Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-11-28

place ny ou6IlA SOWlbnu y0st0E.
day for preliminary examination
before Justice Beckett. District
Attorney Brown appeared for the
people. Dupuy, notwithstanding
the fact that Sheriff Rowland and
two other witnesses testified to
having been present when the at
tempt was made to rob Mr.. Girls
void, the accused. asserted his in
nocence and said that 1t must have
been some other man that they
saw. In default of $4,000 bail he
was committed to Jail to await
trial.
In our account Of the arrest of J.
r. Hidales for altering and forging
. check, drawn by the First Ma.
tional Bank of San Francisco, in
favor of 8. P. Jones, we stated that
Sheriff Rowland was greatly in
debted for information In the
premises to q detective whose ekill,
courage and sagacity have been
often Of great service to the cause
Of justice In this county. That de.
tective was Adolfo Cells, who got
on the track of Hidales, and
Swallowed him relentlessly until
the jail doOrs closed upon the
criminal. Both as = detective and
fearless arrestiDg officer, Cells
has won and is winning q fine rep
utation.
The effects Of the earthquake
shock up In San Bernardino are thus
described by the Times: There was
some damage done-how much, we
do not yet know. It is agreed on
oil hands, that San Bernardino
was pretty we'll sh AIKEN up. The
walls Of the public school build
Ing were cracked, and plaster shak-
en- down upon the teachers stand.
The Stats Of the window 'blinds
were shaken open; some dishes in
Mrs. Bowley's cupboard were
shaken down and broken: q look.
ing-glass In the dwelling Of Mr..
Hansecker. . teacher at Old San
Bernardino, was reversed 80 that
the gentleman had to 90 out
doors to comb his hair this morn.
ing. A party Of bibulous gentle.
men about taking q drink, veersd
. point or two and amounted their
vests and shirt.fronts, as was
Aaron's beard amounted with oil
In Olden times, aud several Of our
subscribers called around and set
tied up early this morning, show
Ing thate there is compensation
even In natural phenomena.
Constable Botello yesterday ar.
rested jose Morillo, who stole q
horse from George w. Rogers, of
the Brea' ranch, in August last.
Morillo 10 a somewhat noted char.
actsr ID the criminal annals of Los
Angeles county, having belonged
to the famous Vasquez gang. A
notable and daring incident of his
career 10 that, about two years ago,
he mounted . horse belonging to
Sheriff Rowland that was hitched
IN front Of the Court House and
made good his escape Yith the an
tmal. The horse was after wards
returned to Mr.. Rowland, who, at
the intercession of the thief's mo-
Their, did not prosecute him. Nor.
rlllo has the reputation OF having
been q petty thief almost since the
time he could walk, but he las
managed hitherto to escape with
light punishment. This time he
will very likely get his deserts and
be sent to San QueHtin to serve the
State. His preliminary examina-
tl0n will take place before Justice
Lswlor on Monday.
For year past the HERALD has
asitatsd for an organ suitable to
the dignity anu Dimensions nf the
Roman Catholic Cathedral of Los
Angeles. We are glad to learn
that this long hoped for dssidera-
tum has at last been obtained.
Mr.. Meyer, the maker, for some
days past has been busy setting it
up. It is eleven feet front by eight
feet deep and sixteen feet high,
with two banks Of keys, and it IL
provided with eighteen stops. 1t
IL q combination of q great organ
and q choir, and ten days at least
will elapse before. 1t will be in
working order. While 1t is not as
large an instrument a. that Of the
new church Of st. Ignatius, In San
Francisco, 1t is q fuer organ than
does service at st. Mary's, the Ca
thedral Of the archdiocese OF San
Francisco. All Angelefios who are
interested In sacred music, ire.
spective Of creed, will concur in
the. HERALD's congratulations to
Bishop Mora upon this emphatic
step In advance. The Bishop has
evidently caught the contagion of
the good times that are ahead.
The cars from Lbs Angeles, says
the Anaheim Gazette, have
brought almost nightly during the
week large consignments of grapes
for b. Dreyfus & Co., who are pay.
ing $22 per ton for all the grapes
which are delivered to them. The
operations of this firm are Of great
or magnitude than most people are
aware. 1t lie by long odds the
leading firm In the business In this
State, and enjoys an advantage In
owning vineyards and making
large proportion Of the wine which
1t handles. The firm will make
this year In Anaheim, San Gabriel,
Cuoam0nga and Napa, over 800, 900
gallons of wine, and will handle at
least 2,500, 900 gallons of this years.
product. Their new warehouse in
San Francisco, covering block of
ground. is as complete an estab-
lish ment of its kind as there is in
the United States, every coven.
fence which money could buy or
experience suggest being found
within Its four walls. The wine
"a n, orv hara will updor0o oItoro