Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-03-20
LOCAL. BREVITIES.
Council this afternoon.

The steamer Ancon sails for San
Francisco to-day.
Chief King was made happy last
night by the advent of daughter
to his household.
Los Angeles people at San Fran
cisco hotels on the 1S h: II. M.Hay-
den, Brooklyn; J. Chandless, Russ
House.
Hon. J. G.. Estudillo, State Treas
urer, arrived by yesterdays over.
land train and is registered at the
Pico House.
The Hutchinson Family, we learn,
will give their first entertainm ent
at Union Hall on Friday evening
of next week.
The United States Signal Officer
reports the rainfall up to last eve.
ming at 3j.100ths inches. Mr.. Bliss
reports 80 100ths.
Mr.. George e. Butler, of Cross &
Co., San Francisco. who has been
paying Los Angeles visit, returns
to that city to-day.
With ten Deputy Zapjeros, the
chances of the Irrigating fund com
ing out ahead will be slim indeed.
Nothing reforms like reform.
The jury In the case of Uriah
Humphrey, tried for shooting
Domeney, about 10 o'clock last
night, brought in verdict of not
guilty.
Mr.. ID. Freeman, of the Cent?
nela, tells US that the rainfall In
his Deighborhood Tuesday night
and yesterday was much greater
than in Los Angeles.
We omitted to note the return of
our sometime fellow. citizen, Mr..
Sawyer, TO his home in East Los
Angeles. Mr.. S. has been in San
Francisco for the better part of q
year.
+, Bishop Kelrney left for Ana
helm yesterday. We dub him by
this exalted title because we owe
our elevation TO the priesthood to
his sacerdotal good offices and only
Bishops can ordain.
Monsieur Noyes, the inimitable
auctioneer, is very pat at repartee.
He may not always have the "blue.
bellied" sense of proprlety of the
country from which he halls, bui
then he has such charming ways!
Dispatches received yesterday
evening state that it has been rain
ing hard at Ell Monte since noon.
AT Santa Ana there had been light
rains yesterday morning and the
night before. 1t rained heavily at
San Gabriel, also, yesterday morn
ing.
The Santiago Mining Company
have had an assay made in San
Francisco Of ore flom their princi-
pal mine, and the result was $3.50
silver TO the ton and 65 per cent. of
lead. The company will put three
men to work on the mine in u few
days.-Anahein Gazette.
General Mcconnell has gone
over to San Bernardino to attend
the session Of the District Court at
that place. He is engaged as coun-
sci with Col. Paris and Major Har-
ris in the suit between the Aqua
Mansa people and the Riverside
Land and Water Company.
Else where in this mornings
HERALD Will be found the pro-
fessional card of Messrs. M. L. and
Moye Wicks, attorneys at law.
These young gentlemen rank high
in their profession and we know
will attend to any business entrust-
ed to them with fidelity and
promptitude.
We had the pleasure of meeting
yesterday Mr.. Spear, Of the well
known San Francisco commission
house of Spear, Meade & Co., to
whom we are indebted for valuable
weekly market reports. 1t is a Gu
riOus fact that any time any mem
ber Of Mr.. Spears family has Wis.
tied Los Angeles it has rained.
Mr.. Fl. ". Beers, of this place
has a tree on his block which two
years ago was nine years old and
bore sixty oranges. Last year II
bore five hundred and this year, by
actual count, two thousand oranges
were sold off that tree at an aver
age price of SS7 per thousand
making the snug little sum of $74
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