Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-03-16
News and Other Notes.

Helena, NJ. r., received its first freight
vim the Northcr Pacific last week.
Eleven drunkards froze to death in
Iowa last Winter, under prohibitory
law.
The goddess OF liberty on the new
nickel is decidedly fashionable; she wears
her hair banged.
The s. P. r. r. is now completed as
near az it will be to Providence, and Ia
within 81 miles Of that camp.
Four French men.of.war have arrived
on the coast Of Madagascar, and the in
habitants are excited about IL.
Bogardus was defeated by Carver in
clay pigeon shooting match at Cincinnati
Monday. The store was Carver, 80;
Bogardus, "a.
The Moscow police have made some
important arrests lately. but no conspir-
acy to interfere with the coronation has
been discovered.
Germany and the vatican are evident
ly getting on much more amiable terms,
as twelve vacant Polish sees in the form
or country arc to ba filed on the 10Th of
this month.
The New jersey Senate has passed
almost unanimously the bill prohibiting
the sale of cigarettes or tobacco in any
form to minors, under penalty of $50 for
each oifense. al
Less than one-third OF the twenty-five
million acres Of land in North Carolina
are improved. In some cases extensive
swamps or mountains account for the
absence OF cultivation.
The Academy of Music and Hortcul
tural Hall, Mt Philadelphia, are engaged
for the Irish Land League Convention,
to be held on April 25th and Goth. Par.
nell, Egan and Davitt are expected.
The first extraordinary food at Cincin-
natl ON record was In 1892, when the
water Is supposed to have gone above
sixty feet There was not much prop
erty to destroy at that period, and there
fore little damage could be reported.
A report Is current in political circles
at Carson that Senator Fair will resign
on account Of ill-health; that Governor
Adams will also resign and Lieutenant
Governor Laughton, and then appoint
Adams United States Senator for the
unexpired term.
The retreat OF vegetation from the
polar regions is attributed by M. M. Ray
de Mornndo to the gradual decrease of
the diameter of the sun. He thinks that
the great center of our system was once
large enough to send it, rays at tho same
time over both poles.
The first locomotive for the new rail.
road now building from Lordsburg to
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welcome from the people along the line
OF the new road, and was noted as an.
other evidence of the march of improve. |
ment in the "far southwest.
The work of gathering in poor whites |
from the Southern States for the Nor |
mon Church seems to be going ON stead
lily. In the report Of an elder now in |
Virginia the statement Is made that a |
number OF freshly baptized Saints will |
start for Salt Lake in March.
The flood of 1892 in the Ohio river was
within a few inches as high as the late
one. The region was then mostly GOV.
cred with woods at the headwaters of
the river, and 30 ii is possible too much
emphasis, in some cases, has been laid
upon the danger of stripping a country
OF timber.
The London Times that for sum
which, within human memory, was
charged for an inside seat by the mail
from Manchester to London, q man may
cross the Atlantic in safe, easy and
well.appointed vessel, and find himself
in u new world, surrounded by eager
competitors for his valuable services.
Owing to the suspicion that poison has
been administered to him, the body of
Gortschakoff will be subjected to an
autopsy, and n judicial inquiry will be
Baden. The remains will be placed in
the Green Chapel, where they will lie in
state, awaiting conveyance to Russia.
The Nevada Legislature granted the
right of way to the projected Nevada
Southern Railroad from Wells Station
on the Central Pacific Railroad, through
Steptoe Valley, and ultimately to Mex.
ico.I Also to the Nevada Northern Rail
road, to run from Elko, or whereabouts,
north, via Tuscarora and Independence
Valley, into the pine forests of Oregon.
The Wisconsin Legislature has a bill
before it which provides that every rail-
road company doing business in the
State, whose gross earnings exceed So
900 u mile per year, shall not charge
more than two and one. half cents mile |
for passenger travel. 1t also provides
that companies shall sell 800 -mile tickets
at the same rate, which will be trans.
ferable.
The Northern Pacific Railroad man.
ayers hold that the failure of Congress to |
pass withdrawing Act confirms to them
all the lands granted by the Act under
which they are constructing their line. |
They expect to finish the road before the |
LIST of September next and they will |
then, according to their reckoning, have |
earned the lands.
A party of naval officers who have |
just passed'ovor the Panama Railroad to |
see what was going on along the line of
Nj. de Lesseps' famous canal, report that |
it is in about the same condition as last |
year. Great preparations, but little |
actual excavation, is the report. That |
is what some people have surmised in |
spite of the great Frenchmans magnifi- |
cent announcements.
A bill is to be introduced in the Cana |
dian Parliament to restrain Chinese inn
migration into British Columbia. 1t |
will be similar in purport to the one
passed by the New South Wales Parlia- |
ment in 1881, now in force 1t provides
that every Chinaman entering the coun-
try shall pay $50, and that no vessel be |
allowed to bring a greater number of |
Chinese than in the proportion of one
person to every one hundred in the ton
mage of such vessel.
This town of Tombstone, A. T., is
pleased at the decision rendered by |
Judge Pinny, OF the First District Court, |
in the town site cases. The Town Site |
Company claimed by virtue of deed |
from Mayor Randall, given in 1850. The
decision is to the effect that all loca. |
tons made on the present town site prior
to the Mayors application for a patent
will hold good. This gives surface |
ground to the Wilma, Mountain, Maid, |
Gilded Age, and the Way Up mines,
embracing nearly all the town site
Governor Stoneman.