Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-17
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Foggy last night.

ghanians tonight.
The Orizaba arrived yesterday with
l80 passengers and 4l0 tons of freight.
Three car loads of wool were ship
ped from the depot yesterday.
Madame Goddard is creating fu.
rore in San Diego.
Some fine business opportunities ale
offered by w. III. Kimball Il Co.
Let us bid the Alleghanians hearty
farewell
There may still be some rain in
store for us this season.
An unusual dullness is reported in
the wholesale liquor trade.
The till-tapper has been arrested
He proves to be young hopeful
named Brown.
The Hollingsworth and Ithica Rake
and Champion Mower are to be found
ut the Grange Store.
Remember the last concert at Turner
Hall. The Alleghanians can remain
only this week.
DR.. Tombs, d. D., late of Carlton
College, Ohio, will preach for the
Baptist Church at Lawlor Institute
tomorrow.
Lowery, the tons0rial chief, has
opened suite of bathrooms in con-
nection with his elegant barber shop
at No. Commercial street.
A party left for Santa Monica yes
terday to commence grading for the
Independence road from the San VII
cente rancho to this city.
Messrs. A. Frank and Thomas Gates
will represent Los Angeles Lodge, No.
35, /. o. o. f., in the Grand. Lodge of
the State, to convene in San Francisco
next month.
A few days ago in GIroy, three
year-old son of Mrs. Babb found a
bottle of mercury and drank about a
pound of it. They had to tie fiat irons
to the boys feet to keep him from
going up.
DR.. Leal has been compelled to close
his office for short time in conse-
quence of failing health. He will
visit San BernardinO and the adjacent
country for pasear and return about
the lst of May.
Hear the silver bells; hear the Swiss
bells; hear the musical glasses; hear
the silver band this afternoon and to-
night.
We were again deprived of our
Eastern mail yesterday. The cause
of the detention cannot be defined ex-
actly, but it is assigned to some break
in the railroad connection East of Sac
ramentO.
They have had spelling match
down in Gospel Swamp. There were
twenty-seven contestants and twenty
six went down on the first word, "cat,"
and the last man would have gone
down too, only he suffered and
couldn't get in the second ut" quick
enough.
The telegraph line of the Western
Union Company between this city and
Anaheim is to be removed from its
present location and placed along the
route of the railroad. Another wire
is to be added, thus making direct
communication between Los Angeles
and San BernardinO and Obviating the
necessity of using Anaheim as re-
peating office, as heretofore.
Parties who wish to purchase eligi-
BILE sites for homes will do well to note
the coming sale of the Williams tract.
Sixty-four lots will be offered at auc-
tion on the 26th and 9th inst. They
lie in blocks 72 and 73, Park Square,
fronting on Figueroa, Hope, Tenth
and Eleventh streets, only short
walk from the terminus of the Spring
and Sixth Street Railroad. The title
is perfect and terms of sale easy.
We announce this morning q new
real estate firm established in our
city-Messrs. Starbuck & Butler. We
understand that both Of the gentle
men named are men of extensive
means and intend to buy and sell real
estate on their own account, besides
doing general brokerage and COM
mission business. Their Office is es-
tablished at No. II Temple street.
Los Angeles presents wide field fol
house of this kind which possesses
both financial stamina and business
enterprise and we welcome the new
comers into our trade-circle.
A complaint was lodged in Judge
Gray's Court yesterday against man
named Dunn, who lives few miles
South of the city, the charge being
assault with a deadly weapon. Tht
complainant alleges that Dunn firet
upon q lad named Miles E. McCarty
with shotgun, as the latter was rid
| ing peaceably along the road. Two
shots were discharged, the first lodg-
| ing q few shot in the boys horse ant
| the second striking his hat and knock
ing it completely off his head. A
| warrant was issued for the arrest O
Dunn and placed in the hands of Con
stable Bryant.
| The auction sale of city building
lots next Monday is now the sublec
of speculation. The bidding will prob
ably be very spirited as the propert.
is admirably located and very desir
able. The lots on the corner of Hill
and Eleventh streets are particular.
desirable in consequence of their be
ing surrounded by fine residence
and within one block of the Mai
Street Railroad, about six hundre.
feet of which is nearly completed
The other lots on Charity and Oliv
streets, between Eighth and Ninth
are also in a splendid neighborhood
| Imnroyements in that locality ar