Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-12-22
LOCAL RREvITIEs.
Judge O'Melveny has returned
from business trip to Arizona.


Tuesday night at that place, of con.
su mption.
The schooners Vanderbilt, Jen.
nie Thelin and Agnes Nicholson
sailed yesterday In ballast fol
Coast porte.
The furniture Of q hotel and sa
loon, advertised for sale, ars
amongst the entioements Of ouI
New To-Day.
The police last night caught e
Parsons stealing oranges and
lodged him iu jail, charging him
with petit larceny.
"R. r." who desires to be ad'
dressed vt this Office, wants to buy
building lot. Now don't lei
every body rush at him at once.
On bis last visit 10 this city Mr.
L. M. Holt Informed us that q mar
in Riverside had just secured the
refusal of u place, set out to trees
but without buildings. at 81, 900 an
acre..
The wife OF Mr.. Charles Eaton
who died on Tuesday of injuries
received hom her clothes catching
fire in the Grand Central Hotel
will be buried this morning at II
O'Clock.
Jack Brxnnon was arrested yes.
terday for being connected with
the musical genius Robert Cuff
In helping him to dispose Of the
guitar which the latter had become
surreptitiously possessed Of.
On the San Gabriel noun taina
they had two heavy rains last
week, to which the valley of that
name and the Los Angeles va LEY
have been strangers. The second
occurred yesterday mornipg, as We
have been informed by Mr.. VIII.
con. 1t was not only q shower but
q downright, brisk rain. as was its
predecessor.
Justice Ed Williams held an In.
quest on u Los Nietos blacksmith,
named Charles Wiedemner, who
hanged himself in u room Adjoin.
ing his chop, after having returned
from Los Angeles In u drunken
state. The verdict Of the jury was
voluntary strangulation, and "jim-
jams" may reasonably be- supposed
to have been the impelling motive.
Two fires occurred shortly after
dusk last night. The first was on
Seventh and Main streets, on the
Reyes property, aud started in q
'dobie stable. 1t partly consu med
the stable, our vigilant Fire De.
psrtment arresting the dsmes at
an early stage. The second was In
the rear OF the Postof1ee, starting
amongst sOme boxes and rubbish. I.
It was quickly extipguished, with.
out damage.
We have received letter from
Kansas City, dated December 18th,
in which Mr.. w. e. Wilmore in
forms us that he is now at that
point, and believes that he can or.
gaDiZe company to buy the
A American COLONY tract. He also
says that h- expects to return to
Lp. Angeles with an excursion
shout the last of January. or the
beginning Uf February, next.
The New YEARS. Eve ball Of the
Turntrs, the advertisement Of
which appears elsewhere, will be
specially brilliant and enjoyable.
Our German fellow citizens, while
having u high old time themselves,
know how to contribute to the en-
joyme Of the good public. Their
New Years Eve divertisenent will
bs u sparkling affair, aud the gen.
eral public may as we'll get ready
to take In the fun and contribute
to its eclot
The San Franclsco Alta, the
other day. announced that q Los
Angeles clergyman recently goi
drunk and said that he would be
id If he would preach any more
for $3.50 Q month. 1t fs a base
and fiippant one ~ we'll.
We call upon our San Francisco
to name the man.
We havs q most exemplary clergy
hereabOuts, who are incapable OF
such . gross laches from duty. Pro-
family aud fiippancy are alien ia
all Of them.
Yesterday we. received q note
from Mr.. Ballarino, who has had
considerable rk,ll in forecAsting
the weather, who tells US that the
barometer, all the old bones In the
country and the mercury, indicate
a revolution in the atmssph eric
field. These things, according to
Mr.. Ballarino, show that the old
Zapjero of all the Created, is put
ting up for Saturday, toward'
Christmas day, an exhilsratlng
sprinkling that will do good to all.
Mr.. BallRrino adds THAT all the
meteorological sIgns, and his thir-
ty-three years. residence In Cali
fornis, justify him in predicting
that this will not be q dry year.
Mr.. D. Freeman, of the Cent.
nela Rancho, has been specially
lucky Of late, both in raising mag
nificent crops Of barley aud wheat
and, this year, In holding his enor
nous crop OF barley and buying, .
low prices, all the bar'ey within
reach. Naud's warehouse is sl
ready fillsd with Mr.. Freeman
barley, and he has often de
clined 81 l76 per hundred for hi