Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-27
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Council meets at 3 O'Clock this
afternoon.
Sheriff Nick Covarrubias of
Santa Barbara county, arrived In
Los Angeles yesterday.
Mr.. Denker expects to install
himself In the Lafayette Hotel
about the middle of March.
Signatures are being very rapidly
added to the Constitution of the
Young Mems Democratic Club.
The delinquent sale Of Agricul.
tural Park stock will positively
come off on the first of March.
In the late haul of the gamblers,
ivory chips to tho value of 5000
we're captured. Money, however,
was judiciously kept out of sight.
1t is stated that Captain McFad-
den, of Santa Ana, contemplares
building a narrow gauge railroad
from that place to Newport Land
ing.
Considering that it is Lent and
that We have nearly q hundred
miles Of sea coast, our markets are
very poorly provided with fish.
In the last Argondut Mr.. Frank
M. Pixley pays his respects to Mr..
e. J. Baldwin as a money .lender
In a manner far more forcible than
polite.
Lieutenant-General Kearney on
his arrival in Los Angeles, we un-
derstand, is to be welcomed by q
torcblight procession of the Work.
ingmen.
The case of the men arrested on
Monday night for keeping a gamb-
ling house will come up for hear
Ing before Mayor Toberman at
O'clock to-day.
In view of the expeditions way
In which people are being expelled
by our fellew citizens of the Work.
ingmen's persuasion their clubs
will soon be very select bodies.
Col. James Gamble. General Su-
perintendent OF the Western Union
Telegraph Company, Is in Los An
geles. He has been spending some
days at the Sierra Madre Villa.
Mr.. John Keifsr, who lately re.
turned from three years. visit to
Massachusetts, has opened a
wholesale wine and liquor store at
the corner of Los Angeles and Re-
quena streets. .
The county of Los Angeles Is in
danger, some fine morning, of wax
ing up and finding all the public
records mere charred mass. The
present Court House is shamefully
insufficient and insecure.
It is stated that Mr.. Frank Le-
couvreur goes down to Wilmington
on Saturday next to superintend
the laying of a tramway on the
Wilson wharf and other improve.
ments about TO be made by Gen.
Banning.
The Thistleton habeas corpus case
will be heard before Judge Morri.
son at San Francisco. The prisoner
| expected to have left for. that city
yesterday, but for some reason his
departure was postponed. He will
be taken up to-day, perhaps.
! The rooms of the Los Angeles
Bar Association are receiving the
finishing touches and will be ready
for occupancy in a few days. The
suite comprises q parlor, library
and reading room, and when com
pleted will be among the cosies1
and best suited to the object pro-
posed of any in the State.
The month of February from O
business standpoint has been un'
preoedently dull In Los Angeles
We commend to our long suffering
merchants those venerable ole
/ edaEasi f. FisI ious iRus ,as ass
iI7 t5fa'ng lra iArzast just be
Gro dawal" o., etc,
Or mmaia very happy IL iii
res Iiaea Of ehs@eJer by tho 1l4ai
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a. elaborate CHAT by t3s I1a g
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sell.
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