Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-10
LOCAL BREvITIES.


Ten ears of freight will be brought
up from Wilmington to-day.
The city public schools will resume
work tomorrow morning.
The Hebrew Benevolent Society
will meet tonight.
Temperance lecture to- night at
Templars' Hall by Rev. DR.. Packard.
The "Cantata of Estheru will he
given OH Tuesday evening, the 18th
instant.
The "Band Of Hope" will meet this
afternoon, at O'clock, at Good Tenn
plars' Hall. ae
Five car loads of iron were yester-
day shipped to Spadra-a significant
fact.
The Taber tomorrow morning will
bring over hundred strangers to Los
Angeles.
Thos. III. Carey & Co. yesterday
shipped Il carload of orange trees to
San Francisco. +
The Masons at Anaheim are pre-
pairing for grand ball on the 22nd of
February.
1t is unlawful to kill deer between
the lst of January and the lst of July
in each year.
The Orizaba leaves Wilmington
harbor for San Francisco this morn
ing. Passengers will leave the cars at
1915 A. NJ.
The Salvador arrived from San
Francisco yesterday morning, and
after receiving ores from Panamint
left for Panama.
Night before last some sneak-thief
burglariously entered room in the
White House and stole a watch and
quite n sum Of money.
Two farmers, near San Juan Capis-
trano, attempted the other day to set
tie u land dispute with hatchets.
Both were badly cut.
The whalers at Portuguese Bend, in
ten days, have secured $50 barrels of
oil. Twenty-one men are engaged in
the work.
ID. Il. Mooney, of the Occidental
Laundry, yesterday clipped the cue
from a Cinnamon, for representing
that he was connected with the said
laundry. He prefers white labor to
the imported article.
Quite a number of ladies' and gen.
tlemen, in response to the kind invi
tation of DIR. Lucky, visited the High
School building yesterday afternoon,
to inspect the chemical, mechanical
and philosophical apparatus lately
purchased for the High School through
the liberality of our citizens.
To-day at about 8 P. NJ. Don Miguel
Antunes will run his bay horse against
Moreno's piebald for purse of 800.
The race will take place on DR.. Grif-
fms land, on the road to Arroyo Seco,
beyond the river.
Col. B. D. Wilson says that irriga-
BILE mesa land is the most valuable in
California. At the price of irrigable
mesa lands in San Gabriel, twelve
miles from Los Angeles, the irrigable
mesa lands of Centinla, six miles
from the city, are worth 100000.
Seventy thousand dollars have been
offered for 5000 acres, and $40, 900 for
200 acres. No sales will be made be-
fore the auction.
One of the attorneys in the Vasquez
case drew up blank affidavit few
days since, to be presented to the out
law for his signature. The document
was to be used in asking for acontinu-
ance of the case, on the grounds in
serted i'm the paper. The saffrOn-faced
little fellow read it carefully, and
then, looking into the lawyers face,
blurted out: "Pm gentleman /
can't swear to that; it's a melange of
id liesv
A youth of sixteen, Charles Bruff
by name, lately started from Reno,
Nevada, for Los Angeles, but he had
bad luck and landed in the San Fran
cisco calabo0se. He started on the
trip with $50; at San Francisco he
spent money lavishly, buying every
thing that struck his fancy, refusing
to take change at the bars, and insist
ing on depositing $40 as security for
an opera-glass hired for certain Oc-
i casion. The police there are suspi-
cious that he stole the money expend-
ed so freely.
In relation to the late sale of the,
Pacific Nails coasting steamers, the
San Fraacisco Market Reporter says:
Mr.. Kohl, of Hutchinson, Kohl Il Co.,
who lately purchased the entire fleet
of coasting steamers from the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, represents
solid men in San Francisco. The
agency will be offered to b. +. Hart
shorne, formerly of the California
Steamship Company, and Mr.. Taylor,
for many years Cashier of the Pacific
Mail Company. We hail this move
ment as good sign, indicating dis
position on the part of the Mail Com
pany to haul some of its irons out of
the fire, and devote more attention to
those which remain. The steamers
sold were the Mohongo, Pacific, Ori-
zaba, Senator, California and Gypsy,
and the aggregate price paid was in
the neighborhood of half million
dollars. s., F tln
BY the steamer VIM. Taber, due at
Wilmington harbor tomorrow morn
ming, the following parties will arrive
from San Francisco: A Hare, Charles
Stof, V A. Mehary and wife, f Elliott,
CHI Bradford, ] ID Lynch, J B Pierce,
Z Means and wife, N p Perine, N
Reed, d M Smith, Miss Larity, Helen
Smith, N G Sheckles and wife, L b
Emery, j Lankershim, S Lankershim,
II Springer, J r Duff Oliver Canfill,
10 Newman, II Schroeder, w s Hos