Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-15
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Mr.. G. Ducommun got back from
San Francisco by yesterdays oyer.
land train.
John O'Leary, u native OF Ire-
land, was yesterday admitted to
citizenship in the County Court.
Pure milk 5 cents per quart;
bread and milk 10 cents; coffee and
doughnuts 10 cents, at the Milk De-
pot, Temple street.
Mr.. VIM. J. Neely, Secretary Of
the Los Angeles Oil Company,
leaves to-day for the oil wells in
the Sespe district.
Fourteen of the tramps confined
IN the Jail petitioned Council yes.
teriay for means TO go to Yuma to
work on the railroad.
By notice elsewhere it will be
seen that the firm of Moody & Bost-
wick has been dissolved by mutual
consent. The business will be con-
tinued by A. Fl. Moody.
Tho announcement of B. l.. Peel,
City Judge, as candidate for
Mayor at the approaching munich
pal election, appears elsewhere in
this mornings HERALD.
Los Angeles people registered at
San Francisco hotels on the 18th:
Mrs. G. W. Rawlings, Cosmopoli-
tan; j. Carey, international; w.
Gift, Russ House.
CJuncilmen, like ordinary men,
are subjec. to the ordinary casual
ties of daily life. Vide the accident
to our esteemed fellow citizen
Councilman Green.
Don't forget the meeting of the
stockholders of the Home Indus
trlai Aid Association, at the Coun-
ty Court room this evening, at 7
O'Clock. AS this Is public insti-
tuition, the public is cordially in
vited to be present.
The dryer of the Home Indus
trial Aid Association is now in
their factory on Commercial street,
and is being put in place by Mr..
Butts, the inventor and patentee.
The public are invited to go and
see 1t.
Mr.. James T. Murphy, Bank
Commissioner, has arrived in Los
Angeles and will complete his Of
hciat examination of the condition
of the banks of this city, after
which he will Investigate the other
banks OF this section of the State.
Mr.. II. II. Hewitt, WHO, for the
past two years, has been engaged
as a o0mpositor on the HERALD,
terest of the stock of the Republican
and will hereafter, we learn, have
sole control Of that Journal. We
heartily wish him success.
About noon yesterday Council
man E. X. Green was thrown from
load of lumber, while driving on
First street, and sustained frac-
ture Of his right arm at the elbow.
He succeeded in stopping his team
by hanging to the lines, but in so
/. doing narrowly escaped more seri-
Gus injury.
Night before last, while Mr..
I Rorick's buggy was hitched oppo-
site the Postoffice, sons petty thief
took a blanket from the horse aud
u good overcoat, which was depos-
tied beneath the seat. 1t Is only
about week ago that Mr.. Rorick
recovered u saddle which had been
stolen from his stable.
There will be union meeting at
Trinity NJ. E. Church South
, this evening, at O'clock, for
he purpose of organizing Sum
day-school normal class in the
city. Rev. DR.. Gregory will address
the meeting. All persons interest
ed in the Sunday-school work are
invited to be present, particularly
Sunday-school Supcrintendents and
teachers.
Mayor MacDougall, we regret to
y learn, is lying dangerously i'll at
his residence on San Pedro street.
. HI attended the Peoples meeting
In the Fourth Ward on Wednesday
3 evening, apparently in good health.
At the close of the meeting he re-
turn>d to his home, where he was
attacked by dizziness and at once
. retired to bed, where he has re-
: manned in very low condition
ever since.
f Our old friend Josh Talbot, OF
Monumental mine fame, is lineal
descendant Of the Talbot who
q fooled around In France in Joan of
Arcs time, and who assisted to
2 burn that manly virgin. Josh's
n great-great-grandfather was cousin
|s German to Lord Baltimore, and
4 the two between them hatched up
the plot which resulted in the ter
rapin's getting such a strong hold
on the merry Marylanders. Josh
is the oldest printer In the United
X states, having set type on the first
number of Ben Franklin's Pool
Richards Almanac. Benign ole
man! May he, in the language o.
the polite Turkish salutatlon, "livt
\ q thousand years"