Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-04
LOCAL BREVITIES,

| "A COOK is advertised for at the
st. Louis House, Main street.
All our hills are at last clad in
their vernal raiment of green.
Charles Green will find tele.
gram at the Western Union office
A. 7. Smith, U. S. A., was Iegis.
tered at the st. Charles Hotel yes.
terday.
VIM. Cape. convicted of perjury,
will be sentenced in the County
Court to-day.
Mr.. G. II. Gray, Surveyor of the
Port of San Francisco, is at the
Pice House.
Two drunks were up before the
Mayor yesterday. One was sent up
for ten days and the other for five.
Col. E. Hewitt has returned from
his trip to the "Front." He reports
everything ut Texas Hill as look.
ing well.
Mr.. Diefendorfer, at his market
on Spring street, wishes to employ
smart, active boy to whom lie
will pay 500 per month.
Mr.. A. B. Levisee, of Louisiana,
is registered at the Pico House.
This is one of the famous Returning
Board of Louisiana, if we mistake
not.
Not in our recollection has the
snow lain So heavily on our noun.
tain tops, nor has the dazzling
white yesLure reached so low down
their sides.
Rain commenced to fall about
one O'Clock yesterday morning and
continued in gentle showers up to
O'clock last evening, registering
63-l00ths of an inch.
About ten thousand acres of the
Centinela and Sausal Redondo
ranohos have been put in grain
this year. Even in years of drouth
this fine property invariably yields
bountiful harvests.
The Santa Ana Herald reports
that Mr.. r.. r. Darby, living near
that place, had a fine horse stolen
Friday night. Rumor has it that
several others were taken from the
neighborhoOd at the same time.
The board crossing put in by
Myers Il Mendelson, in front of the
7 store, is found to be a great bless.
ing during this muddy weather, Ell
abling pedestrians to reach their
store and the postoffice dryshod.
Deputy Sheriff Ling went up to
San Quentin yesterday having in
charge Donovan and Collins sem
fenced to States Prison, the former
for four years and the latter for
two and half years.
Mr.. Charles Crocker, President of
the Southern Pacific Railway, Mr..
G. f. Orocker, President of the
Arizona Pacific Railway, and Mr..
Mills, San Francisco, capitalist,
passed through Los Angeles yester-
day, en- route to the "Front."
The Ventura Signal says that
Mr.. d. G. Scott shipped on the last
freig bit boat from that place ten bar
rels of the finest lubricating oil
ever made there. It was refined
from oil produced at the Los Ange.
les oil well on the Sespe.
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
says: EQUALS by the thousand are
to be found in the hills in all parts
of the county, The miners in the
new gold fields, like the Israelites
in the wilderness, have feasted upon
the birds until they are sick of
them"
Col. C.Granville Johnson is push-
ing mining developments in the
San Gabriel caflon. This enter
prisiDg prospeetor is convinced
that "there's millions in it.n AS q
sort of mining side show he thinks
of boring for oil In that classic pre-
| cinct.
Southern California is uudonb.. q.
edly the promised laud this year.
Just think of it, men and brethren,
we have actually doubled OH the
rainfall of Central and even North
ern California. Whose wishes to
farm with some prospects Of
"craps' will have to come down
here or hereebouts.
The versatile Pixley-he of the
Argonout-Sunday accompanied
the pay car to Downey City. Later
in the day he departed in the same
for Santa Monica, which he duly
inspected. Early yesterday morn,
ing he left for parts "unknownu-
at least for parts whereof deponent
saysth further not"
The junior editor of the Santa
Ana Herald, who has been away
on an extensive tour, declares that
in oil his wanderings over the
State, he failed to find a point with
as promising future by half as
Los Angeles county possesses. Hs
returns we'll content, and thorough.
~ convinced that his lines are truly
cast In pleasant places.