Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-08-04
LOCAL BlSEyITIEs.

The public schools open to-day,
with strong corps of teachers.
Hon. S. o. Houghton will speak to.
night.
The steamer Mohongo leaves for
San Franc SEQ tomorrow.
The grape crop will be little late
this season.
Mr.. Madegan has not withdrawn
from his candidacy.
Hon. S. o. Houg hton is at the Back
man.
Senator Jones' mine at Kernvile is
reported immensely rich.
A telegraph office was opened in
Compton yesterday.
Seven cars of ties went up yesterday
to Cotton.
The Brode block on Spring street,
near Third, is being plastered.
The Democratic County Convention
will be held to-day.
Mr.. NJ. P. Charles has been appoint
ed policeman In the place of Officer
Dobson, resigned.
The City Marshal reports 146 arrests
in July, which shows great activity on
the part of the force.
Nine vessels are expected to-day at
Wilmington loaded with railroad sup
plies and material.
The orange crop next Winter will
be light, only q few orchards yielding
largely.
Gold is 125 premium in New York
and greenbacks are selling here at S74
@S9.
Attention is directed to Goodall,
Nelson & Perkins new steamer sched-
ule in another column.
From and after next Friday, the
Turn-Verein exercises will be opened
to the public.
Twelve cases of honey from FL
Monte were shipped to San Francisco
yesterday.
The schooner General Ord has ar
rived at Wilmington and is unload
ing.
The Grange House is doing tbriv-
ing business under the able manage
ment of its present proprietor.
Mayor Beaudry publishes column
card in the Express il favor of his
water franchise.
Auctioneer Noyes has returned from
Santa Barbara, whittier he went as a
witness in the Cotton trial.
Gov. Booth is coming, aud we hope
Gorham will arrive about the same
time.
Miss Wheeler is coming to take
position in the Western Union Tele-
graph office.
The Main street railway will be eX-
tended to Agricultural Park before the
District Fair.
Fisher & Thatcher have fine self
regulating weather instrument, just
received from Paris.
The ever-popular Steinway piano
has begun to arrive at the railroad
depot for the agent, J. D. Patrick.
The steamer Kalorama arrived last
evening a. San Pedro loaded with
cOmbustibles, such as powder, coal oil,
etc.
DR.. Mcbride had his barouche horses
ornamented magnificently yesterday.
We understand he is doing u fine BUS
iness.
The City of Paris having received
several direct importations from the
French Capital, Is the centre of at
| traction.
Prof. Steen is at room G, Lafayette
| Hotel, and his office hours are from
A. M. to II NJ. and P. NJ. to 2. NJ.
daily.
The City Board of Equalization, we
understand, will criticise closely the
| values of real estate owned by men
who sell lots for five times the value
they return.
Three cars of salt were sent yester-
day to the Wilmington Manufacture
ing Company, to be refined and re-
turned. The shipment amounted to
32 tons.
Since the opening of the Senate sa-
loon, Joe Breson and Gus Katzenstein
have done large business. The pop
ularity of both gentlemen insures
them an extensive patronage.
The investigation of the Juan Sc
pulveda case develops the fact that
there is no legal Constable at Comp
ton, the man who was elected having
failed to qualify.
The Lafayette Hotel proprietors are
about to tear out the adobe dining
room and make the rear building two
stories high. 1t will then be the larg-
est hotel South of San Francisco.
Judge Sepulveda has returned from
Santa Barbara. A jury for Mrs. Nor
toms case had been impanneled and
he left the case in the hands of the
District Judge.
In the District Court yesterday
Vahle, the Ballona murderer, was ar
raigned. He having no lawyer, Judge
Sepulveda gave him until to-day fol
arraignment.
Mr.. A. Fisher received severe gun
shot wound in his leg last Friday
while hunting near Lyon's Station