Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-29
San Diego Items.
From the World 25th Inst

We have in our office specimens OF
wheat and barlay from the farm Of
Mr.. Clendenin, at Vale de los Viejas,
that are very fine. The wheat is OF
the Australian and Club varieties,
and they stand over five feet high with
good strong straw. The heads are full
and the berry nice and plump, the
Australian head being much larger
than the Club: The barley is just as
good, but not quite SO tall, but equally
as well filled. The grain in this sec
tion is reported as all good, and gen.
tlemen who drove through it yester-
day, say it almost hid their horses.
We haye been shown a twig cut
from an orange tree, on the place of
Mrs. de Ames, some fifteen miles from
the city, on which are three nice lit
| tie oranges about the size ofpartridge
| eggs. The tree is about ten years old,
and is loaded down with this fruit.
A gentleman just returned, tells us
he was in Vale de los .Viejas yester-
day, and found all hands busily en-
gagged in harvesting the crop of wheat,
barley, &c. ~.
We have been sent some of the fin
est apricots and figs that we have any
where seen from the ranch of Mrs. de
Ames. They were large, luscious and
well ripened. The crop of apricots is
about done.
Tom Sherman, John Hanion and
Mike Mccarthy started out for hunt
this morning. When last seen they
were in hot pursuit of little yellow
dog in the ChOllas valley, under the
impression that it was a jack-rabbit.
Prof. A. III. Havell and family left
yesterday to rusticate at San Diego.
The Professor has been for some time
in the excitement and turmoil of busi :
ness in Los Angeles, so he retres to
the shades of rural life amid the fer
tile fields of San Diego. HERALD.
Now that is a good joke. The fact is
there is nothing to see at Los Angeles
unless one goes to Santa Monica or
"the anchorage We shall be glad
to see new corners, and will try to
treat them well. ks
La Cronicd comes to us this week
much improved III appearance. 1t
has added new pictorial head char
acteristic of the growth and facilities
of California. The CTonica is Spanish
paper, and we commend it to all per-
sons reading that language.
Four TASKS of quicksilver for w. nj.
Greeman, Silver City, were received
here to-day by the Orizaba, and will
go forward at once. These four TASKS
weigh $50 pounds,
When will the mania for self-killing
cease? Shall we ever have an end of
this %
"Selfmurder, that Internal crime, 8f.n1
Which all the gods level their thunderatH'
We hope soon. We hope the evil, if
in the moon or elements, the plague
will soon abate, for really it is horrid
this Oft-repeated record of suicide. In
Julian City, on Tuesday last, Emma
Snow, for some cause unknown, put
an end to her earthly pilgrimage by
taking strychnine. A few hours be-
fore she seemed as cheerful as usual,
and no one dreamed that she had the
dreadfal act on her mind, but seizing
the opportunity, she swallowed the
fatal dose, and SO crossed over the fear
full gulf that divides the present from
the future, An inquest was held and
the inquiry developed the fast that she
had taken the deadly draught from
a tin cup near her, some drugs of
which remained. There was also
some strychnine in a paper near her,
and, as matter of course, the verdict
was in accordance with these facts.
No cause for the dreadful act is known,
and if there were any, the suicide car
ried the secret with her over the
great stream.