Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-05-10

brbadcloths suitable for summer.
Any one desiring a stylish suit at
reasonable price should give him
call.
Mr.. H. M. Johnston, elsewhere
in this mornings HERALD, adver-
tises $50 acres of irrigable land for
sale. The tract is eligibly located,
is suitable for vines or trees and
can be irrigated from city ditch
or the mains of the Los Angeles
City Water Company. 1t Is one of
the most desirable properties that
has been offered for sale in long
time and is cheap and good in
vestment.
There are now some 300 vol
umes on the catalogue of the Free
Library, and this number will be
increased when funds for that pur-
pose are forthcoming. About 900
books are given out for perusai each
month, and the attendance Of read.
ers, both during the day times and in
the evening, is very satisfactory;
sometimes 80 or 20 persons visit
the library of an evening, many of
these being strangers from the diff.
ferept hotels. The Ladies' reading
room also is always we'll pstronized.
A gentleman, who recently visit.
ed the silver mines at Silverado,
informs us that he found Mr..
Knapp, of the Santa Rosa Mining
Company, actively engaged and
full of hope, the outlook being
mort encouraging. At the Blue
Light milne, in which our towns.
man Deputy Marshal Dunlap is In.
terested, Mr.. Lake, the Superin-
tendent, WAS as busy as a mailer
opening up that mine. Santiago
Ca IN, our informant thinks, with
it's silver and coal mines, will short
Iy prove to be the richest portion
of Los Angeles county.
We have been requested by Chief
of Police Gard to notify the drivers
of milk and bread wagons and all
others who drive through the
streets at u bresk-neck pace and
who turn corners at lightning
speed, thus endangeriDg the lives
Of all pedestrians, especially women
and children. who may happen to
be crossing, that he will hereafter
enforce the ordinance against fast
driving by arrestiug the offenders.
So, Messieurs Of the whip and rib
bon, restrain your fiery steeds.
Equestrians will also do well to
heed the warning.
A corps of Atlantic and Pacific
engineers, which has been en-
camped for several days near the
Southern Pacific depot, pulled up
stakes yesterday and started
for the desert. The party is under
charge Of Mr.. j II. Bates.C land
will locate the line of the road from
the Needles on the Colorado to u
point on the coast near San Buens-
ventura, crossing the Mojave desert
and passing through the SoIedad
Pass In order to follow the valley of
the Santa Clara. The teams, wsg
ons and the rest of the outfit, ex.
cept the tents, were bought In this
city.
"BelIa" In her letter to the San
Francisco A,gonaut of last week,
in gossip about society people,
says: "Mrs. FL. Mcclellan, OF Los
Angeles, Is on visit to San Fran
cisco and is the guest of Mrs. J. @.
Adams, 1874 Suffer street. Mrs
Mcclellan is the same bright, spark
ling little lady she was at the Occi-
dental Ho,el Is or IA years ago.
The Misses Slauson with their
mother, of Los Angeles. are 10 the
city aud are guests Of Mrs. Earle,
632 Eddy street. Mr.. aud MIS-.
severance, of Los Angeles, are at
the Palace, where they will remain
for few weeks and then go East
on an extended visit"
. Mr.. A. A. Robinson, Chief En-.
gineer Of the AtchisoD, Topeka and
Santa Fee Railroad, and wife, E.
Burdict and wife, of Madison, Wis.
consin, Albert Childs and wife, of
Janesville, Wisconsin, Mrs. Will
liams, Of Edgerton, Wisconsin,
and Mrs. George r. Peck, of To.
peka, Kansas, arrived in Los An.
geles in \ special Car by the South
ern route on Sunday evening. The
party are friends of DR.. and Mrs.
w. w. Ross of this city and, under
their guidance, Yesterday visited
Pasadena, the Villa. Mr.. l. j,
Rose's and other places in the San
Gabriel valley. They go down to
Santa Monica to-day and in the
evening 60 to San Francisco by the
regular tram.
The pupils of the Sisters Schoo',
instead of the usual May Day cele-
bration, gave an exhibition in the
arbor in the grounds Of the school
yesterday, which was attended by
tho Bishop and the clergy of the
two parishes Of Los Angeles, the
relatives and friends of the child.
rem and large number of ladies
and gentlemen who take an Inter-
est In all that relates to the adj
vapcement OF education. The
children were dressed in white and
as they marched into the arbor to
the strains of AL inspiriting march,
played by Miss Sacriste, pre-
scented q beautiful picture. The ex-
ercises consisted of vocal and
| inatrumantaI music and the