Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-08-29

The other day a man named Nc
MILAN presented an army pay GER
tificate for $3.50 at the Commercial
Bank to get it cashed. The CASH
ier advanced 500 and took the cer-
tificate for collection. On Tuesday
the bank received a telegram from
San Francisco that the certificate
was forged. The police were ap.
prised of this fact and yesterday
arrested Mcmillan, whom, mean
while, they had shadowed as a sus-
picious character. A man named
Smith was arrested as an accom-
plice. A number of certificates
similar to the one left at the bank
were found on Mcmillan. Both
men were locked up in Jail and
will be examined before Judge
Peel this morning.
DR.. Bailey, of Santa Ana, yester-
day showed us specimen of the
ravages of new and strange in
sect of the boring species. 1t is
hardly as large as q blue bottle fly,
but its handiwork is creditable in
the extreme. 1t tunnels its way
into the orange bark and wood
with "a deftness which would do
honor to miner after the precious
metals. The Doctor is in hopes
that they have secured the whole
stock of the new insect, which he
has bottled and presented to Mr..
Holt, Of the Horticulturist. But
the probability is that the worms
captur,d by him are but the ovant
cOurriers of more numerous
tribe, and our pomologists would
do we'll to be on the lookout.
We learn from letter from one
of the excursionists, published in
yesterdays Evening cypress, that
General Agent Towne, of the
Southern Pacific Railway, had re.
funded to those of the party who
were unable to procure tickets at
excursion rates, last Friday, $4 and
furnished them with a return tick
ct, at the same time permitting
them to remain at San. Francisco
until Saturday, August 31st. This
is as 1t should be, aud We are glad
to see that the railroad company,
although by the terms of their
contract they were not obliged to
do so, have made this fair concess.
ion to those who missed getting
excursion tickets.
Colonel w. s. Davis, of Orange
thorp, this county, has gone to
West Point, whittier he has been
called to testify in the Fitz John
Porter case. Colonel Davis was
on General Martindale's staff, but
at the time of the unfortunate oc-
currence for which General Porter
has been held accountable, he was
temporarily on that officers staff,
and is familiar with the events
which transpired on the day when
General Longstreet was prepared
to gobble up Porter. 1t is thought
that Colonel Davis's testimony will
go far towards clearing away the
cloud which for so many years has
obscured General Porter's military
fame.
The following items are from the
Santa Ana Herald: Mr.. Nell, a
resident of this place, fell from the
"dump" of the Southern Slope
mine at Silverado last Monday, a
distance of five hundred feet. The
unfortunate mans thigh was
broken, and he was otherwise badly
injured. So says DR.. Burtnett......
Frank Burger, of San Juan, acci-
dentally shot himself through both
hands on Tuesday evening with a
double charge of No. 5 shot. DR..
Burtpett informs us that the left
hand has been amputated, and says
it is very probable that the right
hand will also have to be taken off.
Yesterday morning Louis Will
mot, carpenter IN the employ of
the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany, had his leg broken by being
crushed between q floating and a
standing pile at the Santa Monica
wharf. The log had just been
towed ashore and Wilmot had gone
into the water to fasten a rope
around the the outer end, when the
heavy log was thrown by the surf,
catching his leg between it and
one of the wharf piles with the re-
suit above stated. He received
prompt attention and last evening
was getting along nicely.
A black walnut, imbedded in a
rock taken from the Black Star
coal mine fifty-two feet below the
surface, Is on exhibition at the