Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-10-03
LOCAL BREVITIES.

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Council meets at o'clock this
afternoon.
A competent woman advertises
in our New To-Day for situation
as cook.
Mr.. A. II. Susskind returned by
yesterdays overa nd train from San
Fra ancisco.
A. Guy Smith & Co., OF Ana
helm, says the Gazette, ship a car
load OF grain every day.
A lady who speaks several lam
guapes advertises in this mornings 9
HERALD for u situation Ms house.
keeper.
Mr.. Gabe Allen, who returned
from Lower California few days
ago, we learn, is confined to his
house by illness.
A valuable tract OF well watered
land. near the railroad, five miles
W6SJ Vi 10 OdCtC Cu loi doAC
under New To-Day.
Arrived at Wilmington, Oct. 1st,
schooner Mary Buhne, Paul mas
ter, from San Franc cisco, with
22O, 900 feet Of lumber for II. M.
Newhall.
A large crowd was attracted to
Market street yesterday evening by
the spectacle of four policemen
packing a helplessly drunken man
to the lookup.
A drove of 500 fat cattle, belong.
ing to Mr.. Gabe Allen, passed
through Old San Diego last Friday,
en- route from Lower California to
Los Angeles.
Miss Hammond got back from
San Francisco overland yesterday.
The ladies' of Los Angeles may
shortly expect a rich display of the
latest fancies in millinery.
AngeleiIes at San Francisco ho
tells on the 1st inst: r. F. Alvara-
do, Brooklyn; J. Congreve, Russ
House; J. n. Woods, M. T.. Hodg-
kins, American Exchange.
Special Postal Agent Sharp re-
turned from San Francisco yester
day and will resume the investi-
CATION Of the charges against POST
~, ctar n,rn yoIh harvar fn.1nxy
A San Francisco paper says that
Jasper Babcock. the Republican
nominee for Secretary Of State OF
Nevada, was for several years Sec
retary of the Southern District Ag-
ricultural Society at Los Angeles.
Captain Green, janitor of the
District and County Courts, has
been appointed to fill the same Of
| flee in the Supreme Court. Green,
we have no doubt, will fill the po-
sition with credit to himself and
satisfaction to his employers.
f. G. Mitchell, who stole u ring
off the finger of the late Charley
Trapp when the latter was in the
agony of death, plead guilty in the
County Court yesterday and was
sentenced to States Prison for wv O
years and half.
There was a rumOr in town yes.
terday that Col. J. H. Wood had
jum ped bis Tent Show at San jose
and that the combination had fall
en- to pieces. How much of truth
| there is in the rumor We are not
prepared to say.
A gentleman of Manchester,
England, is carrying on a negotia-
ton for the purcha ase of ranch In
Los Angeles county. He proposes
to bring over a colony of fifty per-
sons, each of whom is to contribute
a thousand pounds to a common
fund. This would afford an Oppor-
tunity for second Anaheim on u
colossal scale.
Mrs. Guadalupe Mason, widow
of the late Charles &. Mason, one
of the original owners of the cele.
brated Silver King mine, Arizona,
was yesterday granted letters of
| administration on the estate of her
deceased husband. The very large
surety required - $4,000 - will
give one IN idea of the value of the
property to be administered upon.
In addition to the New Year, the
observance of which closed at sun
down last Sunday, the following
Jewish holidays OCCUR during the
month of October: At sundown on
the night of the 9Th commences the
DAY OF Atonement, ending at sun
down OH the 7th. On the 18th and
| 18th is Sucot; on the 18th, Hoshaa-
nah Kubah; on the 18th, Sheminee
Aseret, and on the goth Simhat
Torab, the raost enjoyable of all
Jewish holidays.
The members of the Philharmon-
| ic Society will have rehearsal at
the Academy rooms on Fort street,
next Monday evening, and 1t is the
wish of conductor Day that every
person who intends to assist at the
Pavilion concert, to be present aud
prepared to go through some very
vigorous rehearsing. AT the re
hearsal last evening the choruses
were very satisfactorily rendered,
and It now only remains to put on
1.-The finishing touches.