Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-04
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NEWS ITEMS.


cisco hold a weekly prayer meeting.
Prof. CLANCY has been lecturing in
San Jose OH the "Antiquity of Man,"
There is as much money invested in
drinking saloons in San Francisco as
in banking.
The Sacramento river is still falling
and is now about sixteen feet above
low water mark.
Thompson, the Grass Valley high
wayman, has been sentenced to fifteen
years in the State Prison.
There were eighty-two deaths in
San Francisco last week; fifty-two
males, and thirty females.
There is baseball revival in San
Francisco. Clubs are being organized
at the rate of thirty week.
The report that John c. Fremont is
nearly dead has been denied by his
wife, and she ought to know.
The Havilah Miner reports that a
tunnel several hundred feet long is
being run in the Honduras mine.
A man in Denver who has married
and buried three sisters is getting
ready to begin on another family.
A religious revival is in progress in
the Methodist Church in Marysville,
and many are joining the Church.
The West Indian and Panama Tele-
graph Company have laid second
cable from Jamaica to Porto Rico.
The exports Of treasure to all points,
from San Francisco, during the month
of February amounted to 81 1854, 9S7. 46.
The twenty fifth anniversary of the
arrival of the steamer California was
celebrated in San Francisco on Satur-
day.
Admiral Wilkes, the captor of Ma
son and Slidell, is living quietly at
High Shoals, Lincoln county, North
Carolina.
Golden, Colorado, has a praying
band of women, who are going to try
their hands OIL the drinking saloons
of that city.
The apportionment bill has passed
the Assembly and will probably be
adopted by the Senate without mate
rial amendment.
The Willamette (Oregon) Wooden
Mills turned out during the year 1872,
100000 yards of cloth, consuming 400
900 pounds of wool. a
The Union Iron works of Virginia,
Nevada, are building mammoth
lathe, said to be the biggest machine
of the kind on the coast.
New York is having q street.clean-
ing investigation. If the develop
ments are as foul as the streets, "Tam-
many" will be nowhere.
Over five hundred persons were
assisted by the San Francisco Benev-
client Association during the month OF
December, at cost of 81, 45S.
The number of German emigrants
that left the three ports of Hamburg,
Stettin and Bremen during the year
1873 for the United States was 1874, 1911.
The House Committee on the Judici-
airy has decided to report against max
ing an amendment to the Constitution
recognizing God and the Christian re-
ligion. E4lgfli m fI|f xii
The De YOungs were arraigned last
Saturday for assault with a deadly
weapon. M. H. De Young was dis
charged and Gus was held to bail in
the sum of $4,000.
The San Jose, Driving Park has been
put in fine order, and arrangements
made to secure the presence of several
fast horses from the East at the Spring
meeting, which opens on the 18th OF
April.
The Grass Valley Union reports that
owing to the severity of the season
but little outside prospecting has been
done, but the regularly opened mines
have been worked with satisfactory
results.
The bill providing that railroad
tickets shall hold good till they are
used has passed the Senate. The East
ern courts long since established this
rule without the Intervention of the
Legislatures.
The Meas says there are forty-six
Oranges in Colorado Territory, with a
membership of two thousand. A
deputy has beenappointed to organize
Oranges on the south side of the Ar.
kansas river.
The Bank of San Francisco, a new
monied institution just established
that proposes to buy and sell real
estate, as well as transact an ordinary
banking business, opened its doors te
the public on Monday.
The Joint State Prison Committee
of the Senate and Assembly have re-
commended forty-four Of the inmates OF
San Quentin to the Governor for i'm.
mediate pardon. Among them are
three convicted of murder In the first
degree and sentenced for life. sA g 3