Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-11-17
LOCAL HREVITIE IT'S.

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this morning.
In our telegraphic columns will
be found an account of destruct.
i've fire at Anaheim, which oc.
Cured night before last.
Judge Thomas Fl. Smith and F.
A. Humbert, of this city, were
registered at the Palace Hotel, San
Francisco, on the 18th inst.
Professor Paul Schumacher and
Messrs. B. F. and f. NJ. Coulter
are among the passengers by this
mornings train from San Fran
cisco.
General John Eaton, United
States Commissioner Of Educat ton,
will arrive In Los Angeles this
morning and will spend the day in
visiting our public schools.
We yesterday had the pleasure
of meeting Mr.. Theodore F. Tracy,
Inspector of Postal Money Order
offices, who is making an official
visit to Southern. California.
1t is reported by gentleman in
from the desert that a party of G.
P. r. r. engineers are surveying
the ground between the Cajon
Pass and Mohave station. San
Bernardin0 Inde1.
The passengers by the stea mer
Ancop, due to-day, will leave Will
mington by tho noon train and
arrive in this city at 2:20 P. NJ.
Passengers for San Diego will take
the 8 P. NJ. train, Los Angeles
time, for Wilmington.
Col. Jno. f. Godfrey, one of the
most successful Of the legal frater.
nifty of Los Angeles, arrived in
Tucson yesterday. He finds SO
many old acquaintances here that
it seems like home to him.--Citi-
zen, Nov. 14M.
a meeting of Veterans of the
Mexican War and the war of the
rebellion will be held in the Coun.
ell Chamber (Union HalD at i
o'clockP. NJ. on Saturday next, to
consider matters relating to the
Veterans Home Association. A
full attendance of all soldiers and
sailors of those wars il earnestly
requested. See advertisement.
Jose Bareras, Jesus Childs and
Pauline Leon, arrested on the
charge of assaulting and robbing
an old Spaniard on the street, about
3 o'clock last Sunday morning,
were examined before City Justice
Adams yesterday afternoon. Bar
eras, in default of $500 bail. was
mmitted for trial and ChiIds and
Leou were discharged, there being
no evidence connecting them with
the robbery.
We have received the cast of an
original drama to be produced at
the Sackett School, Oakland, on
the evening of the 22d. IL is enti.
tied "Trial for Murder" and writ
ten by Chas. G. Stevenson, u pupil
of the school. We notice that Los
Angeles county is we'll represented
in the cast, Fred w. Potts, Fred
Il. Griffith, Frank B. Shirley, Per-
cy III. Griffith and Robert M.
Dodsworth taking roles in the
dramatic performance.
Turn Verein Hall was again
crowded last night by delighted
audience to assist at the third eele-
bration of Grandm9s Birthday
Party. The piece was brilliantly
rendered and ELECTED unstinted ap-
plause. The troupe will give an
other performance Tonight, with
an entire change of programme,
opening with "a grand minstrel
first part and concluding with the
celebrated farce entitled, 1.-THE Ar
mold Brothers Elephant Act"
Everything will I've new and sparks
ling, and those who attend will en-
JOY a very fine performance.
From gentleman who was at
the railroad depot when the wreck
Ing train started out, we learn that
train of 26 fiat cars, coming
towards Los Angeles, was ditched
at the curve beyond Newhall be-
tween seven and eight o'clock last
night. The accident was caused
by the widening of the rails. We
were unable to gain any particu-
lars, further than that none of the
train hands are reported hurt.
The north bound passenger train,
which was due at Newhall about
the time of the accident, will prob.
ably be detained until the wreck
ia cleared away.
In the great Kern county water
suit, the following extract was
quoted by Hall McAlllster, In his
argument, from the Code Napo-
leon, and will be OF interest to our
readers: "He whose property Dor.
ders on running water, other
than that which is declared q de-
tendency on the public domain by
Article 5SS, may employ it, in its
passage, for the watering of his
property. He whose estate Is in
tersected by auch water, is at liber-
| ~ to make use of it within the
space through which it runs, but
on condition of restoring 1t at the
boundaries OF his field to Its ordi-
nary course"
The members of the Eagle Corps
were engaged until a late hour last
night 10 giving the finishing
touches to the decorations of the
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