Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-02-01
News and Other Items.

Arizona now has On quartz mills will
800 stamps.
Miss Frances r. Willard, whose lee
lures have been complimentary to tn
South, has been received warmly II
Charleston.
See what II Is to be famous. New Yorl
stores advertise the Gebhardt cap ant
the Gebhardt scarf. The color Of th.
latter should be green.
The progress Of affairs IN France il
wntched at Berlin with the keenest in
terest, and IL is thought that greai
changes is likely to ensuo sooner thar
expected.
In the Delaware Legislature yesterday
the House killed the Senate bill to abol
ish the whipping Of persons convicted Of
murder in the second degree, by a vote
of ten to eight.
Over 100 families residing in Colum
bus. Ohio, are in destitute circumstances
cau,ed by the closing OF the Columbu
rolling mill at Christmas, throwing them
out OF work.
Next Summer the bats and lizards will
have everything their own way in the
lower end Of town. A great many Of the
elegant and costly residences are now de.
serted. --Bodie Eee Press.
A Georgia photographer advises pee.
pie living In the country that as small.
pox is about to strike, they should
bring in the whole family to have
their pictures taken before 1t Is too late
Rev. A. j. Ryan, the poet-priest, has
accepted an invitation from the literary
societies Of the University OF Virginia to
deliver the Grafton before the joint socie.
ties at the annual commencement in
June next.
Governor Butler says he should nc
more be called hostile to Massachusetts,
than loving son who with wist-broom
strikes off mud from his parent garment
can be claimed to be doing m unfilal ac-
| ton.
About 300 carloads of wheat were
shipped from Williams warehouses dur.
ing the months Of December and Janu-
AIRY to date. Five hundred carloads still
remain, which will be shipped in due
season.
The artesian well on the old Bateman
place, being sunk for the Stockton City
Water Works, is down 1850 feet. II
not plugged the water would rise to the
hight Of thirty feet; but the auger is
still sinking for more water.
| The Grand Jury at st. Louis reports
that so per cent. of crime in the city is
caused by saloons, and recommends that
the minimum license for whisky saloons
be 81 ,00e, and for exclusively wine and
beer saloons, $500.
They don't seem to be exactly certain
what they do want in the upper portion
Of the county. The Lompoc people are
wild for new county. and those in
Santa Maria valley seem to prefer annex.
alton to San Luis county. A "happy
family" truly. -Lompoc Record.
Congressman Van voorhis sees some.
thing solid, as well as picturesque, about
the new Governor of Massachusetts. A
reporter marked his words when in New
York when he remarked 'If there is
any man on the Democratic side whom
the Republican party has to fear 1t is
Ben Butler"
The new irrigation company composed
Of Charles Crocker, G. H. Hoffman, and
other capitalists, have completed the
purchase of the Farmers Canal Com
pany. The new company will start il
with capital of $1,000, 000s and will
furnish water to thirty sections of ricl
land near this town.
A family of nine negroes living il
Laurens county, n G. ate of goose
that had been bitten by dog which il
supposed to have been mad, and about
two hours thereafter the entire family
became sick and were thrown into con
WILSON'S. -Four Of them died and u I
other five are not expected to live.
A livery man was sued for damages a
Nebraska City because the horse which
he had hired out to young couple fol
drive ran away and threw them out o
the sleigh; but he proved by the plain
tiil's own testimony that q struggle for {
kiss was the cause of the accident, ant
the jury acquitted the horse OF all blame
II Father Ryan, the poet priest of Geor
gia, wrote from Boston to Southern
friend: "The Yankees have treated M,
like prince, and cordially. III,
weather has treated me like foe
snowily aud chilly. l preached her,
Thursday night to three thousand PEG
ple-the finest audience, in some re
spects, ever addressed"
The King of Portugal has had AUDI
Palace, his own residence, connected
with the Lisbon Telephone Exchange
and may claim to be the first European
monarch who has become subscriber
to public telephone exchange. A spe
cial private telephone system is now
being established between the King,
library and the various Ministries ant
the Opera.
The late Lot NJ. Morrill, and Timothy
Howe, now Postmaster-Gen eral, were
admitted to the bar together, and began
the practice of law in the same town,
Readfield, Me. Morrill, was then Dem.
ocrat and Howe Wing, and there was
much friendly political rivalry between
them. After few years they left Read
field together, Morrill, to win honors in
the capital of his native State, and Howe
to so West and grow up with the coun'
| try.
Lincoln was railsplitter: Garfield
was a canal boy; Andrew Jackson was d
tailor; Governor Cleveland sold news
| papers; the Governor of Kansas drov,
oxen; the present Governor of Texas was
once a hostler; the last Governor of Cal
ifornia was once sailor, and afterward.
swept out store in Oroville for his
board; A. L. Stewart taught school and
sold tape by the pennyworth; Jay Goult
sold moasetraps; jim Keen kept liver,
stable, and Rufus Hatch was locomo
tive fireman.
Mr.. Disraeli hesitated much, says til,
London Truth, like Sergeant Ballantine
Before bringing out some telling ant
well-prcpared adjective he would ser
er-er" for n minute or two, so rs to max,
his hearers suppose he was choosing be
tween half a dozen words. And We
many OF Disraeli's most effective speeche
We're learned by heart. He woul,
give them to the Times reporter befor,
delivered, and although the reporte
followed the speech, pencil in hand, h
seldom had to alter single word, 81
excellent was Mr.. Disraeli's memory.
The Assembly has defeated concur
, rent resolution, introduced by Murdoch
, excluding Sunday from the working day
| OF the Legislature. The only marve
, about this is now member could hav
, been found with sufficient self.abnega
ton to propose measure, the effect o
, which would be to deprive himself O
I IS week during the remainder of tn
, session He was so promptly rebuked
! however, that such reckless disregard o
/ the first principles of finance is not like
ly to be again exhibited by any of on
sixty-day statesmen.-S. f. Chronicle