Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-12-28

crop OF gOOd potatoes, making Two
crops of potatoes from one plant
ing.
Says the San Bernardino Times.
We learn from Mr.. Lawrence that
the coal mine owned by him and
Mr.. Tay, in the Csjon, is promis.
ing excellently. They now have
q shaft on 1t thirty-two feet deep
and are in vein OF coal five feet
thick. They are now building a
good wagon road to the mouth OF
the pit and will begin hauling coal
as soon it Is finished. Negotia-
tions are now pending between
them and Messrs. Waterman &
Porter to supply the latter with
coal to run their quartz mill.
The attendance at Mr.. Charle es
II. Reads expose of spiritualism
at Turnvereln Hall last night was
not large, although his perform
ance was In many respects very
good. Mr.. Read seems to lack al
most utterly Baldwin's power OF
happy presentation of ideas. AS q
talker he Is not success. It Is un-
fortunate that he advertised to ex-
pose Annie Eva Fay, a lady whose
performances are OF such a meager
and unsatisfactory character that
they do not admit of hanging .
supplementary performance on
their rendition.
Yesterday evening Claude Ca
roule, cook at the Kansas City
Hotel, on San Fernando street, op-
posite the railroad depot, inspired
by corn juice or some equally ex.
citing liquid, got on the rampage
and, with the aid Of cleaver and
butcher knife. attempted to clear
the house. Officer Hart, who was
at the depot, was called in and sue
ceeded ia arresting the excited
Gaul, whom he marched to the
Albergo di Tomsoni, where he was
furnished with accommodation
until this morning, when he Will
be taken before Judge Adams to
give an account Of himself.
About 8 o'clock last night Mr..
Mendoza, who keeps jewelry
shop on Arcadia street. heard a
noise in his place. On going into
the shop to ascertain the cause, q
| Chinaman ran out, as he did go
dropping q watch. Mr.. Mendoza
gave chase and followed the flying
Celestial down Also and Alan eda
streets to the old depot where the
thief was caught by Ingram, night
watchman at Lankershim's mill,
by whom John was brought to the
lookup. He will be examined be-
fore City Justice Adams this morn.
Ing on charge OF burglary.
The following is list of the
guests of the Kimball Mapsion:
Rev Mr. Ellis, city; Mr. aud Mrs ]
A Taylor, Of Olumwa, Iowa; Mr.
and Mrs Cox, of Montana; Mr. and
Mrs Norman, of Louisville, Ky;
Mr. q o Richard, New York; Mr.
and Mrs J Wilcox, of Portland,
Oregon; Mr. r F Ewing, of Deca.
tur, Ill; Mrs l. A Ewing, DO; Miss
Belle Ewing, do; Mrs l. Wilkin-
son, do; Mr. and Mrs P Luse, of
Chicago. Ill; Miss Alice Luse, do;
DR. 9 E Sheldon, city; Mr. s B Lit
tie, city; Mr. Strouss, Of Nevads;
Mr. Gibson, of Detroit; Mr. A +
Luse, of Chicago.
MIR. g. F. Mcclellan, of Los An
geles, spent the day in our city yes
terday. We regret failing to meet
our good friend of other days. The
local OF this paper has many rea.
sons to hold in kindly remem-
brance Mr.. Mcclellan and his
brother, the agent Of the Pacific
Coast steamship Company, with
both OF whom We enjoyed for sew
eral years the most pleasant social
and business relations. They are
both deservedly popular at Los
Angeles, and we undertake to say
that Goodall, Perkins & Co., never
had more faithful and efficient rep
resentatives during their extended
business eareer.-San Diego Onion
Yesterday afternoon e. Nittin-
ger, who keeps an employment of
fee and deals in tcilped railroad
tickets in the PostOlIice building,
was arrested by officer Hart on a
warrant charging him with OBJ
tanning money under false pre-.
tences. 1t appears that Nittinger
sold a coupon ticket to a man GO
ing to San Francisco. The pur-
chaser being refused passage on
the ticket, or fearing it was not
good, preferred the charge as
above. NittiDger was taken before
City Justice Adams and entered
bail iu the sum of $50 for his APP
pearance for trial ut 2 O'Clock on
Saturday afternoon.
| We received a call last evening
from Mr.. G.. M. Welty, manager of
the Nellie Boyd Dramatic Combi-
nation. The Troupe are now at
San Bernardino and will open at
Turn Verein Hall, this city, next
| AOpoaJ oNouibSs Afs Wclly III.
forms us that the company have
met with great success at all the
towns On the route from Chiesgo
west. Our citizeps will remember
that they played very successful
season in this city during Fair
week in the fall Of 1880. Since
then the troupe has been strength.
ened by the addition Of five new
members aud will appear here In
an entirely new line OF plays, in
Guiding "HaZel Kirke."
Mr.. N. II. Vail, who mas been
out In Arizona since March last,
with the exception Of brief trip
to San Francisco, got home Satur-
day last. The Total Wreck mine,
of which mine Mr.. Vail is Super.