Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-20
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Hon. B. D. Wilson, of Wilmington,
is in the city-rain-bo

IHe OTlIdDd Is uue lTOul Dau II Tdi-
cisco on Friday for San Diego.
The Senator will leave for San Fran
cisco tomorrow,
From Bakersfield and San Luis
Obispo very heavy rains are reported.
The Gipsey arrived at Wilmington,
with combustibles, yesterday morn
ing. Mga1THs sVQh 1AoIl 81
The Spring and Sixth street railroad,
somewhat disarranged by the rain,
will be all right to-day. 7t
Senator Msclay, of San Fernando,
is in the city. He predicts brilliant
mining operations in that section.
The Knights Templar willho their
regular conclave to- o-morrow( Thursday
evening, at their Asylum.
The schooner Isabella, on the rocks
off old San Pedro, has been worked
off. = ae esa1a
And still the rain is in progress,
with total fall of over twelve inches
up to o'clock last night ~
Passengers booked on the Ventura
are requested to call at the steamship
office and secure transfers to the Sena-
tor. -
III. A. Jones, Esq, of Panamint,
is ut the Pico, just in from the new
mines. He gives a most favorable
report. g ii7 aama ,uaafa
One of the rascals figuring in the
late burglaries here is man named
Bird, just out Off San quentin for rob-
berry.
The rain is telling on the Coronel
adobe block, ON Los Angeles street. 1t
is all old building and has thrilling
history. alt
The rain is good for the Changers,
but it's rough on the gophers and
ground squirrels. They are being
drowned out by the thousands.
The sale of delinquent property on
the city tax list for 1874 commenced
yesterday. The rain made bidders
scarce and cautious.
The Directory shows thirty plain
"Smiths''' in Los Angeles, sixteen
Browns" and ten representatives of
the Jones family. 4a. aaa
"Uncle Billy" Rubottom, of Spadra,
was in the city yesterday. The. rain
has made him happy, and he wants
the gates kept open for three days
more. aa s,i taiat
The San Francisco CdU says that
10000 sheep are on the roads leading
from Los Angeles and Santa Barbara
counties into Kern county, looking for
feed. roaba..rH aaf
All hopes of the safety of the schoon-
er Emma X Farnham have been
abandoned. She left Crescent City for
Wilmington over II month ago, loaded
with lumber.
The Express says: eve received
by to-day's mail San Francisco Calls
of the 18th, 14th, 18th, 10th and 18th"
Had the Express delayed its call at
Wells. Fargo e. Co.'s until the 25th
inst. it would have received SO many
more Calls. Tf8@
Mr.. Hewitt, Superintendent of the
Southern Pacific Railroad, returned
from Wilmington last night. He Tt
ports that the wounded men are all,
doing well, and that the chances are
that even Master Mechanic Thomas,
the most badly injured, will recover.
The Senator arrived at Wilmington
from San Francisco yesterday morn
ing, with ninety passengers and sew
eral hundred tons of freight. The male
passengers had to walk over half
mile at the break at Dominguez, the
ladies were taken across on hand cars.
The rains have played the deuce
with the stages on the coast line. AT
the Santa Clara river the drivers are
looking wistfully at each other across
the raging waters. There has been no
stage communication to or from San
Diego or Santa Barbara for three days.
No stages will depart on this line to-
day from this city. ,a .t5a s
The latest railroad intelligence is as
follows: The Anaheim branch road is
badly damaged, breaks at a dozen
places and trains will not be running
+, for ten days. The road to Spadra and
San Fernando is all right. 1t is ex-
pected that the break on the Whining
ton road will be repaired by this
morning. nfwre~ aH
At regular meeting of South Star
Degree Lodge No. 7, I. o. o. f., held
January 10, 1875, the following officers
q were installed in their respective
chairs for the current term: Horace
Burdick, d. NJ; J. r. Somers, ID. ID.
NJ; Ben A. Stanard, Secretary; f. A.
Pruess, Jr., Treasurer! J. M. Bassett,
L. G. The ID. M. made the following
appointments: /. G.. Girard, W.; A.W.
Hutton, r.. s. ID. NJ; 1. J. Smith, L..
s. ID. M. n.j g. me. 2.i .aeig
The mails from San Francisco did
not arrive until P. NJ yesterday. The
Telegraph stage line reached San Fer
nando but three hours late, a fact
not worth noting in these delugey
times. The San Fernando train was
down at the wreck on the Wilmington
road and this caused the additional de-
lay in the receipt of the mails. The
stage line have men out all along the
line, guarding against accidents, and
are determined to make time.
The culinary department of the
Backman House has been arranged on
the restaurant plan, SO that day board
or single meals can be had at the
usual price. A ground entrance to the
dining room has been secured, loading
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