Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-03-17
gos Sageles Atrala.
WEDNESDAY. MARCH II, 1875,
LOCAL BREVITIES.
st. Patrick's Day.

Go to the ball tonight.
The Kalorama is due at Whining
ton to-day with 800 tons of freight.
There was a pleasant picnic party
up the Arroyo Seco yesterday.
Mr.. S. L. Dewey has our thanks for
a delightful "spin" yesterday behind
his trotter.
Conductor House and wife will leave
for San Francisco tomorrow for q
short visit.
The Spadra train took out 81 car
loads of passengers, merchandise and
railroad material yesterday.
1t is said that a resident of this city
is the fortunate possessor of a $1,000
ticket in the Louisville Lottery.
Mr.. Forbes advertises 100 fine horses
for sale, from which number of fine
spans can be secured.
Mr.. Minto paid his respects at our
office last evening, having just re-
turned from a Government survey in
San Diego county.
Judge McNealy of San Diego will
be here on the Doth instant to try
some cases in the District Court in
which Judge Sepulveda is disquali-
fed. -
We have an official list of the one
thousand numbers with the prizes
drawn at the Louisville Lottery, which
can be consulted at our office by par
ties interested.
The special election for vote on
the proposed school tax of $4,000 will
be held April 10th. The specifications
for the election will be found in q no.
tice published elsewhere.
The somewhat notable case of Gay
VS.. the Bolsa Chica Wharf Company
was closed in the District Court yes
terday, judgment being rendered by
default.
Owing to the large amount of up
freight the Orizaba will be unavoida-
bly, detained at Wilmington, and will
not sail for San Francisco tomorrow
Passengers will leave here by the
morning train.
About thirty men with dozen
teams are employed grading and lew
cling the grounds of Mr.. Longstreet in
the Southern part of the city. When
completed, the residence and sur
roundings will doubtless be the finest
and most expensive in the city.
Our young friend Frank Gibson re-
turned to the city yesterday after an
absence of about two months in San
Diego county on u surveying trip. He
looks rugged and hearty and the
smile CLEANS through his slightly
copper-colored countenance as gen.
tally as ever. Hale be his heart, hale
be his fiddle.
After all this lapse of time, the local
of the E'rpress has just discovered that
the Los Angeles girls are pretty. We
would advise the young ladies to
charge upon the perpetrator of this
belated compliment and each pluck a
lock of hair to remember him by. A
little lock apiece would do-not a
whole handful.
The Express very innocently refers
to "Fremont's old rifle pits' as fa-
vorite promenade for strangers. When
will that much cherished old fallacy
about Fremont's hill be dissipated?
There is no more truth in the legend
than there is in that other one which
attributes the discovery of San Diego
to Col. J. j. Warner in 1742.
/ United States Marshal Arthur Pratt,
from Salt Lake, arrived in the city
yesterday, bringing warrant and a
requisition from Gov. Pacheco for the
desperate John Began. The officer
will leave for San Francisco tomorrow
by the Orizaba, taking with him the
prisoner heavily ironed. Began has a
conviction of murder to answer for in
Salt Lake. lkl4ttH
Complaint was lodged in Judge
O'Melveny's Court yesterday against
VIM. Penfield, alleging that he was
insane and should be taken into GUS
tody. A warrant was accordingly
issued and the man placed under ar
rest, pending an examination by Drs.
Mckee and Widney, who were APP
pointed by the Court for that purpose.
1t seems that Penfield came to Los
Angeles about three months ago from
Iowa. He was formerly wealthy, be-
ing possessed of the neat sum of $780,
600, which he lost by some mischance.
This ill-fortune, together with Sc
we're attack of spiritualism, it is
thought deranged his mind. An at
tendance upon the lectures of Miss
Legs did not tend to allay his spirit
ualistic fancies, and he finally launch
ed out into the possession of superior
powers,n "guides," etc. He was ad-
judged insane by the medical exam
innrs and will he eant To Sfoolzton