Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-08-09

LOS A.
THE LATEST I!
Especial 70 tbs HERALD by the Western
Union Telegraph company.l
PACIFIC COAST.
PassenKers south and Enst.
MODESTO, Cal, Aug. s--rhe follow.
ing is the list Of south bound passengers
passing here this evening.
Thos Richardson, East Oakland; y A
Gibson and wife, Gen 4 Banning, wife and
9 children, WIN q Kerekhon, LosAnge-
lee; MISS A Floyd, Mrs n k Horton,H II 5
Wis n, Boston; W Mcdaniel, Texas; A
NJ T. lugo. Feline Lugo. Los Angeles;
VIII Miller, Steamer Ceres: q l. Hug
eins. Berkeley; w II Martin, T II Ken
ncdy. Woodland; Harry Turner, San
Francisco.
consolidation.
SAN FRasoIsco, Ang. This even.
ings pOa announces tnat proposition
is on foot 10 consolidate the California
and Con. Virginia Mining Companies
INTO one curpor.tion, To be named the
Con California and Virgins Mining
Con pay.
chinese Discharged.
SAX FEAScisoo, Ang. s.--1hirteen of
the chinese VINO arrived On the Oceanic,
o., the 27th OF last month, wee this
morning discharged by Judge Sawyer
under his recent decision on parole eyi-
dencc.
Governor Stoneman's birthday
SAN Francisco, Aug. 8.-Governor
Stoneinan is celebrating his birthday to-
day by sail on the bay, accompanied
by his own staff and Major G eneral Turn.
bull and his staff The Major-General
gave spread after the excursion.
wheat and Barley Market.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. S.--Wheat,
steady, lively; seller. Sl.32s@l 32s;
buyer, season, 81 42s@l43b. Barley,
steady, dull; buyer, .SDs; buyer season.
.02l@. 02s.
sarah Aithea Institutes a Libel
suit for $4,000.
SAN Francisco, Aug s.--A libel suit
for $50. 900 was instituted to-day against
the Alta California by Sarah A. Sharon,
the plaintiff IN the Sharon divorce case.
The alleged cause is the publication of
William NJ. Nelson's statement accus.
ing her OF forging what is known as
"My dear wife's letters"
LABEL suit Against the Modesto
Journal"
SAN Francisco, Aug. S.-W. H. Turner,
publisher OF the Stanislaus Farmers
Journal of Modesto, was examined in
tue Police Court to-day on the charge of
having published libel against Chris.
Buckley, of this city, and was held to
appear before the Superior Court in
$1,000 bail. The alleged libelous article
stated that Chris. Buckley had under
taken, by the aid of man named Hurl-
burt, to prevent the expulsion of num-
Der OF roughs from Modesto last March.
The Hay District Races.
San Francisco, Aug. S.-Inthe trot
for the $40 purse for the 2:27 class, at
the Bay District Park, Sister was the
iavorite almost, even against Adair,
Adrian, lump, Winston, Rarus. junior
and b B. Adair took the first and fifth
heats; b b, the second and the sixth
heats, and Sister, the third and fourth
heats, when the race was postponed on
account of the log. lump, Winston and
R,rus, Jr., were distauced in the first
heat, and Adrian was ruled out after the
fifth heat. Time, 2:241, 2:24b. 2:25,
2:27, 2:2S and 2:2Sl.
Damaged.
SANTA BARBARA, CAL, Aug. SIT is
stated by one OF the largest bean grow
ers of tho county, in Carpenteria, the
bean valley, that the hot weather has
had most damaging effect upon the
bean crop, and that the yield will be
very materially reduced.
New York Miners Reported Mur-
dered- d-Assnssinati0ni in Neuva
Leon.
CRY OF MEXICO, Aug. S.-News has
been received here that the eutire pros.
pecting party headed by Henry Notiere,
a well known New York miner, have
been murdered in the Sierra Madre
mountains by robbers.
Political murders are of alarming fire.
quenny in some sections. The military
in Ncuva Leon are assassinating all those
supposed to be in the administration of
Governor Tolentine, who has ordered
the execution of sixty persons.
An Epidemic Mt Panama Great
Mortality.
PANAMA, via Galveston Aug. S-The
Star and Herald reports an epidemic of
malignant und pernicious fever at San
Carlos, thirty-eight miles from Panama.
There were nine deaths in thrty-seven
hours, The inhabitants are panic strick
en-. II is believed the epidemic is due
to intense malaial poisoning. Panama
is very siclsly, from ten to fifteen funer.
ais occurring daily. The heat is in
tense,