Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-05-09

municated itself to the roof of the
second story. Mr.. Wilson sustains
a loss of $4,000 and Is insured for
$1,000. The fire was the result of
pure accident, was communicated
from the flue and instantly attained
such headway that 1t could not be
checked.
We heartily hope 70 hear Of q
forty pound shackle being fastened,
trinity and neatly, on the ancle of
one T. j. Shackleford If Shackle-
ford had put in an appearance In
Los Angeles any time about high
noon OF yesterday he would have
been licked worse than Rule
drubbed Kearney In that town of
pious memory, Santa Ana.
We had a pleasant call fsom Mr..
f. H. Boyd, Of Molave, yesterday.
Mr.. B. says that travel IL fair, of
late. Our genial friend hugs the
Desert with its wierd cactus family
and is owly riling up the ehekels
in way that will make him o
millionaire II he lives MS long as
Peabody or Vanderbilt. Desert or
no desert, Boyd always preserves
his fresh. youthful color and robust
health.
Miss Lulu Potts, daughter Of Mr..
]. w. Potts, yesterday celebrated
her l2h birthday. We are lndebt-
ed to the young lady for some de-
licious CAKE, the work of her own
hands, which would be no discredii
TO an experienced matron. We
wish Miss Lulu many happy re-
turns and assure her, If she cOntiu-
ues in the course she has COM
msnced, she will make an invalua-
BILE helpmeet 10 some fortunate
man few years hence.
We have kept record of the
prophets this time and we mean to
bring them out In a few days, and
compare them with the actual re-
suits of the election. We will make
y fearful example Of some of tn ,se
braggarts who tell US before the
event "I never make q mistaken
and after the event, right or wrong,
II told you so.n We have been
long-suffering aud forbearlng here.
tofore, but we mean to be so no
more.-Erpress.
Bless your soul, neigh Dor, you
can always tell how deep we are in
the graveyard by the way we
whistle. In the last campaign we
required good deal of the article
to keep our courage up. Good wine
needs no bush, and a prosperous
campaign don't call for brag to exc
1t out.
In late number Of the HERALD
we stated that "a former resident OF
San Bernardino, who now lives in
this city, about two weeks ago sent
to the County Clerk of that county
for his transfer, and only received
1t on Saturday last, too late to have
his name put on the Great Regis
ter. The County Clerk of San Ber.
nardinc Is reputed to be q warm
partizan OF the new Constitution,
while the gentleman that sent for
the transfer is known to be opposed
to 1t. The query is suggested, Can
this knowledge have influenced the
County CLERK? We have been in
formed that there are about dozen
similar cases in this city" Hon.
G. Wiley Wells, who spoke In San
Bernardino, informs US that the
County Clerk was one OF the off.
GERS OF the meeting. We were evil
IDENTIFY misinformed, and we there.
fore tender the Ganende honorable.
otis barbarous to insult fallen
foe." We therefore refrain from
Comparisons between the majority
for the Constitution and the HER
AIDS representations Of the vote
against it.-C0mmoner.
God bless your old soul. We
honor your magnanimity. But we
are not a bit sensitive. 1t was
mighty poor campaign for proph.
ecies on our part or we should have
indulged in vHticinations which
would have made each particular
hair of our venerable friend to
stand on end, like quills upon tie
fretful pOrcupine. When We look
back aud see how positively lam
guild our prophecies were we are,
really, ashamed of ourseIf, the ar
ticIe is so cheap. Aud the cause
needed SO much prophetic bolster
ing, besides! No! We shall never
hold up our head again. Had we
put the figure ut forty thousand,
while we were about 1t, Instead of
ten, we should, IN all Likelihood,
have won. Alas that we should
have been so remiss. 1t was Har-
per's Weekly and the New York
Times aud Tribune which put Dix's
majority in the Empire Stale at
sixty thousand the year Tilden
beat "Shoot Him on the Spot" by
some fifty.one thousand. With snch
lllustrious examples before US we
ought to have done better.