Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-01-03

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fit for transportation. They bring
from 81 to So per hundred.
District Court met yesterday, but
adjourned to allow repairs of court
room to be made.
Supt. VIM. McFadden was in town
yesterday. He reports Anaheim all
right, and joyful over the rain.
Four cars of freight were dispatched
from the depot yesterday, and one re-
ceived.
One team left the depo. for San Ber-
nardino on New Years Day. None
departed yesterday.
Work ON the railroad has been pro-
crossing favorably. Our wet weather
will cause a little delay.
1t is raining This for people abroad
Over inches of rain have fallen thus
far this season.
The holidays are over, and every
body here has settled down to their
regular business.
Superintendent McFadden was in
town yesterday looking as jolly and
goodnatured as ever
The alarm of fire about nine O'Clock
yesterday morning was caused by the
burning out OF chimney in the Orient
Saloon.
The rainfall up to noon yesterday,
as shown by Ducommon's gauge, was
l.4 inches At this writing it is still
gently falling.
Doctor Leal has just got number
of large cards printed in colors, in
beautiful style, at the HERALD job
rooms.
The William Taber is announced to
sail for the Southern ports, but in this
world all is vanity, and especially is
this the case with the Taber.
Our prediction of fine weather for
the races, only held good for New
Years Day. We don't pretend to
know how it is q week ahead.
Louis Messmer is receiving Il large
lot of Old Bourbon and Rye Whiskey,
from Kentucky and Buffalo. The Gu
camongo Wine Cellar never gets any
thing of inferior quality.
A. +. Waterman aid family, of H.
linois, arrived on the Orizaba, and are
stopping at the United States Hotel
Mr.. Waterman intends to make Los
Angeles his home.
We learn the Main Street City Rail-
way Company will begin work on
their track to-day, and that there is
every prospect that the enterprise will
be theoretically prosecuted.
Owing to the inclemency OF the
weather the races advertised for yes
terday have been postponed till a fair
day. Due notice will be given, and
the public must be patient.
The County Council of the Patrons
of Husbandry, meet at p. NJ, to-day,
in Good Templars Hall. Important
business will be transacted and unless
the rain interferes full representation
Of the various Oranges is expected.
A granite cross-walk is to be built
across Spring street from Downey
Block to Temple Block rs an expert
ment. We hope the city authorities
will not wait till it is worn out, before
they build any more.
Gov. Downey, who arrived home on
the Orizaba, New Years Day, was the
recipient of serenade that evening
from his admiring fellow-citizens. The
Governor is favorite in this city, and
this graceful tribute to his private and
public worth, does honor to all con-
cerned.
The Twilight Grdrel Train, some
time since expressed its adherence of
educated blackguards. We have since
ascertained that its dislike is chiefly
entertained towards education rather
than blackguardism, its "kind words"
of New Years Eve, furnishing one of
the many littleproofs of this.
The idiotic complaint of the Express
that this paper was established by
Santa Barbara capital is on par with
the rest of its performances. That
concern will no doubt be petitiOning
the Legislature for an enactment pro-
hibiting the Investment Of any more
Santa Barbara capital in Los Angeles,
or in fact of capital from any source,
unless it is used to subsidize the E'r-
press.
Our colored citizens had grand
. time at Leck's Hall, New Years night.
The ball given under their auspices
was largely attended, and quite as
well conducted as those managed by
the white people. In fact, quite num-
Der of our prominent citizens were in
attendance, and not Il few of them par
ticipated in the fun along with the
darker hued bellies and beauX. Good
order was maintained. The refresh
ments We're first class, and everything
was lovely.
The number of visitors from the
mic of 'a in
now in town is greater than at any
previous season. Our Eastern friends
scarcely appreciate the rain as it keeps
them within doors and debars them
from walking and driving through our
beautiful valleys and teeming orange
groves. All the hotels are full, the
last steamer having completely over
filled them. Over thirty were turned
away from the Clarendon yesterday
and on the first.
Amid the general festivities of New
Years there is at least one family in
Los Angeles that is the abode OF
wretchedness, and night before last
the unpleasant domestic relations cul-
minated in an attempt at suicide. We
suppress the names of the parties out
of respect for friends, merely noting
that the gentleman whose rash at
tempt on his own life was happily UNI
successful, has recently been married,
and moves in the highest circles of
society.
It is little amusing how things get
mixed up when different associations
sare compelled to use the same Hall.
The M. f. Church South worship in
Leck,s Hall, and have very tastefully
decorated the room with scriptural
notices, surrounded by wreaths OF
evergreen. New Years night our col
ored friends gave ball in the same