Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-05-30
LOCAL BRIEVITIES.
Decoration Day.

| LOCAL BISIEVLIIES.
Decoration Day.
Council meets this evening.
The pinto convention meets at
San Jose to-day.
Mrs. w. j. Brodricl, arrived
home overland from San Francisco
yesterday.
Mr.. VIM. Piidham returned from
San Francisco by Yesterdays over
land train.
Twenty of the finest looking
young ladies in town, at Woods
Opera House.
Sailed from Wilmington, May
goth, brig Tanner, Ray, master, for
Port Biakely.
Fresh salmon aud shrimps at
Onstotl's market, Spring street,
this afternoon.
The June schedule of the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company appears
elsewhere in this mornings HEN
fALD.
Captain a. II. Wilcox, of San
Diego, passed through the city
yesterday, Ell route to San Fran
cisco.
Uncle Jake Metzker, of Warmers
Ranch, San Diego county, having
finished shearing his sheep, is here
on few days paseo.
Taxpayers should remember that
a penalty of fifty per cent. attach
rs to all unpaid Federal taxes at
close of business on Friday, May
3lst.
Los Angeles people at San Fran
cisco hotels on the 2Sth: Mrs. S.
B. Caswell, l.. J. Rose and wife, II.
II. Brown, Palace; e. E. Grandin,
American Exchange.
The Los Angeles Guards will give
a social at their armory next Sat
urday evening, at which the prizes
won at the recent target match
will be distributed.
The poor man out West whose
wife dealt him triplets the other
day looked at them gloomiIy and
exclaimed: "Three of kind and
nothing in the pot; just my luckn
Ore drunk appeared before Judge
Peel yesterday and was given the
usual option of paying S. or five
days in the chain gang. Being
short of funds he took the latter.
Mr.. Colsen, u blacksmith on AL
iso street, was quite severely hurt
by being jammed between two
wagons while attempting to stop
a runaway team on Tuesday.
G.. S. Allen, the blue-ribbon adj
voeate of temperance, who was
here few weeks ago, is expected
to return next Saturday, and will
commence another series of meet
ings.
We saw the familiar face Of our
friend Col. Albert Johnson on the
streets yesterday. The life of a
ranchero, we should judge, agrees
with him, as he looks the picture
of good health and contentment.
1t is expected that Messrs. J. de
Barth Shorb and Constant Meyer,
both of whom have been at San
Francisco some time, will renre.
sent the Democracy at the San Jose
Convention o-day.
C. Mangin, of the City Foundry,
has obtained the contract for the
f cast iron work on the Hellman &
Mascarel block, now being erected
at the corner OF Main and Com
mercial streets.
The Thirty-Eights have made ar
rangements for street cars on the
Main street line to run until l.
o'clock, midnight, on the occasion
of the Co npany's picnic and bal
at Agricultural Park.
We are indebted to MIR. NeG
Huber for some japanese plum1, a
large supply of which he received
yesterday from the Mission. The
fruit when not too ripe has an acid
flavor which is decidedly pleasan
to the palate.
The Wong Chu Shut case comes
up for trial in the District Cour
f to day. If there is any virtue il
: the old saw-the third times the
) charm-he ought to be cleared, a:
this will be his third trial for the
] murder of 70 Hing.
We learn that caterpillars ART
making sad havoc in the corn fields
in the Santa Ana country. 1t i
! said that with return of sunny
warm weather the caterpillars vii
fall of in numbers. The presen
y moistness is very favorable TO
them.
You can hear "mighty quee
story" and "Miss Maloney or til
Chinese Question:" at Union Hal
= Friday evening, May 3lst. Sever
. oil of our other "foreign friends
4 will also appear In full costumes
2 and music of IL high order will b
furnished. The entertainment wi
be under the auspices of the ladie