Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-09-19


that, for the amount of direct and
personal interest the Express
staff have In babies, they keep up
a wonderful amount of clucking
on the subject. That paper has
started in on another baby carriage
crusade, just as though somebody
thereabouts expected to have a sort
of Texas Pacific competitive rever.
slopary interest in the dispo sition
of that vehicle. The attempt to
spoliate the bachelors of Los An
geles into furnishing that baby
carriage for the Fair is meeting
with grand success. There was
string of Benedicts as long as the
line at the Postoffice on delayed
mail day pouring into the Express
Office yesterday with contributions.
Amongst the valuable coins do
mated were several brass farthIngs
of King James's day-the very
brass money introduced into Ire
land with the famous wooden
shoes-a great collection of Con-
federate currency of various de-
nominations and 1000 shares of
stock In the Bloodsucker mine, of
the par value of $100, 900 and of the
actual value of $000l. The bache.
lors' fund is accumulating at a rate
which bids fair to result in q per-
feet bonanza. In fact, we can say
of the efforts Of our contemporary
that "the good work goes ly
on.n
The collection committee of the
Horticultural Pavilion were around
soliciting contributions yesterday.
They met with very gratifying sue.
cess. They will go around again
to-day, and our citizens Will doubt
less be ready to meet them cor.
daily. Three thousand dollars are
needed to put the Horticultural
building into a condition which
will admit of holding the next Fair
In 1t. This Fair will BIZ largely
attended from abroad and cannot
fail to benefit our business men,
while the Horticultural Pavilion
will be lasting ornament to our
city. AS an instance of the extent
to which persons from abroad will
come here we may mention that
the committee have an application
for hotel accom- mmodations for from
two to four hundred visitors from
San Bernardino, who propose to
remain here three day ) during Fair
Week.
The editors of the two San Ber-
nardino papers have mutually
agreed to suspend their daily edi-
tions and publish weekl les hereaf-
ter. The Argus gives the follow
Ing sensible reasons for the change:
"Ve have been of the opinion from
the very first that y daily paper,
conducted as 1t shotild be, was an
extravagant luxury for town of
this size, and, indeed, could not be
made to pay sufficiently we'll to
warrant the perplexing and unre-
mltting labors necessary to make
~ . OoLopiCk ouCICoSs w I'LL u
weekly paper we shall expect to de-
vote such care, energy and atten-
ton to 1t as shall make 1t a true ex-
ponent OF the interests Of this To-
cality."
Gas is a matter of absorbing in-
terest of late. An exchange says
that the city Of Poughkeepsie, New
York, has been lighted, for three
years past, with the purest, softest,
and most brilliant gas in the world,
ut a yearly saving of $50,000 to the
consumers. This gas Is pro.
duced under the Gwynne. Har-
ris and Allen Harris patents, the
process using the old-time retorts,
and so being adapted to the exist.
ing coal gas works-the cupoia
having been discarded eight years
ugo rs unsafe and defective in gas
making. We learn that the people
Of this city and Slate will soon Le
offered the benefit OF these i'm
provements.
Mr.. Henry King, of this city,
yesterday received the sad intelli-
gence Of the death of his mother,
Mrs. James King, which occurred
at her home in Kilmcgan parish,
County Down. Ireland. on the 18th
of August last. The old lady had
reached the advanced age of "a
years. Mr.. King and his sister,
Mrs. Matfield, have the sympathy
Of large circle Of friends in their
bereavement.
There was good attendance at
the meeting of the Philharmonic
Society last-evening, and some en-.
ergetic rehearsing was done. in
preparation f,r the Pavilion Con-
cert. The management desire that
each member OF the Society be
present at the meeting on Wednes-
day evening next, together with
all Others who are interested in
musical matters and will assist at
the concert.
Arrived at Wilmington, Scptem-
ber 18th, schooner Hannah Madi-
son, Rasmussen, maeter, from San
Francisco, with $500 railroad ties
for the Western Development
Company; schooner Eclipse, Ches.
ter, master, from Eureka, with
100000 feet of lumber for J. M.
Griffith & Co. Sailed, brig +. w.
Lucas, Wentworth, master, for
Port Gamble.
The sale and renting of seats in
the Synagogue will commence in
the basement of the Synagogue on
Sunday, September 22d. Mr.. I.
Goldsmith, Secretary, can be found
at the plumbing establishment of
Messrs. Manning q McMenomy,