Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-09-01

I'm. One postal car will arrive at st.
Louis on the morning Of the second day
at 7.30 o'clock.
Contracts for Constructing Lines
for the Postal Telegraph Com
pany.
NEW YORK, Aug. 3l.--Contracts 10
the amount Of 81, 500, 900, for the con-
strnction OF new lines, have been
awarded by the Board OF Trustees OF the
Postal Telegraph Company. Mr.. Mac
key. President, will leave here for Cali
fornia in few days, but be viii see
work fairly under way before ho leaves.
Great Destruction or Fishing
Dories and Loss of Life
New York. Aug 3l.---A ST. Johns.
N. f., special says; The fleet OF United
States fishing vessels which arrived here
last night, report violent. storm on the
Great Banks on Sunday last. The gale
rose from the eastward at A. NJ. when
hundred dories were away from the
vessels overhaulingtrouls. CAPT. Hitler
reports that scores Of dories were turned
upside down, and the wreckago was
strewn in every direction along hs track
coming westward. A Freuch banker
lost four dories and all their crews. Ii
is computed from all sources Of iuforma-
ton that one hundred dories and eighty
men were lost in the storm. Most OF
the dories were swept by the waves from
the schooner decks and the remainder
collapsed in the sea.
sterling Exchange ana Bonds.
New York, August 3l.-Sterling
bills, on London, GO days, S4.S3; do do,
sight draft, s4.S61; U. 5. 4ts. Of 1891, in
terest quarterly, sl.l3s; U. s. As. of
1907, interest quarterly, Sl.l0s; U. $.
IS. SI.034; w U. Telegraph 7S5.
Placed on the Retired List.
Gen. J. e. Atsin. Colonel and As
sstant Quartermaster General, stationed
at Louisville, was placed on the retired
list of the army to-day. TO be succeeded
by Col. Rufus Saxton.
An Assisted Emigrant sent Home
BUFFALO IN. W. Aug. 3l.--Two as
sisted pauper Irish emigrants were sent
back to-day. They stated that eleven
hundred Others came over in the same
ship. All their expenses were paid by
the British Government. The plan is to
ship them to Canada and from there to
the United States at different points. A
large number have been sent back from
this country recently.
Texas Cattle Fever In Detroit.
DETROIT Mich J, Aug. 81 The Texas
cattle fever has bi oxen out in Detroit in
the herd of mlkman IN the western
part of the city. HIS whole herd of
twelve are infected, and several are
already dead. A herd Of ten steers,
bought by Genesee county farmer for
feeding, some two weeks ago, have also
been attacked by the disease and few
have died already.
SnIveI service APPOINTMENT.
CHICAGO, August 81. The first ap-
pointment here under tho Civil Service
law occurred to-day Collector Spauld-
ing made requisition upon the local
Examining Board Of the Civil Service
Commission for person to ill vacancy
in clerkship, at $1,000 per annum, in
the entry and warehouse division of the
Custom House. The Collector selected
John A. C6rlett, of Chicago.
Colorado Oil Wells.
DENVER Coll. August 3l.--In the
Arkansas Valley Company's oil wells, in
Caion City, to-day, at depth OF 1860
feet, the drill penetrated second vein
OF oil which raised one hundred and
twenty feet in the tubing. Genuine peb-
bic sand forms part of this second STRAIT
um, the thickness of which is yet un-
known. This well is two and a-half
miles from the Body well. The Canon
City Company will commence boring
tomorrow. Four miles north Of the
Peabody oil has been obtained Of a
heavy, pure lubricating quality.
The James Trial.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 30.--A special from
Gallatin to the Post Dispatch says; In
the Frank James trial to-day, the de-
fence continued their line of impeaching
the States witnesses.