Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-09-29
LOCAL BREVITIES.

street, is progressing fayorably.
Gold in New York yesterday, ll6i.
Greenbacks in Los Angeles, 85086l.
The Los Angeles Guards will have
have an annual musteran and inspection
tonight,
A petition is being circulated for a
Z. S. District Court for Southern Cal
ifornia, at Los Angeles.
A gold chain has been found and
can be had at this office by proving
property and paying charges.
The steamer Orizaba arrived yester-
day from San Francisco with 13O pas
sengers and 400 tons of freight.
Rev. J. 5. Hickey, who has been
appointed to the Fort street M. F..
church, arrived yesterday.
Dr. bio Lewis, of Boston, the health
reformer, is at the Backman house,
and, horrible to relate, is sick.
Invalids seeking health can consult
DR.. Aborn at the Backman House,
free of charge.
Rev. Mr.. Tarr, who has been ap-
pointed or the Los Angeles circuit by
the Methodist conference, has arrived
in the city.
Dr. Aborn at the Backman House
invites all who are afflicted with any
form of disease to call for free cOn-
sultation.
Prof. II. Bethe has secured for his
series of concerts the new Methodist
church South, on Spring street. The
particulars will be announced next
week.
Charlie Thomas, owner of Irene
Harding, arrived from Sacramento
yesterday. He has sold his fast little
mare to a Mr.. Cole, of Nevada, for
$500.
The following kilograms are uncall-
ed for at the Western Union Telegraph
office: DR.. David Burbank, Henry
Pmadon, Howard +. Hit, A. Lath-
earn, Gideon Lewis, DR.. Chas. Simms.
A shipper yesterday made COM
plant at the railroad office that he
had been charged ten cents freight on
barrel from Cotton instead of twelve
and q half cents, the schedule rate. 1t
is the first time in history that q ship
per reported an undercharge.
Or. Hall and family, of Junction
City, Kansas, have arrived and are
stopping at the st. Charles. We well
come the Doctor back, and hope he
may enjoy pleasant residence here
and great business prosperity.
We have received a copy of the Fort
Smith (Ark.) Independent, containing
thrilling account Of the execution of
six murderers at Fort Smith on Sep
tember Sd. AS we have had a con-
densed account of the affair by tele-
graph We cannot publish it in detail.
You need not wait for the re-opening
of the banks in order to get pictures
at the Cottage Gallery, as Williams &
Smith are taking them now at bottom
prices, and as good as at any other
gallery in the city.
George Furman has doubled with a
vengeance. Twin girls this time,
weight not known, because George
fled as soon as soon as the nurse broke
the news to him. He says this kind
of thing is hereditary in the family.
Among the shipments yesterday
were so joints of artesian pipe to Col
ton; II sacks of meal from Also mills
to Colton; 10S sacks of meal from
Also mills to San Francisco; bales
of wool to San Francisco, ,and second
hand steam engine.
Mr.. Levi Starbuck, of the firm of
Starbuck & Butler, has returned from
England with blushing bride. We
congratulate him on his matrimonial
venture, and assure the fashionable
society of Los Angeles that Mrs. Star
buck will be a great acquisition to our
refined circles.
Must q policeman be called liar in
the Mayors court and not resent it
Does an appointment as policeman
make man liable to be abused and
insulted without redress ? Officer
Twomey thinks not, and did just as
any honorable citizen would have
done-knocked the insulter down.
We understand that certain parties
interested in Santa Monica are circu-
lating reports that typhoid fever is
raging in Los Angeles. This is al
most as bad as the lies in the Santa
Monico land advertisements, but we
can assure all our readers at home and
abroad that there is not case of ty-
phoid in the city.
There are three specimens Of corn
in the real estate Office of M. III. Kim
ball which are worthy of inspection.
One was grown i'm mountain caflon.
| 1t is ten feet to the ear. Two others
were grown on the Cienega. One OF
| them is sixteen feet six inches long.
| The other is also long, and is eleven
feet six inches TO the first ear. The
ears on all are perfectly formed.
The great health lecturer, DIR. Dio
Lewis, is in California for his health.
1t is a sad commentary on his health
lectures that Dio has been struck by
disease. But even his name is sug-
gestive sermon on the vanity of weak
humanity attempting to fight disease
and death. What more startling than
to render the lecturers name die,
Oh! Lewis"