Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-09-26

Mr.. J. r. Kennedy will open bis
dancing school at Leck's Hail on
Friday evening, October 1st. with
free invitation social. Perfect or
der, good music and a general good
time will be the rule of the even
ing.
A girl Is wanted in an English
family. See advertising columns.
Mrs. Ponet advertises elsewhere
a very attractive stock of millinery
goods, including the latest novel
ties in hats and bOnnets. NO lady
should fail to examine her unsur'
passed selections.
Mr.. G. T. Cutler prssed through Los
Angeles yesterday, en- route to San
Francisco, from Sonora. He in
forms US that the reports of dis
turbances at Guaymas were very
much exaggerated. He was there
at the time of the heated railway
discussion. The talk about the
Americans starting to lay out
new city at Guaymas was the
merest bosh.
On and after October 81 the Los
Angeles Gas Company propose to
reduce the price of gas to $4 80 per
1000 feet. They will not only
make this reduction, but we learn
that the quality of the gas will be
very much improved hereafter.
This will be grateful Intelligence
to our people and speaks favorabiy
for the good judgment and public
spirit of the management.
Mrs. M. E. Park, the accom-
plished moiiste, is removing her
splendid stock of hats, caps, bon
nets and millinery goods to the
new City of Paris block. During
her recent visit to San Francisco
Mrs. Park ransacked the market
for beautiful spscialties in the line
of feminine adornment. Her new
millinery parlors will be models of
elegance aud good taste.
"Dr.Geo. H. Bailey, who has
been sojourning in the mountains
for a week or two, says the Ana
helm Gazette, brought us a taran-
tula story on Monday whicl, beats
anything We have yet recorded re-
gardipg those animals. A man
and his wife who recently settled
upon some land between the Chino
ranch and the hills told the Doctor
that they had killed seven hundred
and fifty tarantulas in one month.
The wife killed forty in the yard
in few minutes one EVENING"
"Vhat are horned toads good
for2" is the question propounded
by a correspondent of an agricul-
tural paper, the editor thereof some-
what silamefully declaring he don't
know what they are good for. We
do. They are good to eat. Take
nice, fat horned toad and put him
alive in pickle bottle. Pour in u
pint OF vinegar or brandy (brandy
preferred) and let him soak for
three weeks. Then take him out
and eat him. and you will declare
Of you are Chinaman) that as a
delicacy it beats 'possum and sweet
taters all hollow. The Celestial ap.
petite Graves picked horned toad
and it is esteemed great delicacy.
Gazette.
The anniversary reception of the
Ancient Ordero of United Workmen,
at Turnverein Hall last night, was
an exceedingly pleasant and bril-
liant musical, literary and social
affair. Both the instrumental and
vocal exercises displayed q high
order of proficiency and the several
addresses were thoughtful and
happy. The hall was superbly dec
grated for the occasion and a
sumptuous supper was IL very ac-
feature of the entertain
ment. This deserving order has
succeeded in obtaining very re-
liable foothold in Los Angeles aud
its mem bership is increasing very
There will be issued from the
HERALD Office during Fair Week a
daily called the Fair Programme.
1t will be four-page paper con-
tanning twenty.four columns, on
every page of which will be read
ing matter almost exclusively de-
voted to the Fair. A large edition
will be issued daily, at noon, con-
taining the programme for the day
and other matters of interest. It
will be distributed by the Fair
management, and will be an
Invaluable medium for ad-
vertisipg, which the mer-
camille community will doubtless
fully appreciate. Business men
will probably agree that at least
considerable proportion of the prof
its attaching to such class of eu-
terprlses should be enjoyed by a
daily paper which, every day in
the year, is doing its level best to
advance the interests OF this Sec
tion. To-day, and until the Fair
opens, and during it's continuance,
Mr.. Il. A. Templeton will canvass
the business men OF Los Angeles in
the interest of this publication.
The thousands who will be in at
tendance during Fair Week can be
most surely reached by the adver-