Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-10
Items of Interest.

Miss Nellie Brackett is said to be IN
San Jose, but will return whom wanted
as n witness.
Some excitement has been caused by
the discovery Of forged English notes on
thu Continent.
Some excitement has been caused by
the discovery of forged English notes on
the Continent
The New Orleans carpenters will
strike tomorrow unless the bosses pay
the SO per day asked.
Bismarck is thinking of visiting the
United States so as to establish amicable
relations with Tom 0chiItree.
Rev. DIR. Porter, late of Melbourne
Church, Australia, has accepted call to
the pastorate of the Christian Church
of Oakland.
The revenue of the Dominion OF Can
ada for the nine months which ended
March 3lst was s23,475,2 expendi-
lures, $20,69l,772
Justin Mccarthy, Jr., son of the Irish
agitator and historian, is about to be
married to Miss Laura Linden, popu-
lar London actress.
The Great Eastern, now doing service
in England as coal boat, will be brought
to New Orleans and fitted up as hotel
during the worlds fair.
Gladstone is suffering not only from
bronchial difficulty, but from scialica.
His family strongly urge him to accept
peerage without delay.
The Napa Grape-growers' Association
has prepared and sent resolutions to
Congress, requesting that no reduction
be made in the tariff on wines.
The committee of the st. Petersburg
Exchange will petition the Government
to grant a bounty OF 07 cents per 30
pounds on cast iron made from Russian
ore
Wilkesbarre, Pa, advices state that
there is now forty feet of water in the
Pettibone shaft of the Lackawana Com
pany. 1t will be weeks before work can
be resumed.
The author of the libel against Earl
Lonsdale, for which Edmund Yates, edi-
tor of the World, has been sentenced to
four months in prison, is Lady Strad-
brookes, relative of the Earl.
Speaker Carlisle has received tee-
gram from Governor Stoneman transmit
ting n resolution of the California Legis-
lature, requesting Congress to pass the
supplemental Chinese legislation.
Postmasters were commissioned on
Saturday as follows; G. II. Chapel,
Boulder Creek, CAL. u. b. Atkins, Tonto,
Arizona; &. W. DAWSON, Morenci, Ari-
zona, and Cecilia De Kuhn, Cherry,
Arizona.
j. B. McMassus, formerly conductor
on the Mohave and Needles Division of
the southern Pacific Ra ilroad, lost his
foot last evening while attempting to
board the local train at Peralta street,
West Oakland.
The Russian censors have given n
laughable proof Of their feverish desire
TO conciliate Germany, by objecting to
terming the wellknown poison "prusc
acid, lcst,it should be regarded as AN
insult by Prussians.
1t is reported that Gould is negotiating
for the control Of the Mexican National
to link with his southwestern system,
and that the Santa Fe managers will
soon establish n commercial telegraph
system from Missouri to Arizona.
The are supposed to be about ], 900, 900
81 ecies in the animal kingdom, OF
beetles alone, over 10000 species are
known, and the whole number of insects
is set at 800, 900. OF the higher animals
there are 100 mammals. 1900 biids, 1000
reptiles and 10000 fishes.
The Salt Lake Tribune has been
staunch defender OF Governor Murray of
Utah, alleging that the attacks upon his
reputation originated in Mormon malice.
Governor Murray has been an earnest
and active oproser of polygemy ever
since he has been in the Territory.
cAbout $50 miles north of Misscula, NJ.
~, {, region has been discovered by an
exploring party in which are twenty
cascad,s, over 800 feet in height, and II
5 uue glacier with mile of frontage and
800 feet high. 1t is said to I've a more
wonderful region than the Yellowstone.
Shipments of fresh salmon to New
York and Boston from Oregon hy the
Northern Pacific Railroad are ot con-
siderable movement and likely to be
larger as the season advances, when they
will no doubt be shipped in refrigerator
cars and thus frozen, offered daily III che
retail markets OF the Atlantic Coast.
A brutal wretch named J. Yates, liv-
ing on Derry Creek, W, T., made mur,
derous assault ON. his wife on saturday
He knocked her down, with revolver,
drew his knife and would certoinly have
murdered her.. had not her two sons
come to her rescue and overpowered the
scoundrel. The woman is severely in
inred rhere is strong tnllS of lynchinc