Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-07-25
LOCAL BREVITIES.


county is in the city.
The Thirty Fights held meeting
last night.
The latest naturalization is August
Wohlfarth, native of Germany.
The Independents held red-hot pri-
maries yesterday.
The steamer Constantine is due at
Santa Monica and San Pedro to-mor-
row.
Matthew Keller shipped yesterday
20 pipes of wine to M. X. & Co, San
Francisco.
DR.. Edgar arrived in Los Angeles
from his ranch, opposite the San Cor
gonio Summit, yesterday.
A train will leave for Cotton to-day
at $3.50 p. NJ. and return tomorrow
leaving Cotton at A. NJ.
The Semi-7ropical Farmer for July
oath was distributed yesterday and will
be welcome visitor.
A petition for the repeal of the law
taxing mortgages is in circulation,
with many thousands of signatures.
Officer Harris has secured horse
thief named Jesus Sanchez, at San
Diego. He was committed to Jail yes
terday.
The gents shirts they are selling at
the City of Paris for one dollar apiece
have created quite furore in town.
Everybody wears them.
The penalty on such verdict as the
one found against John Mayer is mot
more than $4,000 fine or two years
Imprisonment, or BOTH"
Los Angeles Council, No. II, r. and
S. NJ, will hold meeting on Monday
evening at 1880 p. NJ. A full attend
ance is requested.
Messrs. Pritchard, Fitch and Craw-
ford will leave tomorrow, to examine
the proposed route of the Los Angeles
and Independence Railroad in the di-
rection of Cajon Pasc.
Mr.. David Lewis, of Main street,
presented us with a corn malforma-
tion yesterday that surprised us. 1t
looks more like bunch of withered
bananas than anything else.
Juan Sepulveda, the victim of the
Constabulary outrage, was seriously
ill yesterday and the hearing of the
case against his assailants has been
postponed.
The Father Matthew Temperance
Society will hold u meeting this even
ing at Lawlor Institute. Mr.. Bland
and other gentlemen will address the
meeting.
The members of Confidence Engine
Company will attend the picnic of the
Thirty-Eights on August 1st, and they
hope their friends will turn out in
numbers and help "the boys" along.
In another column will be found the
call for an election for delegates to the
Democratic County Convention. The
delegates will be elected next Satur-
day, 3lst inst. and the Convention held
Wednesday, August 4th.
Prof. Steen visited Los Nietos yes
terday to apply the mesmeric influ-
ence to a lady who has been paralyzed
for years. We are informed that his
remedy was partially successful. Prof.
Steen will give private seances to-day,
after 10 A. NJ, at the Lafayette Hotel.
The colored school will hereafter be
held in the colored peoples church, on
the height at the head of Third street.
That building has been leased for the
purpose by the Board of Education,
and will be fitted up with desks and
seats. Mr.. Witherow will continue to
teach it.
The California Post has completed
its first volume. The present prosper
ity of this German organ is due mainly
to the ability of its editor and proprie-
tor, Mr.. G. JacOby. The next number
will commence the second volume,
and we hope the Post will continue to
improve, even to a good old age.
Mr.. George A. Tiffany, and Mr..
George Pike, while out riding yester-
day near Mrs. Morgan's place, east of
the river, the horse became unman-
ageable and Mr.. Tiffany was thrown
into gulch breaking a rib and ruin
ing his watch. Mr.. Pike saved him.
self by jumping out. Mr.. Tiffany's
injuries are painful and dangerous.
When Tom Fitch said last night
"There was no danger of Senator
Jones playing the part of Hannibal (?)
and crying 'Delende est to your Car
thage,n there was an ominOus pause.
These Latin quotations are dangerous,
for one hoodlum yelled out during
the silence, Pm sick, send for Nc
Ginnis."
In another column will be found the
advertisement of Mr.. Keller, the
great wine dealer of the coast. BY
strict attention to the chemistry Of the
grape, Mr.. Keller has made his name
famous wherever pure wines and
brandies are drank. We recommend
his vintage to all dealers and drinkers
East and West.
In the Mayors Court, yesterday, a
drunk man was sent up for twenty
days and a worse drunk for thirty
days. The men who undertook to save
twenty-five cents on ticket to Dow
ney by presenting revolver at the
ticket agent, paid $40 each. A hood
lum who assaulted Tom Motifs China
man, was fined ten dollars. Total, $50
cash and so days work. .t..
The Independents at their primary
meeting yesterday polled nearly 400
votes, with the following result: N. P.
Richardson, 395; Ramon Sotelo, 1893;
Gil. Jones, 397; l. A. DunsmoOr, 1886;
j. S. Slauson, 227; Thomas A. Carey,
231; Louis Wolfskill, 237; VIM. Prid-
ham, 235; Chas. j. Shepherd, 233;
VIM. Moore, 232; L. Roeder, III; +.