Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-03-24
gos Angeles Aerald,
NEWS ITEMS.

Ill BaKefSneld.
Governor Booth has vetoed the
Harbor Commissioner bill.
The Stockton street railway will be
in operation in few days.
The Central Pacific had on hand
January LIST 10000 cords of wood.
The Central Pacific has decided to
use Lincoln coal in it's locomotives.
The latest excitement in Grass VAL
ley is a reported find of diamonds.
The first Grange has just been Or
ganized in Placer county, at Roseville.
The new building for the New York
Tribune costs one million dollars, ex-
elusive of the ground.
Fred. Douglas has been elected
President of the Freedmen's Savings
Bank in Washington.
The boot and shoe dealers of San
Francisco have agreed to close their
business houses at o'clock.
The loss of the government by the
failure of Jay Cooke & Co.'s bank is at
last ascertained to be $4,000.
A company has been formed in
Marysville to prosecute hydraulic
mining in Baker county, Oregon.
The German Reichstag has voted the
second time against fixing the num-
Der of the army at 40, 900 men in time
of peace.
The loss of sheep in this State during
the past Winter by the SHOWS and cold
weather will fully balance the increase
for the year.
Ada G. Sweet, daughter of the late
Gen. Sweet, has been appointed L. S.
Pension Agent at Chicago, vice Blake
ley of the Post, resigned.
The bill making appropriations for
Notifications and other works of de-
Tense on the Pacific coast has passed
Hide, one of the late Japanese EN-
bassy to the United States and Europe,
has been appointed Minister of Public
Education in Japan.
The Hon. George Brown, of Ottawa,
has arrived in Washington to negoti-
ate with our Government on the re-
vival of the reciprocity treaty.
The Massachusetts Democratic Leg
islative caucus has nominated eX-
United States Supreme Court Judge
B. r. Curtis for United States Senator.
In the New Jersey House the bill
appropriating 100000 for the Centen-
NAL celebration was repol ted adversely
but was subsequently placed on the
calendar.
Capt. Johnson, pioneer resident of
San Francisco, and Chief Engineer of
the San Francisco Division of the
Central Pacific, died of pneumonia at
Reno last Wednesday.
A colored mail driver of Richmond,
Virginia, named Harris, has been de-
tected in enormous thefts of the mails
committed to his charge, and has been
arrested.
The Sacramento river is seventeen
feet above low water made, and the
people along the banks are aprehen-
sive of flood when the snow melts in
the mountains.
General Van Buren,, who wasn't
thought fit to represent the United
States at the Vienna Exposition, has
been confirmed by the Senate as Con-
sui at Nagasaki, Japan.
The losses of Hartford companies by
the Cleveland fire We're as follows:
Hartford, $4,000; National, $4,000;
Phoenix and Orient, 900 each: Atlas,
$500; total, $4,000.
A locomotive to operate without fire
has been built in Paterson, New Jer-
sey, for a New York street railway.
The boiler is charged with steam
enough to run it twelve miles.
An insane Chinaman named Chi
Tung, lately from Los Angeles, was
shot and killed in Bakersfield on the
18th by one of the Constable's party
who were trying to capture him.
Ginseng is exported largely to
China, where it is used incidentally
The great bulk of the export which
comes from Ohio and Indiana goes
through the port of San Francisco.
The upheavals of Bald Mountain in
North Carolina have been even more
successful in melting people to prayer
than the temperance crusade. Whole
neighborhoods are said to be on theil
knees.
The New York State Grange met in
Albany on the Goth and adopted reso.
lutions accepting the declaration o.
the National Grange at ST. Louis de-
handing legislation to open and i'm
prove avenues of traffic; cheaper trans
portation; a pro rata freight law; low
canal tolls, and the canal debt fund
ing amendment, and favoring reason
able temperance reform legislation.