Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-03-31
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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
a blow against Chinese emigration, has been
indefinitely postponed.
The quackery bill has passed the Assembly.
An anti-Coolie meeting was held in Oak
land last night.
Captain Eldridge, of San Francisco, has
been appointed 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 fSs6,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
asl50,OOD contract for writing paper on bid
made to the Congressional Printer, the con-
tract going to the New York firm of H. Ii.
Butler & Co., whose bid figured up SlO6,0O0
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. ]. & T. T. Wright has failed for s6S,OOO.
j. Wright the cashier, is missing.
j. G. 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 agltating 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 fol
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 afioat
The Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works oi
Richmond fell in at midnight on the 29th and
became total loss.
The London Times of the Both says that
shares are weak. U. S. stocks are firm at a
nominal price.
A dispatch from Ragusa, dated the S0th,
saws that the conference between the Austrian
and Turkish Commissioners on the pacifica-
ton of herzegovina, has been broken off, The
insurgents have refused all terms proposed.
The water in the Worcester reservoir has
lowered 3Oinches. 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 of the Cars 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.
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.