Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-11-05
LOCAL BREVITIE

The Los Angeles Guards have tar
get practice OH Sunday.
The Terpsichoreans give a social to-
night ut Leck's Hall.
A German Odd Fellows Lodge will
be instituted next Monday.
The San Fernando train was seven
hours late yesterday.
The steamer Mohongo left for San
Francisco yesterday afternoon.
The steamer Ancon will arrive from
San Francisco this morning with 40
passengers.
Mr. John II. Clifford, telegraph op-
orator at Anaheim, is celebrating the
birth of son, weighing g pounds.
=. Gold closed yesterday afternoon at
ll5s per cent. premium. Currency sold
here at S54 g. 81.
Lips, Craigue Il Co. shipped large
invoice of liquors to San BernardinO
yesterday.
Contractor NJ. S. Hall, from the San
Jaclnto mountains, was at the st.
Charles yesterday.
A large quantity of flour was re-
ceived yesterday by H. Newmark K
Co., and Hellman, Haas & Co.
Our handsome young friend Stokes,
is dispensing nectar under the Orient
saloon.
Master Harry Rose, q son of l.. j..
Rose, fell last evening while playing
on the asphaltum pavement in front
of the Court House and broke his arm.
1t was set by DR.. Shorb.
Among the shipments yesterday
were 60 sacks of meal, from Also
mills, to San Francisco and 70 sacks of
vegetables, for the Western Develop
ment Co. at San Fernando.
Olegario, chief Of the Temeculas,
has gone to San Francisco. From
there he may go to Washington, he
being dissatisfied with the slow pace
Of Indian agents.
lutTe nus Detu a niisCASuio III Wis
city trying to induce little girls to go
with him to secluded.places. His OBJ
ject can not be good and we recon-
mend very severe measures in case he
is caught.
A large concoyrse of friends assem-
bled yesterday afternoon to witness
the circumcision of Sam Prager's in
| FAINT son. He was named Michaelis,
and earnest hopes for his future were
presented by warm friends.
A horse was stolen from boy on
| Alameda street yesterday, in broad
daylight. The police are on the track
but the boys delay in reporting the
| theft has occasiOned them some an
noyance.
Mayor Beaudry is laying 10000 feet
of cast iron pipe on his hill lands.
This Is an addition to six miles of wa
ter pipe already in the ground. This
| fact speaks volumes for Mayor Beau
| dry's enterprise and shows his faith
in Los Angeles.
A housekeeper lately arrived from
the East returned some tapioca to a
grocer yesterday, contemptuously re-
marking that "it didn't make good
bread, and even the dogs would MT eat
| it when it was kneaded and baked"
The grocer took it back and advised
him to stick to flour.
r. ia n 0raot annnvopca RI "a poulv
married couple at the hotel to have
their neighbornext door snoring SO
loudly that they wake up dreaming
that they are enjoying Chinese fes-
tival In honor of the devil. A little
saw filing Is melody compared with
such an unearthly sound.
Messrs. Starbuck 4 Butler sold
Webster Treats place on Adams
street yesterday to Mr.. Severns of
Boston for $4,000. 1t is a fine prop
erty and we congratulate Mr.. Severns
| OH its possession. Messrs. Starbuck
& Butler are making their mark as
| real estate dealers.
At Washington Gardens on Sum
day there will be II picnic and ball
Dancing commences at one O'clock and
u grand performance by the Albino
Troupe, Just from San Francisco, at
| half past three. Mile. Pauline, Mile.
Garcio, Signor Palasso, Mons. Leon,
| George Dalls and other distinguished
gymnasts will appear. A splendid
| band has been engaged.
Messrs. BroGrick & Carlin have re-
moved from No. A Commercial street
| to No. 10 few doors below. AS first
| class insurance men Brodrick Il Car
lin are without rivals. They have
such old standbyes as the Hartford,
Imperial, Queen, Northern of London,
Union Mutual Life, North British
and Mercantile and Liverpool and
London and Globe, which have never
| gone back on insurers. Call at No.
10 Commercial street and try their in
| surance.
Thatcher, the popular jeweler, has
received one of Hopkins combination
lathes which is one of the most COM
plete pieces of mechanism we have ev-
erexamined. 1t has about one hundred
and fifty pieces, all of which have
their uses and every one Of which Mr..
Scott, Superintendent of the mechan-
ical department of Mr.. Thatcher's es-
tablshment, thoroughly understands.
This remarkable piece of mechanism
was on exhibition at the Mechanics
Fair and was pronounced by all in San
Francisco superior to anything of the
kind yet manufactured.