Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-28
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Dwellings are in demand at good
rents-a sure sign of prosperity.
| Insure your life by coming to Los
Angeles for your health.
The absorbing question-was it fog,
or grog, that caused the loss of the
Ventura?
The Orizaba will leave for San
Fra cisco sometime tomorrow. The
Ancon went up yesterday.
Go to the sale of Park Square prop
erty to-day. There will be some bar
gains secured.
1t is reported that the picnic Of the
Irish Literary and Social Club netted
the Society somewhat over 5000.
We publish this morning the card
of ]. w. Stump, attorney at law,
whose many friends will be pleased to
meet him in new role.
Donations ofclothing for the sufferers
by the Ventura disaster, can be left at
the United States Hotel and will be
thankfully received.
The Main street horse railway is be-
ing built rapidly and will be great
convenience to the people in the vicin-
ity of that street.
Mr.. Joseph Myers, formerly of
Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, and
reputed to be an experienced oil man,
is prospecting for the slippery fluid in
this vicinity.
We were wrong in our statement Of
yesterday in saying that the Ventura
was an iron ship. Isn't there some
other reason that can be as
signed for the variation of that COM
pass? 0W ~ an#
The annual meeting of the Grange
Cooperative Company will be eheld OH
the 4th of May for the election of a
new Board Of Directors and the trans-
action of other important business.
The steamer San Luis arrived at
San Pedro yesterday. There was m r
chandise for this place but no passen-
gers, it being exclusively a freight
boat. -
1t was dull shipping day for Los
Angeles yesterday, there being only
1913 boxes Of lemons and oranges and
54 bales of wool sent by rail to San
Francisco.
Picnics to Santa Monica beach are
becoming quite popular. A party
nd h.,f ba utr
phere was disagreeably cool and they
returned early.
By the end of this week most of the
oranges in this valley will have been
picked and shipped to San Francisco.
Shippers have been delayed, owing to
the difficulty of hiring reliable pick
erS.
We are glad to see that Mr.. George
B. Davis, of the Alden Fruit Drying
Company, is on the streets again after
his severe pr0stration from relapse
into typhoid fever. He seems re-
turned from the dead.
Elegant villa sites, beautified with
vineyards and orange groves, situated
in the San Gabriel fruit belt, are Of
tered for sale by Wilson h Shorb, In
small and convenient tracts. Apply
to C. Cabot, Temple Block, or to VIII
son & Shorb, at Lake Vineyard.
Mr.. Jacob Steinbach and family,
late of Leavenworth, Kansas, are Wis.,
iting us with the intention of locating.
Mr.. Steinbach was one of the unlucky
Ventura's passengers, and lost all his
California in consequence.
The Grand Jury is in session, to the
terror of evil-doers. The criminals
were arraigned before them on Mon
day. 1t is hard to tell when their la
Dor will be completed, as many legal
points arise continually, and it takes
the District Attorney considerable
time to settle the difficulty.
Our distinguished visitor, Past
Grand Master Fox, of San Francisco,
was cordially received last evening by
Orange Grove Encampment at the
Odd Fellows Hall. It was generous
interchange of kindly sentiment,
pleasing to the members and beneficial
| to the Order.
The Mutual Aid Association yester-
day levied an assessment of three dol
lars per member on the death of E. X.
Dunlap of Tulare county, who died
few weeks since, leaving a dependent
family. The assessment is due imme-
diately and delinquent in twenty days.
The association ordered One-fourth of
the benefit be paid Immediately.
Mr.. J. D. Dorian will open on Mon
day, May Sd, a select school for male
and female pupils. Mr.. Dorian de-
sires to state that his aim will be to
secure the thorough and rapid pro-
gress of his pupils, giving special at
tention to the moral, as we'll as intel
lectual training, of those under his
charge. Full particulars and terms
are given in our advertising columns.
Two urchins of the genus school-boy
aged about eight years, engaged yes
terday in a fist fight in front Of a
blacksmith shop near the Spring
street school house. They clinehed,
punched and bit in English, which was
quite intelligible; but when we found
they were swearing in Spanish, not
being acclimated yet, we prepared to
leave in disgust. The fight ended in
an American yell from one Of the con-
testants, in response to bite from the
other.
A company has been incorporated
to work the oil lands, two miles West
| of town at the oil wells. adjacent to