Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-04-12
LOCAL BISEVITIES.

| VS. oV $50
The steamer Orizaba is due from
San Francisco to-day.
A girl to do light house work is
advertised for in our New To-D Day.
Mr.. NJ. T.. Jimenez, of San Buena
Ventura, is paying Los Angeles
visit.
Pleasant furnished rooms are adj
vertised for rent in our New To-
Day.
Mr.. A. Mackenzie has bought
himself Il cosy little farm in the
neighborhood of Agricultural Park.
There il telegram at the West
ern Union telegraph office for f.
b. Gethin.
1t is reported that some one with
"more money than brains" has
furnished the necessary funds to
start a new paper at Riverside.
We learn that Mr.. e. S. Parker is
lying very low. He is not expected
to survive. His death would be a
melancholy summary of q series of
family disasters.
Our friend Ned Huber yesterday
received an order for ten boxes of
choice oranges to be shipped to st.
Louis, Chicago, Buffalo and New
York.
In our New To-Day Capt. A. J.
Hutchinson adverti5es u sheep
ranch of seven thousand acres, near
Pomon to let. This affords an
opportunity to some enlerprising
man.
1t is with extreme regret that we
learn that Judge Stephens, of the
County Court, is seriously i'll. We
trust we shall soon be able to an
nounce that he is convalescent.
Meanwhile, the several courts over
which he presides are adjourned
from day to day.
There will be u match game of
base ball at Agricultural Park on
Sunday next, between the Daunt.
less and Pastime clubs for $50 Il
side. 1t is expected to be very
exciting and closely contested
game, the boys of both clubs going
in to win.
King, chain gang regular, who,
the last time he was before Judge
Peel promised to loave the city if
let off that time, was up again
yesterday and was sent to the
chain gang thirty days. An ordin-
airy drunk contributed SIS to the
city's finances.
AS the sun gets fedder and hot
ter Santa Monica is looming up as
a grateful refuge. We think we
sniff the iodine from afar. We en-
countered mine host Johnson, of
the Santa Monica Hotel, in town
yesterday, and he Informs us that
his house is already nearly full.
DIR. w. f. Edgar, of San Cor
gonio, who lately returned from an
extended visit to San Francisco,
informs the San Bernardino Times
that the tide of emigration is turn
ing from Oregon towards Southern
California again, and that we may
look for u fresh influx of population
during the coming year.
When Mr. e. j. Baldwin has
engineered successfully the coming
deal in Justice, he will dot the
Santa Anita ranch with cottages.
At least that is our supposition.
Who, in view of such charming
outcome, shall say that no good
can come out of the mining Naza-
reth?
The Baker block is beginning to
disclose its splendid proportions.
The central and the two flanking
towers are about completed as to
their framework. The conscious.
ness is daily growing upon our
people that no private edifice in
California will eclipse the Baker
piocA ItCClVGu
its finishing touches.
The Italian Benevolent Society
will give their annual picnic at the
Arroyo Seco on Sunday, April
2Sth. The affair will be an en-
phatic success from every stand
point. Its details are in most capa-
| bic hands, and as the fund will be
| devoted to u most meritorious OBJ
ject, every one should be on hand.
Our Italian fellow-citizens know
how to do these things well.
The Methodist Episcopal pastor
of church at Sandlake, N. Y,
surprised his people few Sundays
ago by making this announcement:
"The Board Of Trustees have not
paid my salary, have taken no
notice of my demands, circulated
no subscription paper, nor made
any other effort to fulfil their obli-
cations to me. am badly involved
in debt, and do not propose to con-
tinue preaching for nothing. /
therefore declare this pull pit vacant
until God in his mercy can send
you a minister who can live on air
and wear buckskin brooches of his
own make.p