Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-09-20
LOCAL BREVITIES.

A watermelon weighing fifty-five
pounds was displayed in front of a
Main street fruit stand yesterday.
Mr.. E. c. Carpenter starts for Santa
Barbara this evening in the interest of
the Mutual Aid Association.
The Good Templars will give anoth-
er one of their entertaining socables
at the hall on Wednesday evening
next.
Mr.. s. G. Hubbell left on the Orizaba
yesterday on business trip to the
East. He will return about the first
of November.
ON dit that there will be q wedding
at Will TelPs to-day, in which Mr.. N.
b. McQuaid and Miss Jennie Larking
will be the high contracting parties.
Dewey, Kimball & Co. advertise a
good business opportunity for gem
tleman who has experience and $1,000
capital. See notice in another column.
All travellers and miners will do we'll
=. to get their boots and shoes made at
the Los Angeles Boot and Shoe Fac
tory of A. S. Mcdonald, No. 1O4 Main
street. Call and see for yourselves.
The brig Williamantic, Capt. Allen,
arrived at Wilmington yesterday,
seven days from Humboldt, with 190,-
900 feet of lumber for Perry, Wood
worth & Co.
Mr.. Kaiser . gift entertainment will
come off at Dewey, Kimball & Co.'s
salesreom next Saturday. Our an
nouncement that yesterday was the
appointed time was an error.
Rev. A. M. Campbell will preach
to-day at Grange Hall, at II o'clock
A. NJ, and deliver q lecture at the
same place, at y P. NJ, on "Christ-
the God Man." Seats free.
Messrs. Tobin and McArran Direc-
tors of the Hibernia Bank, San Fran
cisco, are in this city. They have
and are well pleased with what they
have seen.
Mr. Tell informs us that wild duck
and abundance of other game are now
taking refuge at the Seaside Retreat,
and hunting is good. A large party
of sportsmen will visit Mr.. Tells place
to-day.
Mr.. Charles +. Miles and family left
on the Orizaba for San Francisco yes
terday. Mr.. Miles will leave his family
in Oakland for visit and return to
the city himself in II few days.
Mr.. Porter brought to our office yes
terday an immense cucumber, raised
at his place, near Florence. 1t is al
most a mate to the famous Los Nietos
pumpkin. with the seeds of which the
people of that burg shingled their
church.
Rev. DR.. White will preach in Good
Templar's Hall this morning at the
usual hour. This evening he will lee
ture on the agreement between the
teachings of Scripture and the deduc-
tions of Geology, this being the fourth
lecture of the course.
The Railroad Company will dis
patch a special train to Los Nietos
Tuesday morning at 1915, A. NJ, re-
turning at 545 P. NJ, so as to give par
ties an opportunity to attend the great
sale of lots in Downey. City on that
day.
1t is reported that in responce to Mr..
Carreras' advertisement for 100000
gallons of olives, he has only received
a certain assurance Of $4,000 gallons,
and believes he will get in all about
10000 gallons, from all the orchards.
Out of this amount he will extract
and refine about 7 600 gallons of pure
olive oil.
Rev. d. l.. Packard, of the Congre-
gational Church has returned from
his visit to San Francisco and will re-
sumo his charge to-day. There will
be services this morning and evening
at the usual hours. The Congrega-
tional Church has just been handsome
ly ornamented by the addition of a
very neat cupalo to the building.
Other Improvements will be made as
soon as the grade of the street shall
have been fixed.
An open-air service will be held on
the square near Temple Block this
forenoon at 1O:3O. The Rev. John
Francis, of San Francisco, will preach
on the "Authenticity and Excellency
of the Holy Scriptures" A second
service will take place in Chinatown,
Los Angeles street at / p. NJ, when
Mr.. Francis assistant, See Key will
address his countrymen. The third
service will be held in the Baptist
church in the new German edifice,
Spring street, between Third and
Fourth, when Mr.. Francis will preach
q Missionary discourse, on the Ever
lasting Gospel.
Tomorrow our Jewish citizens will
commemorate the Day of Atone
ment, that being the tenth day of the
month Tisri. At8P. NJ. Rev. Mr.. Edel-
man will deliver a discourse in the
Synagogue, taking his text from
Isaiah, Chapter 54, verses Z, 8 and 81:
"Let the wicked forsake his way, and
the unrighteous man his thoughts, and
let him return unto the Lord and he
will have mercy from God, for he does
abundantly pardon. For my thoughts
are not your thoughts, neither are
your ways my ways, saith the Lord
for as far as the heavens are from the
earth, so are my ways from your ways,
and nay thoughts from your thoughts" !"
Vivian gave an etertainment at
Grass Valley last Saturday night, for
the benefit of the Mokelumne Hill
sufferers, which netted the neat sum
of G10O