Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-05-06
LOCAL BREvITIES.
Council meeting tonight.

The Cosmopolitan Club has adopted
a Constitution and Bylaws.
The Kalorama sailed yesterday
morning for San Diego.
The departure of the Ancon was
postponed until to-day.
Ellis is the name of new station en-
the Southern Pacific Railway, two
miles this side of Ell Monte.
The schooner Cora arrived at Will
mington yesterday morning with lum-
ber for Jackson g. Co.
The capacity of the U. S. Hotel is
insufficient, and third story is to be
added at an early date.
Messrs. Moore & Kelleher will COM
mence the survey of Brooklyn this
week.
San Diego has had May-fest in
which the German population took
part generally.
Desirable rooms, furnished or un-
furnished, can be secured by applying
to Kimball & Co., No. 10 Spring
street.
Six drunks and disorderly yesterday
before Mayor Beaudry. Five are now
boarded by the city, but the other un-
fortunate has to work outside.
The Methodist Church Social last
night at Mrs. Kinney's residence was
largely attended and was quite pleas
ant affair.
st. Mary's College is to be enlarged
by adding two wings, each as large as
the present building. The institution
will have capacity for three hundred
students.
Col. Thomas A. Scott has written a
letter to the San Diego committee of
forty. 1t is devoted mainly to explain
ing the failure Of the Texas and Pacific
Railway scheme in Congress.
We have received copy of the May
number of the Railroad Gazette pub
lished monthly by H. s. Crocker &
Co., San Francisco, which seems to be
up to its usual standard.
The sale of the Washington Tract on
the grounds yesterday morning real
lied 1885 and the sale in the evening
made the aggregate of the day $4,000
The sales will be continued to-day on
the ground.
There will be grand foot race this
morning at ten o'clock at Temple
Block, on Spring street between two
well known runners. No gate money.
Stakes $50 side. No postponement
on account of weather.
We are pleased to learn that Hon.
w. P. Hackney, late Of Sumner coun-
ty, Kansas, who is now in San Fran
cisco, proposes visiting Los Angeles.
He is an active, enterprising young
man and may do we'll to locate here.
The Backman House boasts new
register so big that it takes two men
and boy to open the cover. 1t was
pulled into the building by house
moving apparatus and they are going
to build an office around it.
Gen. Cotton, the Vice-President of
the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany, has ordered Col. Hewitt to make
a reduction of twenty per cent. on the
regular charges on all freights deliv-
cred direct from vessels to the COM
pany at the wharf.
City and suburban lots are sold in
New England by the square foot, and
within two miles of any respectable
town they bring from so cents to ST
per foot. In Los Angeles from to 10
cents only is asked, which certainly
gives the buyer margin for rise.
Rumble & Gaertner have opened
an assay office at No. 20 Downey
Block, and are now prepared for work
They are making assays daily, some
of them of the most particular ma
ture. Our country friends desiring
ores tested should give these gentle
men trial and see what prospects
they have.
Mr. ID. Halliday, of Batavia, Illinois.
patentee of the best windmill in the
West, the Halliday Mill, has just re-
turned from Santa Ana, where he has
purchased one hundred acres of land,
at low figures. We ale glad to see that
Mr.. Halliday is investing, out of his
abundance in Southern California, and
hope he will not weary in well doing.
To-day and tomorrow the great sale
of the Los Angeles immigration and
Laud Cooperative Association will
take place. The lots are on First,
Georgia, Hewitt and Messer streets,
and are covered with ve.year-old or
ange trees, are level and fertile, with
fine irrigating advantages. Terms,
One-third cash, balance in six and
twelve months.
The trial of Macarthur, who COM
mitted the homicide at Anaheim last
January, was concluded in the District
Court yesterday. Many extenuating
circumstances were elected in the ev-
idence, and the jury returned verdict
of "guilty of assault to commit great
bodily injury" recommending the
culprit to the mercy of the Court. The
crime is punishable by imprisonment
for two years. Sentence was deferred
until Friday.
Providence never overlooks the
printer We found on our desk yes
terday bottle of wine and a bunch
of cigars-the former for our drinking
and fighting editor, and the latter for
the Good Templar branch of the es-
adjustment. These articles came
with the compliments of the Lord