Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-03-29
LOCAL HREVITIES.

Gen. George Stoneman and Mrs.
Stoneman were in the city yester-
day.
A youth who boards with bis
parents is advertised for In our
New To-Day.
Therm ometer for "a hours end.
ing at 8:15 last evening: Maximum
So; minimum 4S0.
Mr.. Fred Crocker and party, in
q special car, will arrive in Los
Angeles by this mornings San
Francisco train.
A heavy Scotch mist com-
menced to fall at 8 O'Clock last
night and as we 60 to press, 3 A.
NJ, 1t is still falling.
G. B. Woodhead yesterday made
an information before Justice Fish.
or charging Samuel Prayer with
violating the Sunday law by keep
ing his saloon open last Sunday.
Mr.. John Haley, who, for some
months past, has been in England,
returned to Los Angeles yesterday.
He appears to be in his wOnted rO-
bust health.
The Jury in the case OF Charles
McCafrey, on trial before City
Justice Adams yesterday, on the
charge OF stealing a carriage cush-
ion, brought in a verdict of not
guilty.
Mr.. Halstead, Mr.. r. Nadeau's
manager in Arizona, arrived in
Los Angeles yesterday, after resi-.
dence OF some years in that terri.
tory. Mr.. Halstead was Mr.. Ma.
'deau's right hand man in the
palmy days of the IByo county
freighting business.
The trial of DR.. A. 8. Shorb, on
the charge Of procuring an abor-
tion on the person of Guadalupe
Garcia, from the effects Of which
she died, will commence in Judge
Sepulveda's department Of the Su-
perior Court to-day.
The establishment of Mr.. A. L.
Bath, on Spring street. was enter
ed by burglars night before last
and SOS worth OF tools carried off.
His safe was cut open about q week
ego. The thieves had their labor
for their pains, no coin having
been left Ia the safe.
The Chinese boek.keeper of
Messrs. Sissop, Wallace & Co.,
who was knocked down and rob bed
by some young hoodlums about
ten days ago, lost his reason on ec-
count Of the injuries received and
was taken up to the Stockton In.
sane Asylum by Deputy Sheri r
Huber last evening.
The jury in the case Of J. Fl. P.
Williams, on trial In Judge Sepul-
veda's department of the Superior
Court on the charge Of assault
with deadly weapon. y yesterday
brought In q verdict OF not guilty.
In the case of Robert Smith, tried
in the same Court on the charge OF
grand larceny, the jury also
brought in u verdict of acquittal.
Mr.. J. B. Taylor, agent fol-
"Pfaciical Life" is in the city
soliciting subscriptions. The book,
AS its name indicates, covers a wide
range of subjects including gensr-
al literature, and practical sugges'
. tions aud directions in regard to
employ ments for men and women.
It is an invaluable work and should
be iu the hapds of everybody.
, Mr.. Archibald Forbes, the csle.
! brated correspondent of the Lon.
don Evening Telegraph during the
Russo. o.Turkish war, expressed him.
self highly pleased with what he
{ saw in Los Angeles city and coun.
ty, go much so that, when he re-
turns from Australia, where he is
| now bound, he proposes to pay u.
another visit and get more de.
tailed idea of this section.
s Mr.. r. Nadeau, of Los Angeles
who is sjust now devoting his atten
tion to the planting of vineyards
. and to other horticultural and sgri
cultural pursuits, has sold all his
, teaming interests in the territory
!. to two parties, mill-Owners. Th,
8 consideration is understood to hav,
II been $10S, 900. Mr.. Nadeau hsl
4 been carrying on q great freightipf
Q business between Tombstone ant
J. Charleston.
r. Robert Smith, accused of gran,
II larceny, while testiiying in hi
h own behalf before the Superio
II Court y esterday, said that the foo
4, furnished by our efficient Jailo
d Thompson was far superio
= to that furnished by a grea
r, many sheep men in this coun
ty to their sheepherders. Ow
ing to this fact, Smith, when sen
fenced to the chain gang som
'r time ago, accepted the ALTERNATIVE
of nine days imprisonment rathe
than pay fine of 50, whicl
amount he claims he possessed q
that time.
3, Mr.. Andrew Hunter, an old Ar
zona miner, who has been pros
peeting for some time at poir
20 fifty miles above Elizabeth LAKE
arrived In this city yesterday an
exhibits splendid quality Of gol
% and copper ores. His experlenc
le in New Mexico and Arizona Is ir
~ valuable and we expect to hear {
- good sales in the future, as the ai
says show that his discoveries al
Of great value, the gold being $12
l. IL