Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-10
NEWS lTE MS.

ut HOLSTER.
Denver is to be "illustratedn in
Harper's Weekly.
Chief Justice Waite took the oath of
office on the 4th.
Two or three more of the Bender
family have been arrested.
Miss Nelson, the celebrated actress,
has arrived in San Francisco.
Portland, Oregon, takes in a ton of
Puget Sound fish every day.
A little boy twelve years of age was
killed in San Jose by the cars.
The price of fine silver in New York
is from $l.2G to SIPS per ounce.
J. w. Foard has been recommis-
stoned State Insurance Commissioner.
The New York canals have cost the
State an aggregate Of over 10000, 900.
Chamberlain's horses True Blue and
Weathercock, have been taken East.
Work on the Northern Pacific Rail-
road is progressing as rapidly as posi-
BILE.
Four vessels are fitting out for the
sea otter fisheries on the coast of
Japan.
Hillsdale College in Michigan was
destroyed by fire on the 9Th inst. Loss,
$4,000.
An eighteen-inch vein of excellent
coal has been discovered in Colusa
county.
The steamer Bismark, reported miss
ing some time since, has arrived safely
at New York.
The mass meeting at Platts Hall to
sustain Judge Stanley was attended
by $500 persons.
An Albany, Oregon, bartender
named Whitfield has fallen heir to a
fortune of $4,000.
John Rider has brought an action
for libel against the prOprietOrs of the
Sacramento Union.
The ladies of San Francisco are cir
culating q petition asking Gov. Booth
to stop selling liquor.
The receipts of California butter at
San Francisco during the year 1878,
aggregate nearly 5000, 600.
Boston talks of following the exam
pie of Chicago and Cincinnati, and
getting up q monster exposition.
The receipts of the United States
Treasury at San Francisco for the
month of February foot up 2,2S3, 257.
The Central Pacific trains are on
time again bringing five tons OF Eng
lish mails to San Francisco in one day.
Dio Lewis efforts to inaugurate u
new temperance crusade in the New
England States is reported to be a
failure.
The Changers of Oregon have APP
pointed a resident agent at Portland
to attend to their shipping and other
bust ness. ...
In Bellefontaine, Ohio, the ladies'
have closed six out of the twelve sa-
looms, but in other places they have
not been so successful.
The Gold Hill (Nevada) Neaos' is of
the opinion that the oldest inhabitant
never saw such a stormy, long and
cold Winter as the present one.
The editor of the San Diego Union
has some very rich specimens of iron
ore, from a point on the coast about
eighty miles south of that city.
The famine in India has become so
severe that the government will be
obliged to maintain three millions of
people for the next three months.
The San Jose Grange has endorsed
the resolutions passed by the Heads
burg Grange condemning the manage
ment of the State Agricultural Society.
On the 5th inst. Gen. Butler pre-
scented in the House the resolution of
the Massachusetts Legislature re-
scinding the censure of Senator Butler.
The owner of "Joe Daniels" has ac-
cepted the challenge of George Treat,
and agrees to match his horse against
"Thad Stevens for $4,000, four-mile
heats.
The Sixth Senatorial District Agri-
cultural Society filed it's articles of as
ISOLATION with the Secretary Of State,
on Wednesday. Place of business,
Santa Cruz.
John Briggs has in his orchard a
mile from Yuba City, cherry trees five
years old from the setting that are
thirty feet high and forty inches in
circumference.
During the absence of Anthony
Coggswell, of Chapmansville, Pa, his
wife apparently died and was buried.
On his return he had her body taken
up, when it was discovered that she
was in a trance and had been buried
alive. The fearful discovery drove
him into insanity.