Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1880-11-07

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Mccullough, the colored porter
on the Arizona train, who was ar
rested for attempting to commit q
rape on a Spanish girl, In Sonora.
town, a few nights ago, was up for
examination before Justice LHwior
yesterday and was discharged, the
prosecuting witness failing to ap.
pear.
A boy about eight years of age,
son Of Mrs. Julia Fish, SO Fort
street, was severely burned yester.
day while playing with powder In
company with q neighbours boy.
The outer skin OF his face was
burned off and his eyes scorched,
but 1t Ia hoped that the sight will
not be permanently impaired.
Hon. VIM. Ham. Hall, Chief En-.
gineer of the State Bureaux OF Irri.
cation and Mining Debris, accom-.
panied by Assistant Engineer
Schuyler, will start this morning
on y reconnaissance of the ground
in this and San Bernardino coun-
ties, covered by the work Of the
Department which has been In
progress for the past three or four
months under the personal super
vision OF Mr.. Schuyler.
Judge Brunson went down to
San Diego per steamer yesterday.
As he was provided with formid.
able rife we presume any grizzlies
that come In his way will bite the
dust. We would advise him, how
ever, to give Charley Thomas q
wide berth, as our friend Charley
will assuredly claim at least half
the honors in the feats of proves
he may perform.
The Flower Queen cantata is to
be rendered in Anaheim about the
18th inst. The Gazette Gays:
Nearly forty young ladies have
consented to take part in 1t, and
Miss Nicholson, fine musician,
recently from Philadelphia, has as.
sumed charge Of the musical de.
parttnent, while Mrs. Des Oranges
has kindly offered to play the NC.
compartment. Much interest is
being shown In the surrounding
towns.
R. J. Floyd. Of Ell Monte, who re-
Gently purchased an interest in the
CajOn Pass c0ni mine, started for
the Pass Friday with a corps of
surveyors for the purpose OF de.
termining the lines. there being
some uncertainty as to the exact
location, and whether the mine is
on Government or railroad land.
Mr.. Jackson, late County Surveyor,
has also gone to the same locality.
This mine is considered valuable.
In late San Bernardino paper an
English coal mining expert gives a
very favorable report of the quality
of coal and extent of the deposit. A
shaft has been sunk to the depth of
3l2 feet.
The Republicans last night had
the largest demonstration ever
made by that party in Los Angeles.
The Qualification, or rather the
Love Feast, as it was styled by one
Of the orators, opened with an i'm.
posing torchlight procession, in
which about thousand persons
participated. After the usual route
had been marched over the JUDI
liant prOcessiOnists returned to
Court street, where a meeting was
organized by the election OF Mr.. J.
8. SIauson as President aud D long
list Of Vice Presidents. Mr.. Slau-
son, on taking the chair, delivered
q short but animated speech, con.
graduating his hearers on tha cleo.
ton OF Garfield. He was followed
by Hon. G. Wiley Wells, Major
Horace Bell and Others, all of whom
lauded the probable President elect
as possessing oil the virtues posi-.
BILE to man. The meeting broke up
with three cheers for Garfield and
Arthur.
A Mex lean who some years ago
worked for Mr.. Theo. Rimpau, but
who has been in Lower California
for the past few yeare, returned
b ere few days ago. He has been
one year coming from La Paz to
Anaheim. His horses-poor when
the Journey began-gradually gave
out, and as tho barren country
traversed gave scarcely any sub.
sistance to the starved animals,
their progress was slow and fire..
quent long rests were necessary.
The Mexican tells y strange story
In regard to that part of Lower
California in which he has been
living. He says that for
the past seven years there
has been nothing like a.
general rainfall. What rain has
fallen has been confined to limited
areas, and whenever the inhAbi.
tants OF the country got news that
1t had rained at certain place,
they would pack up their house.
hold goods and begin q pilgrimage
to the green pastures, remaining
there until advised Of u rainfall In
some other part of the country. He
Gays that the principal occupation
OF the people living along the sea
coast Is the gathering of orchiila
kind of moss which grows upon
the tress and shrubbery near the
sea coast, and which Is sent to San
Francisco in bales. 1t IL used for
dyeing purposes, and brings $35
per ton.-Anaheina Gazette,