Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-14
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CITY AND COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
LOCAL BREVITIES.


Larger depot facilities are needed at
Downey.
The Kalorama is due at Whining
ton to-day with full cargo of freight.
The st. Charles Restaurant makes a
speciality of fine Sunday dinners.
The San Bernardino Guardian COM
plains of an influx of "rags" and
roughs to that place.
The first number of the Downey City
Courier reached us yesterday. 1t gives
promise of being lively sheet.
The Broador is to be revived as q
campaign paper at Anaheim by Judge
Wiseman.
The new town to be laid out at New
port, on the coast between Whining
ton and Anaheim will be called Ban
ming.
If you want flrst-class pictures at
the very lowest prices, go to the Cot
tage Photograph Gallery on First
street near Spring.
A New England breakfast and one
of those super-eXtra dinners will be
served at the Bacl;man House to-day.
Epicures take notice.
Shominac Tribe No. 80, I. o. r. NJ,
will hold meeting of special import
ance next Tuesday evening. Every
member is expected to be present.
Judge OMelveny has settled it that
mans nose is worth a year in State
Prison. Dantelle, the razor-slasher
will pay that penalty for indulging in
the luxury.
The firm of Cabanis & Madigan, real
estate and money brokers has been
dissolved. Mr. Madigan retires to at
tend to his duties as Deputy Assessor,
and Mr.. Cabanis continues the busi-
ness.
Mr.. Chas. Vivian has returned to
the city from San Diego, accompanied
by Mr.. Robinson of his troupe. The
rest of the company will be here to-
morrow and they will then proceed to
San Bernardino to give series OF en-
tertainments.
Ho! for Yosemite! Tourists can now
visit the Yosemite Valley, as direct
communication is open from Los An
geles to that favorite resort. Through
tickets can be obtained by applying TO
VIM. H. Van Waller, agent Telegraph
Stage Company, who will give full
information about the route.
Mr.. Perkins, who is now engaged in
tobacco culture in Los Nietos valley,
has seeded about an acre OF ground,
which, if successful, will yield enough
for two hundred acres. The seed is
choice Havana. A manufactory will
undoubtedly be established at Dow
ney should the tobacco prove u sue
cess.
General Bouton has subdividcd IL
tract of choice city property into lots
and will sell them at auction next Sat-
urday. The lots, some fourteen in
number, front on Seventh, Olive and
Charity streets and are only one block
from the Spring and Sixth Street
Railroad. The terms offered are easy.
For further particulars see advertise
ment'
Next Wednesday, the 18th, will
bring the celebration of st. Patrick's
Day and with it one of the finest af-
fairs of the kind ever held in Los An
geles. The grand climax of the days
proceedings will be the ball, to be held
in the evening at Turn -Verein Hall.
No expense or pains has been spared
to make it, in every way, worthy of
the occasion. There will be a large
turnout of the wealth and fashion of
the city and everything is promised to
be of the very best.
At it's meeting of Friday evening,
the Board of Education ordered an
election to be held in the city on the
proposition to raise $4,000 by special
tax for school purposes. The accom-
modations for pupils in our public
schools are now far short of the re-
quirements, and with our growing
population, something must be done
speedily to furnish more and better
school buildings. The Eighth-street
school, which is not graded, has about
80 pupils, and it has been found nec-
essary to refuse admission to num-
Der of children who could not possibly
be admitted. Should the tax of So,
900 be voted, the Board propose with
that amount to erect five additional
school buildings in different locations.
where most needed, and enlarge two
of the buildings now in use. The de-
tails of the special election will be
arranged at the next meeting of the
Board.