Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-05-13

on Tueaday last. His Injuries were
dressed by Dr.. Kurtz and he Is get.
ting along nicely although he will
be confined to bed for some time.
In Judge Illness branch OF the
Superior Court yesterday, the cases
of O'Connor VS. Good ct al. were
consolidated by agreement and
tried as one case. The proceedings
az to some of the defendants were
dismissed and counsel ordered to
draw up findings as to the remain
der.
A man ramed Duff, bear.
ing. in addition to Chris.
topher, the aristocratic pre-.
nomen of De Courcy, which he
insisted should be inserted in the
complaint, was up before City JUS
tice Adams yesterday on the
charge of indecency and was given
until O'Clock this morning to
plead.
It is a noteworthy fact that the
revised edition Of the Bible, on
which the revisors, some seventy.
two in number, have been engaged
for the past ten years, does not con.
tain the word devil, but instead
uses the phrases "the spirit of, or
the disposition to, evil.o Neither
Beelzebub or Lucifer appear.
In addition to the popular favor
ties, Sadie Irwin, Flora Weston
and Alice Mansfield, two new lady
artists have been added to the
troupe at the Adelphi Theater. The
company Is now one, of the best Or
ganized and most talented variety
combinations on tho Pacific Coast.
All the old favorites appear nightly
in a bill replete with fun and senti-
ment.
Messrs. Owen and Johnston Dep
uty County Clerks, have by joint
efforts. invented an improvement
on the telephone. 1t is exceeding
ly simple in construction, hut
works perfectly, transmitting the
human voice ia the most satlsfac.
tory manner. The speaker. need
not have his mouth nearer than
two feet from the diaphragm, aud
the nearer can easily distinguish
every word transmitted, at least
four feet from the instrument. A
patent will, OF course, bs applied
for.
The old Pico slaughter house, on
the Rancho San Antonio, four
miles from the city, was destroyed
by fire on Wednesday afternoon.
Its contents-a lot of baled hay,
q windmill and tower, and three
thousand feet of Ium ber-all be-
longing to Mr.. Wallace Wood
worth, and amounting in value to
upwards of eleven hundred dollars
were consumed by fire occasioned
by burning stubble. The flames
sped across a barley field of several
acres in extent, belonging to Mr..
Rogers. But for the active exer-
tions Of this gentleman and 9th.
er residents of the vicinity, the new
school building OF San Antonio
district would have been destroyed.
We understand that Mr.. Wood
worth's property was insured for
$575.
Policeman Fletcher and Mr.. Sam
HelImsn played somewhat pc.
culiar game of bo-peep night before
last. Fletcher, In making his
rounds, saw man moving about
in the neighborhood Of Mr.. He'll.
mans house and finally enter hts
yard In what he considered q sus-
picious manner. Wishing to make
sure Of catching the supposed
thief, Fletcher FASTENED to Po-
lice Headquarters, where he Sc
cured the services Of Capt. Davis nd
the two returned to Mr.. Hellman's,
but no thief was to be seen. Yes
terday Fletcher recounted the cir
cumstanos to Mr.. Hellman, when
the latter informed him that he
himself was the party who had en-
tered the yard and that, having
his suspicious aroused by Fletch-
er's movements, he had watched
him, but when the latter rode off,
he entered his house and retired to
bed.