Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-09-14
LOCAL BREVITIES.


Los Angeles cast l54O more votes in
1875 than 1871.
Gold in New York yesterday was
1859 per cent premium. Greenbacks
bought at S54 and sold at SO.
Eleven or twelve hundred workmen
are now engaged on the San Fernan-
do tunnel of the S. p. r. r., of which
about two-thirds are Cinnamon.
AT the Sacramento, State Fair
among the entries for the colt race are
the fllly, Beautiful Bells, owned by
L. J. Rose, and Echora, belonging to
Mr.. L. II. Titus of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Lodge No. AZ F. and A.
M. will hold special meeting this
evening for work in the first degree.
Sojourning brethren in good standing
are cordially invited.
Mr.. Gaertner yesterday showed us a
fine prospect from the Charlotte ledge.
| The rock from which the gold was
crushed was taken out forty feet be-
| low the surface and assays one hun
| dred dollars per ton.
The knights of Pythias on their re-
turn from serenading Mr.. J. J. Mellus
and bride on Saturday night honored
| the HERALD Office with q few beauti-
full and well executed tunes for which
We return thanks.
In the Payoreflo claim, in the Char
lotte District, vein of white honey
comb ore has been struck at depth
of thirty-five feet. There are solid
granite walls on either side of the
vein.
The German Benevolent Society is
furnishing labor as far as possible to
those who require it. Merchants and
farmers who desire to employ any one
may address Mr.. MarxsOn, corner OF
Main and Third streets.
S w. Stackpole, je weller at 8! Spring
street, has received new stock of jew
elry of rare designs and of the finest
material. Among the selections we
notice novel gentlemen's sleeve but
ton which will strike the fancy of
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horsemen.
DR.. Tounsley, so long associated
with DR.. Crawford In the dentistry
business has removed to San Bernar-
dino. He is an excellent workman,
and we commend him to those who
are so unfortunate as to require the
services of a dentist.
Among the late arrivals in Los An
geles is DR.. Thompson, of South Ha-
ven, Michigan, and member of the
Senate of that State. DR.. Thompson
proposes to take in the climate of Los
| Angeles until the next biennial ses-
sion of the Michigan Legislature
takes place.
Judge Kohler is announced as a can
didate for Justice of the Peace at Ana
helm. He is q gentleman of ability
and has long filled the office with cred
it. Some idea of the Judges attain
ments may be inferred from the fact
that he converses fluently in seven or
eight languages.
Mr.. w. P. Smith, who has for some
years past been assistant engineer in
the construction of the Notifications
at Lime Point, San Francisco Harbor,
succeeds Lieut.. Sears in charge of the
Government improvements in San
Pedro harbor. Lieut.. Sears is ordered
to report to General Binham at Bos-
ton.
A celestial named All Lay, who had
been intrusted with $500 in coin by his
comrades at San Fernando for the pur-
pose of deposit in the Los Angeles
Banks, shipped the same through
Wells, Fargo & Co. to himself at San
Francisco. He was about to depart
for the Golden Gate when officer Toon-
ey arrested him.
The hotels report the arrivals In Los
Angeles now as much more numerous
than at the corresponding period last
year. Already two of the hotels
are filled, and compelled to make beds
upon the floor. Over two hundred per-
sons registered in the last forty eight
hours. Verify, if this Is a sample of
what the winter influx is to be, we
shall need half dozen new hotels.
The telegraph flashes the accounts of
the first fast mail trains, and it is we'll
TO remember that the enterprise of
James Gordon Bennett, of the New
York Herald, gives this additionsl fa-
cility to the American people. He
showed what could be done on his
special trains to Saratoga, and the peo-
pie Immediately began to demand
equally as good terms all over the coun-
try.
Mrs. Matte A. Creighton, wife of w.
w. Creigton, city editor of the HER
AAD, died in this city at 10 o'clock,
yesterday. Mrs. Creighton had been
resident of this city but a few
months, but during her short stay
among us she endeared herself to all
who had the pleasure of making her
acquaintance. Little more than q
year ago she was in the bloom of health
in her home in Leavenworth, Kansas;
but that most inexorable of all dis
eases, consumption, marked her as its
victim; and hoping for relief from a
change ofclimate, her husband brought
her to this city; but it was vain
hope. She sank slowly and without
apparent pain until the final sum-
mons came, when she died as she had
lived in peaceful resignation to the
will of Him who doeth all things well.
The bereaved husband and his infant
daughter will receive the sincere SYM
pathy of their many friends in this
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