
that the expense Of the burial was
borne by the city, as the deceased was
without means.
Adds opens his anti-monopoly cot
tage photograph rooms May LIST, i'm
mediately opposite the Pico House.
Card photographs, one dollar per
dozen. Cabinets, So so per dozen.
Four tintypes for fifty cents. Patron
ize the opposition.
The new Boarl of Trustees of the
Library Association, at it's meeting
last night, reelected the old officers of
the late Board for the ensuing year.
The officers still remain as follows: j.
r. Mcconnell, President; Y. Sepul-
veda, Vice President; II. w. Temple,
Treasurer; J. G. Littlelield, Librarian
and Secretary.
Justice Gray failed to secure full
attendance of the Coroners Jury on
the case of the woman Rafaila, yes
terday, and the investigation was post
poned until this morning. Valenzuela,
the important witness in the case, was
present, but no evidence could be le-
gally taken.
Our morning cotemporary says the
gentlemen who go away from Los An
geles to find wives are "level-headed."
Visitors in this city who see and be-
come acquainted with the many beau
tiful and estimable young ladies here,
think q man could not do better than
select wife from among them.
Mr.. Matthews Office at the depot is
now taking its turn at being repaired.
1t will be somewhat larger and more
commodious than before. Meanwhile,
things about that corner of the depot
are completely at skies and sevens, and
Mr.. Matthews experiences something
of the proverbial discomfortures of u
toad under harrow.
Our friend William Rapp is one of
the latest to turn Benedict. On Tues
day evening, he was married to Miss
Lizzie Williams, Justice Gray per-
forming the ceremony. If good
wishes were not SO common and so
cheap, we would wish some good luck
to the newly-wedded pair; but we
simply pass the occasion with the
words of Rip Van Wrinkle, "May you
leef long und prosper"
Alfred James of the United States
Land Office has received from III. A.
Hawkins, formerly resident of this
county, consignment of bulbs of the
dwarf banana from Palutka, Florida,
where Mr.. Hawkins now resides. This
is the most popular and hardy variety
of this plant, and Mr. Hawkins writes
to Mr.. James that in November last q
freeze which made ice One-quarter of
an inch thick did no damage to either
the plant or the fruit.
In the u. S. Land Office, yesterday,
the case of John Schumacher, claimant
of thirty-five acre donation lot, pur-
chased under the Act of July %, 1866,
was on trial. Mr.. Hancock appeared
as attorney for applicant, and Messrs.
Widney, Bicknell, Marshall and Gould
for contestant. The decision is not yet
rendered. The case of Bertrand Re-
we're, under the same Act, will be tried
to-day. On the Goth instant a very
important case, involving the title to
the race-course property, will be in
hand.