Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-05-11

| the regular passenger train came
through with but slight delay.
At the election for Assistant
Chief Engineer of the Fire Depart
ment, held In the Council Cham
Der last night, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation OF Mr..
Fred. Kohler, Mr.. Theodore FI0i-
linger, of The Thirty. Fights. was
chosen by handsome majority.
The Southern Association of Con-
gregational Churches will meet In
the Congregational Church of this
city on Tuesday evening. May l3,
at n O'Clock. The opening sermon
will be preached by Rev. Mr..
Hough, of Santa Barbara. Servi-
ces will also be held on Wednesday
morning, afternoon and evening.
Topics OF practical interest will be
discussed. The public are cordial.
ly Invited.
A petition is in circulation and
has been signed by members of
Council and a number OF prominent
citizens asking for the pardon of
VIM. Cape, convicted, some time
ago, of perjury, aud sentenced 10
the States Prison. Cape's conduct
has been most exemplary since his
incarceration; and, we think, exc
cutlve clemency could be exercised
In his case without injury to justice
or good morals.
Several of our leading officials
have received letters from persons
residing near the scene of the
Hlnde- Sch leslnger raw vegetable
experiment stating that number
of children who have hardly been
weaned are subjected to this Pc
eulIar diet. Think of little baby
| being raised on raw cabbages or
turnIps? Milk as we'll as meat. to-
gether with cooked food of every
kind, Is excluded from this new
tangled regimen.
By advertisement In our New
Day column 1t will be seen that
the furniture, draperies, silverware,
crockery and glassware of the st.
Charles Hotel will be sold at public
auction this week, the sale to COM
mence on Thursday and continue
Friday aud Saturday, or until the
goods are disposed Of. This is one
of the best opportunities ever offer
cd In Southern California, the
goods being of the best quality and
all nearly new. Mr.. f. w. Noyes,
auctioneer, with r. Deakers, will
conduct the sale.
Arrived at Wilmington, May
9th, schooner Orion, Brandt, mas.
ter, I've days from Humboldt, with
l56. 900 feet of lumber for A. Lo-
THAN; schooner G. II. Merrithew,
Hansen, master, from Salmon
Creek, with 4l33 railroad ties for
Pacific Improvement Company;
schooner Lizzie Madison, Charlsen,
master, from Novarro, with 62ll
railroad ties for same company;
schooner Hannah Madison, Ras-
mussen, master, from Salmon
Creek, with 8l00 railroad ties for
same company.
DR.. S!ade, the celebrated spirit
usl medium, who was arrested in
London for obtaining money un-
der false pretences, and who was
convicted in the lower Court, but
whose case was reversed by the
Appellate Court, Is now In San
Francisco. During this trial such
excitement was created in London
that the streets In the neighbor-
hood of the trial Court were block
ed. The London Times published
full reports of the case, and the
London Illustrated NeiOs published
u pictorial representation OF the
trial. Slade went from London to
Holland, thence to Germany. Rus
sla, France and Australia, aud from
there to San Francisco.
The Maricopa excursionIsts left
San Francisco yesterday morning
in train consisting of eleven Sleep
ers, one hotel and an officers car.
The train will arrive here at 7
O'clock this morning, and, after re-
naming an hour for breakfast, will
add three or four more cars filled
with Angelefios and start for the
land of silver and gold. The ex-
cursicn will arrive at Maricopa to-
morrow, at 6 A. NJ, and remain till
8P.M. 1t will then return to Los
Angeles, arriving here at p. NJ. on
Tuesday, and remain over night.
On Wednesday morning it will go
to Santa Monica ami remain till 3
p. III. when it will return to Los
Angeles for dinner, departing for
San Francisco at IL p. NJ. The ex-
cursion will embrace q large mum,
Der Of the leading men of the State
who will take this opportunity to
visit Arizona and the orange groves
OF Los Angeles.
For several days past number
Of our citizens Interested In The re-
duotion of ores have been expert
menting with new process re-
Gently invented by a Mr.. Robert
son. The tests thus far have proven
quite satisfactory. The modus OPP
srdndt Ia as follows: The quartz is
first broken to the size of a hazel
nut or smaller (though 1t may be
worked twice the size Of q walnut)
and then roasted in a furnace for q
space varying from twenty min
utes to an hour. This Is to elimi.
nate The sulphur. From the fur
mace the rock is dumped, red-hot,
into a bath consisting OF a solution
of cyanide Of potassium, salt and
blue vitriol. This completely des-
slcates the rock so that by pound
ing In q mortar it may be reduced
to fine sand. An amalgamating
process with quicksilver then'ool-
lects all the mineral, and the sedi-
ment is washed off In a pan. Then
comes the squeezing In buckskiu