Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-31
FRIDAY. MARCH. 81. 1875
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

The conference committee ON the O'Connor
bill are unable to agree.
The bill prohibiting the removal of dead
bodies from the state, which was intended as
blow against Chinese emigration, has been
indefinitely postponed.
The auackery bill has passed the Assembly.
An anti-Coolie meeting was held in oak
land last night.
Captain Eldridge, of San Francisco, has
been appointed a member of the Board of
Visitors to the Naval Academy.
The California land frauds are soon to be
investigated by the House Committee on
Public Lands.
The bullion in the Bank Of England has in
creased f3s6,OOO the past week.
Since 1868 over 100000 Chinese have arrived
in San Francisco. OF these over 1900 were fe-
males.
A half interest in the trotting stallion ST.
Elmo has been sold for 81 900.
Since the passage and approval of Roach's
bill to punish wife beaters not a single case
of this kind has been brought before the san
Francisco courts. Heretofore the average has
been five or six week.
CHI. Hamilton & Co., paper firm OF Mil
waukee, claim to have been defrauded out OF
slsO,OOD contract for writing paper on bid
made to the Congressional Printer, the con
tract going to the New York firm of III. ID.
Butler & Co., whose bid figured up Sl06,OO0
more than that of Hamilton & Co. There
will be an investigation.
The test case OF the Chicago crooked whisky
distillers was submitted to the jury yesterday
The river steamer Platte Valley sunk in the
Missouri Just above the Leavenworth bridge.
Loss $4,000.
The Bank of Greenville. Ohio, owned by
A. J.. & T. T. Wright, has failed for S6S,OOO.
A. ]. Wright, the cashier, is missing.
J.C. Reeves fully and emphatically denies
his hog story on Bristow. He frankly owns
that he lied.
The managers of the Eastern Trunk lines
of railroad are agitating the subject OF reduc-
ing their rates on grain to New York to 30 cts.
The Emperor of Spain is on his way to the
United States. He will visit California before
attending the Centennial
Application has been made to Congress for
agrant of public land covering Fund Noun
tain in Santa Clara county-the place select
ed for the James Lick University.
A snow storm is reported in New York.
The steamship Labrador, which grounded
in the Delaware river, is again afloat.
The Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works of
Richmond fell in at midnight on the Goth and
became total loss.
The London Times of the 30th says that
shares are weak. U. S. stocks are firm at a
nominal price.
A dispatch from Ragusa, dated the 3Oth,
saws that the conference between the Austrian
and Turkish Commissioners on the paeifica-
ton of Herzegovina, has been broken off The
insurgents have refused all terms proposed.
The water in the Worcester reservoir has
lowered 80 inches. Additional outlets having
been made to draw the water gradually.
strong hopes are entertained that the dam
will not break.
Dispatches from st. Petersburg confirm the
story ofthe Czar's abdication. The Czarovitch
will be invested with the regency with full
sovereign powers.
A boy named John Green, aged five years.
was instantly killed yesterday afternoon in
Oakland, by being run over by heavy wag-
on.
The Senate Committee on State Prison
have recommended ex-Harbor Master Marks
for pardon.
The bill for the reduction of salaries of Off
GERS of the army was discussed and passed in
the House yesterday. An interesting passage
at arms took place between Banning, chair
man of the committee on military affairs and
Kasson of Iowa.