Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-22
LOCAL RREVITIES
Our farmers to the weather clerk
"Dry up"

"Dry up"
The steamer Senator Is due from
San Francisco this morning.
Mr.. Bliss reports q further rain.
fall of SO, bringing the total to
noon yesterday up to 24.50 inches.
What has become of that prom
lsed visit of Senator Farley? Has
1t been deferred to the "swert by
and by?"
General Banning aud Judge
Brunson were among tho passen-
gers who arrived overland from
San Francisco yesterday.
The original Blondes aud Bru-
nettes, Pink Stockings and White
Garter MiDstrels, at Woods Opera
House tonight.
Commodore Haines, of the West.
ern Union Telegraph, who came in
from Cotton yesterday, reports th @
mountains back of San Bernardino
as covered with snow.
Angeleiios at San Francisco no.
tells on Sunday: H. T. Hazard, Pal
ace; N. G.. Ritchey, American Ex-
change; M. Milake and wife, l. S.
Northrop and wife, The Baldwin.
The Republican Central Com
mittee of San Bernardino county
have called q mass meeting for next
Saturday to nominate candidates
for delegates to the Constitutional
Convention.
We have received the speed pro-
gramme of the Santa Clara Valley
Agricultural Society for tho 10th
annual exhibition,t to be held at San
Jose, Sept. 30th to Oct. 5th, 1878,
inclusive; purses $4,000 coin.
Mr.. II. Burdick, who has been at
San francisco in attendance at the
meeting of the Grand Lodge and
Grand Encampment 1. 0. o. f.,
returned overland yesterday. Mr..
Burdick has been re elected Dis
trict Deputy Grand Master for this
district.
United States Commissioner
Whiting was engaged yesterday in
hearing the case of the six sailors
OF the bark Frank Austin, charged
with INSTRUMENTATION. The inves-
legation was continued until .
O'Clock to-day.
Cinnabar, tin, coal and gold and
silver mines are said to exist in
Los Angeles county, as well as un-
deposits of petroleum.
What with these and our wines,
branhies and oranges,it is high time
we were beginning to get rich.
DR.. c. L. Heinzeman has been
for years preparing a collection of
the horned toads and tarantulas of
Southern California. He has con-
signed them TO the American de-
partinent Of the Paris Exposition,
where they will doubtless attract
much attention.
Col. Wood Informs US that he
has rendered Messrs. Cogill and
Cooper, OF the late Blondes and
troupe, a benefit to take
place at the Opera House tonight.
The beDeiciaries stand high in
their Profession and we trust the
hnnREt hn 20 MI nl
AT the meeting on the sand lots
at San francisco, on Sunday, Den.
mis- Kearney read dispatch from
r. ID. Pitt, Secretary of the Work.
lpgmen's Club of Los Angeles, re-
pudiating the delegates who mis-
represented the Club by associating
with the Rooney-Knight Con-
A gentleman who came in from
the San Fernando valley yesterday
informs lis that, thus far, the crops
have not suffered from the excess
sive rain but, on the contrary, pre-
sent most vigorous appearance
and give promise of prodigious
yield.
The non partizan Convention
meets at Sacramento to-day to
candidates from the sew.
eral Congressional districts to rep
resent the State at large in the
Constitutional Convention. If the
other counties of this district have
not taken greater interest in the
matter than Los Angeles, the 4th
district will be SHINY represented.
We were shown yesterday the
record of an ancient suit in one of
the courts of Los Angeles county,
in which the action was brought to
recover on promissory note, the
conditions of which were that, on
failure of payment at maturity, the
note should bear interest at the rate
Of twelve and a half per cent. per
day until paid. And yet people growl
nowadays at being compelled to
pay from one and q half TO two per
cent. per month.
On Sunday last, as the Rev. Mr..
Bollinger and another gentleman
were driving in buggy in the
southern suburbs of the city,
number Of drunken men on horse
back ran into them, frightening
their horse and overturnlIg the
vehicle. Mr.. Bollinger and his
friend escaped injury but the buggy
was wrecked aud the horse badly
hurt. " ll-l lhu Eerp ltfhled
The outrage claimed That the aocl.
defi VAS unavoidable aa they were