Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-03
Items OF Interest.

There are 1905 patients in the Napa
Insane Asylum.
A paper.mill is to bo established at
Knights Ferry.
The gambling houses in Victoria, Il.
G., have been closed by tho police.
The Nevada Democratic State Con.
vention will meet in Austin on June 10.
Steps are being taken IN Antioch to-
ward the formation Of buating club and
gymnasium. H.
y. Marion Crawford, now in Rome, Ia
completing the last chapters Of still an.
other novel.
Church people in Carson, Nevada, are
making an effort to stop target shooting
on Sundays. '
II Ii estimated that 10 per cent. of
the live stock In British Columbia per.
,shed during the past winter.
The hAgs on the public buildings at
Victoria are flying at half mast in con-
sequence Of the death of Prince lie.
opoll. ItlW = YEH4
Professor Alexander Agassiz has al.
ready spent over $500, 900 Of his own
private money on the Museum OF Com
parAtive Zoology, at Cambridge.
Lerd and Lady Rosebsrry, who have
just returned to England frolu their trip
around the world, are going TO pay an
extended visit to this country next Fall.
Al the municipal election in Nevada
City next May tho proposition to incor.
porate under the new law for the gov
ernment of towns and cities will be
voted on.
There is very high water in Southern
Utah. The dams In the Rio Virgin river
are swept away, and much snow in the
mountains will cause foods when the
warm weather comes.
During March 25ll cmigrarts were
booked at St. Paul for Portland direct.
The immigration by rail for points west
of Spokane Falls has been over 5000, and
by steamer 1900 during the month";
The Monterey Republican County
Committee has appointed the following
delegates to the State Convention: w.
j. Hill. A. A. Poole, W. G.. Hudson, M.
Walters, G. r. Romie, s. w. Conklin, j D.
b. Snivley.
An iucipient riot between two gangs
of Chinese laborers occurred at vaca.
vile last week, caused by one gang
Offering to work for 10 cents day less
than the other and taking their places.
Several pagaus were injured.
The Board Of Trustees of Nevada City
have issued a proclamation calling upon
voters to vote, at the annual election i'm
May, On tho proposition to reincorporate
under the general laws of the State in
reference to municipal interpretations.
The site Of the first dam and aqueduct
ever constructed in California for irriga-
ton uiposes, together with 10, 900 acres
Of land along tho San Diego river has
just been sold by the HI Cajon Land
Company to Hosmer P. McKeon of San
Francisco.
A man named John MeHugh employ
cd as waiter in the New England HO.
tel at Seattle, w. T., dropped dead in
she dinning room few days ago. 1t is
supposed that he belongs in San Fran
cisco and it is thought was employed as
foreman Of the laundry in the Industrial
School in 1880.
Three thousand two hundred acres of
land near Provo, bordering on Utah
Lake, have been aled on. Il was never
before surveyed, and was held by Nor.
mons who defy the Jumpers. They
propose to resist the claims of the per.
sons filing 1t is splendid land and in a
thick settlement. The Mormon papers
are making church fight over it.
The Solano Republican of March 2Sth
says: "The worshipers at the Fairfield
church went out Sunday night as usual
to service. but found that the bats had
taken possession OF the house and were
10 thick and aggressive that the service
was necessarily postponed. Tuesday
the dsacons inaugurated u bat hunt and
behind one of the window castings found
ard killed 24l of them.