Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-12
TERMS OF ADVERTISING.
LOCAL IsISEVITIES.

The receipts of lumber are exceed
ingly heavy. lr9s n
A number of sheep men are about to
remove their flocks to Arizona.
There was rehearsal of the Cantata
of Esther last night.
Yesterday La Cronica received q
subscriber from Nagasaki, Japan.
The members of the Turn-Verein
Germania meet on Wednesday night
to hold their semi-annual election.
The new officers of Los Angeles
Chapter No. 33, r. A. NJ, were in
stalled last night.
Passengers for San Francisco by the
Taber will leave the depot at 1915 A.
NJ. to-day.
The steamer Gipsy, with twenty.
eight tons of freight, is due here this
morning from above.
Fine races announced for Friday
next at the Agricultural Park. See
advertisement.
Just received by the Orizaba, gilt
edged butter from Point Reyes, at the
Grange Store.
Seventy-seven passengers left on the
Orizaba on Sunday for Santa Barbara
and San Francisco.
e sNorwalk" and "Costa" are the
names of two new stations between
Anaheim and Downey. IT.
Seventeen cars, loaded with lumber
and merchandise, came up from the
harbOr last evening.
The public schools of the city re-
sumed work yesterday with favora-
BILE attendance of pupils.
The shipments from Downey yester-
day were 643 sacks of corn, 32 sacks of
meal and SO sacks of bran.
Lumber is very scarce at Anaheim,
owing to the improvements in pro-
gress.
Ties and lumber are being forwarded
to Spadra in large quantities. AS yet,
no iron has been forwarded to the ter
minus.
Fisher & Thatcher, the popular jew
elers, yesterday put up an elegant
chronometer. that cost $500, at the de-
pot.
Wells, Fargo & Co. have generously
offered to carry newspaper exchanges,
free of charge, to and from all points
in the State.
The steamer VIM. Taber arrived
from San Francisco yesterday morn
ing, with one hundred passengers and
four hundred tons of freight.
The HERALD yesterday received an
excellent specimen of iron ore
from rich bed lately discovered by
Col. Mathews, six or eight miles
from San Fernando.
A sectarian hands us the following
conundrum for churchmen: eff you
do not belong to our church your
chance for heaven is about the same
as it is to be struck by lightning, and
we'd bet OH the lightning"
The schooner Eclipse, nineteen
days out from Humboldt, arrived at
Wilmington yesterday, with lumber
for Griffith, Lynch & Co. The
schooner Serena Thayer, from San
Diego, is also In port.
All are looking forward, with conf
dence, for q good rain. AT Whining
ton, San Fernando, Spadra and
Downey, like at Los Angeles, the
weather was cloudy and murky, with
indications of rain. The water cannot
come down too soon. AT Santa Bar
bara there was rain on Sunday.
BY an advertisement elsewhere, it
will be seen that Goodall, Nelson &
Perkins now control both lines of coast
steamers. The Ventura, Senator and
Orizaba are the regular steamers, and
the Kalorama remains on the line TO
carry combustibles. There is no truth
in the rumor that passenger rates have
been advanced.
Late on Saturday night an attempt
was made to assassinate Auguste
Blanco, the saloon-keeper fined on the
same day for assaulting another
Frenchman. The. would-be assassin
has not as yet been arrested. There is
very bitter quarrel between two fac
tions of Frenchmen in this city that
bids fair to create considerable work
for the police. Ua. +
Yesterday Mr.. Baker, of SO, Spring
street, sent a package of coin to Mr..
Ferguson's, opposite the Court House;
the messenger, a little boy, gave it to
a stranger who was sitting in the
store. As Mr.. Baker is not in finan-
cial condition to sustain the loss, the
gentleman who received the money
is requested to return the same to its
proper owner.
The Star issued an extra yesterday,
and this is what the EIpress has to
saw about its friends enterprise"
That was Star stroke of enterprise of
one of our morning contemporaries in
getting out an extra about the verdict
in the Vasquez case. The extra was
issued this morning, and the informa-
ton was brought here by word OF
mouth by Sheriff Rowland who left
San Jose after the verdict had been
rendered. The only telegraphic dis
patch on the subject received in this
city appeared in our columns.