Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-05-04
News and Other Notes.

Texas Is figuring on a population Of
1900, 900 in 1890.
The Delaware House of Represent
atiyes has passed bill appropriations
$1,000 for schools for coiored children.
The Moss Pointers Miss place eggs
instead Of dimes in the contribution box.
They are entered In the church books as
lay offerings.
The largest vessels in the English navy
cost million and quarter to build, and
nearly thousand dollars day to keep
them nt sea afterward.
The liturgy of the Episcopal Church b is
TO be revised. A commission OF leading
bishops, clergymen and laymen are in
session in New York to that end.
Mapleson has made contract with
Patti to sing fifty nights next season at
5000 night. Last season he paid her
S4,400 night.
The India census gives 253, s9l, ,S2l in.
habitants in a space one.third the size
of the United States, or |, 372, 655 square
miles, making India fifteen times as
thickly settled as the United States.
Recent advices from Galveston, Texas,
state that party of Bosom capitalists
propose erecting large sugar refinery at
Galveston. 500, 900 has, it is said, been
subscribed towards the enterprise in the
latter city.
In the Michigan Legislature on Thurs.
day afternoon the House took IL turn at
the prohibition amendment, which failed,
the vote standing 81 to SO, with eight
nbsentees; necessary to carry, 81. This
ends the matter at this session.
Spirit of turpentine is now made,
says o contemporary, from saw-dust and
refuse OF the saw.mill. 1t is extracted
by sweating process, and yields fourteen
gallons Of spirits, three TO four gallons
Of rosin, and quantity Of tar per cord.
= Sidney Dillon, Of the Union Pacificb
says that the government owes the raRl-
road more than enough to offset the
amount claimed to be due from tho /cor-
poration under the Thurman ActI Sec
rstary Teller threatens prompt potion to
recover tho 8 per cent. delinquent.
One hundred vessels, carrying A, ,250,
bushsla Of grain, chiefly wheat, corn and
daxseed, were lying in thyriver and ont.
aide Of the harbor at CHcago last Mon
day, waiting the annouJdcement that the
Straits Of Mackinaw ske open, which will
be the signal for thsE departure.
Let official larf fony be made odious. >
says the San Francisco Eraminer. II
h odious enough now. Let it be pun.
ishable in tha/penitentiary. An official
thief cares hothing for the odium, SO
long as he out of prison and is per-
mitted e enjoy his plunder.- STOCKTON
Th4 Bay City Manufacturing Com
panK has incorporated In San Francisco,
foH1the purpose Of engaging in the man.
u3acture Of hats and caps. This iucor.
&orators are L. L. Dennery, Emile Lobe,
"a. Elken, Julius Wolff and Albert
Meyer. Tho capital stock is $500, 600,
Of which $76, 900 hns been subscribed.
A Turin jeweler has made tiny boat
formed Of single pearl, which shape il
assumes in swell and concavity. It's
sail Is OF beaten gold, studded with dia.
monds, and the binnacle light at its prov
Is q perfect ruby. An emerald serves as
ita rudder, and its stand is slab Of
Ivory. II weighs less than half an
ounce; its price is So, 200.
A London cablegram received at Chi
npago announces the shipment of seven.
Eeen oases Of exhibits, including Rocket,
George Stevenson's first locomotive, for
4 display at the railway exhibition which
opens in the latter city May oath. In
addition to the May Exposition Building,
the management has constructed tempo
rAry buildings on the lake front, making
q structure five blocks in length, taken
altogether. Among the novelties will be
an electric railroad, the first one oper.
ated in this country.