Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-05-04
LOCAL BREvITIES.

The Mohongo sailed yesterday even
ing for San Francisco, with 81 passen.
gers and large freight list.
The District Council, Patrons ol
Husbandry, meet next Tuesday eve-
ming, May llth, in this city.
We counted thirty new houses in
course of erection in sight of Fourth
and Fort streets yesterday.
The City Clerk advertises for pro-
posals from banks to become the public
depository and for sewer on Turner,
New High and Short streets.
A full attendance of the members oi
Shominac Tribe No. so /. o. r.. M. is
earnestly requested tonight, as busi-
ness of vital Importance will come be-
fore the Tribe.
Mr.. S. G. Foy has received a dupli-
cafe order of the goods sunk in the
Ventura, making his stock complete.
Buyers will find the old saddle empo-
riumtwith the best stock in the market.
The San Diego Society of Natural
History is now in active service and
ores, bones and stones are being col
lected, to show that San Diego was
the capital of the Aztec Nation.
We are glad to see that several of
the Ventura sufferers have obtained
situations and are now making COM
Portable living. This is the proper aid
to give to the worthy sufferers.
The bark Glencoe, Capt. Willough-
bic, of Fort Eureka, and the barken-
tine Constitution, Capt. Bishop, of
Seattle, sailed from Wilmington yes
terday to load at their respective ports
with lumber for Los Angeles.
One of our leading merchants, Mr..
Eugene Meyer, leaves shsrtly OH a
four months visit to Paris. We regret
to lose Mr.. Meyer, even temporarily,
and wish him safe journey and
speedy return.
Our hotel arrivals are unavoidably
crowded out by other matter. The
United States had 55 arrivals, the st.
Charles 81 and the Lafayette 20. The
Lafayette is crowded, though under
going repairs, and the st. Charles had
to turn away a number last night. A
good showing for Monday.
The distillery on the East side Of the
river has been resiezed by the United
States Marshal. Two whacks at it by
the U. s. officials would seem to be
enough to make the thing binding. 1t
is fat seizure and decidedly rough Oh
the grape raisers who had their crop in
the distillery.
Mr.. OTIS Perrin, of the Stockton
Land Office, paid the HERALD office a
visit yesterday. He is on his way
home from San Diego, where he has
been on visit to his sister, Mrs.
Craigue, who was so badly injured by
an accidental fall q few weeks ago.
We are glad to be able to state that
the lady is in fair way for recovery.
Messrs. Jenkins, Van Ess, Means
and White have received Dry Wash
Machine which they intend to try at
Temescal Ranch, Is miles north Of
Lyons Station, where the gold yield
is $50. 90 per ton. If they succeed they
will undoubtedly order number of
these machines. Their experiment
will be watched with great interest by
miners in this vicinity.
Talk about great rushes; why, there
never were such rushes, not even
those among which Miss Pharaoh
found that wonderful baby, Moses, as
there have been at Sam Prager's since
the arrival of those new goods. The
ladies rush, the children rush, the
men rush, SANS clerks rush, the
goods rush and Sam is doing rushing
business = all on account of those
splendid new goods.
Gen. Cotton, Col. Gray, Chief Engi-
neer Southern Pacific, and Messrs,
Montague and Brown favored Los
Angeles with their presence Sunday
night, and put up at the Backman
House. The party was interviewed by
a number of our citizens Oh railroad
matters, and we understand the result
was mutually satisfactory. General
Cotton returns to San Francisco to-
morrow morning.
Mendel Never. one of our most en-
terprising merchants, leaves on Fri
day morning by Telegraph Stage Line,
for San Francisco, to purchase new
goods, and will be gone about ten
days. Less than one month since Mr.
Meyer had fine new stock and he
marked goods down to the lowest
notch, securing in that way an i'm
mense trade. He will buy on this trip
the cheapest stock ever brought to
Los Angeles, and will give his GUS
toners the benefit of it.
We have the pleasure Of drawing
the attention of our readers to the
great sale of choioe.land on Thursday
and Friday of this week by the Los
Angeles immigration and Land Co.
Operative Association. The property
is located in the northeastern part of
the city, and is divided into lots 'front.'
inglon First, Georgia, Hewitt and Mes
ser streets, The land lies we'll, has ex-
cellent irrigating advantages and is
covered with thrifty orange trees,
over five years old. Terms one-third
cash, balance in six and twelve
months.
The "Brooks Tract" consisting of
eighty-one lots, will be sold at auction
by Jones & Noyes next Satur-
day. This property is located in
the Western part of the city, a short
distance from the terminus of the
Spring and Sixth street railroad. The
feature of this sale is that the lots will
be sold cheap, and will afford fine
opportunity to purchase a lot 50xl5O
feet for homestead property or as an