Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-04-01
LOCAL BIeEVITIEs.

Canvass.backs are in the market.
The new City Directory will he
ready for delivery to-day.
1t rained sporadically last night.
Let US hope sufficiently, also.
County Clerk Potts was able to
attend to his official duties yester-
day.
Mr.. H. N. Short has relinquished
his position as editor OF the Santa
Ana Herald.
An eligibly located, well paying
grocery store is offered for sale in
our New To-Day.
The United States Signal Service
office reports .04. 100ths of rain up
to SIS last evening.
A meeting will be held this even.
ing to organize Young Mems 8
Workingmen's Club.
Two night latch-keys picked up
in Good Ten plars' Hall on Sunday
evening can be recovered ut this
Office.
By notice elsewhere it will be
seen that the law firm of Thomp-
son, Ellis & Gardner has been dis
solved by mutual consent.
Two drunks were up before the
Mayor yesterday. One paid $5 and
the other, on promising to go and
sin no more, was discharged.
Mr.. Tompkinson, one of our best
known citizens, and late an officer
of the British Navy, has received
a legacy of $35, 600 from England.
Att speciaE.meeting of the Ital.
ian Benevolent Society on Sunday
last, com mittees were appointed to
make arrangements for the annual
picnic.
Mr.. G. F. Smurr, Auditor of the
Southern Pacific Railroad Compa-
ny, got back from a short visit 10
San Francisco by Sundays over
land train.
Elsewhere appears local notice
of a dark roam horse, B. or r.
brand. Anybody delivering the
same to E. H. Workman will be
paid for their trouble.
Commodore II. r. Haines, Super
intendent of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, returned from
a business visit TO San Diego per
steamer Idaho On Sunday.
Messrs. Eugene Germain & Co.,
of this city, have established a
branch house at Gila Bend, Arizo.
ma, the present terminus of the
Southern Pacific Railroad.
The Yuma Sentinel says: The
records, seal, library, etc., of the
United States District Court for the
Second Judicial District of Arizona
have been sent to Phoenix, Mari.
copa county.
There will be q social ball at the
Pacific Hotel next Saturday eve.
ming (April 5th). The arrange
ments are in capable hands and all
who attend may anticipate de-
lightful time.
La gocieta Italiana di Mutua Be.
neficenza will give their second an.
nual picnic Oh Sunday, April 9th,
at Sycamore Grove, Arroyo Seco.
A delightful time may be relied or
by all who attend.
The kitchen In the rear of Miss
Logan's millinery store, Spring
street, was destroyed by fire on
Sunday morning. This is the sec
ond time a similar building hal
been destroyed at the same plac,
within the past year.
Sailed from San Pedro. March
3Oth, the schooner Golden Gate, fo
Point Sal for grain. Arrived Marcf
31st, schooner Hannah Madison
Rasmussen master, five days from
Duftsy's Cove, with 1900 railroad
ties.
A second alarm of fire was sound
ed about 6 O'Clock Sunday evening
1t was caused by the burning of |
small stable In the rear of Peschke
q MerZ's store, at the junction o
Aliso and New Also streets. The
damage was slight.
During the absence of Martil
Kurtz, who keeps a grocery at tn
corner of Fort and Fourth streets
to attend the fire on Sunday even
ing, some one entered his plac
and made off with the none,
drawer, containing about thirty
five dollars.
The late unpropitious weathe
has proved a great drawback to th
crops in San Diego county, fror
. San Luis Rey south. The Csjo
! valley crops this year will nj
prove success, either as to whes
or the other cereals.
The temporary terminus OF til
Arizona pivision OF the Souther
! Pacific Railroad was yesterday r
a moved to ella Bend, 100 miles sa
'fTs Yuma. The poxA move vi