Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-05-19
CITY AND SUBURBS.

terday.
The Constantine sailed for San Fran
cisco yesterday.
The Senator will sail for San Fran
cisco on Friday, May ODD.
The "Importantn offers 200 pieces
house-lining, one yard wide, at 81 cents
per yard.
There will be q vocal and instru-
mental concert given for the benefit of
month.
Henry Stahl sent fifty dozen of his
premium soda to the Red Mems pic
ME last Sunday. Henry's beverage is
of the first quality.
Remember Beaudry's auction sale
of real estate, to come off on June 1st.
Some of the finest building sites in the
city will then be thrown upon the
market.
The ladies interested in Mrs. DIR.
Larkin's afternoon lectures will meet
at Good Templar's Hall to-day at 3 p.
NJ, when the first lecture of the course
will be given.
Morasovich, the wife beater, is under
arrest and will be tried before Justice
TraffOrd to-day, on charge of causing
the death of his wife Rafeala by his
brutal treatment.
A portion of the old Blue Wing
Store was demolished yesterday. We
understand that Messrs. Perry & Riley
are preparing to build q three-story
brick store on the site.
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, 25 cents. Give him call.
T. L. Vandenberg, Superintendent
of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
Line, is in the city. His visit may
have something to do with an early
completion of the wires of that COM
pany from Bakersfield to this city.
Before Justice Gray, yesterday, a
charge was brought against George
Allen, alias Greek George, for being
an accessory with Vasquez in the rob-
berry of Rappetto. He was bound over
Court at II time to be specified.
BY reference to the time table pub
lished in another place, it will be seen
that change of time has been effected
in the running of the Pacific Mail
steamers. The Orizaba and Mohongo
will now make the trip between San
Francisco and Wilmington in forty
five hours.
Col. Jones informs us that the Will
mington wharf will be ready to receive
ships this week, with berth of fifteen
feet of water at low tide. This work
has been pushed along with great ra-
pidity. 1t will do more to wipe out
lghterage than any one thing that
has occurred up to the present time.
The May number of the Mutual Aid
is upon our table. 1t is dressed out
with its usual neatness, and reflects
much credit upon it's publisher, Mr.. l..
M. Holt, as well as upon the HERALD
job office, where it was printed. The
paper contains much readable matter
Tor members of the Association and
those interested in it.
One of our young merchants who is
doing business on Los Angeles street
fell down in fit I'M saloon on Com
mercial street, about 10 o'clock Sun
day night. Drs. KurtZ and Wise were
called In, and after strenuous eXertions
succeeded in restoring their patient.
We are glad TO state that the young
man is now fully recovered and was
on the street yesterday.
General Banning, Commander of
the First Brigade California Militia,
has presented the Public Library with
a history of Spain, in three volumes:
The binding is of leather, plain ana
substantial, and the text is of the old
style, with a catch-word'' at the
bottom of each page. The work was
published by a London firm in i79},
and forms quite curious, as well as
valuable addition to the library.
The ladies of the M. E. Church held
a meeting yesterday, and determined
to have a Fourth of July dinner on
the coming Fourth. These dinners
have become fixed institution in this
city. 1t will be at the Skating Rink.
Next Friday at 2 p. NJ. there will be a
meeting of the ladies at the parsonage
on Fort street, to appoint the various
Committees. All ladies of other de-
nominations interested are requested
to be present.
Our evening contemporary has the
following: A lady school teacher from
Los Angeles, while on her way last
week from Anaheim to the place she
was to teach on the upper Santa Ana
river, met with a very narrow escape
from death. She was in a buggy,
which was driven by one of the en-
ployees of an Anaheim stable. AS the
night was unusually dark, he missed
the road and drove over the bank of q
creek seven feet in height, making q
complete wreck Of the buggy. Fortu-
nately, the driver stopped the horses
before any further damage was done,
and the lady miraculously escaped I'M
harmed.
The Red Mems picnic in the Arroyo
Seco last Sunday was we'll attended,
and, altogether, a very successful al
fair. Various games and dancing in
the pavilion made up the order of the
day, interspersed with lunch and other
refreshments for the inner man. In
the evening ball was given at Turner
Hall. The attendance, though not
large, was very select, and the affai r
throughout quite enjoyable. Some of
our amateurs entertained the COM
pany with vocal music, and Iserts
band discoursed sweet strains for the
tripping of the light fantastic. All
told, it was day very pleasantly spent
by the Red Men.
Last Sunday afternoon, between l
and 2 o'clock, man named Samuel
G. Kyle committed suicide at the
Champion Stable, corner of Also and
Alameda streets, by shooting himself
through the head with revolver. 1T
seems that Kyle had been quite dis
.;notod aod a flor indIl1pinU in n hard