Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-02-10


of the Board of Directors of the Los
Angeles Free Dlspensary, which
was held yesterday, 1t was resolved
that O course of lectures be given
for the purpose of raising funds to
purchase medicines with. A Com
mittee consisting of G. w. Gibson,
G. II. Dunsmoor and A. w. Potts
was appointed with power to make
all arrangements. We learn from
these gentlemen that it is their in
tention to invite three of our most
prominent, able and eloquent citl-
Zens to deliver one lecture each.
The names of the lecturers will be
made public in Wednesdays HER
AID. There is no doubt but that
course of scholarly, instructive
lectures will be an advantage to
this community in an intellectual
point of view. to say nothing of the
charitable object of this course.
The Free Dispensary on Requena
street is doing, quietly, great
work of charity in our midst. The
applicants for treatment and med
icines amount to an average of 60
per month. When 1t is remem.
bered that the four physicians con-
nected with this institution as well
as the apothecary give their servi-
ces gratuitously our citizens will
certainly not neglect this opportu-
nifty to assist in supplying medi.
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The Horticultural Society, at its
session yesterday, postponed the
exhibition of March in consequence
of the failure of the deciduous fruit
crop last season, which left the
orchardists with a small showing
of Winter apples ami pears. The
meeting was not largely attended,
but the discussion of the northern
fruit questions ELECTED much valu-
able information. Mr.. Crow, fore
man for Louis Wolfskill, presented
some samples of Wolfskill's Eureka
orange which was Of very superior
flavor and texture. This orange Is
a chance Los Angeles Seeding and
is being budfled quite extensively
by Mr.. Wolfskill. The next meet
ing of the Society will be held on
Saturday, March 9, at which time
officers of the Society will be elect
ed for the ensuing year.
A most striking instance of the
procrastination of the legal frater-
nifty came to our notice yesterday.
The case of Huse vs.. Den, invoIv-
ing the title to three or four hundred
thousand dollars worth of real es-
tate. was tried by Judge Sepulveda
in Santa Barbara in March last,
and it was only yesterday that he
succeeded in obtaining from counsel
for the Den heirs their findings in
the action. Thus, q year has elaps
ed from the closing of the case be-
fore it has been put in shape to be
passed upon by his Honor. No
doubt the clients on both sides have
wondered why n decision has been
so long withheld, and some of them
may learn now, for the first time,
the cause. Some of the most alb
struse legal questions ever submit
ted for adjudication in this State
are said to be involved in the mat
ter.
We have received u great many
congratulations upon our having
had the good sense to strike a dis
tinctively Los Angeles position on
the railway question in our issue
yesterday. The fact is that we
have allowed a few clever and en-
ergetic San Diegans in our m idst to
blind us to the true interests of our
own city and county. When a
scheme of a transcontinental rail-
way is outlined that will make Los
Angeles a great city, We should be
fatuous not to embrace the oppor-
tunity offered. Give us, by all
means, Los Angeles road to the
Rio Grande, Mississippi and At
lantic sea board, under Congress
sional supervision.
Work has been commenced and
is progressing on Gov. Downey's
marble front building, adjoining
the new Baker Block. This beauti-
full structure, when completed, will
truly be an ornament to our town.
Its front elevation will be three
stories in height-higher than the
adjoining portion of the st. Charles
Hotel-and, we are informed, will
be composed entirely of marble. 1t
will be the only marble building in
California, so far as we know. Thus
the enduring and costly edifices
which are being erected by our
most careful capitalists, proves
their confidence in our city's fu-
ture, and that they are not afraid
to invest their money at home.
= In the discussion OF the school
text book question in the Senate
yesterday, Col. Smith offered the
following substitute for the substi-
tute for the substitute introduced
by Pierson to Lewis's text book
bill: Providing for the appoint
ment OF a Commission consisting
of the Governor, the President of
tho State University and the Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction
to consider the whole question of
whether the State shall own its
text books or purchase the same
from publishers for distribution to
pupils ut wholesale prices.
Every coigne of vantage in Los
Angeles in the shape of exposed
superfuies, vertical or horizontal,
was found to be covered yesterday
with parti- colored emblazonments
of the new attractions of Woods
Opera Troupe. The quid-nuncs and
amusement-go ers are brimful of an