Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-02-05

new school districts OF Diamond
Delhi and Willow. Action post
poned till Wednesday, Feb. 9th.
Adjourned till 10 A. NJ. Tuesday
About O'Clock last evening con
siderable curiosity was excited by
a man marching along the street
armed with a shotgun, driving
three youths in front of him and
followed by large crowd ofpeople
After delivering his prisoners al
the Jail the man gave his name as
Henry Helms and stated to Mr..
L. E. Rowan that, late in the
evening, his attention had been at
tracted by the suspicious appear
ance and movements of the boys
and, as number Of chicken yards
had been robbed and other petty
thefts committed on the East side
lately, lie concluded to watch
them. Aiming himself with q
shotgun he followed and soon sa "
them enter sugar cane patch al
the other end OF the railroad bridge
and commence to cut cane. He or.
dered them to desist when the boys,
who were each armed with long
knife, started towards him. He
then drew up his gun and told them
to drop their knives and throw up
their hands, which they did and he
sent Chinaman to pick the
weapons up. The boys were then
marched to the lookup to await
hearing before Judge Peel this
morning.
On Saturday evening the atten-
ton Of the inmates of Moore's
Lodging house was attracted by
cries of distress coming from a
room occupied by stranger. appa.
rently an freshman, who stated
that he had swallowed twenty-five
cents worth of strychnine and that
he had taken the fatal dose in con-
sequence of the loss of $1,000 in
stock speculations. DR.. Richard
son was summoned and did all he
could to counterfeit the poison, but
without avail, as the man died at
o'clock on Sunday morning. The
remains were taken to Neitzeke,
Decamp e. Co.'S warerooms, where
an inquest was held and a verdict
rendered in accordance with the
above facts. The corpse was kept
at Neitze, Decamp 81 Co.'S till yes
terday for Identification and then
transferred to the Dead House in
the Cemetery. AS yet nothing has
been learned of the previous his
tory or name of the deceased.
An impudent individual, who
signs himself "Granger," has a
communication in yesterdays's Er-
press which he concludes by the
command, "all papers not owned
by the monopoly please copy"
We are not owned by the monop-
oily, nor yet by" Granger" who is
doubtless some cheap Texas Pacific
emissary, and we decline to copy
his trash. What Olympian thun-
ders shall we hear next? Fee, 70,
fl, fun. The cheek of this fellow
Granger, to say nothing of his Inn
pertinence, is rather refreshing to
those who pay for type setting.
The sooner such consummate
frauds learn little common sense
the better for themselves. The
community and newspaper men
can afford to laugh at their folly,
but they must prove a burden to
themselves packing around such
! an unlimited amount of sheer
conceit.
Judge Peel had quite u field day
yesterdy, no less than fifteen cases
having appeared at his levee, as
follows: Five DRINKS, three Of
whom paid S. each, one $40 and
one discharged; four vagabonds
three discharged, and one sent up
for five days; two for fighting-one
paid $40 and the other discharged;
one battery case, fined $40; one dis
turber of the peace got five days In
the chain gang; one grand larceny
WAS held in $500 to appear before
the Grand Jury.
We now learn that the discovery
of gold i'm the neighborhood O
Santa Monica was made by gen
tleman connected with the United
States Coast Survey. He showed
us yesterday % specimen Of thu
gold. 1t was o wash nugget o.
small size. The discoversr say
that gold exists In paying quaint
ties in the spot from which he tool
his specimen.
Mr.. Dana G. Pearson is bacl
from San Diego and yesterda,
went to take r. survey of Anahe elm
Santa Ana aud the southern sec
ton of the county generally. Hi:
impressions will be duly reed LEI
in the columns of the Resourci O.
, California.
They have begun to plant fla!
, in Los Angeles county, and one O
our leading merchants informs u
that there was considerable de
mand for the seed. He was unabl
to supply it, but the probability
: that 1t was obtained from above.
Mr.. G. w. Jones informs us tina
, the oil outlook at the Sespe is mos
} promising. They were to hav
: commenced boring on the Los An
geles claim yester day.