Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-25
LOCAL BREVITIEs.

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rected to the advertisement "Grad-
ed Sheep for Sale" which appears
elsewhere in this mornings HER
AID.
Persons who may have been over.
looked by the canvassers of the
City Directory are requested to send
in their names to the publishers
before Monday next and they will
be inserted.
A situation is advertised for, In
our New To-Day, by young man
who has had five years. experience
In the wine and liquor trade and
who IL willing to make himself
generally useful.
A young man who has had ex-
perience In both dry goods and
grocery houses, and who speaks
the French and Spanish languages,
advertises for situation, in our
New To Day.
We yesterday had the pleasure OF
meeting County Clerk Potts on the
street. He has had a prstty rough
siege of It but is now beginning
to look like himself again. He
hopes to be able to resume his offic-
ial duties in Il few days.
We had the pleasure of encoun.
tertng DR.. J. Campbell Shorb yes
terday. He says that the air of
Los Angeles has worked wonders
in his case, and we are glad to note
that he carries no trace of mis- late
severe illness.
Mr.. Geo. +. Grant, djuster of the
North British Insurance Company.
arrived in the city yesterday for
the purpose of investigating and
adjusting the losses in the Dotter
A. Bradley flre. Other adjusters
will DO here in day or two.
Messrs. Dotter & Bradley. Phe.
nix-like, have already risen from
their ashes. They have secured the
store No. l30 Main street, Rivarra
and SaDguinnetti block, to which
they are removing such of their
stock as escaped damage from the
recent fire.
The professional card of Mr..
Walter D. Stephenson, attorney at
law, appears elsewhere in this
m0rnlng's HERALD. Mr.. Stephen
son is q young gentleman we'll read
in the law, and will attend to any
business entrusted to him in the
most satisfactory manner.
Mr.. Geo. A. Butz, of the Tulare
Times, the advance agent of the
humorist and lecturer Mr.. VIII l..
Visscher, called upon US yesterday,
Mr.. Visscher Is at present lecturinp
IN San Bernardino and will open
IN Los Angeles, in Good Templars'
Hall, Tuesday or Wednesday
night week.
We had the pleasure OF meeting
Capt. Wesley Roberts, the Superin-
tendent of the Los Angeles Com
pany's oil we'll at the Sespe, In the
city yesterday. He informs us
that this splendid we'll can be re-
lied upon to yield one hundred and
fifty barrels q day. This is good
news for the enterprising Ange.
leffos who unfaggingly pushed the
thing forward to suocess.
Officers Thorpe, McFadden, Roach,
Dodson and Engelhardt, between 9
and 10 O'Clock last night, made q
descent on faro bank, kept on the
second floor of Downey block, and
captured ten players and q full faro
outfit. The men put up collateral
for their appearance before the
Mayor this morning aud were dis.
charged.
We ere called upon to-day to re.
cord a kerosene accidsnt which, al
though fatal in its result, in its
cause is unlike the many that have
preceded 1t. Last Thursday even.
ing Mrs. Elftman, o former resident
of this city, but who, for some
hwe, had lived at Cold Water
"-@"n, Cshusnga range, having
N TO go to the stable after
lok a lighted lamp with her
passed the horse the animal
Its head and. striking the
.. broke it and scattered the
Aia fluid over the poor woman
- fro to her clothes and burn
N. SO severely that, after lin
In great agony, she died the
ay. Her funeral took placl
he residence OF her HUSBAND
urday.
~ ing the performance on Sat
l night false alarm of fire wa
r-a. caused by the burning of I
H I hay on the hill. Owing t,
4 ,od sense Of the audience ant
lre act exhibited by the firemel
l5 ormer kept their seats an,
.l arm failed of it's purpose-t,
Htc upt the performance at Turn
Ne n Hall. As Mr.. Vignolo wa
rsI ling from the hill fire he no
u1e bright light In the rear par
or st. Louis Hotel. On reach
Fog he found barrel blazing II
.l3 ashroom. With q garden rak
na rev the barrel out, and whel
Ire irs was extinguished it wa
.gg to be full of kindling wood
To b, had 1t not been for the for
tae to discovery and prompt actio
affr r. Vignolo, would have set flr
-a . house and probable destroye