Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-29
LOCAL BREVITIES.

DR.. c. Pinkham will lecture on phre-
nology next week at Templar Hall.
See advertisement.
The only new case in the L. S. Land
Office is one just constructed for books
and papers.
The Ventura is advertised to sail
for Santa Barbara and San Francisco
tomorrow.
Another of "Zoe Zella's" Santa
Monica letters will appear in Sunday
mornings HERALD.
On dit, that billiard match will
come off in the Orient saloon in few
days.
DR.. +. M. Shaw yesterday left q
basket of excellent sweet apples at
the HERALD office, for which he has
our thanks.
J. w. Potts is rapidly levelling the
only remaining point at the head of
Temple street, and that thoroughfare
will soon be one of the best in the city.
Yesterday the types mades us say
Mr.. Stanley had completed an arte-
sian we'll at Compton. 1t is Mr.. Put
ney that does the well digging.
A good farm of eighty acres of splen-
did land, with good improvements, is
offered for lease for one year on very
favorable terms at BancrOft's real es-
tate office. See advertisement.
We find among the list of passen-
gers on the Pacific the name of Mr.. M.
F. Herzog who comes to Los angeles
for the purpose of opening large
clothing house in Messrs. Perry &
Riley's new building.
Mr.. Kaiser's fine exhibition of oil
paintings in the room of Messrs
Dewey, Kimball & Co., was opened to
the public yesterday. A good number
availed themselves of the opportunity
to inspect these rare works of art, and
doubtless to-day the attendance will
be largely increased.
The following is list of passengers
from San Francisco, per Pacific, for
San Pedro yesterday: Judge S. Haley,
Jas. w. Means and wife, J. S. Court
ing, G. w. Dixon, J. w. Patrick, G.
w. Gift, Jno Francis and wife, r Lit
tlefield, wife and daughter, III Ship
man, M T Herzog.
A hunting party, consisting of jeff.
White, Geo. Guard, Mr.. Painter and
Mr. Hughes, left the city yesterday
with full equipments for q ten days
hunt in the Temescal region. Report
says that game is abundant there,
and we prophesy good time for the
party.
On Thursday last at the milk ranch
of Hamilton & Town two and half
miles from the city, a mare fell into
well forty feet deep. She lay in ten
feet of water from four o'clock in the
afternoon until eight in the evening
when she was hoisted out apparently
nnhurt.
The case of the People VS.. Bernard
Newman on the charge of resisting an
officer in the discharge of his duty,
was concluded in the County Court
yesterday. The arguments were fin
ished about o'clock in the afternoon,
and the jury, after retiring for few
moments, brought in verdict of not
guilty.
We learn by the list of passengers
per steamer Pacific that our former
fellow-citizen, Geo. w. Gift, is among
the number en- route for this place.
Mr.. Gift is we'll and favorabiy known
here through his general writings il
Illustrative of Southern California, and
especially by his letters to the HER
AID. We will gladly welcome him
back to our city again.
The Board of Directors of the
Grange Cooperative Company held a
meeting yesterday afternoon at their
office. The manager of the Grange
store reported cash sales for the past
month amounting to six thousand
dollars. This new enterprise seems to
be in a most fiourishing condition,
and its success surpasses the most
sanguine expectations of the COM
pany.
The Wilmington Enterprise says:
Quite number of ladies and gentle
men assembled in the College Chapel
last Monday evening to hear Miss
Mollie Binbord, the new music teach
er, perform on the Piano. Miss Bin
ford plays with an ease that evidences
a thorough mastery of that instru-
ment, and an expression that indicates
both talent and culture. The Commit
tee have done their whole duty in
securing her services.
The San Fernando train took rail
road party off yesterday morning, with
four horses and carryall. The party
consisted of Mr.. John Miller, Secre-
tary of the Finance and Construction
Company; Col. e. M. Phelps, Engi-
neer of the Southern Pacific; Mr.E. E..
Hewitt, Superintendent of the Los
Angeles Division of the Southern Pa
citic, and Col. Whiting and Mr.. James
Billings of this city. They will drive
from San Fernando along the probable
line of the railroad to Tehachapi, max
ing a critical inspection of the route,
and will be gone several days. On
Thursday the same party made trip
through the southern portion of our
county, as far as Santa Ana, taking
notes of the topography and the re-
sources of that section by the way.
II you want to see rush for boots
and shoes, call ut the factory of A. S.
Mcdonald, No. 1O4 Main street. Or
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