Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-10
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Council meeting tonight.
Clam bakes at Santa Monica.

ana laSt urlver yesterday morning.
The District Court business yester-
day was not of public interest.
The brig Glencoe left yesterday for
Puget Sound.
The Plaza is to have eight bearing
orange trees planted in it.
Independence day falls on Sunday
this year. Which will We celebrate
July Sd or July 5th?
Merrill Lodge of Good Templars will
take trip to the Orange Lodge festi-
val on the 18th inst.
Messrs. J. Harrington and w. H.
Snow, experienced railroad men, are
in town.
The ladies of the Episcopal church
will give a lunch at the Rink on the
4th of July.
The grading party on the Santa
Monica road is within five of Agricul-
tural Park.
The opening ball of the Union Club
takes place on Wednesday evening,
the 10th inst.
The opening of Los Angeles street
through Negro Alley to the Plaza, is a
popular Improvement.
There are It's bars of iron at Will
mington for the Independence rail
road.
The steamer Kalorama arrived at
the anchorage yesterday with 1870 tons
of freight for Los Angeles.
Mr.. w. J. Welch of Agricultural
Park left yesterday morning for San
Francisco.
Mr.. II. A. Buuch will rattle two lots
in the Fairview Tract at an early date.
There will be one hundred chances at
two dollars each.
A horse belonging to the Grange
Store was badly cut yesterday on a
cultivator, which he paved off the
sidewalk.
> A special meeting of the Directors of
the Main street and Agricultural Park
railroad is called for Monday, July
5th.
st. Patrick's Benevolent Associa-
tion will give 4th of July ball, the
proceeds to be devoted to the. Mitchell
Fund.
A grand ball will be given at Santa
Monica on Saturday night, in honor
of the opening of the new hotel. The
proprietors, Messrs. Morgan & Mon
roe, promise visitors a first-rate time.
The improvements on the Philadel-
phia Brewery still continue. The
small brewery on Main street has
been purchased Of Mr.. Temple and
added to the other machinery.
Capt. Korts, of the U. S. lighthouse
steamer Shubrick, left yesterday for
his vessel, which proceeds from San
Pedro to San Diego. He furnishes
supplies to all the Pacific coast light
houses.
The Will of Francis S. Miles has
been filed in the Probate Court and
Mrs. Kate Miles petitions for letters
testamentary. The property is situ-
ated in Jordan, Onandaga county, N.
Y, and Bergen county, N. j.
Mr.. Buchanan has received the con-
tract for Chas. Brode's block, on Spring
street, near Third, at $500, and the
Fort-street Methodist Church at $l3,-
600. The work will commence imme-
diately.
Olive Lodge No. 26, X. of P, meets
in regular session this evening for
work in the second rank. All those
who are entitled to receive the same
are requested to be present; also al!
sojourning Knights in good standing
are cordially invited.
The Board of Brokers met yesterday
at Temple & Workman's bank and
organized temporarily by the election
of F. P. F. Temple, President; D.
Freeman, Vice President; G. ]. Shep-
herd, Secretary; j. M. Griffith, Treas
urer. A committee was appointed to
draft bylaws.
Mr.. L. w. Thatcher, of the popular
jewelry firm Of Fisher & Thatcher, re-
turned yesterday morning from q
trip to San Francisco, Sacramento,
Marysville and other villages in the
middle portion of the State. He is
looking jolly, and no doubt brought
back a fine q ,sortment of new stories.
J. M. Hamilton, Master of the State
Grange, arrived in Los Angeles yes
terday morning, and will visit various
parts of the county during his stay.
He will pay an official visit to Los
Angeles Grange on Saturday afternoon
at 9 o'clock, and organize he County
Grange at Good Templar Hall OH Mon
day evening next.
The three cars of the Main street
railway have arrived. They are good
cars, finished in blue and white paint,
and are made for turn tables, the driv-
rr's box being stationery, with "a
looking-gIass to see that he is not
beaten out of any fare. tFhe school
master was aboard when they were
lettered and they read, "Maine street
and Agricultural Park Railroad"
Distinguished visitors and old trav-
ellers stopping at the st. Charles, pro-
nounce it the best hotel in Southern
California. The proprietors of the
hotel and restaurant profit by theii
Eastern experience and conduct the
establishment as elegantly as a pri-
vate club-room or Prussian restaurant
Their extensive patronage is de-