Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-04
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

The air was fresh and exhileratinf
yesterday morning after the shower.
March is bringing US some of tn
coolest weather of the season.
J. M. Baldwin has choice lot COZ
l65 feet which he will sell for ST. 500.
G.. w. Morgan offers one Of the bes
residence lots on the hills at very
low figure.
A lot of carts were shipped to Sar
Fernando yesterday for work in exca.
waiting the tunnel.
The shipments from Downey yester.
day were 227 sacks meal, 36 sacks
bran and 20 bales hay.
A man is wanted to cultivate &c
acres of land on shares. See notice in
our want column.
The new Postoffice is still in consid-
erable confusion, as a result Of the
removal, but prompt delivery of the
mails is made.
G. w. Morgan offers one hundred
and sixty acres of good land capable
of being irrigated from artesian wells.
Price low.
Fisher & Thatcher will not rattle
their ST 900 diamond ring. They found
customer for the article and disposed
of ityesterday.
The contract has been let for the
construction of the $4,000 school house
at Artesia, and work will be commen-
menced upon it to-day.
The Main Street and Agricultural
Park Railway will have but one car on
the line to commence with. Others
will be added as business increases.
Our Azusa neighbors are waxing
indignant over repeated thefts OF
horses in that neighborhood and talk
of appealing to Judge Lynch.
We regret to hear that Mr.. Geo. G.
Davis, proprietor of the Alden Fruit
Works of this city, is dangerously i'll.
He has been confined to his bed for
over week.
Adolphe Cells has been appointed a
member of the police force temporar-
lily, to fill the place of Officer Cruz,
who was disabled by knife wound
Sunday night.
Desmond, the halter, will soon have
fine lot of the new Spring styles OF
hats on hand. Everybody who wants
to be in the fashion buys his hats OF
Desmond.
The Ventura, for some cause un-
known, was delayed at San Diego un-
til o. o'clock yesterday morning. This
made long days waiting and late
departure for passengers from Los An
geles.
An interesting case to turfmen was
tried before Judge Gray yesterday. 1t
involved the right of man to with
draw his bet when the race in ques-
tion did not come off. By the decision
of the jury it stands: No race, no bet.
They say that it has been cold
enough in Kansas to freeze whisky
and some of the drunkards have be-
come solid men. The Los Angeles
whisky never freezes but it OCCASION
ally makes "a stiff
Officer Bilderrain yesterday effected
the arrest of Jose Vara and Jesus Ro-
nero for assisting Jesus Tapia in re-
sisting Officer Cruz last Sunday eve-
ming. They are under bonds to appear
for examination on Monday.
We were in error yesterday in stat
ing that our friend Will Tell, late of
the Seaside Retreat, was in San Ber-
nardino keeping lager beer saloon.
1t is another man of the same name in
San Bernardino whom we saw men,
toned in the papers of that burg.
1t now transpires that only one OF
the participants in the legal set-to at
Anaheim last Monday was drunk and
not both, os first reported. The intox-
icated Lex called the sober Lex bad
names and received severe drubbing
for it.
A number of our city's soiled doves
were arraigned before Judge O'Mel-
very yesterday on the charge of keep
ing disorderly houses. They all
entered the plea of guilty. Fines OF
$25 each were paid by Hattie Rusner
and Katie Hall and the sentencing OF
the others was deferred until to-day.
We have received Gun Horoscope
Real" por d. Manuel Fernandez y
Gonzalez, published by E. F. Teodoli,
proprietor of La Cronico, of this city.
The book is in Spanish and contains
as pages of double-column matter. 1t
is neatly printed on good paper, and
the binding, done at the bindery of
Mr.. Perry, of this city, is an excellent
job.
James Moulton, the colored boot
black who perpetrated the feat of
razor-cutting extraordinary a short
time since, was arraigned in the
County Court yesterday and entered a
plea Of guilty to the charge brought
against him. He will be sentenced
to-day, and the next thing in order
will probably be a trip up the coast.
Somebody has been after Santa Bar
bara again in the columns of the
Eastern Press. This time cores
pondent of the Cincinnati Commercial
makes out that our fair up-country
neighbor is a mere bl6tch on Gods
footstool-a country not far removed
from that bourne to which bad East
ern people go when they die. OF
course Santa Barbara is indignant,