Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-28
LOCAL BIsEvITIEs.

The steamer Ancon is due from
San Francisco to-day.
Mr.. G. H. Bush got home from
San Francisco overland yesterday.
Extra-fine Eastern oysters and
fresh shrimps for Thanksgiving
Day at Joe Bayer's Congress Hall.
Jean Marie Gragide, Bernard
Crovan, natives of France, and
Antonio Orfila, q native of Spain,
were naturaized in the County
Court yesterday.
Union Thanksgiving services
will he held in the Methodist Epis.
copaI Church on Fort street at II A
NJ. to-day. Sermon by Elder
John Hay. All are invited.
BY notice elsewhere 1t Will be
seen that J. A. Graves, Esq, has
removed his law office from the
Strelltz building, Spring street, to
the Baker Block, Main street.
In order that the City Dads may
have an uninterrupted opportunity
to discuss their Thanksgiving
turkey, the regu lar session of Coun-
Gil has been postponed TIL to-mor-
row FRIDAY afternoon at 8 O'Clock.
There will be appropriate services
aud sermon by the Rector In the
Episcopal Church, corner of Tenn
Pile and New High streets, to-
day at II o'clock, to which all are
cordially invited.
Deputy United States Revenue
Collector Hall has postponed the
sale of the DistilIery property,
which was to have taken place to-
day, until Thursday, December
goth, at the same hour and place.
The Fig Alley tom eats held a
Consti- -tooth-aud. nail convention
last night. After cons idering the
female suffrage ella ws of civil rights
iu com mittee of the hole, they rose,
reported progress, and scat-tered.-
Press.
The Courts and other county
offices will be closed to day. The
P1stolfice and Wells, Fargo s. CO..
express office will be open at tbs
same hours as OH Sunday-the for
mer from 8 to 4 and the latter from
II to 8.
Joe Breson, of the Palace Saloon
who received couple of beavers
tails from Arizona ye-turday, gives
notice in our New To-Day that ht
will serve them up in soup for his
Thanksgiving lunch, from IL A. NJ.
to ! P. NJ. to-day.
Mr.. Mcdonnell, agent for the Pa
cidc Coast for the eth edition OF the
Encyclopedias Britanica, and othe
valuable works, Is visiting Los Al
geles and may be found at th'
White House, Commercial auC
Los Angeles streets, for one week
Mr.. G. Wiley Wells, Of the Law
tirm of Brunson & Wells, of thi
city, has gone to Washington, d
c., to testify Ia the investigation
of the charges against George f
Seward, present United State
Minister and former Consul. .Gener
al to China.
Three tramps were found sleep
ing In the Workingmen's Laundr.
on Requena street, about !
O'clock last night, and brought t
the lock up to await exam inatiol
before Judge Peel on Friday, b.
which they are assured of thre
square meals on Thanasgivin
Day.
San Bernardino's poet" -"iariat
was immersed in water-trough o
. Tuesday evening last, in order thu
: he might learn that i. Is not jui
! right for him to call people har
0 names. A local moralist observe
\ that this Is reveIgeful world, an
I when a person consigns his fellow
creatures to the Internal region
they object, and he must be pr,
pared to pay the penalty.
Says the Riverside Press: q
gentleman who has been prospec
ing near Temescal showed us piec,
: of coal which he had dug out of IL
range this side Of the ridge. I'll
3 coal was of a peculiar color-bluisl
black, like stove-pollsh mixed viii
milk, but he informed us that
burned freely, leaving a white as
: He thinks the character of the CO
will change as the vein deepen
II He also found something which a
peared to be EPSON Salts CMagn
sia Sulphasl. The air is full of r
mors OF new finds Of all sorts
9 minerals. Where there's so mu(
smoke there must be fire.
)" In his speech at the Washingtt
Gardens night before last, City A
I. torney Godfrey announced him Sc
as sectionallst of high order
water matters. He thought
4 might safely give q rein to L
feelings, and he played upon t
local prtjudices OF his heare
claiming that they were antaa
nized to thu people of the Easte E
~ portion of the city on the wal
l. question. Now this may ha
made him votes in the direction
=, the Washington Gardens. bat I
49, promulgation Of his sectional 8
= fishness certainly won't help b
ne with the considerable number
4ls Il