Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-27

at Platts Hall, which place has
been finally decided upon for the
meeting. The meeting will take
place promptly at 2 O'Clock. The
Industrial School band will furnish
music. The meeting will be
thoroughly non-partizan, and the
design Of the committee OF arrange
ments is to have brief speeches, no
longer time than ten minutes to be
given to each speaker. Governor
Irwin will preside as the following
dispatch, received to-day, shows:
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 20.
Hon. n. J. Bryant, Mdyor-
will be with you Thursday, as
requested. WIN. IRWIN"
J. c. Maynard and Marcus D.
Boruck, respective Secretaries of
the Democratic and Republican
State Central Committees, will act
as Secretaries of the meeting. The
committee was engaged all after
noon in the selection of list OF
Vice. Presidents for the meeting.
The list will embrace many OF the
leading merchants and brokers OF
the city. It has been the object of
the Committee, in the selection of
speakers, to draw principally from
mercantile interests. The resolu-
tions, 1t is said, will be Of the
strongest character and, OH ad-
journment of the meeting, will be
telegraphed Immediately TO the
President.
Tue Mystery s,Iii Cnso,vsd.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26.-Capt.
Stone and detective Jehu have been
engaged both yesterday and to-day
In seeking Information concerning
the mysterious row boat bearing
fresh stains of blood, found Mon
day morning on the West Berkely
shore by some workmen employed
at Judson & Stephens's chemical
works near by. The result of the
detectives labor has been to make
the affair even more mysterious
and to make the supposition that
the little craft was made the scene
of foul deed, almost conclusive.
1t has bsen ascertained that the
boat belonged to one John French,
an unmarried man and boatman
by occupation, who resided at No.
All Drumm street. Between 8 and
7 o'clock on Sunday evening
French was seen to embark in b il
boat at Vallejo street wharf, in
company with another man, He
rowed out and when last seen by
persons on shore was headed for
the Berkely shore. Who the per-
son is that was French's compan.
ion In the boat has not yet been as
certained. They were seen by
some of the men on the man-of-
war lying in the stream, but no in
formation as to what occurred be-
tween them can be learned. The
boat, however, as has been stated,
was covered with blood when found
on the following morning and an
examination of the beach where it
was discovered, showed footprints
of only one person having left it.
French, when he took the boat,
had but about five dollars with
him. The blood on the boat and
the single line of footprints on the
shore, induce the belief among the
detectives that one of the two men
may have murdered the other and
thrown his body into the bay.
The ssvensoenih Death.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26th.-Lot
Bliss, the seventeenth victim oi
the Stockton explosion, died to.
day.
Shoots IIerseif Through the Head.
BODIE, Feb. 26th.-Mrs. j. G..
Williams committed suicide this
afternoon by shooting herself
through the head with pistol.
The purson Muraer TrIai-Bnriun
on tho stand.
SALT LAKE, Feb. 26th.-Burton
to-day testified In his own behalf,
minutely describing the fight with
the Morrisites and their surrender.
He stated that when the white flag
was hoisted he approached, accom-
panied by three horsemen, the
crowd of Morrisites; that be per-
mitted Morris to speak to his peo.
pie, when Morris Immediately
threw up his hands and called on
all who wished to follow him
through life or death, to follow,
moving at the time towards the
arms that were stacked; that he
com mandsd Morris to halt and
fired two shots at him, others of
the party also firing; that he did
not see Morris fall nor did not hear
the woman speak to him at the
time, neither did he see any
women when he fired.
The latter part of Burton's testi-
mony is in direct denial of all pre-
vious evidence during the trial.