Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-06
CITY AND SUBURBS,

Ex-senator Cole sailed for San Fran
cisco on the Orizaba yesterday.
Fort street, near Second, is being
graveled and otherwise greatly inn
proved.
The Supervisors were engaged yes
terday in drawing the list ofjurors for
the year.
Reserved seats for the Skating Car
nival Saturday night can be had at
Brodrick's.
The carpenters have commenced
work on the new bank building on
Main street
The examination of applicants for
teachers certificates is still going on
in Good Templars' Hall.
A number of the worst mud-holes in
our streets have been filled up with
gravel during the past few days.
Samuel Percy remains in our city
for week or two, and in the mean
time will give few parlor entertain
ments in the way of select readings.
H. HI. Bancroft left yesterday for
San Francisco by the stage. He has
been collecting facts for use in his new
work OH the early history of Cali
fornia.
Mr.. Winans and family, who have
been stopping in Los Angeles for some
time past, started for the East yester-
day. Mr.. Winans expects to settle up
his business in the East and return
to live here permanently.
Mr.. Fisher, the jeweler, went up to
San Francisco yesterday to make
further purchases of jewelry. He will
also procure large aud beautiful safe
wherein to deposit the most valu-
able articles, and will order new and
improved machinery and appliances
for the manufacturing department.
A deed was filed for record in this
city in which the consideration ex-
pressed consisted of one and q half bar
rels of aguardiente, q piece of I'M
bleached manta, and seven dollars in
cash. The deed was executed years
ago, in the good old days when an in
fiated currency was not thought of,
and bartering was the regular style of
doing business.
Messrs. Page & Gravel, the carriage
makers, have just turned out of their
mandatory a very superior single
thorough-brace trotting buggy with
the Collier patent springs. In elegance
and workmanship 1t equals anything
in the vehicle line we have seen in
the city. 1t was made by order for
Mr.. Campbell of the Also street livery
stables. at1
Mr. Kraszynski, proprietor of Lyon
Station on the telegraph road, reports
that's miners have made as much as
500 dollars per week each, in placer
mining, in a locality within about four
miles Of the station. The late rains
have supplied all the water required to
operate placer mines. Mr.. X. thinks
that rich discoveries will yet be made
in his neighborhood.
p. Lauth, Louis Swarz and Fritz
Menu, under the firm name of Phil.
Lauth & Co., have leased the old es-
tablished and well known brewery on
the corner of Main and Third streets,
formerly owned by the late Chris.
Henne. The new proprietors are ex-
perienced brewers, and will continue
to make good lager on as extensive q
scale as has heretofore been done I'M
der the old proprietorship.
Mr.. Percy has severed his connec-
ton with the Phelps dramatic COM
pany, and purposes for time to tarry
with us in this congenial cline. We
are pleased to announce that OH Satur-
day night next he will give an elocu-
tiOnary entertainment at the Turner
Hall, the proceeds of which will go to
the Library Association fund. The high
reputation of Mr.. Piercey as reader
and actor, and the merits of the insti-
tuition in behalf of which he appears,
insures him good audience on Sat
urday night. @ BOD.