Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-07-23
Madame Helen P. Blavatsky was

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given citizens papers by Judge
Larremore yesterday. So says the
New York Sun Of July 9th. Mad
anne Blavatsky is member Of the
Russian nobility, her husband hav-
ing been Governor OF one OF the
Russian provinces. She has trav-
eled over a great portion Of the
world, having devoted herself more
particularly to the com monty un-
visited portions OF India and Asia.
She is popularly known as a spir-
itualist. but while confessing be-
lief in communion with the dead,
she calls herself Buddhist, and
her friends claim that she had inn
parted to her while in East India
and Syria the secrets of the Eastern
wonder-workers, and that she can
and does invoke and command
sprltes that inhabit, but are not of,
the visible werld. For foreigner.
she has remarkable command of
the English language. Her late
work Isis Unveiled" was pro-
nounced by the New York Herald
one of the great works of the GEN.
tury and the Sacramento Record
Union said that it deserved to rank
with the classics. She is at present
Secretary of the Theosophists' So
ciety of New York. Although the
Imagination would picture her as
spiritualized, ETHEREAL sort OF being,
she has been described to us by
personal acQuaintances as of q mas
culine cast Of features, harsh in
manner, and addicted to the use of
tebaccu.
Professor Paul Schumacher, of
the Smithsonian Institute, who
has been engaged for some months
past in investigating the tumuli of
this county and Of the San Gle
monte and Santa Catalina islands,
will leave here on Wednesday to
explore similar deposits of Indian
antiquities between Point BAL and
Point Conception, in Santa Bar
bara county-the only district
which has not been explored for
archaeological remains Ivy the Pro-
fessor between Oregon AMI the
Mexican line. After finishing the
Point Sal district, which will oc-
cupy about six weeks, the Pro-
fessor, who has been engaged in
making explorations on the coast
for several years, will 60 East to
take charge of the government eX-
petition to Peru to explore the in
teresting tumuli with which that
country abounds.
Good Templars' Hall was well
filled yesterday evening by fine
audience Of ladies and gentlemen
to witness the first entertainment
of the Black Diamond Amateur
Minstrel Troupe, composed of the
following performers: G. f. Zulauf,
G. II. Bush, L. w. Stump, s. b.
Dewey, w. Hobbs, VIM. Wallace
and Albert Adams. The young
men did their best to please, and
introduced some local points. AS
1t was first attempt and the
young men are we'll and favorably
known here, the audience were not
disposed to be critical and received
with approval their efforts to
please.
The Bakersfield Courier, in what
was intended as a good natured no.
tice of the operations of L. J. Rose,
of Sunny Slope, by one of our
Bakersfleld excursi onists. mentior-
ed that that gentleman was in the
habit of manufacturing 5000 gal
Ions of wine year. Make it at
least thirty times 5000, brethren of
Bakersfield, and then you will be
near the facts. Waving this mis-.
apprehension, the excursionists
speak we'll of their experiences in
Los Angeles, with the single ex-
ception of the base ball match.
They regard our local base-ballists
as having been lacking in courtesy
to the visiting interior club.
The Messrs. J. A. Domingo &
Co., determined that the attract.
ions OF their Opera House shall not
be eclipsed by any similar sstab-
lishment on the Coast, have effect.
on q lO~CbkdsCIAChb WtbH fIcu ~
MackIey and Miss Myra Holloway,
who made their temperance to a
crowded audience last night. The
company embraces a range of first
class variety talent rarely met with
outside of the metropolitan centres.
The outlay of the management is
consequently large and they
should meet with a liberal patron
age.
Yesterday Col. James Thompson
succeeded Mr.. Carpenter as Jailor.
Col. Thompson is personally a
splendid man and, as q Democrat,
he is a whole host In himself. He
is worth battalions to the party.
Outside of the qualities that guar
antee that he will make an efll-
cient official, he is q whole -souled,
gentleman-one of the olden time.
Sheriff Mitchell could not have
made a better appointment.
Says the San Bernardino Times;
"a project is on foot, and being
rapidly pushed ahead by Judge
Frazee. looking to the re-
opening OF the Hoicomb valley
gold mines by our citizens. The
Judge has already organized COM
pany for the purpose of prospecting
these mines, and he intends to see
whether they shall longer remain
idle for want of energy and capi.
tai. If there is gold there it is to BIZ
produced"
We direct the attention of turf
men to the grand field day adver-
tised to come off at Agricultural
Park August 1st. Should all the
trotters named enter, and it is alto
gether probable they will, it will
be the biggest davis trotting that |