Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-12
Items Of Interest

Salt Lake is the first small city in
America to adopt the cable tramway.
The Thermometer marked 30 degrees
below zero at Elko, New, one day las,
week.
A mountain lion, weighing nearly zoo
pounds. was recently killed on Powder
river. M. T.
By Spring there will be six telegraph
wires between WalIa Walls, w. T., and
Portland, Or.
The sulpher beds Of Utah are the most
extensive Of any ia America, and EN-.
brsces several million acres.
IL Il now charged that the Hon.
bartholomew Binns, the new English
hanaman, takes on too much gin.
n. NJ. Ballou, Of Boston, who has
made the fremont House Of that city
his home for many years, has paid that
hotel 90, 900 for board.
A poker game in Marysville, according
to the Appeal. la.ted three days and
nights. A young fellow from the noun
tains "cleaned up" 5000.
The debt Of England Is 1854, 500, 900;
Of France, A. ,6S3, $40, 900; of the United
States, to date, net debt, less cash in the
treasury, 81, 500, 900, 900.
Upon the arrival OF the East.bound
overland train at Reno, the other morn
Ing, tramp was found on top OF one Of
the sleepers. fast asleep and half frozen
70 death.
The city of Paris, during the month
OF November. tested the French wines
brought to the market, and found but
sixty-five out of 1913 samples free from
injurious adulteration.
This Is said to be the first year that
Msrseilles has escaped the cholera while
II was prevailing IN Alexandria. The
immunity IL said to arise wholly frvm
the sanitsry measures adopted.
Sixteen ladies' were present at re-
cent social gathering in Healdsburg,
whose united ages amounted to 1885
years. or an average Of II years each.
The youngest lady was SO. the Oldest 81.
Mr.. Andrew G. Semmes died in Mon
roe county, Ark, last week. He was
the son Of Gen. Paul J. Semmes, Of the
Confederate army, who was killed at
Gettysburg and q cousin of Admiral
Semmes.
According to the Paris Temps, o
woman named Marie Girard, now living
in the village Of Auberire en-. Royass,
was born on March Is, 1851, and is con-
sequently IN her 1884 year. She has
been widow for ninety-six years.
The steamer Tongariro has just made
the passage from England to New Zea.
land in forty days and nine hours actual
steaming, which - the fastest passage
ever made, the fastest Of an earlier date
being that Of the White Star ship Tonic,
in forty three days AMI six hour.
J Thomas Palmer, Of Michigan, the
lumber king, who has taken Senator
Ferry's place in the senate, is one Of the
new millionaire Senators. He has black
eyes, which have cast In them which
reminds one Of Ben Butler. He lives in
Senator windom's 800, 900 house, which
he has rented for his term.
The semi-annual dividends payable Ia
Boston in January aggregate ell,070,-
52a, decrease Of tl,2l6. 437 from the
amount paid last July, and Of $l.732,-
435 from the amount paid IN January,
1883. Manufacturing dividends are not
much less than six months ago. but then
they were reduced materially.
Cardinal Manning has issued an order
that branch Of the Catholic Total Alb
stinepce League Of the Cross be founded
in every Catholic school, and that the
manager of each school must be Prssi.
dent and an abstainer. 1t is said that
he has worked an extraordinary change
among the Irish Of Westminster, who,
from being poor and thriftless, are now
prosperous.
The New York San places the shrink.
age In values Of secureties dealt in ct
the Stock Exchange for 1883 at $780,
900, 900, and yet there was no panic and
but few failures. 1t was mainly the
evaporation Of water. The railroads
upon whica the secureties were mostly
based are quite as good as they were a
year ago, and the basis for investment Is
certainly more substantial.
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