Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-02-06
LOCAL I3REVITIES.


Mr.. s. w. Craigue starts OH q
business trip for Yuma to- day.
The Unitarian picnic to the
Sierra Madre Villa takes place
to-day, weather permitting.
A bar of Ivanpah silver, valued
at $1,700, was displayed on the
counter of the Commercial Bank
yesterday.
The old band of Woods Opera
House welcomed Col. Wood back
to Los Angeles by a serenaie at
the Saint Charles Hotel last night.
A man of large experience in the
bee business advertises for q situa
ton elsewhere in this mornings
HERALD.
Six box cars filled with live hogs
from the southern end of the coun.
ty went up TO San Francisco fro m
Los Angeles yesterday.
Last Sunday quite a number OF
the visitors to Santa Monica went
In bathing and they pronounced
the sensation simply a glorious
one.
The people OF Los Angeles are
prepared to welcome cheap fares
from whatever quarter they may
come. They are the paramount
need of the hour.
Angelo iios at San Francisco ho-
tells on the 4th inst: A. Walton,
International; Mrs. F. w. San
derer, Overland House; j. de Barth
Shorb, Palace.
One farmer in the southern por.
ton of Los Angeles county claims
to have netted 81 As hundred
from his corn this year. This is
about IS cents q bushel.
The United States observer re-
ports 20-l0Oths rainfall for Monday
evening aud Mr.. Bliss &C. 10Oths, q
difference of G.100ths in favor of t he
pluviometer located on the ground.
Major Hancock tells us that a
large area of lam! has been sowed
to grain near the Brea ranch, in.
Guiding some fifteen hundred acres
of barley belonging to Mr.. Nadeau.
The San Francisco train did not
arrive till about half-past five yes
terday evening. The detention
was caused by slight washout
near Tulare, we believe.
Mr.. Beaudry's Park ON the hill
now rejoices in splendid gray fox
from the mountains. His tail is a
sight worth climbing the height to
see.
Teal ducks, fat and Juicy, are one
of the daily delicacies at breakfast
in the Los Angeles hotels. They
are notably delicious just now,
owing, doubtless, to the general
fairness of the land engendered by
the rains.
The attention of persons desiring
to invest in eligibly located villa
lots or farms adjoining Anaheim is
directed to the advertisement of
Mr.. G. S. Miles, Which appears
elsewhere in this mornings
HERALD.
From n list of postal changes pub
lished in the San Francisco Post oil
Monday evening, we learn that
Henry Wrobloff has been appoint.
ed Postmaster at Florence, this
county, and NJ. B. Roice at Santa
Monica.
We learn from tho Yuma SENT.
mel, of the I'd inst, that U. s. Pay
master Nelson Is to be stationed at
Los Angeles as soon as he gets back
here from paying the troops at
Mohave. He always was fond Of
oranges. We are sorry to lose
him.
The last rain here stopped at
twenty-six hundredths. Accord.
ing to the San Francisco Chronicle
oracle we are to have light rains in
February and heavy ones in March.
We shall see what we shall see.
We adhere to our prediction that
we shall have at least one heavy
rain in February.
Col. Wood tells us that, were 1t
not for the cheap fares which are
drawing Eastern people to Oregon,
the immigration to Los Angeles
would be quite large. The differ
ence between 81 so for first class
fare to the Web foot State and $25
or more by rail to Los Angeles,
loses us all immense number OF
visitors who would be glad to take
a glimpse at the sunny South and
who, once here, would probably
stay for aye.
Judge w. w. Allen, of Downey
City, yesterday sent out to his
place 1900 fruit trees of the best
varieties to be found in our nurse
ries, consisting of apple, pear,
peach, orange, lemon, lime and in
deed, all the fruits known to this
section. The Judge is determined
that this year of bountiful rains
shall not pass without his realiz'
ing all the benefit to be derived
from 1t. His example is well
worthy Of imitation.