Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-16
gos Angeles 9erala.
LOCAL BREVITIES.

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| For No. one Peach blow potatoes
call on the Grange Store, No. 1S4
| Main street.
White "opera" vests at the Great
Important clothing emporium, under
the Lafayette Hotel.
| The steamer Ancon sailed Sunday
from San Francisco for Southern
ports, and is due to-day.
Second hand Pianos for rent and
rents applied to the purchase of same,
at Patrick's Piano agency. m5tf
| Happy are the children of Los An
| geles. After this week they will have
| a vacation.
The steamer Gypsey arrived at San
Pedro yesterday morning with conn.,
bustibles. She will sail to-day with
200 hogs. What a piggish cargo.
Ceur de Lion Commandery, No. 9,
knights Templar, meet in regular
conclave at their Asylum, on Thurs
day evening next, May 18th.
Gents Furnishing Goods are sold
| cheaper at Meyerstein's new store, ,un-
der the Lafayette hotel, than else
| where.
The Executive Fourth of July Com
mittee met Saturday evening and Sc
lected Major H. M. Mitchell as Grand
Marshal of the day. The selection is
a good one.
Parties desiring the best varieties of
choice potatoes, should call on the
Grange Store.
Cameron, the irrepressible, cannot
keep still. He is always bringing
novelties into the market. His enter
prise deserves the most liberal patron
age of our people.
The Fabbri opera draws well, and SO
do the bargains in clothing, boots and
shoes at the Great Important, under
the Lafayette Hotel.
Professor Rice, the mind reader is
in town and will tell everybody what
they are thinking about if they will
give him chance. He is now stop
ping at the st. Charles.
Let everybody remember that
Messrs Doak & Lu Gar, agents for
Singers sewing machines are ever
ready and willing to accommodate
their customers at the most reasonable
rates. Give them call.
The Southern Railroad is tracked to
point seven miles this side of Indian
Wells. Col Gray and Mr.. Evens, late
resident engineer of the road, made an
excursion to the Desert terminus on
Sunday.
Will guarantee that you can save
fifty per cent. by purchasing your
clothing, etc., at the Great Important,
under the Lafayette Hotel, where the
largest and best assortment in South
ern California can be found.
Residents in the vicinity Of the High
school are very much annoyed by the
amount of waste paper that is scatter
ed around from that institution. Let
the trash be burned, and not cast to
the winds to annoy citizens living
thereabouts.
The steamer Senator arrived at San
ia Monica from San Francisco on Sun
day evening. She brought 80 passen-
| gers and about 300 tons of freight.
She will sail on her return Wednes-
day evening, passengers taking the
O'Clock Los Angeles and Indepen-
dence Railway train.
We were yesterday shown by Mr..
Watkins, specimen of cherries raised
upon the grounds of Mr.. B. d. Wilson
which are the first ever grown in this
portion of the country. We are satis-
| fed that any fruit can be raised here
that our people have the ambition to
cultivate, and congratulate our fellow
citizen upon his success.
Among the Orizaba's passengers for
Los Angeles we note the name of our
| townsman, Mr. Horace Burdick, who
| visited San Francisco as representa-
tive to the Grand Lodge of Odd Eel
| lows of this State.
The enterprising clothing merchant
of Los Angeles, l.. Harris, whose pres
| ence We have missed for a number of
days, has returned from San Francis
| co, with an assortment of goods that
| will satisfy his customers when the
articles he has purchased are exhib-
tied on his customers.
Rev. w. H. Hill, who has been at
Gilroy Springs on short vacation,
returned Oil the Senator last Sunday,
and we are pleased TO note that his
health has been completely restored.
A cotemporary which does not seem
to have particle of sense, on any pro-
position, alluding to the departure of
Mr.. ]. E. Holmes, son of DR.. Oliver
| Wendell Holmes, of Massachusetts,
and one of our national favorites, re-
| marks that Mr.. Holmes is teacher in
the Boston Institute of Technology.
The dolt who wrote the paragraph
| does not know that the Institute is
State and not Municipal affair.
We join with our contemporaries who
regret the announcement that little
Eddie Perpich, who so finely repre-
sented Washington in the Flremen's
portion of the parade last Fourth of
July, died at the residence of his pa
rents on Sunday morning. He was
| few months over six years old, and
very promising boy. Had he lived,
he was to again represent the Father
of his Country in the Centennial pro-
cession.
Last evening the employees of the
HERALD office were regaled wph a