Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-01-30
LOCAL RREVITIES,

LOCAL RREVITITS.
Council this afternoon at thre
o'clock.
The Unitarian Society hold a tel
party in the parlors of Union Hal
this evening.
A German girl. to assist in gen
eral housework, Is advertised for il
our New To-Day.
A compctsnt woman to cook
wash and iron ia advertised for un
der New To-Day, in this morning..
HERALD.
1t will be seen, by advertise
nent, that the steamer Ancon
leaves to-day, instead of yesterday
for San Francisco and way ports.
Attention is directed to the care
Of Mr.. D. N. Graham, Pasadens
Land Office, which appears else.
where In this mornings HERALD
The gamblers VIII ose arrest was
noted in yesterdays HERALD were
examined before Mayor Toberman
yesterday morning. The two
dealers were fined $10O each and
the parties captured in the room So
each, making a total gain to the
city of $295-sufficient to pay the
Chief Of Police and two foot police.
men for the month of December.
MIR. Frank FiXley, the editor OF
the Argonaut, yesterday passed
through to the Front" We
heartily hope that the "old man
eloquentn will lay over for o day
or so on his return. He ought not
to come down to Los Angeles with.
out seeing the place thoroughly.
Probably both versatile journalist
and orange-favored town would
be all the better for mutual &C.
quaintance.
Officers Englehardt and Roach
last night arrested three Cinnamon
whom they caught smoking opium
in den on Niger alley. When
the officers entered the place they
found six Cinnamon, but three of
them escaped. They took posses.
sion Of the pipes and quantity OF
opium, which they brought to po-
lice headquarters. The Mongolians
were committed to Jail TO await
examination before the Mayor
this morning.
The IXL Company appear in
this mornings HERALD with o
flaming double. column advertise.
ment. These gentlemen are, from
some cause, the soul of cheap sales
hereabouts. There is no possibility
of obtaining clothing, boots or
shoes cheaper than they can and do
sell them. And, by the way, they
are scrupulously polite and accom-
modating which, with their low
prices, probably accounts for their
local success.
Constable Berry yesterday
brought in Jose Tapia, whom he
arrested near Pomona, on q war.
rant issued by Justice Trafford, OH
a charge of stealing chickens.
Tapia claims that he did not com.
NIT the theft with which he il
charged, but, We understand, ad.
mits that he shared the plunder
the thief having given him one.
half of the chickens stolen. He
was committed to Jail to await ex
animation. Tapia comes of ar
illustrious, or rather notorious,
family, who are doing the State
some service, three of his brothers
being at present inmates of Sar
Quentin, where, If he pursues his
present course, Jose will soon joir
them,
We are not insenslble to the pa
thetic eloquence of the communica
tion of our friend Councilman But
Ter. which appears elsewhere. Blu
eloqueucs in this work-a-day worl'
Of ours counts for noLhing agains
stubborn facts. Even the mos
sublimated and transcendental DO
etry is powerless to evade the les
sons of political economy, whicl
teach, with due Difference to Mr.
Butler, that it is not a good thin,
to kill the goose that lays the gold
en- eggs unless you can secure
Councilmanic goose that is capa
BILE, at the least, of laying Arizon,
diamonds. 1t is a good rule not t
attempt to do what you can't do b.
any human possibility. The stream
will not rise higher than its source
The effort to scrouge So a montl
from physicians and lawyers VIII
don't make $5 year will always
in the nature Of the thing, fail
Confucius, the Zend Avesta, th
Alkoran, the Bible, aud all othe
sensible books, will be found to sus
tain this self-evident proposition
The Chinese ought to 60; lin fact, th e,
ought to stand not on the order O
their going, but to go at once, bu
the impulse that will compel then
to 60 must emanate from Washing
ton, not Los Angeles or San Fran
cisco. The Democratic party, /
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