Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-12

The width of Figueroa street has at
last been defined as 89 feet.
The Council will hereafter hold it's
sessions in the evening.
Mr.. w. s. Myer, an attorney from
New Haven, Connecticut, was admit
ted to the Los Angeles bar yesterday.
Not content with courthouse and
the prospect of a railroad depot, San
Bernardino wants seminary.
Dunsmoor Bros. finished moving
into their new store in the Postoffice
block yesterday.
Mr.. G. Jacohy, editor and proprietor
of the Sued Cuiifornische Post, leaves
for San Francisco to-day for weeks
absence on business trip.
The steamer San Luis arrived at
Wilmington yesterday with 40 tons of
railroad iron and the same weight Of
oil and powder.
And now there is rumpus about
the new Babcock hook and ladder
truck. Some of our Councilmen would
find fault with an angels pin-feather.
An entertainment will be given at
Wilmington tomorrow evening for
the benefit of the College. Professor
II. A. Saxon will favor the company
with some of his fine readings.
The members of Golden Rule Lodge
No. 90, J.. o. o. F., are notified that an
important meeting will be held at their
hall this evening at u O'clock Every
member is requested to be present.
An up-country paper makes this
"Born-To the wife
of Allen M. Hicks, a son; thanks to
DIR. Cleveland We wonder what
Mr.. Hicks thinks about that.
1t is reported that the Grand Lodge
of F. & A. M. of the State of California
will convene in this city on Tuesday,
23d inst, for the purpose of laying the
cornerstone Of the Spring street M. E.
Church.
The writ of habeas corpus on the
of Beegan was granted by
Judge O'Melveny yesterday, but the
prisoner was Immediately remanded to
Jail, on the ground that he was an es-
capped convict from Utah.
Our prayers and tears and entreaties
have at last been needed; our great
drops of inky sweat have been re-
warded. Five hundred dollars are to
be expended to improve and beautify
the city plazas. Glory enough for six
weeks. ~ dts fana
We are pleased to be able to an
nounce that Mr.. Geo. b. Davis, pro-
prietor of the Alden fruit drying
works, who has been quite ill for some
time, is now rapidly recovering and
expects to be about again in few
days.
Mr.. ]. E. Small, living at the mouth
of City Greek, near San Bernardino,
informs the Argus that he has luxu-
rated in ripe tomatoes all Winter, and
that he had green peas one month
ago. He says no frost visits his place
in the Winter time, and yet he is
thousand feet above this valley.
Williams Higgins, the man who
made Booth United States Senator,
has been spending few days in this
city with his family. He returns to-
day per Ventura, leaving his family
to enjoy for a season the balmy air of
Los Angeles. :: This is Mr.. Higgins
first visit to this valley, and with his
usual good judgment he predicts
bright future for Los Angeles valley.
We had call yesterday from Messrs.
G. l.. Bilby and J. Hudion. These
gentlemen started from Del Norte,
Colorado, on the 10th of last Novem-
Der, and have travelled since then some
two thousand miles through New
Mexico, Arizona and California. They
report that the roads are mostly in
good condition. The gentlemen come
to Los Angeles county for the purpose
of settling. 3t
Messrs. w. ]. Welch and William
Donaldson have made arrangements
for two races which promise to be very
interesting and the chances are that
considerable money will change hands
on their results. The races are set for
the 1st and Sd of May, the stakes be-
ing $1,000 side for each race. A de-
posit of 81, 900 forfeit money has been
made by the parties. This looks as
though they mean bust ness.
Little Jennie B. is a bright little
three-yeas-old, and promises to be
fully up to the progressive spirit of the
times. A few days ago, Jennie's
mamma was engaged in the domestic
duty of baking gingerbread-those
large native American gingerbreads,
known to all Western and Southern
boys as sections and quarter-sections.
Well, Jennie's mamma caught her
slowed away in remote corner of the
pantry, with one of the aforesaid sec
tions, and said in emphatic terms:
"Why, Jennie, what are you doing
with that cake?n Jennie = 'sOh,
mamma, ] am just cutting it up into
building lots.n
In few remarks addressed to the
Council yesterday, DIR. Lucky stated
that the Board of Education contem-
plate the construction of five new
school houses and considerable en-
largements of two others before the
opening of the next Fall term of the
public schools. For this an axpendi-
ture of $4,000 will be required, which
will be submitted to a vote of the
people. At the next session Of the
Legislature, the Board will petition
for permission to sell the Bath-street
and Spring-street schools and devote
the proceeds to the construction of q