Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-20
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Vasquex Is dead.

Dudd Doble and wife left for San
Francisco yesterday overland.
The mounted police were discharged
by the Council Thursday.
The Kalorama arrived on her up
trip from San DIEGO yesterday.
The Senator is advertised to sail for
San Francisco tomorrow.
The will of Ygnacio Coronel was
admitted to probate yesterday.
1t is reported that there is pros
pect of large hotel being built in
Los Angeles by stock company.
Mr.. H. Reese and family, from New
York, are stopping at the Backman
House.
The case of Newhill VS.. Hand was
the only one on trial in the District
Court yesterday.
One hundred and eighty boxes of
oranges were shipped from the depot
yesterday.
Jenkins says that the latest style of
ladies' kid gloves come nearly up to
fnnny-bone.
The st. Patrick's Benevolent Society
will give their Annual Ball on Easter
Monday night.
Mr.. A. L. Sayre, a wholesale fruit
dealer from New York, visited the
Mission yesterday, and was highly
pleased with that section.
Mr.. Requena contemplates the con-
struction of two-story brick building
on Los Angeles street, containing two
stores and family rooms above.
Much interest was manifested in the
city yesterday concerning the fate of
Vasquez, who was to be hanged at 1:30
P. NJ. in San Jose.
Mr.. E. Steinbacher, wholesale
druggist and grocer from Akron, Ohio,
was at the Mission yesterday, and
brandy of Mr. Rose.
On Tuesday next at ten o'clock A.
NJ. the Masonic fraternity, under the
directions of Acting Grand Master s.
G. Foy, will lay the cornerstone of
the Spring Street M. e. Church.
John Simonds, a sheep-herder lv-
ing near Anaheim, who shot man
some time since, was brought to the
city yesterday under sentence of six
months in the county Jail.
Mr.. A. Fischer, musician of con-
siderable note, has arrived In the city,
and proposes to give concert at Turn
Verien Hall next week, assisted by a
number of amateurs.
AT the last meeting of Compton
Grange, J. E. McComas and j.. j. Nor
ton were elected appraisers of prop
erty on which the Grangers' Bank of
California shall be called upon to make
loans.
We see that our friend Goldsmith,
of cigar fame, is registered as pas
senger for Los Angeles by the Ven
tura. And that is not the worst of it,;
the register says goldsmith and
wife,"
According to the new order of things
policemen must take their arrests be-
fore the Mayor or be discharged from
the force. This comes as result
of Mayor Beaudry's telling message
to the Council Thursday.
The attention Of builders is directed
to the advertisement of Mr.. E. J.
Weston which is published this morn
ing inviting bids for the construction
of two-story brick building on Los
Angeles street.
We had call yesterday from Mr..
Geo. w. Henning, formerly publisher
of the California Granger, and now
connected with book and job print.
ing establishment in San Francisco.
Mr.. Henning visits Southern Califor-
mia on business for the Grange.
The amount of school tax to be
voted on, as ordered by the Board of
Education, has been changed from
$4,000 to $4,000. The time of holding
the election has also been postponed
from the 10th to the 18th of April, to
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required by law.
The San Diego Union has informa-
tion from Florence, Arizona, which
seems to fix conclusively the identity
of old John Bender, the Kansas mur-
derer, who was captured some t!nce
in the latter place. The prisoner will
be taken to Kansas undera requisition
from Governor Osborne.
aThe Backman House is now one of the
headquarters of tourists and visitors
from the East. Every available suite
of rooms in the house is occupied, and
q number have been engaged ahead
by parties who telegraphed from San
Francisco to have them reserved when
vacated
The Wheeler Comedy Troupe make
their first appearance in our city at
Merced Theatre tonight The troupe
comprises Miss Elsie de Courcy, Mr..
Ben Wheeler, Master Bennie and Mr..
Chas. Petrie. They form together one