Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-01

eide to erect hall.
18th. Dredging commenced in Will
mingtoh harbor-a good harbor as
sured.
10Th. Lecture for the benefit of the
Public Library by Prof. Carr.
18th. Plans drawn for new railroad
depot.
18th. Survey commenced for the
Main Street and Agricultural Park
Railway.
10th. The most favorable reports re-
ceived from the Castac silver mines;
the placers very rich.
Goth. The election excitement grow
ing hot. Three candidates for Mayor
in the field.
2lst. Arrival of blooded stock from
Kentucky, imported by the SAKE
Brothers.
Odd Row among the Italians on
Los Angeles street. The Germans put
ticket in the field for city officers.
23d. Complimentary benefit to Miss
Domingo Olivas.
24th. Mr.. Potts, delegate to the State
Temperance Convention, returns from
above with reports that the cold water
cause is favorably progressing. Hon.
j. Ross Browne in the city.
25th. Races at the fair grounds
Vaughan beats the Moor. The High
School receives fine chemical appa-
ratuS.
26th. Thanksgiving Day. The fire.
men have parade and ball. Services
at all the churches.
9th. Forest Grove Association, cap
ital 100000, organized for the cultiva-
tion of eucalyptus. The Los Angeles
| immigration and Land Cooperative
Association, capital S25O,OOO, organ
ized.
2Sth. A colony settles in this county
east of Spadra.
Goth. Death of a young man from
the East, named Retz, at the City
Hospital; he is buried by the Odd Eel
lows.
30th. A pack train fitted out to bring
ore from Panamint. Races at the
Park for the benefit OF the Library.
DECEMBER.
1st. The Centinela Land Company
purchase $4,000 acres of land west Of
Los Angeles. The Chamber of Com
merce petition Congress for further
encouragement to grape culture.
Cd. Mcdonald, convicted of wife
murder, sentenced to the penitentiary
for life.
Sd. F. P. F. Temple purchases i'm
ported stock, including a Durham bull
sold for 5000. Death of Capt. j. M.
Smalley, a U. S. detective, at the Clar-
endOn.
4th. The Anaheim road being built
at the rate of half a mile each day.
5th. Exciting election canvass. The
Peoples Ticket, headed by Mr.. Beau
dry, in the van.
9th. A. A. Frazer, a stranger who
died here, is buried by the Masons.
7th. The municipal election passes
off quietly. Mr.. Beaudry elected May
or over all the candidates.
Sth. Marshal-elect Carrillo seren-
AIDED. Company organized to build a
railroad from Los Angeles to the Cen.
tinela ranch and the ocean.
18th. Mayor-elect Beaudry serenaded
by his friends.
10th. Excitement over the PROPOSE
tion to connect Los Angeles with Pan
amint by rail.
18th. The Good Templars determine
to erect public drinking fountains.
Presentation of fine pistol to Mar
shal Carrillo.
| 18th. Immense mass meeting in
favor of the Los Angeles and Inde-
pendence Railroad.
18th. Departure of heavy freight for
Panamint.
14th. f. p. F. Temple elected High
Priest OF Los Angeles Chapter, No. 33,
r.. A. M. City Treasurer Mellus files
his official bond in $4,000.
18th. Visitors from Panamint report
the new mines overcrowded and con-
siderable suffering.
18th. Reports of new mineral dis
coveries in lnyo county, called New
Coso.
| 18th. Mayor Toberman makes his
farewell report to the City Council.
Examination of, and entertainment
by, the public school pupils.
18th. Arrival of DR.. Paul NJ. Brenan,
noted physician from San Francisco.
10th. City Marshal Carrillo received
another present from his constituents
an elegant gold badge.
Goth. "The Los Angeles Railroad
Company organized to build q rail
road to Truxton Landing.
2lst. Mayor Beaudry makes his first
message to the Council; it clearly
shows the growth and increased pros
perity of the city.
22d. The railroad company INDUCES
in new passenger coaches.
23d. New railroad depot commenced
at Anaheim. Commencement at
Wilson College.
oath. Christmas eve festivals by the
Churches.
25th. Christmas generally observed.
No rows, but full enjoyment
Goth. A Frenchman named Pepin
in dependency suicides-cause, whis-
key. Michael Reese, the Crosus of
California, in the city. Mexican acci-
| dentally wounded in Sonora.
9th. Effort to unite the German
church-goers, Catholic and Protestant,
in one Evangelical Church.
2Sth. The Good Templars have a
pleasant anniversary. More Christ
mas festivities for the Sunday School
scholars.
Goth. Farmer killed near the San
Gabriel Mission while quarreling with
q neighbor about trespassing.
20th. uThroueh by railil to Ana