Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-18
LOCAL RISEVITIES.

LOCAL Ess.
The bark Fremont arrived at San
Pedro yesterday.
The Alleghanians leave for Santa
Barbara to-day.
The steamer Los Angeles is due to-
morrow.
Mr.. Buchanan informs us that work
on the tunnel at Cajon Pass is pro-
crossing rapidly.
The schooner Newton Booth and the
barkentine Monitor sailed from San
Pedro yesterday
Judge Thomas II. Smith goes to
San Francisco by steamer to-day.
Legal business, doubtless.
The Band of Hope will meet at
Good Templars' Hall this afternoon at
3 O'clock.
There will be special meeting of
Orange Lodge, |. o. b. B., this even
ing. -
The benefit given by the Alleghani-
ans yesterday afternoon netted $50 for
the Public School Library.
Fifteen hundred feet of track had
been laid on the Main Street and Ag-
ricultural Park Railroad up to the
time of closing work last night.
We learn that Mr.. Foster Backman,
young man we'll known in the city.
comes down on the steamer Los An
geles as chief freight clerk. ~
The season of white vests and linen
coats has arrived and the voice of the
turtle is heard in the land. Let some
body put these beautiful thoughts to-
gether and give us an essay on Spring.
The Board of Education will make
tour Of the city next Wednesday to
look up eligible sites for the new
school houses. Meanwhile all sugges-
tions relative to proper locations will
be thankfully received.
Col. c. Tustin is now in our city.
He brings encouraging news from his
section of the county. The frost did
but very little damage to anything in
the vicinity of Tustin. Everything
looks green and fiourishing.
The concert given by the Los Ange-
les Choral Society, with festival in
connection, for the benefit of the
Presbyterian Church will take place
about the last of this month. Great
pains will be taken to make it first
class entertainment.
The Board of Education met ycstcr-
day to canvass the returns of the late
school election and found the proceed
ings regular and satisfactory. Steps
will be taken Immediately to levy and
collect the special tax and put the
school Improvements under headway.
We dropped in to look at our new
assaying office yesterday, Mr.. Quart
ner had his hands full, his head full,
and his office full of business He is
kept on the jump all the time. This
office will prove great convenience
to Southern California.
We are pleased to announce the ar
rival of two more Kansas pilgrims,
Messrs. III. Teeple and A. J. Spalding.
They are old settlers of Leavenworth,
Kansas, and are seeking home
where they can work without freezing.
They are stopping at the United
States.
Mr.. d. I. McPeek of Indianapolis,
Indiana, who has been sojourning in
the State six months, leaves for San
Francisco on the OriZaba to-day. He
has examined our surroundings and is
we'll pleased with Los Angeles. We
wish him and his wife safe return
home. a4..se.a.
p. c. Tonner, Francisco Palomares
and others have made q contract of
sale to the Los Angeles immigration
and Land Cooperative Association
for portion of the San Jose rancho,
for about $l15, 900, said to be the most
beautiful part of Los Angeles county.
The company propose cutting it up
and selling it out OH the plan of the
Artesia Colony. This tract lays be-
tween Los Angeles and Spadra, some
thirty miles from this city on the
Southern Pacific Railroad.
The Alleghanians drew full house
for the seventh time In our city last
night and bade farewell to Los Ange-
les with flourish. Well, they have
given us week of unalloyed enter
tainment, have put the whole place in
good humor and can conscientiously
| seek other fields to conquer. We must
! give the company our benediction on
| the occasion of their departure, and
wish for them always the support and
appreciation which they have found
| while in our city.