Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-04
LOCAL ES.
The Summer IS fairly upon us.


San Francisco to-day.
A chambermaid is advertised for
in this mornings HERALD.
Mr.. L. J. Rose returned from San
Francisco overland yesterday.
The Board of Education meets at
the Commercial Bank at o'clock
this evening.
F. Thompson of this city was
registered at the Russ House, San
Francisco on the I'd inst.
The Democratic County Central
Committee meet in the Supervis-
or's room at O'Clock p. M. to. day.
Services of the Unitarian Church
will hereafter be held in Union
Hall, instead of in the German
church.
A house of six rooms and bath
room, one block from the Post
office, is offered for rent in our New
To-Day.
The thermometer yesterday reg
istered 96e at Yuma and at Dos Pal
mas on the Colorado desert, it ran
up to 1899.
The attention of persons wishing
to procure good milch cows Is di-
rected to the advertisement of w.
H. Northcraft in our New To Day.
Arrived at Wilmington, schooner
John Hancock, Reel, master, from
Eureka, with 1870, 900 feet oflumber
for A. Guy Smith & Co., of Ana.
helm.
Major Hancock, of the Brea
Rancho, is shipping n cargo of 300
tons of asphaltum to San Francisco,
The schooner is being loadei at
Santa Monica.
One of Harpers Half Hour Sc.
rles, "Georgie's Wooer," novel
ette by Mrs. Leith Adams. lies on
our desk, through the courtesy of
Louis levin & Co.
Mr.. Hoff, of the Capital store,
leaves to-day for San Francisco to
lay in full stock of the newest
styles of dry goods and gentlemen's
and boys clothing.
The San Francisco Stock Board
adjourned yesterday evening Till
Monday, in order to give the men,
bers an opportunity to attend the
funeral of the late w. s. O'Brien,
which takes place this morning.
The three Chinamen, charged
with assaulting officer Ketler at
their wash house on Wednesday
last, were fined $50 each by Judge
Peel yesterday. The case has been
appealed to the County Court.
We learn from Mr.. McCaffery,
telegraph operator at the depot,
that a fisherman named Martin
SweetZer fell out of his boat at
Wilmington yesterday afternoon
and was drowned. No further par
ticulars.
Professor Cunning, the eminent
Geologist and lecturer, has arrived
in the city and will deliver a course
of six illustrated lectures on geol-
ogy at Union Hall, commencing on
Monday evening May 9th, and "
cry evening during the week.
Messrs. Gilman and Camille, OF
the United States barber shops and
bath houses, give notice in this
mornings HERALD of q dissolution
of partnership. Mr.. Gilman will
retain the barber shop on Main
street and Mr.. Camille the bath
house and shop on Requena street.
Jesus Lopez, examined before
Judge Peel yesterday on the charge
of grand larceny, was discharged,
the evidence not being sufficient to
warrant his detention. Two drunks
were sent up for twenty and
five days respectively and one com.
plant of nuisance was dismissed
on account of insufficient evidence
The rattle of the diamond set
which has been on exhibition al
Preuss's drug store, has been in
definitely postponed. Purchasers
of tickets are notified that theil
money will be refunded to them on
presenting the tickets to the per
con from whom they were pur
chased.
We are indebted to Louis Levin
& Co. for the "History of Crime,
containing the testimony of an
eyewitness to the infamies of tn,
coup.d'etat, said eyewitness beinl
no less q man than Victor Hugo
The work is IN paper, in two parts
at twenty-five cents each, is pub
lished by Harper & Brothers, il
entrancingly interesting and shoul,
be extensively read.
We were presented yesterday by
Mr.. Iyster, who resides on tn,
"lieu lands" near the Salt Works
with some sheaves of beardless bar
ley. One of them was over fou
feet in height, but the interesting
feature Is that this barley will
yield between sixty and seventy
bushels to the acre, largely dis
counting the ordinary barley botf
in yield and quality.