Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-06-17

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The Presbyterians will this week re-
move from the little brick church on
Fort street to Arcadia Hall, corner
Arcadia and Los Angeles streets, where
they will hereafter hold service until
they occupy their new church building,
corner of Fort and Second streets. The
hall has been refitted, reprinted and re-
organized and will make pleasant place
of worship.
The Sixth Street Railway Company
commenced cleaning out the switches on
their road yesterday preparatory to run
ming cars at intervals of fifteen minutes
between this city and East Los Angeles.
This will be great convenience to resi-
dents of both the eastern and western
extremes of the city and will certainly
add to the receipts of the railway CON-
pany.
The social at the Fort Street M. L.
Church last night was well attended and
the receipts, which are applied to the pur-
poses of the Ladies Society, gratifying
ly large Many of the ancient costumes
worn by the ladies were composed of
rich material and all were exceedingly
quaint and odd to us of the present gen.
Grafton. The characters of eye olden
time were well represented and every
body was delighted with the entertain
ment
The social of the Ladies' Aid Society
of the Episcopal Church, at the residence
of Mr.. j. NJ. Griffith, ON Thursday
evening, was the most delightful of the
many pleasant parties given by the So
ciety this season. The large mansion
was crowded with guests and the hos
pitable host and hostess were untiring
in their efforts to make the enjoyment of
every one complete.
Last night Acacia Chapter, of the or
der of the Eastern STAR had a pleasant
gathering at Masonic Hall. The mem
bers of the Order and invited guests en-
ioyed themselves to the utmost. The
music was fine and the guests, who were
versed in the tie psichorean art, had an
elegant time. After some literary exer-
cises refreshments were served and the
ladies of Acacia Lodge dispensed their
characteristic hospitality to the delight
of all present.
The case of the People VS.. Chung
Wah Sing, charged with keeping an
opium den, was tried before q jury i'll
City Justice Adams's Court yesterday.
Deputy City Attorney Gage appeared
for the prosecution and c. N. Wilson
and Z. j. DePuy for the defense. After
hearing the testimony of several wit.
nesses, who testified that they had
smoked opium in his place, the jury
brought in a verdict of guilty. Sentence
will be passed at $50 o'clock this morn
ing. This is the first conviction, so far
as we know, for this offence in Los An
geles.
We yesterday saw hamper Of edi-
bles that had been prepared under the
supervision of Commissary Prayer, of the
Los Angeles delegation that started for
San Jose last evening, that would have
made the teeth of Lucullus water. The
solids consisted of boned turkey, roast
and broiled chicken, pate de foie gras,
boiled ham aud tongue, lobster salad
and limburger cheese. Amongst the
liquids we noticed two dozen Bud
Weiser beer, twelve quarts Cache Blanc,
six quarts Kentucky Bourbon and one
bottle of Benedictine.
Miss Foy, the City Librarian, has
made new arrangement of the depart
ment devoted to newspapers which will
be of great convenience to frequenters OF
the City Library. Heretofore the space
allotted to newspapers has been circum-
scribed. Under the new disposition a
portion of the ladies' reading room has
been fitted up with files so that persons
DESTROYS of reading the daily journals
can do so with comfort to themselves
and without incommoding in any way
frequenters of the book department of
the Library.