Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-01-31
LOCAL TsIS EVITIEE.

COUNCIL meets In regular session
at 1870 this afternoon.
Mr.. Frank Sabichi returned from
San Francisco by rail yesterday.
Theodore Lynill, ESQ, of Ana
helm, was among the passengers
yesterday, by overland train from
San Francisco.
Up to 8 O'Clock yesterday after.
noon Mr.. Bliss's pluviometer regis
tered 20 of an inch of rainfall since
yesterday morning.
A son of Hon. VIM. M. Evarts,
Secretary of State of the United
States, is now residing, for his
health, at the Sierra Madre Villa.
Los Angeleilos at San Francisco
hotels on the 18th: G. Ducommun,
Lick House; 7. Lynch, Occidental;
p. Seating, G. E. V. Horn, S.
Hughes, Overland House.
a drunk who had just finished a
term of five days in the chain
gang the day before was sent up
for ten days for the same offense by
Judge Peel yesterday.
The Workingmen's Club No. /,
publishes elsewhere a call for a
public meeting, to be held in front
of the City Hall on next Saturday
evening, February I'd.
The picnic of members of the
Unitarian Church, which was to
have come off at the Sierra Madre
Villa yesterday, was postponed on
account of the rain to more suita-
BILE weather.
How the gentle rains do distill
themselves now-a- days! They are
of the quality of mercy which is
not strained, and they slap them
selves down, not kertlunk, but in
the persuasive and insinuating
fashion which is most agreeable to
the Granger soul.
The residence of DR.. d. w. G.
Franklin, in the western part of
the city, was destroyed by fire
about 4 o'clock on Tuesday MORN
ing. The windmill and tank ad.
joining the house were also de-
stroyed. The fire Is supposed to
have caught from a defective fue.
The alfilerillo on the hills back
of the city is already high and
very abundant. The alfilerillo is
an invetsrate drinker, sucking in
the rains with avidity; but then, il
the grass is sort of topper, it regis
tiers n satisfied appetite by won.
derful growth.
The Forest and Stream has an
article confirming at length the
statement that the California
plant called grindelia roJusio
yields cure for poisoning by poi
son ivy. Mix one or two teaspoon.
fuls of the strong fluid extract of
grindelia with a tumbler Of cold or
tepid water, and sponge the part
affected.
q In the County Court yesterday
the two indictments against ]. G
Eastman and e. 8. Parker, fol
misdemeanor and conspiracy il
spiriting away Suits, the principa
witness in the case of this People
VS.. Waller, were set aside on the
technical ground that the Crane
juicy which found the bills wa.
composed of but twenty four jurors
instead Of twenty five, as required
by law. The case will be submit
ted to the next Grand Jury, the de
PENDANTS being held meanwhile
under the bonds already given.
One of the spectators in hay fol
q year of drouth No. 9 is u "Second
Adventist" The second coming
of Christ may be somewhat remote
we rather think it is-but til,
coming of a period to this gentle
mans calculations is not even con
tingent-it is on him now with TIL,
force OF u cataract, with the gen
eral evolution of II sliding glacier
or with the drear suggestiveness OF
the breaking up of a hard winter. HI
has received a lesson so severe tn a.
his will be the last "advent" of ;
Spectator in a curtailsd rainfall il
this section. And great Is the sor
rowing of the individual and un
limited the rejoicing of tn,
masses in consequence. Catas
trophies may take an entirely diff
ferent shape from that anticipated
One of our leading merchants
some time ago, concluded con
tract for his corn with a gentleman
who resides near Downey. We ar
sorry to say that the barter wa
made Oh Sunday, and that til
owner of the corn breaches oc
casional.y. After the terms ha
been agreed upon, the vendor
thinking that corn was on tn
rise, obliterated the transaction
thusly: ooh, this is Sunday an
the bargain won't stand in law.
GAN right,u said the merchant
We are sorry to say, for the infol
nation of Sunday school teacher,
that corn, next day, dropped fiv
cents a bushel and has never sine
regained the price agreed upon o
that fateful dies NON In law