Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-05-20
LOCAL BREVITIES.

| AoCAA bHE VIII LIS.
The Orizaba sails for San Diego to.
day.
The Orizaba arrives from San Fran.
cisco to-day.
Two lines of stages are running tc
Santa Monica.
Republican primaries next Satur'
day.
Vahle, the murderer, has been com.
mitted for trial.
The Methodist Conference Is still in
session at Fort street church.
The Victor has the most perfect ten.
sions of all sewing machines.
The temperance festival commences
Tomorrow night at the rink.
Mr.. A. S. Mcdonald, boot and shoe
dealer, has started to San Francisco.
The French picnic next Sunday al
Arroyo Seco will be gala time.
The steamer Los Angeles sailed yes.
terday afternoon for San Francisco.
The Probate court has beer engaged
on the McSwain estate during the past
two days.
A Chinaman was killed by the cav
ing of bank at San Fernando on
Tuesday.
The schooner Una, from Navarro,
arrived yesterday at San Pedro with
lumber for the railroad.
Only about dozen passengers went
up to San Francisco by the steamer
Los Angeles.
Residents of the South end of Main
street are anxiously awaiting the ar
rival of the cars for that road.
Mr.. VIM. H. Norway of Santa Bar
bara is in the city, attending land
suit in the U. S. Registers office.
The Water Company are increasing
their capacity, and will soon supply
the "lower level of the city with a
full force of water.
The Hussars have complied with
the law and expect soon to receive
full authority from the Adjutant-
General of the State.
Mr.. Perry, the lumber dealer, has
bought five acres across the river, on a
line with Also street, intending to
build an elegant residence thele.
Mr.. Keller will press about 100000
gallons of wine this year, which he
expects to dispose of by wholesale in
San Francisco.
The estimate of the brandy product
Of this county the past year is $4,000
gallons, and of wine this year 100000
gallons.
Our architects are all busy on new
plans for residences and business
houses, and our mechanics are busy
finishing up buildings now under con-
tract.
Go to the st. Charles for an elegant
dinner to-day. The proprietors are
determined to satisfy the most fastid-
ious taste, and their table is supplied
with all the delicacies of the season.
No. 5 of Ne,U Italy has appeared,
full of its usual interesting descrip-
tions of Southern California, and
should be given large Eastern circu-
lation by our citizens.
The Real Estate Associates have
voted to admit new members on PAL
with the old members, thus giving
every man an opportunity to get q
home on easy terms.
In short time the City Water
Company will have their pipes laid to
Boyle Heights, which VIM. H. Work
man and others have laid out in city
lots.
Mr.. c. Desnoyers, compiler of the
new city ordinances, leaves in few
days for Canada, on account of sick.
ness in his family, but will return in q
few months.
Mr.. F. L. Vandenberg, Superinten.
dent of the Atlantic and Pacific Tele.
graph Line, is in the city, preparing
for the speedy telegraphic communica.
ton of Los Angeles with the Eastern
world.
DR.. J. Casio, of Washington Terri
tory, who has been careful reader o.
the HERALD for the past year, called
on us yesterday. He has brought his
family with him, and will make hi.
future home in this valley.
Mr.. Smith, of the st. Charles res
taurant, has written letter to his
home paper in Kansas, which sets VI
California in her true cOlors, and may
be the means of bringing hosts of i'm
migrants to Los Angeles county.
Messrs. Stevenson 4 Co., contract
ors, have finished the New High stree
sewer in six days work. The contrac
contains 1900 feet of sewer, and ha'
been finished in highly creditabl'
manner to the enterprising firm.
Judge De Long has returned from
the San Gabriel Mission, well pleased
with his trip and delighted with th'
country. We are glad to learn tina
the Judge calculates to invest in prop
erty in this vicinity and settle will
us.
| The Boston Pilot, the great paper o
the Catholic church in the East, pub
fishes some very readable and truth