Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-12-20

| Free labor for the benefit of tn
city will be furnished for nine days
by the indispensable John Doe for
careeping too much in his tracks.
John Cubip, a mate, and John l..
Stanton, the "chips" OF a vessel I'M
loading at Wilmington, serve
twelve days each for airing the no.
BILE art of self-defense on Los An
geles street.
Our esteemed contemporary, the
Commercial, failed to quote us cor.
rectly when 1t said that the HER.
AID said that ex-Lieut. Governor
Johnson would be the next Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor. We
said nothing of the kind, but sim.
ply remarked that the many
friends of that popular and genial
gentleman were urging him for
that position. There is what might
be called distinction with diff
ferense between what the HERALD
really said and Is asserted to have
said, which we desire to accentuate
Ny tHio paraRTapu.
Toys, dolls. velocipsdss, wag-
CONS, doll buggies, at Hirschfeld
II, Downey Block.
Prof. H. Sample 10 meeting with
unexampled success in his equine
seances in this city. His treat
ment OF the horse amounts to high
art. Or the 100 pupils, at So a
head. who are now enrolled in his
Glasses, one and all say that they
have more than received their
moneys worth. Prof. Sample,
during his stay amongst us, has
had an extra ord nary success in
subduiDg refractory horses--a sue.
cess which has not been baked in
single instance. AS his stay
here is drawing to a close those
who wish to be adopts IN horse
craft had better join his clas ses ut
once.
There was q rattllng coyote hunt
on the Centinela rancho yesterday.
Col. r. y. Baker, Don Arturo
Bandini, and large crowd of la
dies anu gentlemen, on horseback,
were on hand, with several packs
of hounds. The most exciting
event of the day was the unearth-
ing of coyote. of great size and
ferocity, who fought, like "a tiger,
the whole pack of hounds. Don
Arturo Bandini, having dis
mounted, and seeing that one of
the hounds was having q hard
time OF it, the coyote having fas-
tened his fangs, which proved to
be half an inch long, in the dogs
neck, kicked the coyote in the
jaw. The plucky brute turned like
lightning and bit Don Arturo
through boot and foot. Though
slaughtered by numbers, his
coyOteship was not dismayed.
The supporters of the Sunday
law have been for the last two or
three days going round to the va
rious merchants aud saloon keep.
ers, requesting them to stgn paper
pledging themselves to observe the
Sabbath by closing their respect
i've places of business on that day.
Many OF those appealed to have
positively refused 10 comply with
the request; the mildest protest
being in effect that II will close il
others will do So" As for the
anti-tempsranoe men, they say
that the idea IT their stopping their
Sunday refreshment Voluntarily,
is too exquisiteIy funny. They
claim that kind ami bountifuI ma
ture has not provided them with
any adequate means Of preventing
thirst on Sundays any more chan
on other days; and, moreover. that
they ale nearly all members OF the
League of Freedom.
Holiday gift books and chfidren's
books, at HirschfeId's book store.
Our popular and entcrprisipg
friend Mr.. 8. K. Sewall has just re-.
turned from u trip of some months
duration to his old home in New
Hampshire and Massachusetts,.
taking in New York and other
leading cities in his trip. It will
be seen, by advertisement else
where, that Mr.. Sewail has asso.
ciated with himself, in business
which he thoroughly understands,
Mr.. Stevens. They will do busi-
ness in the San Gabriel Valley.
The firm will act as Com IN ission
Merchants, General Forwarding,
Real Estate aud Insurance agents
and ware house keepers. they |
have esta 81 ished a mercantile cor.
respondence in Chicago, Kansas
City and Salt Lake, aud are pre-.
pared so buy, and to handle on
comm ission, oranges and the other
citIous fruits. Mr.. Sewall is de-
lighted to get back to Semi-rropi.
Cal California once more.
The wife of Mr.. Cbas. Eaton, who
has rooms in the Grand Central He
tel, met with very dangerous and
painful accident yesterday morn
ing, about 1880. While che was
dressing her baby, she happened to
turn her back to the fire -place aud
her dress ignited. Immediately on
discovering herself On fire, she
rushed down two fights OF
stairs into the street; and. seeing
Mr.. Nolte's store open, she ran in
there, her clothes being by this
time all ablaze. The workmep in
stantly threw rolls of cloth and
clothes of every description around
her, thereby saving the upper part
Of her body; but the fire, having
had such hold upon her neither
garments, 1t was impossible TO
prevent her from being considera-
bly, burned about the hips and
lower limbo. Though suffering ex-
cruci atlnp main from the mishap.