Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-02-26
LOCAL BREVITIES.

eu at Santa BARBARA.
Perfection, or the Heiress" to-
night.
The San Fernando Tunnel will be
finished before the first of July.
"Uncle Toms Cabin" this afternoon
at Merced Theater.
The Mohongo sails for San Francis
co tomorrow. .~.,-.
J. G.. Jackson & Co. hove a large
consignment of Santa Cruz lime.
The veterans of the Mexican war
hold meeting to-day.
Send down little rain, Old Prob;
our streets are getting dusty.
There wasa good rain at San Pas
quail yesterday morning commenc-
Ing at 10 o'clock. ,.
A branch of Sicily lemon tree at
the Grand Central displays twenty
seven fully matured lemons.
Miss Major Pauline .Cushman, the
celebrated Union spy, will appear at
Ashton's benefit tonight.
Mr.. A. M. Lawrence Is officiating
as Mayor Beaudry's Secretary during
the absence of Mr.. Wood.
The paymaster of the Southern Pa
cific road will soon make his rounds.
He has three months score to settle
with the boys.
The wreck of a hack was visible yes
terday morning on the corner of Fort
and Fourth streets, where it had stuck
in mud hole the night before.
The ministers of our several city
congregations will confer q favor by
handing in announcements of their
Sunday services to-day.
Osborne had his force at work yes
terday taking up the SHERALD's new
Hoe press from the depot. 1t is pom
derous affair, and will outweigh any
other two printing presses in the city.
The trial of the damsels who were
to appear before Judge GARLIC yester-
day, has been postponed until next
Tuesday, when it is supposed they will
answer for the sin of living in Chris
tian community.
The practice of the law sometimes
pays we'll. We understand that Judge
Widney receives over one thousand
dollars for arguing the case Of Abila
VS.. Abila, relating to the Tajauta
Ranch in the Supreme Conrt.
Mr.. Geo. NJ. Wetherbee, who has an
extensive bee hive manufactory in
San Francisco, passed through our
city yesterday on his way to San
Diego. He will be in the city again
March 4th, When our bee men can see
him at the st. Charles hotel.
Miss Pearl Creighton, daughter of
w. w. Creighton. of the Republican
celebrated her third birth day yester-
day afternoon. Quite a company of
little Misses about her own age assem-
bled and took tea and sugar-plums
with her in honor of the event.
Mr.. S. L. Dewey has received the
sole agency for this county of the cell
brated wagons and agricultural ma
chinery and implements manufac-
tured by Frank Bros. g. Co. He will
shortly start on a business trip
through the county.
4 private letter received yesterday
from Lower California stated that the
wife of Martinez Moreno had commit
ted suicide. Moreno was formerly
Governor Of Lower California, and
has acquaintances among the Spanish
population Of our city.
r. jeff. White was before Judge
Gray yesterday, having been sued for
the value of horse which had been
left in his charge, and whose main and
tail some miscreant had shaved.
Judge Gray decided that he was not
liable for the bdrbe, -Ous act, and ma
ture will, no doubt, soon repair the
damage.
The good-natured face of Joe Will
liams appeared behind the lunch ia
BILE at the Palace saloon last night,
upon which appeared the most appe-
tizing lunch we ever tasted, in the
shape ofa shrimp salad. The shrimps
alone cost twelve dollars, and the
dressing was that which was invented
by Geo. E. Ball, and now famous
throughout the country. Joe's friends
hope he will keep up that sort of
lunch.
exchange says that the latest in
yention is an alarm clothes line. It Is
of wire and connected with strong
battery. An attempt to remove a gar
ment from the line sounds an alarm
in the mans bedroom, turns loose
four dogs and places shotgun In
position to rake the yard. Persons
who persist in leaving their clothes
upon the line all night should procure
one of these novelties.
The following is the list of Grand
Jurors for the March term: Charles
Fluhr, E. r. Green, w. F. Damron,
Henry Wartenberg, John F. Boyle, ].
r. Toberman, Andrew J. Cole, II. J.
Grow, Albert Eldred, B. Cohp, Robert
S. Horn, David Lewis, M. Levy ]. H.
Gray, Geo. w. Cole, B. F. Vantress,
Jasyer Cox, Andreas Briswalter, H.C.
Lewis, Albert Biles, John Ballard, A.
Hitler, w. NJ. Osborne, w. H. Pen.
dleton. The venire is returnable on
the 9th of March.
Altough Geo. Trent, the popular
boot black, rode beside his master,
Gen. Joseph Johnson, during the
war. He is one of our most law abid-
ing citizens, being the first to move
his stand from the sidewalk upon
learning that the Council had passed a
law to clear the sidewalks. He is