Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-01-17

|
which appear In our advertising
columns this morning. The
Farmers and Merchants Bank,
under the able Presidency of Mr.. I.
w. Hellman, maintains its status
as one of the most reliable finan-
cial institutions OH the Pacific
Coast. Mr.. Hellman, in his long
residence in Los Angeles, has dem
onstrated himself to be sagacious
and conservative financier, and his
careful and successful management
has eXacted wide spread recogni-
ton. The Los Angeles County
Bank, under the superintendence
of Mr.. Slauson, has grown to a sta
ton of recognized usefulness and
stability. Its projectors were per-
fectly warranted in assuming that
a Savings Bank would fill void
hereabouts, and the niche is admir-
ably graced by the County Bank.
The Commercial Bank, the young
est of the three, under the skillful
management of Mr.. M. S. Patrick,
its President, and Mr.. e. Il.
Spence, its Cashier, has won gold
ell opinions ever since its estab-
lishment in our midst. Its man
agement has been energetic and
highly successful. We invite our
readers to peruse the statements
published elsewhere, and we haz-
ard nothing in asserting that the
status of the Los Angeles banks is
a most enviable one.
The city authorities have tax en-
vigilently in hand the case of
porter on tie Southern Pacific
Railway, who arrived in Los An
geles day before yesterday, and
who was found, by City Health
Officer Gale to be suffering from u
mild form of smallpox. He was
rigldly quarantined during his stay
In the city proper; and, as soon as
the necessary arrangements could
be made, he was sent to tho Pest
House, where he is now receiving
suitable attention. The Health Of
ficer is intent in seeing to it that
our people incur no danger of in
fiction. The car in which the
porter was confined was thoroughly
fumigated and disinfected on the
removal of the invalid. In this
connection, it is proper that we
should say that we were assured by
a leading physician, the other day,
that Los Angeles has never been,
in his memory, so healthy as dur
ing the past two months. Disease
of every kind has been compare
lively unknown here.
Some time ago we told the story
OF an old woman who robbed Judge
OMelveny's kitchen, and who,
during her second errand to the
Judges domain, TO increase her
plumber, became insensibly drunk,
and was so found by the Judge OH
his return from visit to a neigh
Dor. The same old "gap yester-
day entered the house of promi-
nent physician; and, finding that
gentleman's dinner set out all
ready for consumption, deliberately
packed some OF the viands into two
tureens and started off with the
grub. AS she left she was perceived
by the physicians wife, who re-
claimed the spoils. The venerable
larcenist offered to compromise by
paying "two bits" but was dis
missed "without money and with
out price," with an admonition to
mend her ways.
We were informed, by a specta-
tor, that the spectacle at Santa
MoEica, day before yesterday, dur
ing the gale, was sublime in the
extreme. The waves were of great
height. The sea broke away out at
the buoys and came roaring to-
wards the shore in long rollers.
The beach was almost unrecogniz-
able. When we state that the
waves reached clear up to the new
bath house, leaving the porches
covered with sand, the water rising
q foot above some beds that were
stored therein. some idea may be
formed of the violence of the
storm. The oldest inhabitant has
seen nothing like it.
1t is reported that rather novel
ceremony was performed on the
ocean off Newport Landing on Sum
day last. 1t appears that Robert
Wardlow and Martha Draper, who
are both under age, were anxious
to get married. but, being too
you ng to get the necessary license,
Wardlow procured boat at New
port and, embarking the willing
bride and minister, put to sea,
where, after Neptune's domain had
been reached, marine league
from the shore, the knot was as
we'll tied as though all the forms,
for such cases made and provided,
had been complied with.
Mr.. r.. II. Hewitt, one of the
HERALD compositors, who lives on
Banning street, informs us that
while on his way home about
o'clock yesterday morning, he had
his attention attracted by the roar
of rushing waters and that, on going
to the Los Angeles river, he found
that stream running bank full,
with q noise resembling the break
ing of surf. This will account for
the surf-like roar heard by gen.
tleman and noted elsewhere.
In the case of w. j. l.. Mouluon,
of the Santa Mon
ica Railroad, tried before Judge
Baldwin yesterday for malicious
in tearing down bridge
over the railroad at Santa Monica,
the jury returned a verdict of