Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-28
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Easter Sunday.

The Senator sailed on her down-trip
from San Francisco yesterday.
The Mirror has been enlarged to
double its former size, and now makes
a very presentable appearance.
The sailing of the Orizaba has been
postponed until tomorrow. Passen-
gers will leave on the 3:45 2. NJ. train.
Mr. Higbie was in the city yester-
day for the first time since his recent
severe illness.
Some enterprising persons have
erected gibbet in Sonora and hung
upon it an effigy of Vasquez.
Three hundred and seventeen boxes
of oranges and lemons were shipped
from the depot yesterday.
Remember the ball of st. Patrick's
Benevolent Society tomorrow night.
1t will undoubtedly be IL grand affair
The Vivian Troupe will give us a
farewell entertainment next Tuesday
evening.
The rafters were raised upon the
frame of the NJ e. Church South yes
terday.
The shipments of oranges and lem
ons now being made from our depot,
will aggregate in value $4,000 per
month.
A good business opportunity is Of
fered for an enterprising man with a
few hundred dollars capital. See no
tice in want column.
Mr.. John r. Grout, a gentleman of
wealth from the East, is registered
with his wife and daughter at the
Backman House.
Society is on the tip-toe of expecta-
tion over the wedding of Mr.. I. Nor
ton and Miss BERTHE Greenbaum, to
take place at the Synagogue this
morning.
A friend from Tustin City, in the
East end of this county, informs us
that everything is flourishing there.
Crops never looked better, and they
are not suffering for rain.
Attention is directed to the column
advertisement of the "City of Paris"
published this morning. The grand
Spring opening at this establishment
will take place on the 29th inst.
The many friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
Banning will regret to learn of the
death of their infant daughter, who
died yesterday morning. We extend
our sympathy to the bereaved par
ents.
Mr.. G.. F. Robbins, of the paper
house of Blake, Robbins & Co., San
Francisco, is on visit to this city.
This is his first trip to this part of the
State and he is well pleased with the
progress that everywhere meets his
view.
"A man named Robert Allen COM
mitted suicide yesterday by taking
strychnine, at the boarding house on
the corner of Third and Spring streets.
He was about As years of age and a
native of England. The desperate act
was brought about as the result of q
prolonged debauch.
We announce with regret another
death i'm the family of our townsman,
Mr.. Thos. A. Carey. Yesterday
morning, after q brief illness, Mary
Julia, aged II years, departed this
life for an existence in the spirit
world. The funeral will take place
under the auspices of Los Angeles
Grange No. 36 from the family resi-
dence at 3 p. NJ. to-day.
Mr.. J. A. Bell has discovered in the
San Fernando mountains, about 2S
miles from Los Angeles a large vein of
sulphur, being Is feet wide and almost
the pure article. In the immediate
vicinity he found a vein of coal that
would average about five feet in width.
The coal is what is known as black
slate and is very hard. A specimen
has been left at this Office.
Under the name of the Pioneer
Building Lot Association another
company has been formed in our city,
its object being to parcel out tract of
land adjoining Mr.. Griffith's property
in East Los Angeles. The following
gentlemen were elected officers: Jos.
d. Lynch, President; N. Unidentified,
Vice-President; G. V. Ploenn:es, Sec
retary; d. Botiller, Treasurer. The
land of this company has one of the
most desirable locations in the East
ern part of the city land will be sold on
the instalment plan and at the very
lowest rates.
The application for charter for the
newly projected street railway has
been held over by the incorporators
until the next meeting of the Com
mon Council on account of the great
press of business before that body.
This road runs from Temple Block to
the end of the Spring Street Railway,
via Temple and Pearl streets, passing
over and through beautiful section
of the hill and valley lands. This road
is in the hands of our most enterpris-
ing, and in fact only actual builders of
street roads up to the present time,
which fact gives the public full assur-
ance that there will be no delay in its
early completion.