Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-03
gos Sngeles AeraId.
;ITY AND COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
WEDNESDAY,. MARCH 8, 1875.
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The Ventura sails for San Francisco
to-day.
The Constitution sailed for Nanai-
mo yesterday.
The Board of Supervisors have ad-
journed.
Downey shipped yesterday 1875 sacks
of corn and Al bales of hay.
G. Brode-a son - everything Sc
rene.
The Santa Barbara Inder has been
enlarged to a six-page sheet.
Go to the new Postoffice building
for your mail this morning.
Five hundred boxes of oranges were
shipped from the depot yesterday.
Social circles are all agog over the
coming masquerade ball.
Mr.. Will R. Bettis has been ap-
pointed deputy poll-tax collector.
San Bernardino is having bonanza
balls and parties.
Judge Gray took in several new re-
cruits for the chain-gang yesterday.
A slight shower commenced falling
about 7:30 last evening.
The air grew quite chilly yesterday
afternoon-a premonitor of rain.
Our old friend Will Tell, OF seaside
notoriety, is now happy in a lager
beer saloon in San Bernardino.
There are only a few more chances
left in the thousand dollar diamond
ring at the Fashion Saloon.
Judge Widney expects to christen
his new line the East Los Angeles
and San Pedro Street Railroad.
A meeting of Los Angeles Lodge,
No. 35, /. o. o. F., of special import
ance will be held tonight. A full at
tendance is expected.
A party Of Councimen and one re-
porter took ride over the line of the
newly projected street railroad yester-
day.
Bear in mind that Williams will
sell forty-six valuable town lots on
Friday. They go at auction and are
rare chance.
The iron of the Main Street and
Agricultural Park Railroad is expect
ed to arrive next week, when active
operations in track-laying will be
commenced.
The proprietor of the Merced Thea
ire, Mr.. Abbott, is making arrange
ments to put in a new gallery and
make other important provements
in the building.
The iron for the Main street rail-
road left San Francisco on Monday.
Governor Downey will go up on the
next steamer to select the plan of cars
to be used on the road.
The shipments from Anaheim by
railroad during the month of Februa-
ry were as follows: 1894 sacks barley,
l73 sacks corn, 7l5 sacks rye, 200 sacks
potatoes, % pipes wine, 20 sacks wheat,
10 sacks beans, 80 boxes eggs.
There is man in San Bernardino
so mean that he refused to buy
three cent postage stamp for his wife
the other day. 1t may be that she
was writing to his mother-in-law and
in that case he was eXcusable.
J. G. Wallace entered plea of not
guilty to the charge of manslaughter,
in the District Court yesterday. The
trial was set for the 25th inst, and q
venire issued for so jurors.
The Disciples of Christ formed
themselves into Church last Sunday
with 20 members. The organization
will hereafter be known as the Chris
tian Church.
Miss Jennie Legs, by request, will
relate some of her experiences in the
transition from Orthodoxy to Spirit
ualism at Merced Theatre, this eve-
ming, at 1880 O'clock. All are cordially
invited.
1t is now thought that the second
sale ofCentinela property, advertised
for the 18th of April next, may not
come off, as the lands are being sold
very rapidly at private sale, and
may be entirely disposed of before that
time.
The attention of our business men is
directed to the fact that J. L. Ward
makes collections on Panamint safely
and promptly. Mr.. Henry G.. Hous-
ton, late of Los Angeles and well
known and respected here, is his agent
at that place.
Rumor hath it that couple of Los
Angeles lawyers had an interesting
little set-to at Anaheim last Monday.
They were both drunk; they went at
it tooth and toe-nail; they clinched
and fell, and rolled over and over and
over, but neither one was much hurt.
A spiritualist of this city who is far
gone in the faith has sleeping apart
ment about ten feet square raised on
timber to the height of twenty feet
from the ground. To this he repairs
at night for repose, and the spirits,
finding great difficulty in climbing the
posts, let him alone.