Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-01-26
LOCAL RREvITIEs.

FRANCISCO yesterday.
See advertisement "Money to
Loan" under New To-Day.
Two thousand budded orange and
lemon trees are offered for sale In
our New To-Day.
The loser of q white horse can re.
cover the same at Franconi's sta.
BILE, No. Is Also street.
Mr.. w. H. Smith, President OF
the Bslcher mine, Virginia City,
Nevada, is among the guests at the
Pico House.
Ciough, the footpad, was ar.
raigned before Justice Adams yes
terday and hearing set for 10
O'Clock this morning.
Wallace Leach, Eeq, of San
Diego, came down from San Fran
cisco overland yesterday and is
registered at the Cosmopolitan.
We received a pleasant call last
evening from Major Logan, travel.
ing freight agent for the Central
Pacific Railway, who arrived in
Los Angeles overland yesterday.
DR.. s. Mercer, Surgeon Of the U.
P. r. r., at Omaha, with his wife
and SOD, arrived in Los Angeles
yesterday. They are stopping at
the PicO HOuee.
"Shasta," the woman stabbed by
Ellen Stewart on Sunday, being
unable to appear in Court yester-
day, the Case was continued by
Justice Adams until 2P. M. to-day.
Preliminary steps have been
taken looking to the celebration OF
the centennia of Los Angeles on
4th, 1881, the pueblo
having been laid out by the Faith
ers OF the Mission San Gabriel In
1881.
The city department Of the Al
bergo Iii TomsOni Is now taxed to
its utmost capacity and Captain
Sullivan, Overseer of the chain
gang, Is put to his tIumps 10 find
employment for all the city's
bOarders.
Major True, we'll known vii over
the Coast az n first.class hotel man,
and good fellow withal. favored
us with . call last evening. Major
True is Ell route u Ell PasO, aud
will spend u day or two in Los An.
geles before proceeding to his
Chief Gard yesterday arrested q
man on suspicion Of being one Of
the footpads who waylaid Mr.. Gage
on First street on Monday night.
He was confronted with Mr.. Gage,
of whom lie happened to be an in
innate acquaintance, and was dis.
charged.
Professor Geo. Dawson, Messrs.
James 8. Lawson, r. A. Colonnn
and E. +. Decking, Of the u. 8.
Coast Survey, arrived in Los An
geles day before yesterday and reg
istered at the Pico House, We un
derstand they will spend some
days here.
The chain gang, under the SUPER
vision of Captain Sullivan, were
engaged yesterday In preparing the
crossing from Commercial street to
Downey Block for the next rain. 1t
was much needed improvement
and, had repairs been made sooner,
the City Dads would have escaped
many an auathema.
Hunt, whose buffalo overcoat,
lined with crimson cloth, has ex.
cited good deal of attention Of
late, has struck a generous mood,
and the other day he made pres.
ent of the shaggy but warmth in
suring robe to Col. Jim Thompson,
whose ample proportions do honor
to the huntet's raiment.
Mr.. J. Schumacher yesterday sold
to Messrs. Barker & Co. thirty-fve
feet frontage on Spring street oppo.
site the Postoffice. The price Is un.
derstood to be $3.50 per loot. The
purchasers propose to commence
at once the erection of o building Ia
which they will establish their pro
jected furniture store and. factory.
BY the way, is 1t not D pretty
state of affairs when a man can be
stopped and robbed, with a pistol
held to his held on tho corner OF
Main and First streets, within q
few feet of Confidence Engine
Houses Not IN all the previous
eccentric experiences of Los Ange-
les can we recall anything 30 move
a. this.
Our old townsman, Louis g
Mawson, writes TO US from Middle
bury, Vermont, enclosing a sub
scription TO the HERALD. He il
keeping o fruit and confectionery
store In that old and staid town
He asks, "Don't you want me Il
send you u snow puddiDgP Iri
mighty cold, back here in Var
mount. / wish were back In Loo
Angeles again aud / will be, one o
these days."
Mr.. Seymour Locke. Business
manager for the Owl Dramatic
Club, left yesterday for Sal
francisco for the purpcs'
Of making arrangements TO
the accessories required IL
the mounting OF. the new play. o
ssCourtshtp,n to be produced on th'
zth, 9Th, aud 9th, Of next month
The Owls seem determlued q
oolinoo olI their pro- ions Efforts ant
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