Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-12-27
It rained at San Francisco all

II rained ct San Francisco all
day yesterday, with every indica.
tion ,of its coming south. At 8
o'clock last evening the indications
at San Luis Obispo wer0favorable
for rain at that point. Here, at that
hour, the prospects were also IA.
vorable, but at this hour, 8 O'Clock,
the clouds have cleared away and
the barometer 10 rising.
The Holmes Grover Dramatic
Company, Of which Mr.. George
Werner has been appointed man.
aging agent, after visiting the va
rious towns on the Southern cir
cult, will arrive In Los Angeles
about the 9th of January and play
here for five or six nights. Mr..
Werner left for San Francisco last
night overland to join the COM
pany.
Mr..J. L. Baisley, on Saturday
last, finished boring an artesian
we'll for Mr.. L. J. Rose, at Sunny
Slope. The we'll Is 184 feet deep
and will flow from 10000 to
l75, 900 gallons of water per day.
This is the third we'll Of the same
capacity finished by Mr.. Baisley
within the past four months and is
the sixteenth flowing we'll struck
on the Sunny Slope ranch.
Up to last evening County Tax
Collector Cullen had collected
about $3.50, 900 OF taxes for the cur
rent fiscal year. Although yester-
day was the last day upon which
taxes could be paid before becom-
ing delinquent, we understand that
Mr.. Cullen will continue to re-.
csive money on that account up to
this evening, thus giving those
who have not yet paid up an op-
portunity to escape publication ss
delinquents.
The hearts of the Sunday school
children OF st. Athanasius Episco-
pal church were made glad last
night bp the distribution OF the
beautiful presents from the Christ
mas tree. Each of the little ones
was remem bered by an appropri-
ate GIFT. A similar ceremony was
performed at the Congregational
Church and never have we seen .
happier or mere contented set OF
Juveniles than were assembled at
both churches.
Tue passenger train from the
East WAS seven. hours late last
night, and did not arrive here un.
til about 12 O'Clock. The delay
was caused by q smash-up on the
road ct Sweetwater, q station stu.
ated few miles west Of Casa
Grande, Arizona, owing to the
East.bound train RAINING into q
couple OF freight cars left on the
main track, which ought to have
been shunted and placed with the
remainder OF the freight train 60
ing east, on tho side track. NE
amount Of damage done was not
great; the postal car had it's side
broken In and the two freight cars
were badly damaged, but FORUM
ately none Of the employees or pas
sengers received any injuries.
A very great number Of people
who stayed away from Professor
Charles II. Reads exposition OF
spiritualism last night got fearful-
~ fooled. Asa matter Of fact he
gave the best exhibition in that
line ever seen 10 Los Angeles, dis
counting the famous Baldwin all
hollow. The HERALD says this
absolutely without reference to
any thing but the merits of the per-
formance. 1t 10 simply immense.
The Professor and Orilla Read give
their second and last performance
tonight. 1t Is undoubtedly the
best thing of the kind, and by long
odds the best thing of the kind,
seen IN this city during our time.
There ought to be an OveIfiowiDg
house ut Turnverein Hall tonight.
Mr.. @. A. Barottoni, manager
Of the American business Of Cook
4 Son, the famous London con.
ductors Of "Trips Around the
World" arrived In Los Angeles on
Saturday evening and made ar.
rAngements with Messrs Griswold
& Marsh, of the Pico House, to &c.
commodate an excursion party of
100 persOns, to arrive in this city
from the East In May next The
party will spend five days here.
We last week met Mr. BarOttoni
at Las Vegas. New Mexico, en-
route to Santa F6 and Ell Paso, to
make arrangements for the accom-
mediation of his party ut those
places. He went up to San Fran
cisco overland on Sunday evening,
to complete arrangements for visit
ing alt points of interest in Califor-
MIA.
On Sunday afternoon, while the
Holiness Band were holding forth
| In front of Mr.. Jake Phillippps
place, on Market street, a passei-
by, who had evidently taken In q
goodly quantity Of Christmas egg.
nogg, Interrupted the services,
when one of the band hied him to
Police Headquarters and asked to
hava tha irravarent disturber af-
rested as v nuisance. He was met
with the query. (Which Is the
greater nuisance, the obstruction
by your people of the entire side
walk or the slight interruption Of
fered by the person of whom you
complain ?'' The holy man being
unable to answer, withdrew from