Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-02-10


Washington is enjoying round of
aociety fetes. l
Governor Butler, Of Massachusetts, de.
clares for compulsory education.
Thomas Awkward, o pioneer, was found
dead In his room at Vallejo Monday
morning
There are now only two Chinese chill.
dren in New York; two have recently
died.
New York tradesmen say there is by
nc means as much money in circulation,
as year ago.
Lake Champlain has frozen over ut q
much earlier date this Winter than for
great many years.
Serious loss Of live stock is reported In
Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa from the re-
cent extreme cold weather and deep
snow.
II is said that weddings are 50 COM
mon in Washington at present that fash
ionable people almost live upon BRIDE
cake and bonbons. Is
The New York committee Of Tennes-
see bondholders gives notice that the
fifty cents proposed by tho party in
power will not be accepted.
j. s. johnson, highly esteemed citi-
zen OF Red Bluff, died Monday. He had
been Justice of the Peace for ten years
previous TO his death.
The Chihuahua Mail considers Amer.
lean capital and enterprise to be the
chief sources of the prosperity the Mex
lean border States are now enjoying.
Quite number Of short-horn herds
arc to DO brought to Arizona the coming
season, and vast improvement in the
breed OF cattle will be tho result.
Two Republicans and ono Democrat
have just been convicted of fraudulent
practices in Philadelphia in tho election
OF 1881. The penalty is two years inn
prisonment.
A memorial, tho signers OF which rep
resent 500, 600, 900 capital, urging the
passage of Tariff bill as soon as posi-
bic, has been sent from Boston to Con
gress.
Congressman Springer Of Illinois, says
Of Senator-elect Cullum "No, he's not
great man. He'll never set the world
on fro. But ii 1t were on fire he'd put
IL out"
A bill has been introduced in The Con-
necticut Legislature the object OF which
is to promote politeness at voting places.
IL provides that the voter on presenting
his ballot shall remove his hat.
The Political Record figures out that
there are sixteen office holders in San
Francisco to every one hundred voters,
and the officers must all be provided for
before the common citizen can take bite
for himself.
Two tramps were recently making
tour in Missouri together and their
agreement was to share comforts and dis
comforts equally. One asked farmer
for chew OF tobacco and got il; the
other demanded hall, and was told that
there wasn't enough to divide, and in his
rage killed the man.
Gold was first found in California in
1913. Up to June Both, 1882, tho pro
duct amounted to 81, l70, 900 900. Of
this sum 50, 900, 900 has been extracted
from plaeers. The remainder is mainly
from gold-quartz mines. The yearly
product of California is from SIS, 900 900
to $40, 600, 900,
Herman +. Staus, the brave Milwaukee
fireman who rescused lives at the burn
ing of the Newhall House, has declined
proposed testimonial from admiring
citizens OF Dubuque, Iowa, magnani-
mously writing: ''If you do anything,
do it for the poor unfortunates especial.
ly the servant girls-who lost their all
in that fire.
The stock mon in the mountains south
and east from Livermore have formed an
association to protect themselves from
trespassers. They complain that the
ranges are overrun by irresponsible rov.
ing parties, who pasture sheep wherever
they can find feed, having no ranges of
their own. Sheep soon destroy range
for cattle.
The troubles at the Annapolis Naval
Academy are over. Some OF the cadets
have been degraded and others pro,
noted. Promotions of cadets of lower
classes to the places of the recalctrant
cadets will be bitter punishment for
them. The new appcintees have ac-
cepted, as to refuse under the circum.
stances would be open mutiny.
Eastern capitalists and stock men have
purchased from the Cheyenne and Arap.
ahoe Indians 500, 600 acres of grass land
from each, with the privilege OF fencing
the same and erecting the necessary
ranch buildings and improvements. The
leases have to be approved by the Secre-
tary OF the Interior before going into
effect, but no difficulty is anticipated, as
the Indians are unanimous in the matter
The curious spectacle of disabled
steamer towing into port another, which
was in perfect order, was presented in
New York the other day. The Getty of
Berlin, of the lnman line. met with nm
accident which carried away her rudder
post and rendered her unmanageable.
But she could steam away at good speed,
aud with her sister ship. ''fhe City OF
Chester" dragging behind at close
quarters, to do the steering, she
brought herself and consort into port
oil right.