Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-07
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NEWS TIE MS.

i HeuuiOlllu IL prey tIiiiiS Ill sodtld-
mento to an unusual extent.
Young Louis Napoleon will be twen-
ty-one years old on the 10th.
Josh Billings is in Carson City, Me-
vada, on his way to California.
The average daily yield of the
Belcher mine exceeds 500 tons of good
ore.
The Constitution took 300 TASKS of
quicksilver, en- her last trip, all for
Chill. ~.
Assay offices are to be established at
Chicago, st. Louis and Helena, Mon
tana.
The business of the Patent Office is
larger than ever before, and is steadily
increasing.
The steamer Alaska is on the way
from Hong Kong to San Francisco,
with 600 Chinese.
Jas. Gamble was killed at Port Gam
BILE, w. T., on Tuesday, by the falling
of a pile of lumber.
The Amador County Citizens Con-
vention has passed resolution con-
demning the fee system.
Seamless jute grain-bags are the
latest novelty. Forty bales of the new
article are on the way to this coast.
San Jose is rejoicing in fine oranges
grown on trees fourteen years old, in
the foothills of Santa Clara county.
S,eventy-seyen members of the Cali
fornia Wine-groWers' Association are
attending the meeting at Sacramento.
Terrific snow-storms are prevailing
along the line of the Central Pacific
road, and trains are seriously delayed.
James Anderson was convicted of
incest at San Jose on Tuesday, and
sentenced to the State Prison for ten
years.
1t is estimated that 10000 persons
are daily supplied with food at the
soup kitchens established by the New
York Herald.
New Hampshire is the first to hold
State election this Spring, the 10th
of March being the day. Connecticut
follows on the 9th Of April.
The bill providing that nobody but
school teacher can be a Superintend-
ent of Schools, has passed and been
approved by the Governor.
The Alden fruit preserving estab-
lishment at San Lorenzo put up 400
tons of fruit last year, and will in
crease the figures this season.
The fight for the possession of the
position of Chief Engineer of the Fire
Department in San Francisco is going
on with undiminished vigor.
The fire that has been raging for two
months in the Empire coal mine, near
Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, has driven
the workmen out, and is uncontrolled.
James Dunn was arrested in Balti-
more on Monday for numbering his
mistress by throwing q coal-oil lamp
at her which burst and burned her to
death.
Chicago had packed 100000 hogs
~, IN tho let f ENohp,,npu anI of la Of
accounts the porkers were still march
ing into the scalding tub in solid col
umns.
The billiard match at Tammany
Hall, New York, between DAILY and
Dion, for $1,000 side, was won by
DAILY. His greatest run was 2l2
points.
The engineers who have been sur
veying the Colorado desert report in
favor of turning the Colorado river
into it, and converting the desert into
a lake.
A bill has been introduced in the
Legislature to charter for the construc-
ton of railroad from San Luis Obispo
to Santa Maria valley, in Santa Bar
bara county.
The Committee on Civil Service Re-
form in the House will submits bill to
reduce the salaries of the department
officers to the figures that ruled before
the grab law was passed.
The old Astor House in New York
is to be closed and converted into q
business block. 1t long since ceased
to be n fashionable hotel, but is still
popular with business men and poll
ticians from the country.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
hoists as its presidential ticket in 1876,
the names of Charles Francis Adams
of Massachusetts, and Governor New
ton Booth of California. Possibly it
may find occasion to reverse the order
of the names.
The ladies of San Francisco are or
ganizing for the whisky fray, but in
stead of praying, they will move for
compulsory legislation. One organic
alton is making out list of grocers
who do not in any way deal in liquors,
with view to influence trade in their
favor to the exclusion of those who
also sell intoxicating drinks.