Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-03-11
CITY AND SUBURBS.


The library benefit comes off next
Friday night.
f. Ganahl, ESQ.,, is confined to his
room with pneumonia.
Remember the Public School Exhi-
bition tonight at Turn Verein Hall.
The Gas Company is building sew
err through the lot adjoining Soulens
restaurant.
The Board of Directors of the Mu-
tual Aid Association meet in their
office in this city at II o'clock to-day.
The Directors of the Grange Coop
erative Association hold meeting to-
day at II O'Clock, in room Al, Temple
Block.
A lost boy about four years of age
was picked up on Spring street yester-
day. His parents can find him at 2O2
Masn street.
Mr.. McGee the agent of the Golden
Era, called on us yesterday. He is
looking up the interests OF his paper
in this section of the State.
Ramon Sotello is putting up neat
cottage residence on the hill in the
rear of the Gas Works. The building
when completed will cost about $500.
The Southern District Agricultural
Society will hold meeting for the
transaction of important business at
the Clarendon Hotel, at P. NJ Satur-
day.
The name of Mr.. L. Harris, of the
firm of Harris & Jacoby, appears
among the list of overland passengers
passing Carlin westward on the 18th
inst.
LA CRoNIcA appeared yesterday in
its enlarged form. 1t is now a hand
some twenty-eight column sheet, and
we'll represents the Spanish-speaking
population of our State.
Superintendent Hewitt says that
unless some mishap occurs, all of the
northern end of the railroad and its
branches will be in good running order
by the first of April next.
The exercises at the School Exhibi-
ton this evening at Turn Verein Hall
will begin at y O'Clock. This has
been found necessary from the fact
that the programmed is quite lengthy
one.
A. B. Hotchkiss, ESQ.,, District At
torney of San Diego, paid us a brief
call yesterday. Mr.. H. is one of those
genial, and at the same time driving,
men that have contributed so much to
the glory of our sister city.
A. P. Kuffell & Co., proprietors Of
the Belmont dairy, located about six
miles south of the city, have shown us
some samples of excellent butter Of
their manufacture. The butter is not
only of fine quality, but is put up in
handsome style. Orders for the butter
and cream may be left with Caswell
& Ellis.
It isn't every one that can wrestle
successfully with the exasperating or
biography of our California names, as
the Postotfice clerks occasionally find
out. A few days since a letter was de-
posted in the office in this city di-
rected to "Serig Ordor.n They sent
it to Cerro Gordo on venture. An
other chap writing to this city either
got confused or tried to get off joke
on us by putting it "Lost Angel"
The scenes in the streets around the
depot yesterday when the steamer
train departed were unusually lively.
There was the ordinary number of
passengers for San Francisco, besides
o sprinkle of Eastern folks on their
return home. Pretty near every one
of these had a trophy in the shape of
an enormous bunch of oranges or lem
ons still adhering to the parent stem.
Messrs. Miles & Holbrook of this
city are filling contract for the man
ufacture of a lot of water pipes for the
San Gabriel Orange Grove Associa-
ton. They are making three miles of
eleven-inch pipe, 5000 feet of which is
to be of number 16 iron, and the re-
mainder of number IS. They are also
making lot Of branch pipe, Of seven
inch caliber. The same firm have just
completed a large lot for Mr.. Beaudry,
and are engaged on another job of one
mile.
The announcement yesterday, of the
death of Mr.. Reiss, late assistant to
Mr.. Mcclellan at the Pacific Mail
Steamship Agency, came to us very
unexpectedly. Mr.. Reiss had fire.
quent occasion to visit this office on
business, and it was but three or four
days ago, that he paid us what has
proved to be his last visit. He had
been in this city but a short time, but
sufficiently long to prove himself pos
sessed of estimable social and bust
ness qualities.
The Christian people and friends of
temperance in Los Angeles are being
moved by the spirit which is working
such a wonderful revolution in the
East. Pursuant to notice goodly
number of ladies and gentlemen met
at Templer's Hall last evening for the
purpose of organizing temperance
prayer meeting, and affected prelim-
mary organization by calling Rev. DIR.
Lucky to the chair. Appeals were
made in prayer by the ministers of
the various churches to the Divine
ruler for help in the great work q re-
deeming the people nom the greut
curse OF latemperance. After tie ex-
ercises u prayer. remarks aud suzgas-
tons were made IN regard 10 the most
effective mode Of procedure, and the