Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-02-08
News and Other Items.


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From all parts Of the interior the crops
arc reported doing well.
Sheep are in fine condition, and the
lambing season Is well advanced in Mer-
ced.
The tax rate for this year in Sacram.
ento is to be fixed at SLIGO, as against
81 in 1882.
Fruit tree and Towering plant agents
have done brisk business in the inte-
rior this season.
The Arizona Legislature is making On
effort to reduce fares and freights in
that territory.
The Tucson Citizen reports the discov-
cry of some new mines in the State oil
chihuahua Of fabulous richness.
The Hungarian medical students at
Paris have been suddenly recalled, with
view Of being employed in the Aus
brian army.
Moody's success among the stu
dents Of Oxford and Cambridge is con-
firmed by reports Of conversions by the
hundred.
SPANS revenue is increasing hand.
somely, and the first half of the current
fiscal year is expected to pile up pretty
surplus.
The beer shops and gin places are so
numerous in London that If placed side
by side their frontage would stretch
sixty-two miles.
During 1882 the transactions OF the
Government Land Office, located at
Walla Walla, covered sales and entries
Of about 250, 900 acres of land.
A bill is now pending in the Arizona
Legislature, asking for the building Of a
narrow gauge railroad from Tucson north
to the line Of the Atlantic and Pacific.
Real estate men of San Francisco, re-
port that the coming season will be
unusual in the number of fine residences
which 1t will see erected on the fashion,
able streets.
The report is again in circulation That
the running time Of trains between San
Francisco and New York is to be re-
duced to four days and half during the
coming Summer.
A desperate gang Of sandbag garroters
are endangering life and property at San
Buenaventurn, and the citizens are
organizing for IN onslaught on the rob-
bers.
London contains more Roman Catho-
lies than Rome, more Jews than the
whole of Palestine more Irish than Bell
fast, moro Scotchmen than Aberdeen and
more Welshmen than Cardiff.
Sales of land at Riverside last year
amounted to $500, 1888, against $500, 40i
for 1881, and S267 POI for 1880. One
sale is recorded of 20 acres of orchard
for which Sl5 900 was paid.
Two Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern freight trains, containing in all
seventy one cars, collided with fearful
crash two miles east of Laporte, Ind,
Monday. The wreck took fire and was
burned.
SO far this has been the mildest win.
ter ever known in Mono county, Snow
has fallen, bat 1t has come in quantities
to suit, and lain upon the ground just
long enough to do tho same good as il it
were so much rain.
A contract has been let for the build.
ing OF narrow.gauge railroad from
Lordsburg, New Mexico, to Clifton, Ari.
zona. There is said to be good pros
pect for ore freights on this line, which
runs through rich mining district.
Chambers is now reported prevalent
among the horses in San Joaquin coun-
ty. During the last six or eight years it
has been travorsing the State, appearing
now here and now there, never wholly
cxtirpated and never very widespread
at any one time.
All Available teams in st. Helons, Ogn.,
are engaged in hauling brush to the new
ietty to be constructed there. About ten
thousand cords of fire brush will be
needed for the work, and thiswill all be
cut betweenS st. Helens and Deer Island.
Senator elect Sabin laughs at a sugges-
tion mado in Washington that he may
play an independent role or vote with
the Democrats in the organization of the
Senate. He says that he will be as little
likely to 60 with the Democrats as Frye
or any other Republican.
AT meeting of Socialists at Mar.
settles, Monday, resolution was adopt
ed strongly condemning the Lyons tri-
bunal which convicted Prince Krapot-
kline and associates. The proceedings
were somewhat turbulent, and terminal.
ed among cries of "Vive la revolution
intsrnationale.
The new irrigation company, compos-
ed OF Charles CrocSer, c. II. Huffman
and other capitalists, have completed
the purchase OF the Farmers Canal Com
pany at MERGED. The new company will
start in with q capital Of 100000, and
will furnish water to thirty sections OF
rich land near MERGED City.
Over 100 persons suspected in connec-
ton with the secret organization in Dub
lin, have fled the city. The police have
ten more warrants to execute, and search
is being made in Birmingham, London
and Manchester for the persons against
whom they have been issued. One OF
the prisoners examined Saturday offers
to become an informer.
A solemn warning, printed on fine
Vellum, reached the Car and Cabinet,
claiming universal suffrage, the right of
the people to own land, freedom OF con-
science, the press, public meeting, etc
If these demands are not granted before
the coronation of the Gar, the revolu-
tionary committee sending the warning
threatens violence.
Judge Donahue, in the New York SUI.
preme Court Saturday, rendered a de
cision upon the motion argued before
him Friday, upon writs of habeas corpus
and certiorari, in the case of Jem Mace
and Herbert Slade. Judge Donahue
says the evidence in the case does not
show any violation of law and the parties
must be discharged. Mace and Slade