Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-03-09

City Assessor Bllderrain has Sc
cured the room formerly occupied
by the City Court, over Wells,
Fargo & Co.'s Express office, Tenn
pie Block, and will enter on the
discharge of his official duties on
Monday.
Regular services will be held at
the Congregational Church to-
day, conducted by the new
pastor, Rev. G. J. Hutchings. Mr..
Hutchings was lately of Petaluma,
whence he was called to take charge
of the church in this city.
We encountered wallace Leach,
Esq, of San Diego, in Los Angeles
yesterday. He is going up to San
jose to try case. We are inclined
to think, from his outgivings, that
Mr.. l.. will be a burning and a
shining light in Tucson before long.
Owing to the failure to obtain a
quorum yesterday there was no
election Of officers of the Southern
California Horticultural Society
yesterday. The law requires ma
jority of the voters of all the mem.
bers to be cast, and not 1.-THE of
them were in attendance.
The columns of the HERALD
which contain the legal ADVERTISE
ments are often interesting read
ing. Those curious as to the for
tunes of the Temple & Workman
estate will find the Master in Chan
Gerry advertisement, which appears
elsewhere, worthy of note.
Ex. Governor Stafford, Mr.. Schef-
felin, the discoverer of the Tomb
stone district, Arizona, and Mr..
Parsons, passed through Los Ange-
les yesterday, en- route to the East,
where they will meet parties who
are largely interested in develop
ment in that section.
The following are the shipments
from Downey depot for the week
Friday, March 7th: Corn,
567 sacks, weighing 77,709 pounds;
Barley, 2l0 sacks, 10,790 pounds;
Oranges, 9 boxes, $50 pounds; mer-
1855 pounds; hogs, 3car-
loads, 10000 pounds. Total-16O,-
BS4 pounds. Imports-Merchan.
disc, 26, 465 pounds.-Outlo0k.
The number of guests at the
County Home, SO Mr.. Aockerblum
assures US. ranges from fifty odd to
sixty. The present charge for their
averages about fifty
cents per capita. Mr.. A. expects,
when his vegetable garden is doing
It's proper work, to reduce this
charge to thirty cents.
We occasionally encounter here
lbouts O man who is glad to pro-
claim himself Democrat, no mat
ter how numerous the assertions
from the glorious old party may be,
There is an old adage which runs.
they laugh best who laugh last"
Good strong Democratic or Repub-
lican colors are the only ones which
will wear long.
Mr.. r. w. jackson, of the Cali
Fornla Abalone Jewelry Manufac-
tory, has arrived in the city with a
large assortment of these unique
and beautiful ornaments, which he
will offer for sale at the book store
Of the Messrs. Louis levin s. Co.,
Spring street. He invites our citi-
zens generally to call and examine
his stock, which embraces a great
of the most beautiful de.
signs.
AT the meeting of the Fire De-
last evening for the cleo
tion of Chief Engineer and Assist
ant, Mr.. Charles E. Miles was re.
slected without opposition. For
the position Of Assistant Engineer
Mr.. George E. Gard, present in
and Mr.. Fred Kohler
were nominated. Mr.. Kohler re.
,eived Ga votes and Mr.. Gard 40.
fhe former receiving majority
was declared duly elected.
Mrs. NJ. E. Park has gone to San
Francisco to lay in a large and
stock of millinery for
The spring trade. Mrs. P. has es.
tablished an enviable reputation as
a modiste and her exquisite taste
may be relied upon by the most
All the latest novel;
ties in hats, bonnets and the thous-
and and one furbelows and things
that go to make up the stylish
lady will be purchased lavishly by
Mrs. Park, and her patrons will
thus be sure of the latest Parisian
modes in spring goods, on her re-
turn.
Mr.. Carey proposes to write n
treatise on the orange and to put
in the approaching summer lectur-
ing on this fruit. By the way, the
orange is being planted all over
the State and Sacramento even
promises to be shortly a formida-
BILE rival to this section as o pro-
ducer. In view of this fact, one of
the best fruits we can plant is the
Berkshire and Poland China hog.
These latter grow In rows and are
irrigated with a trough. We should
diversity our production.
A small but notably jolly party
assembled at the residence of Mr..
Phil Lauth last night, to celebrate
the birthday of their host. 1t so
happened that three OF the guests,
including the writer, were born on
tho co ma fataful f0urth Of March