Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-11
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the 18th.
The Comstock lode ships daily 100
carloads of ore.
John Mccullough, the actor, has
gone east OH a tour.
Lead pencils are now made in Jer-
sey City entirely by machinery.
Prof. LIE Conte has been lecturing on
the Darwinian theory in Oakland.
Salinas Valley has one hundred and
ten thousand acres of land in cultiva-
ton.
The Monterey and Salinas railroad
company has filed its articles of incor-
poration.
The snow blockade on the Central
Pacific has been raised. and trains are
again on time.
James Sibley Of Visalia testifies his
faith in alfalfa by sowing thirty-five
acres to that grass. =
Prof. Swinton, of the State Univer-
sity, has resigned, much to the sur
prise of his friends. - E#...
The Senate has passed the bill ap-
propriating 1900 to purchase the por-
traits of our Governors.
Eighty-two persons died in San
Francisco last week, tifty-seven males
and twenty-five females.
+. p Weston, the great pedestrian,
challenges the walkers of the Pacific
Coast to a trial of speed.
The county records of Solano county
are being removed from Fairfield to
Vallejo, the new county seat.
The Changers of Lake county are
organizing a cooperative association
and will start store in Lakeport soon.
Oakland increases steadily in popu-
lation. There were seventeen deaths
and twenty-five births in that city,
last month.
Many of the wholesale firms of San
Francisco have agreed to close their
business houses at 2 o'clock on Satur-
day afternoons.
Milton Shepardson, charged with
robbing Wells, Fargo & Co.'S stage In
September last, was convicted at
Shasta on Saturday.
A bill has been introduced by
Assemblyman Welch appropriating
100000 for the completion of the In
sane Asylum at Napa.
The Butterfelds of Hollisterl are
shipping Angora goats and sheep to
the Sandwich Islands, where they
are going into business.
The Pacific Mail lines steamer Pa
cific, leaves San Francisco for Will
mington in the evening instead of the
morning, as heretofore.
The pupils of st. Ignatius College,
San Francisco, have organized brass
band, and the college has bought them
full set of instruments.
The shortest time between Liverpool
and San Francisco, eighty-six days
and seventeen hours, was made by the
clipper ship Panama in 1860.
Winnemucca couples have mania
for getting divorced. The whole at
tention of the District Court is devoted
to disuniting mis- mated couples.
A committee of Congress is engaged
in investigating alleged violations of
the eight-hour law in the work on the
new Postoffice building at New York.
A lady in San Jose lately received
an express letter containing an over
land railroad ticket, that had been on
its way from San Francisco for two
years.
The Stockton Board of Trade has is
sued a pamphlet, descriptive of the
city and setting forth the advantages
of Stockton and the San joaquin
Valley.
The trial Of J. w. Smith for the
murder of Frank Haywood last May,
at Bakersfield, has been concluded,
and verdict of murder in the second
degree returned.
The City of Melbourne sailed from
San Francisco for Australia on Satur-
day, She took forty bags of English
mail, for which her departure was de-
layed several days.
A citizen of Sacramento Is the happy
possessor of two bottles formerly the
property of Emperor Napoleon, and
from which it is supposed that he was
wont to take his constitutiOnals.
A number of the employees Of the
New Almaden quicksilver mine have
been arrested for stealing quicksilver.
Fifteen TASKS have been recovered,
but a number have been made away
with.
A Grange Company has beea organ
lied and Incorporated at Modesto for
the purpose Of building and conduct
ing warehouse and storing, buying,
selling and shipping agricultural pro-
duce and mashinery. The capital
stock is 100000, divided into shares
of 500 each.