Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-09-20

business thoroughly. He will fire
paper through a third-story window,
and smash the door and ceiling. Luck
| lily, so far no human being has yet come
within range Of his throws, although
there have been some close calls.
Mr.. John J. Valentine, superintend-
ent of Wells. Fargo 4 Co.'s Express,
has issued circular informing the pub.
lie that from and after October lst,
proximo, the date at which the new
postage law goes into effect, the company
will sell franked envelopes at the fol-
lowing rates: Single franks, s cents, Q
for 25 cents, l2 for SO cents, 25 for 81,
which Is virtually at the rate of 4 cents
each.
Messrs. Lewis Bros, the enterprising
shoe dealers, in double-column adver-
tisement elsewhere in this mornings
HERALD, announce further reductions
in special lines of shoes. This house is
always equal to the occasion, and, by
the celebrity and immensity Of their sales,
are enabled to dispose OF goods of the
best quality at small margin of profit.
Give them a call.
1t is now claimed that castor oil plants
will drive away flies, mosquitoes and
other undesirable insects Will some of
our readers try the remedy by placing
castor oil plants at doors and windows
where these insects most do congregate
The electric light shades are killing off
the moth and other millers in O whole
sale way, and the castor oil plant is kill
ing the grasshoppers. Now let the mos
quitoes be labored with next.
The internal machine in the shape Of
bicycle. made with the small wheel in
front and the large one behind, is a curl.
osity on exhibition in this city. Its
mechanism is such that when the small
wheel in front encounters any hole or
other obstruction, the rider falls back
ward over the sixfoot wheel, and the
little wheel falls on top OF him and kills
him. 1t is worse than dynamite.
The steamer Arabic on Saturday car
ried away to China s232.6l9 in silver
and sl9,5 in gold. These figures show.
that the demand for our precious metals
abroad is at least IL to | for silver as
against gold. The silver yield has now
assumed permanent form. and the value
Of silver bullion should be protected
from all adverse legislation. This yield
will soon amount to 500, 200, 900 an
nually, and is deserving of careful con-
sideration.
The Grand Central mine at Tomb
stone, since it commenced milling ore in
March 1881. twenty-nine months ago,
has turned out 81, s93,742. That is
very comfortable sum for that little
mine, but from the way In which the
mines of our desert are turning out,
they are doing relatively much better
than the Grand Central, which yields
less than $40 per ton of silver, while our
desert mines yield more than double
that amount.
Some weeks ago couple of horses
were stolen in Ventura county. Sheriff
Snodgrass, Of that county, traced the
animals to this city, and, with the aid
Of Deputy Sheriff Gard, recovered the
horses but did not catch the thief. Since
the time of the recovery of the horses
Major Gard has been on the lookout for
the thief, and yesterday his vigilance
was rewarded by the capture Of the man,
a Mexican, who is known under the
name of "Batuco." The Sheriff of
Ventura was apprised of the arrest and
will come down for the man to-day.
The Santa Barbara Independent en-
thuses over the excellent walnut orchard
Of Russell Heath in Carpenteria, show
ing crop of 1000 from l60 acres, or
$40 per acre, with not all the trees full
bearing size. The orchard may all be
very fine but it does not approach the
walnut trees Of Downey City in produc-
tiveness, where we double the yield of
the Heath orchard. We do the same in
Los Angeles. Our neighbor will have to
do better than now before Dragging will
be allowable.
BY notice under the proper head it
will be seen that Mr.. w. L. Gerrigus, of
Pomona, and Miss s. NJ. Crofford, of
this city, were yesterday made man and
wife, Rev. J. w. Ellis officiating. The
happy event took place at the residence
of Mr.. Thomas Stout in the presence of
large assemblage OF friends and we'll
wishers. After the ceremony sumptu-
GUS lunch was served, at which the
newly welded couple were toasted in
flowing bumpers. That they may live
long and prosper is the wish of all who
know them.
The barn and contents belonging to
Mrs. Della Hope. near Santa Barbara,
were totally destroyed by fire last Sat
urday evening. The fire is supposed to
have been started by cigar or cigar
ette thrown into pile of dry manure
that was foolishly placed against the
side Of the barn. Or it may have re-
suited from spontaneous combustion in
the manure pile. Two safe conclusions
can be drawn from this severe calamity,
and they are these: Never permit
| lighted cigars, pipes or cigarettes near a
barn, and, also, never allow pile of
manure to be heaped up against any
wooden building. The loss by this fire,
which resulted in daylight from pure
carelessness, was $4,000, on which there
was no insurance. How many of the
readers of the HERALD have barns ex-
posed in the same way 1t is good
time to remove these dangers.