Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-08-25
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

The appointments of the First AS
sistant Postmaster General will be
made from New England. General
Pierrepont resumed his official duties
to-day.
The attempted assassination of Mil
ler, the U. S. Gauger in Chicago, from
facts which came to light, is believed
to have been instigated by the distil-
lers. against whom Miller had damag-
ing testimony. There is, however, no
positive evidence duplicating the dis
tillers.
A dispatch from London says the
Porte has written to Austria and Ger
many, thanking them for their offices
in the HerzegOvinian affair.
A Washington special says there is
to be a new deal in the Chicago Gus
tom House muddle. So much infiu-
ence has been brought to bear upon
the President and Secretary Bristow,
that they have jointly decided on the
appointment of a new Commission,
large enough to contain the prominent
engineers, architects and builders of
the country, to secure final report in
this matter, which must end the con-
troversies on this subject.
A Yankton dispatch dated the oath
inst. says:
G. L. Allen, the leader of numerous
parties that left here this Spring for
the Black Hills, returned to Yankton
overland last night, nine days from
Stonewall City. He is here for the
purpose of filing the plat of Stonewall
City for record and the purchase of
provisions. Mr.. Allen gives the most
flattering reports of the diggings in
that country, and says the miners
working with the pan make from 50
to 50 daily; with the rocker, So to $40
per day, and working with sluices,
still more. He has some very fine
specimens of placer gold and quite a
quantity of it. He says the country
is full of quartz rock that has every
indication of being rich in gold.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
rendered the following decision in ref
erence to the five-twenties of 1865,
May and November, and the five
twenties of 1865, January and July:
1.-THE books and records of the Depart
ment show that the five-twenties of
1865, May and November, known as
old sixty-fives, were the first of these
two loans issued, the date of the issues
being October, 1865; while the consols
of 1865, January and July, known as
new sixty-fives, although the bonds
bear on their face the date of July /,
1865, were not issued until October,
1866. Therefore it follows that the
five-twenties of 1865, May and No
vember, known as the old sixty-fives,
being the first issued under the law,
must be the first called in. The date
given on the face of the bond is not to
be taken as the date of issue, but the
fact is established by the record of the
department on application of the law.
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From the San Francisco Bulletin of
the 10 inst. we clip the following no.
tice of an accomplished rogue who
once figured in Los Angeles:
Frank AvalOs was convicted in the
Municipal Court yesterday morning
of obtaining property by false preten-
sea. This man is a prince of conf
dence men. He first appeared in this
city as circus-rider, in 1856 or '57, and
since then he has been engaged in
crooked business. In 1850 he was con-
victed of obtaining property by false
pretenses, and committed to the Coun-
ty Jail for two years. Just before his
term expired he was released by exec
utive clemency. He then went to
Los Angeles, and nnder the name of
G. II. G.. Ross he was sentenced to the
State Prison for ten years. Under the
name of Durand, Hernandez, Avalos,
Frankheim, Ross and Brazos he has
frequently been sent to Jail from the
Municiple and Police Courts. 1t is
said he has not lived outside of Prison
eighteen months in the past eighteen
years. He will appear for sentence on
Saturday.