Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-06-16

Father Ubacb, of San Diego, the
gentleman who breaches at the
Roman Catholic Cathedral to-day,
has parish which extends foui
hundred miles below the California
line. If any old Mejicano away
down below the desert, in Lower
California, thinks he is about to
die, lie dispatches paisano post
haste to San Diego for Father
Ubach. This painstaking clergy
man at once hitches up his team
and starts, with rifle in buggy, his
sole dependence for subsistence
being on the game he kills by the
way, for the scene of the death. bed
repentance. The time which
elapses between the sending for
Father Ubach and that gentle
mans arrival, allows for much
more than the "between the stir.
rup and the ground, mercy's
sought and mercy's found" of the
pious Watts.
Charley Thomas, who has just
come iu.o Los Angeles from his
place located eighteen miles due
east of San Jacinto, San Diego
county, Informs us that the late
earthquake came up over the
mountain from the desert and pro-
ceeded in a due west direction for
Los Angeles. Singular to say it
1rst made its presence felt in the
San Diego mountains about nine
o'clock-two hours earlier than it's
advent in Los Angeles-which is
slow travelling for an earthquake,
we should think.
The latest theory Of the earth
quake is that it was an txplosion of
the nitro-glycerine which was en-
ployed TO do the poor dogs of Los
Angeles to death. And yet we
were all foolish enough to refer to
an emotion OF nature this murder
most foul of an inoff.nsive canine
colony. The whole episode was q
dog-goned rough one, and the
poor dogs stood no. upon the order
of their going but went at once,
with, per consequence, the "shake"
aforesaid.
VIM. Flanagan, of the Flanpi-
gan Troupe, which came down here
on professional trip about two
weeks ago, was up before Judge
Peel ye.lerday afternoon charged
by Mrs. Wagner with having bro.
ken open her bureau drawer and
stealing five dollars. The charge
was not sustained, but Flaunigan
was sent to Jail "a hours for telling
the Judge, in answer to a question,
that it was none of his business.
IfDr. Dawson, of Los Nietos, had
been elected to the Constitutional
Convention that body would have
numbered amongst its members
the tallest man in the State. As
Judge Fawcett will, beyond all
doubt, be elected from Santa Bar
bara, the Convention will still have
a very tall man in its mem bership
tall Intellectually as well as
physically, the general opinion
holds.
A couple of prominent lawyers
had q slight passage at arms yes.
terJay evening in which one had
his face badly scratched and the
other was almost knocked down
flight of stairs. At this juncture
some brothers of the guild inter-
fered and separated the belliger-
ents. We did not learn the cause
of the difficulty.
a preliminary meeting was held
at the armory of the Los Angeles
Guards last night to organize a
Post of the Grand Army of the Re-
public. Twenty. seven members
signed the rolls, but the permanent
organization and election of off,
GERS was deferred until the arrival
of some officer competent to prop
erly organize the Post.
Mrs. Emily Pitt Stevens, Super
intendent of State Temples, has
engagements as follows for the
week commencing to-day: Santa
Monica, Sunday; Downey, Mon
day and Tuesday; Wilmington,
Wednesday aud Thursday; Los
Angeles, Friday; Compton, Satur-
day and Sunday.
The performance of the Proteans
Fred. j. Mackley, Miss Myra
Hollowayand Charles Mccarthy
at the picnic of the Workingmen,
which will take place at the City
Gardens to-day, will commence at
8 o'clock p. NJ. The street cars of
the San Pedro street line will run
to the Gardens to IL O'clock, mid
night.
We have never been able to ur.
derstand how it is that a woman,
who is apparently deaf when her
husband asks her where that half
dollar is lie left in his pantaloons
pocket before going to bed, can hear
the wall of her two. weeks-o old baby
down two flights of stairs and
through three deal doors.
The Cotton Semi 7ropic com.
plains because the Santa Barbara
Press locates Riverside in Los An.
geles county. Really, we next ex-
pect to see the Press display an
Ignorance of the fact that Cotton
Is the business, intellectual and
geographical center of the United
States.
Piping made at Santa Monica
from the admirable red clay of that
is coming into univer-