Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-03-27
THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY.
A Dash Through Charming section-Expo-
psditious SHINING of Hog - The
Sierra Madre Vill.-The Indiana Col
ony

ony.
Sunday, Notwithstanding the
threatening weather, we treated
ourselves to u dash through the San
Gabriel valley. We made detour
towards Savannah, to look at the
three hundred and twenty acre
farm recently purchased by our
friend Mr.. ]. b. Lang. We found
it as pretty piece of level land as
mortal could desire, aligning the
property of Hon. Asa Ellis OH the
one side and Gen. Volney E. How
ard on the other. Water every
where In that section can be OBJ
tanned at depths ranging from forty
to fifty feet.
1t is needless 10 say that the San
Gabriel valley, at this season OF
the year, and in such a year as this,
is a miracle of natural beauty. The
lush grasses are woven into the gay
pattern of Brussels carpet by
innumerable wild.flswers.
THE CELESTIAL AS A HOG
BUTCHER.
The only new thing we remarked
about the superb orange avenue of
Mr.. l.. J. Rose was that that gen.
tleman has entirely denuded a
mber of his trees Of their foliage,
outer bark aud surplus limbs, in
order to admit of their being
washed with II preparation which
kills the scale bug. The trees will
be lovelier than ever In little
while, this process acting not only
as an eXterminator of the scale
bug, but rs general invigorator, be-
sides.
Having taken look at Mr..
Roses mammoth wine cellars, our
attention was next attracted to a
gang of Cinnamon, who were kill
ing a hog. They had the poor
beasts legs tied and about twenty
Celestials were distributed about
him, some having hold of his tail,
others jamming their fingers
in his eyes, ETC., etc. There was
certainly man to every muscle in
the pigs body. They didn't even
allow the wretched creature the
pitiable relief Of squealing in his
death agony, having showed u gag
into his mouth as q preliminary to
IA i, h,,toharxy vi lar ri !,
severed his jugalar vein, a score of
Chinsmen put themselves in mo-
ton with clippers full of scalding
hot water, which they poured on
the creatures carcass, and that
wIetched pig must certainly have
been skinned, to the tip of his tail,
before the breath had half left his
body. The operation was neither
as rapid nor IA artistic as the ma
nipulations of q Chicago pork
packing house, but It was quite as
brutal. We should not omit to
mention that the hogs blood was
caught up in pan, doubtless to be
served up in the shape of Celestial
blood pudding.
L II T. 81 L hltEk M "A ~ u 1ILtCOSF
INCIDENT.
We found the old enchanting
view at the Sierra MadreVilla. The
whole valley is one mass of verdure
from Baldwln's Santa Anita ranch
to the farthest boundary of the
San Pasqual. The day was not to
be without incidents. In this ar
lists home in the foothills of the
Sierra Madre Villa the very hos
tiers have caught the artistic i'm.
pulse. An aristocratic Eastern
guest having quarreled with a
stable boy, the latter, who wore q
very heavy silver ring, with n
large metal knob on it, proceeded
to ornament his Eastern visitors
face with n series of intagliOs
which would have done honor to
an Italian virtuoso. He cut up
that Eastern face until its owner
looked as if he had passed through
a threshing machine. Not long,
however, did his efforts remain in
taglios. The swelling flesh soon
forced its way up and asserted itself
as Of the cameo order. Certainly,
when we had our last look at him,
that Eastern gentleman looked like
the breaking up of hard winter.
THE INDIANA COLONY.
After leaving the Indiana Colony
our course for part of the way lay
through the Lake Vineyard tract
to the Indiana Colony. Our adj
miration for this splendid settle.
ment rises every time we see it.
We have nowhere beheld exquisite
homes created in such a marvel
ously short time as there. The
crops of grain are something to as
tonish the Easterner, but the cereal
exhibit is nothing to the succession
of thrifty orange and lemon
orchards which abound on every
hand. The floral displays are some
thing rare. The churches are taste
full and even costly. The private
resi- dences are such as to excite O
pang of envy in the breast of the
HON eless wanderer. An air of ex-
act and painstakiug neatness per-
vades the whole region. The col
ony as whole is at once beautiful
and prosperous looking, and 1t is a
complete volume of replies to the
inquiring settler of some means
who desires to know whether or no