Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-01-17
LOCAL BREvITIES.

Inc orange store mas shipped ~
carloads of grain since the first OF
January.
We are indebted to Hon. 2. D.
Wigginton for copy of the annual
report of the Postmaster. General.
The whole tier OF mountains to
tho east and south of Los Angeles
is covered with q thick mantle of
snow.
In the vote on the ordinance pro-
hibiting auction sales on the streets
yesterday there were but three
negatives.
All the recommendations con.
tanned in the annual report of the
Chief OF the Fire Department were
adopted by Council yesterday.
A large number OF protests of
property owners were presented to
Council yesterday against the as
sessment for widening and opening
Los Angeles street.
We are indebted to Henry Baer,
who is approving himself to be a
model poulterer and fishmonger,
for some delicious shrimps-one of
his San Francisco specialties.
The suit against Msssrs. Tonner,
Tanning, Crow and McComas.
which was set for trial before Judge
Baldwin yesterday morning, was
postponed until IL O'clock A. NJ.
to day.
The case of the people vs.. Alviso,
indicted for murder, in which the
jury disagreed on Wednesday,
comes up in the District Court
again to-day. He was yesterday
admitted to bail in $1,000,
Tho body of Charles Lathrop,
who was drowned last Sunday be-
low Wilmington, was recovered
yesterday, it having drifted some
distance from the location of the
unfortunate accident.
We learn that Judge Mcguire,
County Judge Of Santa Barbara
County for the past sixteen years,
and well known to old residents of
this county, Is lying dangerously
illat his home in Santa Barbara.
Chief King, about seven O'Clock,
last evening, arrested a Mexican
who gave the name Of Jose Maria,
in the act of stealing ham from
the L store. Maria will have u
hearing before the Mayor this
morning.
Messrs. Thomas A. Carey, A. T.
Carey, Thomas II. Smith and D.
A. Shaw were arrested yesterday
afternoon on inform ration preferred
by the TOnner party and taken be-
fure Judge Carrillo, who held them
for examination.
The City Attorney yesterday re.
ported that the city, according to
the provisions of the convention
between the United States and
France, has the right to tax the
real estate owned by the French
Consul.
County Tax Collector Kremer
says that a much larger amount of
the county taxes has been paid in
so far than had been this time last
year. This is a wholesome sign
and goes far to refute the croaking
heard in some quarters.
Mr.. 1. Neuburger, agent Cor the
celebrated French shirt factory of
E. Coblentz, San Francisco, ia in
the city and may be found at room
No. 6S, st. Charles Hotet, where he
will be happy to receive orders
from the gentlemen of this city.
He will remain but two days.
A gentleman from the cactus and
rattlesnake territory yesterday reg.
istered himself at one of our lead
ing hotels as from Arizona. Some
audsoious wag af1i xed the letters
d. 3. to the address-an act far
more suggestive than polite. Few
men would care to be registered as
"dead-beats."
Council yesterday instructed the
Board of Public Works to COM
plete the work necessary TO con-
meet Mission street, East Los An
geles, with the Mission road and,
in SO doing, to give employment to
as many iaborers as possible until
the work is finished, at 81 so per
day.
Deputy Collector Hall yesterday
showed US some very rich speci.
mems from the Ivanpah District,
among which were two from the
Alley mine, which assay $25, 900
and $22, 900 to the ton, respectively,
ami one each from the Lizzie Bull
lock, Stonewall, Martha Jane and
Beatrice, which average from $400
to ST. 900 per ton. These veins range
from one inch to ten inches in
width, with occasionally a pocket
from which such ore as that of the
Alley specimen is taken, but in
limited quantity.
That sterling teamster, Larry
Mulvshlll, has just returned from
Lake district, in Mono county, a
mining region which is situated
about fifty-five miles from Bodie.
He tells us that both Bodie and
Lake will be lively camps this
year. or all the Inyo county
mines the Emigrant is about the
only paying one, even the base
metal mines of Csrro Gordo being
sadly scIipsed. Active prospect
ing, however, is going on in the
latter, with q view either to the re-
discovery Of the old smelling de-
posits or the finding Of milling
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