Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-05-15
LOCAL BREVITIES
The Ancon arrives to-day.

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The Ancon arrives to-day.
Sixty-two bales Of wool were ship
ped to San Pedro yesterday morning.
The reserved seats for "Trovatore {"
are going off rapidly.
The Congregational Social last night
at Mr.. Bent's was a delightful affair.
The murderer Vahle has a name
suggestive of a melancholy end. 1t is
pronounced like the Latin, Yale, Yale.
The Governor of Kansas is on his
way to California, and will visit Los
| Angeles.
General John Mansfield, formerly of
the Army of the Potomac, is stopping
at the st. Charles.
Mr.. J. A. Nelson, freight and ticket
clerk at Wilmington, has rendered his
resignation, to take effect to-day.
Mr.. John Rowell, of Providence, r.
l., who has been with us some time,
visits the Santa Monica beach to-day.
Mayor Beaudry examined one drunk
yesterday and made him put up for his
future sobriety.
The Calathumpians will hold meet
ing in few days preparatory to a
Fourth of July cele bration.
See the Remington and Victor sew
ing machines at A. M. James,, 60
| Spring street.
The Pound-Master will sell this
morning at 10 o'clock, at Aliens sta
BILE on Main street, two gray mares
picked up by him.
Yesterday was pay day at the depot
among the railroad boys. The day
before the employees along the line
received their pay.
In another column Mr.. Stevenson
offers $40 for the return of portion of
the telescope of surveyors transit,
and no questions asked.
A shooting scrape-People vs. Me-
Donald-was to be tried yesterday by
Judge Gray, but other business crowd
en- it out.
A squaw lay in front of the Star Of
| flee last night, and no policeman to
offer her shelter. In reply to all in
terviewers she sQuaw-ked, GALL right"
Vahle, the murderer, would be a
good man to send to Utah, where wo-
men are plenty and the sudden demise
of one or two would not be noticed
The capacity of our four prin-
cipal hotels, when the present extern
sions are finished, will be in the aggre-
gate 1000 guests.
Bishop Jesse T. Peck, of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, is expected by
steamer to-day, and will preach in the
| M. e. Church, Fort street, Tomorrow
ut II A. NJ. and u M.
| Mr.. Joshua Durrels artesian well at
| Florence, only one hundred and thirty
feet deep, flows six inches over a seven
inch pipe, and is ample to irrigate one
hundred and sixty acres.
The charge of malicious mischief
against Mrs. Starkey was dismissed
and charge of abusive language en-
tered in Judge Gray's Court. The case
will come up to-day.
The Express says it took the HERALD
two days to find out that it meant
! Chavez where it said Vasquez. 1t
took the Erpress great deal longer
to find out that Vasquez was dead.
A man in Leavenworth, Kansas, re-
Gently dislocated his jaw blowing his
nose, since which time, for prudential
reasons, the citizens have avoided that
kind of exercise, and the town Is suf-
fering from an epidemic of catarrh in
consequence.
The Downey Courier says it is stated,
upon good authority, that many far
mers are holding back their corn from
shipment and sale, and that there is
now in that valley probably not less
than fifty or sixty thousand sacks OF
corn.
The murderer Vahle is pursuing the
system of most wife-murderers-first
killing a poor, confiding, abused wo-
man, and then making pOst-mOrtem
attack on her virtue. Hell is too COM
Portable place for such villain.
In another column will be found the
advertisement of the President of the
School Board for proposals for building
two school houses in East Los Angeles
and OH the East side of Los Angeles
river, respectively.
We have heard of wife-murderers
defending their crime on the ground
of the infidelity of their wives, but
never before did we hear Of one sc
double-dyed as to attempt to ruin his
wife's reputation in two languages, as
| Vahle has done.
Clock repairing speciality. Mr.. A.
w. Pratt, a practical clock maker from
the Ansonic Clock Manufacturing Co..
and late adjuster for the National
Clock Co. of San Francisco, has taken
the new show window at 36 Spring ST.,
where he will repair clocks in first
class manner. Satisfaction guaran-
teed.
We desire to draw the attention ol
our readers to the advertisement of A
M. James, No. 90 Spring street, whe
has commenced the sewing machine
business on an extensive scale. All
first-class machines bought, sold, ex'
changed or rented on the most favor
able terms.
The Los Angeles and Independence
Railway is now making good progress
Yesterday the road commenced sui
against Josefa Alaniz de Lelong, Gre
gorio Talamantes, Lauriano Talaman
tes and Pedro Talamantes, to have th'