Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-02-01
LOCAL BREVITIES.

vertised for elsewhere in this
mornings HERALD.
Judge Witherby has returned to
Los Angeles from a visit to San
Diego.
Some of the alfllerillo on the hills
back Of the city has already at
tanned height of thirteen inches.
Travel shows some signs of re i.
vival and our hotels note an i'm
proved business in consequence.
1t is at last settled that the
streets are to be lighted. Our peo-
pie will feel blessed relief on
learning this fact.
Mr.. J. A. Scott, the king of Cali
fornia refiners, was in town yester-
day. He tells us that the oil out
look Is most promising.
Mr.. G. 7. Longstreet writes to
the editor Of the Santa Monica
Outlook that he will spend next
winter in the city by the sea.
The Santa Barbara Press has re-
duced its size. In its new dress it
presents . compact and attractive
appearance.
The house No. Is Franklin
street, is offered for rent and the
furniture for sale, in our New To-
Day.
The holder of ticket No. 46 in the
rattle for the shell frame and
worsted wreath is referred to ad-
vertisement under New To-Day.
J. Brousseau, ESQ.,. of Howard,
Brousseau & Howard and District
Attorney Hudson returned from
San Francisco overland yesterday.
A hard finished house of four
rooms is advertised for rent In our
New To- Day" 1t adjoins the M.
e. Church and commands a de-
lightful view.
The promiscuous firing of shoot
ing crackers with which the Chi.
nese usher in their New Years
started lot of runaways on Los
Angeles street yesterday afternoon.
The San Francisco Mail, by all
accounts, is either dead or is about
to die. The city of the Golden
Gate does not seem to be ambitious
OF having an indefinite number of
daily papers.
1t isa fact perhaps not generally
known that the Chinese buy large
of cheap American
whisky yclept "rot-gut," which
they are in the habit of drinking,
with great gusto, out of small cups.
A sometime denizen of Santa
Ana Gays that the way farmers dig
postholes in that section is to plant
sugar beets the required distance
apart one year and pull them out
the next aud the hole is ready for
the post.
The following named Ange.
lef1es were registered at San Fran
cisco hotels Jan. 30th: w. e. Nor
ford, Palace; G. Manson, Overland
House; l.. A. de Cardona, A. Mol
la, International; Mrs. Lee and
Cosmopolitan.
We direct attention to the adver-
tisement of the Empire Meat Mar
ket of the Messrs. Burttiz & Koch,
at the corner Of Rose and First
streets. They are prepared to de-
liver meats in any quarter of the
city.
We encountered Gen. Sanford
yesterday. He informs us that he
has a little barley field of between
two and three hundred acres under
way near Downey. which will
yield handsomely. The farmers
in his neighborheod are putting in
their best " licks."
1t Is n novel expt rience to an
to contemplate field of
grain running up into the thou
sands of acres. Take an Eastern
tourist to the edge of the seven
thousand acre wheat field of the |
Messrs. Lsnkershim g. Van Nuys,
or the three thousand acre barley
field of Mr.. Nadeau, and he draws
his breath. And yet these gentle |
stretches are nothing compared to
some of the great cereal farms of
If the ideas which are becoming
popular in some of the Labor Asso-
Citations, of restricting a man to a |
sized farm, ever get
enacted into law, our
friend Don Juan Forster, of the
Santa Margarita rancho, will be |
relieved of good deal of trouble.
1t has often occurred to us that he
must experience much inconven-
fence in attending to his farm OF
one hundred and sixteen thousand |
acres or so.
Mr.. Julius Lyons, the efficient
short hand reporter of the District |
Court, was yesterday examined by |
Messrs. Ross, Glassell and Dooner
for admission to the bar. Mr..
Lyons was subjected to the most
rigid examination and showed, by
his ready answers, that he is thor
versed in law and compe-
tent to become member of the
learned guild to which he will be
formally admitted to-day. We be-
llsve Mr.. Lyons does not intend at
present to commence the practice
Of his new profession; but, when
he does, we wish him every suc-
cess.