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

lhe SOluSt OUU announces tnaU the
Changers in that vicinity will soon
start bank.
Thirty cars of barley for the East
left Sacramento by the overland
freight train last Friday. sd
Considerable stock has been shot
down by parties in Fresno county, on
whose crops it was trespassing.
The receipts of the San Francisco
Custom-house for the month of Feb
ruary amounted to 1858, l43.
The people of Fresno county want
the county seat removed from Miller
ton, but have not decided to what
point.
The Methodists of Bakersfield, who
have been holding services in the
Court House, are taking measures to
erect a church.
A band of 5000 sheep were caught
in a snow storm in Cedarville Pass, in
Siskiyou county, recently, and two
thirds of them persisted. :.
The Pacific Mail Lines new iron
steamer Granada arrived at Panama
on the 18th ult., and will be due in
San Francisc co this week.
The epizooty that has appeared in
New York is of mild form, and only
temporarily disables its victims. No
fatal eases have yet occurred.
AT a social meeting near Millerton,
Placer county, a few days since. boy
ten years old was taken with fits occa-
stoned by some whisky he drank, from
which death resulted in twenty-four
hours.
The Eastern wool market is growing
tirmer under advices from London. a
Philadelphia dispatch of the eth gives
the price of California medium to fine
woods at 25 to 35c.
Mary Tyrone, supplemented wo-
half years in the penitentiary for
house-breaking in the daytime, has
been pardoned- by the Governor.
The Senate Committee have report
ed favorably on Hitchcock bill allow
ing any one who has failed to acquire
title to his presumption or home
stead claim to file another application
on another tract.
Stevens, the owner of the job office
in which the Sun newspaper of San
Francisco was published, has brought
suit against the De Youngs and Lees
for destroying his printing material.
He estimates his damages at $1,000.
Seventeen carloads of tea and silk
worm eggs arrived in Baltimore on
the 9th ult. direct from San Francis
co, being the first shipment of through
freight over the Baltimore & Ohio.
The trip occupied fourteen days, and
was at once forwarded to New York.
The Virginia Enterprise of the 25th
gives an account of savage ARRAY in
that town between two Cinnamon.
They were brothers and members Of
the same company. One was shot and
the other stabbed, and both will proba-
bly, die. F ..t# .I.... =
The Fresno ExpositOr says that Suth-
erland, the claimant of certain swamp
lands in that county, assisted by the
Sheriff, attempted to dispossess Mr..
Hall, who has claim on some Of the
land. They visited his house one night
last week, but Hall kept them out.
The members Of the subordinate
Oranges of Santa Clara county met in
San Jose on the 23d of last month, and
drafted constitution for a county
council. The constitution was adopted,
and Monday, March 9th, fixed as the
day for meeting toperfect the organi-
cation.
The Sacramento Agricultural So
ciety has fixed the time of the Spring
meeting on May 4th. 1t is the inten-
tion that the best horses in the United
States shall participate in the trials of
speed, and the society will offer grand
inducements, and endeavor to make
them the best races that have yet
taken place. The races will continue
six days. SOFAS 5#ssH.l =
The Santa Clara Jute Factory enter
prise is taking shape. A meeting Of
the stockholders was held recently,
anda committee appointed to locate
the site of the establishment. An as
sessment of five per cent on each share
was levied and ordered to be paid in at
once. Mr.. Shartzer subscribed 81, 900,
and also agreed to pay like sum for
the first thousand sacks made.
One day last week, as some of the
students of Washington College, Ala
media. county, were looking over the
game captured in hunt they had
just returned from, q gun belonging
to one of the party was accidentally
discharged, fatally wounding a lad of
fourteen, named Harmon, son of the
Principal. His thigh was badly shat
tered, and the artery severed, the
wound causing his death in about
twenty minutes.