Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-12-25

on suspicion of being one of the
murderers of James Phelan, at the
Chino ranch, couple of weeks
ago, has been honorably dis
charged.
The Christmas services at the
Church of Our Lady of Angels, op-
posite the Plaza, will begin with q
solemn high mass at A. NJ, fol-
lowed by low mass at every hall
hour down to 8 o'clock. when an
other solemn high mass will be cell
ebrated, in which the beautiful
mass in f, by ]. l.. Batemann, will
be sung by the Sisters choir.
$3.50 will buy substantial boys
suit, So a good business suit, $40
and $12 a diagonal dress suit, and
$1.50 a custom made patent white
shirt, at l.. Harris's, Quincy Hall,
65 Downey block.
The Board of Health yesterday
recommended the appointment of
DR.. Winston as Health Officer, but
owing to q question being raised
as to the Doctors eligibility, the
City Charter requiring the Health
Officer to be a practising physician,
the matter was referred back to the
Board for investigation.
The Turn Verein Germania, as
will be seen by announcement in
our New To-Day, propose to speed
the parting and welcome the New
Year by a grand ball at Turn We
rein Hall on the evening of Decem-
ber 31st. Like all social enter
tainments given by this Society 1t
will be first-class in every respect
and all who attend can rest assured
that they will have a delightful
time.
The Los Angeles HERALD re.
joices over the fact that their oil
interests are attracting attention,
and says: "Mr. B. f. Pinkerton,
we'll known expert, is stopping at
the Pico." The Angelefios had bet
ter look out or he will stop up the
wells, instead of stopping at them.
The Santa Barbara Oil Company
learned, to their cost, that he was
more "expert' in plugging up a
well with a reamer than in boring
it, Santa Barbara Press.
The ball of the Los Angeles
Guards, at Armory Hall, last
night, was largely attended and
was one of the merriest and most
enjoyable social events of the sea-
son. An amusing feature of the
entertainment WAS Christmas
tree, upon which was hung gifts
for the members of the company.
Some of thes were of comical
character and, as they were distri-
bute0, created considerable merri-
ment. The sport was kept up to a
late hour and all separated voting
the Guards, individually and COL
Iectively, g set of jolly good fell
lows.
Col. Hewitt Informed US that
yesterdays down train encounter
ed q snow drift in cut on the Te-
hachepi which was deep enough to
strike the cab Windows on the loco
motive. There being no snow plows
at hand, the train was backed
to siding and two extra
locomotives which, luckily, hap
pened to be at the station, were
attached TO the regular engines
and the three tackled togeth-
er forced q passage through the
drift. This was novel experience
for Southern California and, if Of
ten repeated, will necessitate
change from mi-tropie to semi
frIgid California.
The Christmas services at the
Cathedral will begin with Sol
emn High Mass at A. NJ, followed
by Low Mass at every half hour
down to half-past 10, when a SOL
emn Pontifcal Mass will be cele-
brated by the Rt. Rev. Bishop
Mora, assisted by Catholic clergy
and Fathers from st. Vincent's
College. The sermon at the last
Mass will be preached by the Rev.
Father Woodmap, of the congrega-
ton of st. Paul, AT the conclusion
of the Mass, the Bishop will i'm
part to all who have approached,
the Sacraments with the due dis |
positions, the Papal Benediction.
Solemn Pontifical Vespers at half
past 7 in the evening.
A shooting afray took place |
at Downey on Friday even
ing, between George Miller
and w. w. Orr. 1t appears |
that, some time ago, Mr.. Orr's |
house was fred into at night and
his nephew and sou sleeping in a
bed together, were both wounded.
A brother of George Miller wGs
suspected to be the perpetrator of
the dastardly act, and as one cir
cumstance after another was devel.
oped to confirm the suspicion, the
place got too hot to hold him any
longer and he decampei. The
fracas yesterday grew out of the
old difficulty. Miller and Orr, af-
ter some hard worde, both drew
their revolvers aud fired four or
five shots at each other, but with
out effect.
We must positively insist upon
it that meme of the Christmas pres