Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-19

Shominae Tribe No. so, l. .. X. NJ,
give q ball on the 9th inst. AS this
is their first anniversary ball, the man.
ayers are determined TO make 1t a
great success. No effort will be spared
to make it one of the most social en-
tertainments of the present season.
Sam. Prayer will be back in a few
days with large stock Of as fine la
dies goods as can be found in San
Francisco. Sam. buys for cash and
therefore sells cheap. Everybody
knows this.
Photographer Payne has taken fine
large picture of Washington Gardens,
the popular resort on the corner of
Main and Washington streets. Mr..
Waldron has one of the finest places
in the city, aud he is daily adding to
It's attractions.
A sad accident happened to Mr.. AL
bert Ralph on Sunday evening. He
was returning home from the country
in wagon, when, by accident, his
gun was discharged, tearing his left
arm so badly as TO make amputation
necessary, the operation being per-
formed by Drs. Shorb band kirkpatrick
1t was an unfortunate affair aud mex
pressibly sad to his family.
There was great rivalry among ve-
hicles Oh Sunday night aud the race
with the Senator's passengers from
Cienega station was quite interesting
Baker arrived at the st. Charles first,
with John Lathrop just behind, and
johnnie Wilson, Jesse Avise and 9TH
ers following. The passengers took
great interest in the excitement of the
race.
Those who desire to hear an able ex-
position of the doctrine of spiritual
ism should attend the lecture of Mr..
Benjamin Todd tonight at the Court
Room. He is close reasoner and ex-
pounds his faith in a masterly man-
ner Our citizens must lot confound
Mr.. Todd with the charlatans and Jug
gers who adopt the name of Spirit
ualist to gain the attention of the
people. s f.
DR.. Richardson held an inquest yes
terday on "Jack," notorious Chi
nese gambler, who was said to have
committed suicide by poison. He was
said to have embezzled seven or eight
hundred dollars, wasted it and then
killed himself. The Coroner found his
neck broken, and had the inmates of
the wash-house in Bath street, six in
number, arrested. Jack" had gor-
geous funeral yesterday, his friends
giving him good send-off.
They are building nice residences
oetside of the city as well as in it. We
were yesterday shown the plan of q
house now in course of construction
for Mrs. Andrews at Santa Ana which
for beauty Of design, will compare fa-
vorably with any we have seen lately.
The building is two stories high and
will contain eleven rooms, besides clos
cts and panlries; has two large bay
windows and is commodious in every
way. Hot and cold water will be in
troduced into each room. This beau
tiful residence was desigded by Mr.. Z.
w. Davis and the building contractor
is Mr.. David Mcconnell.
Mrs. Ponet, No. 8 Commercial
street has received from the Eastern
emporiums of fashion an extensive
assortment of new styles of bonnets,
ribbons, feathers, laces and flowers.
All styles OF hats from the imported
Paris pattern hat worth $50 down to
the plain straw. Real ostrich tips,
staple and fancy ribbons, silk velvets,
thread laces, and all other fashionable
millinery can be obtained ut the low
est figures. Mrs. Ponet employs only
first class trimmers and all i'm want of
fashionable Fall and Winter hats
should give her call. She is daily
opening fashionable styles. which ar.
rive by every steamer.
Some one directs letter to the HER
AID aud puts it in the Express in
which he vents his grief over the APP
plicatiOn of the term "idiocy' to the
act of the person who made the mis-
take in registering a letter in San
Francisco post office and wonders
which Is the most remarkable the
idiocy of the applicant or the brutality
of the editor who would apply such a
term to the act. We give it up. There
are brutes, idiots and fpols-all re-
markable in their way, but which is
which we don't know. Seriously how
ever we will say that at the time the
item was copied from the Bulletin we
had not the remotest idea who the in
dividual was but now that we do know
him we know that he is an intelligent
gentleman and we know that no one
is more ready to admit that needing
the advise of letter carrier was an
act of "idiocy" than himself. We
shall not allow "simplex" simpeton
nor any one to have Il higher opinion
of the gentleman than Ourself