Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-08-31
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The painters have commenced their
labors on the Fort street M. E. Church.
Governor Downey and wife arrived
from San Francisco yesterday.
Mcpherson has a full report of Mr..
Alexander Forbes Spanish address.
Mr.. w. H. Norway of Santa Bar
bara is in the city.
Gen. Banning of Wilmington is
about to take a trip to Philadelphia
and other Eastern cities.
Gold in New York yesterday was
ia per cent premium. Greenbacks
bought at 879 and sold at S8.
City warrants will be drawn at the
county Clerks office until further
notice.
The Anaheim Gazette of the Goth.
says that lady became insane at the
camp meeting last Friday.
Congress Hall, corner of Main and
Requena streets, received yesterday
per Ancon, a supply of fresh oysters,
both Califnrnia and Eastern.
M. Keller says the panic has not
paralyzed his business and will ship
to-day three pipes OF brandy to San
francisco.
The schooner Eclipse loaded with
lumber and drawing eleven feet of wa
ter anchored at Wilmington wharf on
Saturday.
The flags of the city and many busi-
ness houses were at half-mast yester-
day in honor ofthe Ralston obsequies
in San Francisco.
Mayor Beau,lry adjudicated twenty
two cases yesterday morning, twenty
one of whom contributed their mite to
the payment ofcity expenses.
Democrats will please remember
that Don Pedro c. Carrillo has declined
to he q candidate for Public Admins
traitor and Judge j. e. Griffin has been
substituted on the ticket.
The County Surveyors office has
been visited by vandal, who smear
ed valuable maps with ink, until they
were almost ruined. The police are
on his track.
Prof. Fishers benefit will take place
next Saturday night at Turn-Verein
Hall. 1t will be a substantial benefit
for worthy man and We trust the pro-
ceeds will be large enough to help him
out of his misfortunes. There could
be no more worthy beneficiary.
The steamer Ancon took the place of
the Orizaba, on the G. n. & p. line,
this trip from San Francisco. The Or
izaba is at present laid up receiving
condensers for her boilers, SO as to use
fresh water instead of salt, the latter
being very injurious.
The store of Charles Norton, on
Commercial street, was robbed at an
early hour, Sunday morning, of four
dozen satinet pants, two Colts six
shooters, one pocket fiye-shooter, four
dozen pocket knives, four dozen silver
rings, two California gold rings, one
set gold shirt buttons, one gold chain.
Atan early date last week man
was robbed of $3.50 on Los Angeles ST.,
near the corner of First. The suspic-
ious people and doubtful localities
near that corner are under watchful
surveillance, and we believe the thief
will soon be arrested for the action of
the Grand Jury.
"Chips," messenger of w. f. & Co.,
came down on the Ancon this trip.
He left San Francisco with regret, but
his losses being so much less than those
of his friend Michael Reese, he views
the failure of the Bank of California
with considerable philosophy. He is
willing to take any dividend they Of
fer.
The Downey City Courier says: The
following are the exports from our de-
pot during the preient week: Grain
4O3, 45O pounds; beans, 9,735 pounds.
Total, 414,2S9 pounds. Our exports
largely exceed those of any other sta
tion on the lines of the Southern Pa
cific railroad in this county, not even
excepting the city of Los Angeles.
Among the last shipments from our
depot are thirty-siX barrels and one
pipe of brandy from l.. J. Rose, to
New York; $50 sacks of meal, III
sacks of cracked corn and 54 sacks of
meal from the Also Mills to Little
field, Webb & Co., San Francisco; 234
Joints of artesian pipe to Norwalk, 3S
joints to Compton and 800 joints to
Anaheim.
F. Adam, merchant tailor, has just
received an elegant lot of cloths, cas-
simeres and suitings of the latest pop
ular patterns. The stock is probably
the largest of its kind to be found in
the city, and no one can fail to be
suited in making selection. Call on
F. Adam, Spring street, for your styl-
ish suits.
Hereafter the City Superintendent
of Schools will have placed in each
school room in the city, on Monday of
each week, motto conspicuously dis
played, designed to serve as moral
lesson for the pupils during the week.
Last week the motto was, "HOnor
Thy Father and Mother.n For the
coming week will be, 'Be Faithful to
Every Trust"
We find the following compliment
tary notice in the Kansas Spirit, pub
lished at Lawrence Kansas:
Judge DeLong has just returned
from California, where he has sojourn-
ed for several months. The Judge
speaks very highly of Southern Cali
fOrnia, where he viewed luXuriant or
ange groves and walked through mag