Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-16
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| For Los Angeles.
| CALIENTE, May 15th.-The Tele-
graph Stage OH time with the follow
ing passengers for Los Angeles =
P Covington and wife, B P Davis, ]
b Jones, Stone, VIM Ward.
San Francisco News.
SAN FRANCISCO. May ia move.
ment has been inaugurated for pa
rade by the militia of the city on De-
coration Day, May 30th.
The schooner James Townsend,
lum ber vessel belonging to this port,
while on the trip up the Northern
coast went ashore at Bodega Bay last
week and is likely to prove total
loss,
The Board of Water Commissioners
met to-day. The Mount Gregory
Water Company offered to bring water
into the city for about ten millions
of dollars. Col. Won Schmidt of the
Lake Tahoe Water Company intima-
ted that it would cost seventeen mill
lion seven hundred thousand dollars
to bring water from Lake Tahoe. The
Commissioners start on voyage of
inspection to Clear Lake on Wednes-
day.
Last week man named William ].
Jones, aged 90, was married to Mamie
Whiting, aged Is years. Since then it
has transpired that Jones had wife
living in the city. The girl is an heir
ess to considerable property and it is
surmised that Jones intended to get
hold of the property to the detriment
of his young wife.
The Revenue officers are still at
work tracing the subterranean pipes
found at the Bay View Distillery.
Democratic Meeting.
VIRGINIA CITY, New, May 18TH
The Democratic State Convention met
at Carson to-day and selected the fol-
lowing delegates to the National Con-
vention at st. Louis: Ellis and Kelly,
Story; Fall, of Humboldt; and Den
mis-, of Eureka. The delegates are un.
pledged, but it is understood that Til
den is their first choice and Thurman
next. The convention adopted strong
and emphatic resolutions against Chi
nese emigration.
The Silver City Morning Reporter
publishes serious charges against the
officers of the Mint in regard to sack
of crooked bullion said to have been
brought to Silver City.
John Matheson was killed in the
Chollar mine this morning by falling
down the ore chute, between the third
and fourth stations. He leaves wife
and five children.
Dropped Dead.
CHICO, CAL, May ia. McDon-
aid, constable for Chico Township,
dropped dead on the street at o'clock
yesterday morning in an apoplectic fit.
Deceased leaves wife and family resi-
ding here.
Mormon Movement.
SALT LAKE, May 15.-The Evening
Nea0s, the official Mormon paper, says
that President ID. Wells and Elder B.
Young, Jr., propose leaving st. George
for the Arizona settlement on We'd
nesday morning. This is verifica-
tion of the previous statement regard
ing the Mormon schemes in New Mex
leo and Arizona.
O'Hara Returned.
CHICAGO, May 15.-1he late City
Treasurer, O'Hara, has returned from
his supposed flight to Canada and his
successor, Mr.. Briggs, will shortly take
possession of the office.
The L. s. Marshal for this District
has refunded to Miss Sweet, Pension
Agent, 50, 100, being the sum she paid
to him for Blakely as consideration
for the appointment to he Pension
Agency in Chicago.
OLeary and Schnell started on the
five hundred mile walk at IL NJ. .yester-
day. O'Leary Immediately took the
lead and has never been headed since.
They are walking in the amphithea-
ire of the Mechanics Institute, which
has been arranged so that nine laps
exactly make mile. O'Leary has
taken but one rest since he begun
thirty minutes, while Schnell has
stopped twice. At 8 A. NJ. O,Leary
was two and one-half miles ahead, and
at 1880 P. NJ. finished his sixty second
mile, Schnell stopping at 1902 P. NJ.
on his fifty-fifth mile. No even bets
can be obtained against O'Leary.
Gold closed in New York at 112}.
Meeting i'm favor OF fOpening the Expo.
sitiOn ON Sundays.
PHILADELPHIA, May 15.-One OF
the largest meetings ever held in this
city was that at Musical Fund Hall on
Saturday last in favor of opening the
Exposition Sundays. The crowd was
so great they were forced to organize
outside meetings. Addresses were
delivered by Col. Forney of the Phila-
delphia Press, Col. Fitzgerald of the
city Item, Col. Pierce, Rev. DIR. Fouss,
DIR. Kellogg and others. A series of
resolutions were passed denouncing
the action of the United States Gen.
tennial Commissioners in presuming
to close the grounds on Sunday, 1e-
claring that in the event of theil
maintaining their stand that they will
have to bear the consequences of re.
straint of keeping within the enclo-
sure. The Centennial Board of Fin.
ance and the journalists of Philadel.
phia are determined to put stop to
this matter at once as concession made
: to restaurants contain clause that