Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-09-10

Yesterday being Admission Day the
public Offices we're closed and the boys
had holiday.
Mark Mcdonald, of Santa Rosa, has
let a contract for planting 10000 olive
trees during the winter.
A Sultana grapevine at Covina is
bearing 100 pounds Of grapes this year,
in the shape Of SO large clusters.
There are q number Of very hard
looking characters now in the city and
the vagrancy law should be strictly en-
forced.
The Committee on Building will meet
at the City Hall at two O'Clock this
afternoon. They win struggle with
that hole.
A large amount OF wine has been pur-
chased at Anaheim for shipment TO San
Antonio, Texas. Several carloads will
be sent forward at once.
| The train from the East yesterday by
the Sunset route, due at noon, was do.
tanned by the washout at Benson, Ari-
IONA, and failed to appear.
The eloquent Bishop Warren, as will
be seen by notice in another column,
will deliver lecture 10 the Fort street
M. Il. Church tonight. 1t will be
grand treat
The surveyors have finished sound.
ings at La Ballona Slough and are now
at work on the ocean. There is little
doubt Of the feasibility Of the proposed
ship canal.
| This week Baer h German shipped
seventeen casks and two hundred cases
Of wine to New York. The eastern
people are insatiate in their demand for
our light wines.
The walls Of the jail are ripsning in
the autumn sun. The roof will come
later TO "bother the flowers that bloom
in the spring. provided the spring
doesn't come too soon.
The Los Angeles Baptist Association
are holding their annual meeting with
the Baptists of San Bernardino. The
meeting commenced yesterday and con
tinues to day and tomorrow.
There is nothing like advertising.
Yesterday Baer German put little
notice in the HERALD that O boy was
wanted They found 100 boys of all
| sizes, ages and colors awaiting for the
store to open.
When will the making Of asphaltum
pavement begin? It was TO have been
laid on Spring street between First and
| Second, but it wasn't 1t was TO have
been laid around the Court House, but
it has not been, and nobody knows when
| it will be.
The members Of the Boyle Heights NJ.
| Il. church desire that their pastor-Rev.
j. Wachob--be returned to them by the
| conference which meets at San Diego in
a few days. Next Sunday Rev. DR..
Bresee will preach his last sermon before
| conference.
By courtesy of Hon. j. f. Crank,
President of the l.. A. h s. G. V. R. R.,
a free excursion will be given to the
children Of the Orphans Home to La
manda Park to-day, when picnic will
be enjoyed at the pavilion and under
the shade of the old oak trees.
Rev. D. Hanns's excellent girls school
opened yesterday with 50 young lady
pupils on the roll. Miss Adah Eckert
fvvored the assembly with good reel.
tation. Miss George, a musician and
linguist of remarkable culture and tai
emit, will teach for Mr.. Hanna this year.
The new three story brick hotel-the
only three.story brick, it is said, in San
Bernardino c9unty-is nearly completed
at Cotton, near the crossing OF the S. 2.
and the G. S. r. r. Cotton seems to
hold her share Of the building boom,
and boasts Of fifteen houses now being
built.
Some persons want to know how
much rainfall there will be next winter,
and some want to know how deep the
mud will be where the gravel has been
removed on Spring street? The first
question can be answered very nearly,
but the latter cannot be told within "a
inches.
To accommodate the increased travel
that has been caused by the work Of
constructing the coast road from New
hall to San Francisco. it is hoped and
desired that another passenger train
should run from Los Angeles to New
hall to increase the convenience of the
travellers over this great line.
An inquest was yesterday held on the
body of Eugene Bailey at the rooms of
McBratney & Howry, undertakers. The
evidence given before Coroner McFar-
land gave no information that was not
mentioned in the full report OF the
dreadful aft .ir in the HERALD Of yester.
day. The verdict OF the Jury was that
the deceased came to his death by
suicide.
Yesterday Charles Wagner, who keeps
the Sycamore Grove saloon at the
Arroyo Seco, hired a horse and buggy at
the Pioneer Stables of this city, and
wen to the Five Mile House on the Old
Mission road Arriving there he hitched
the horse and went into the house.
When he emerged his outfit was gone.
1t was evidently stolen. The horse is
bay in color.
Yesterday the police arrested drunk
on San Fernando street. Jack Skinner,
the well known contractor, saw the tel
lew picked mp and passing by the place
shortly after found on the ground 81. 50
in coin. He concluded that it was the
drunk's money and took it to the police
station. That poor Individual can thank
Jack for his morning drink this
morning.
On Saturday morning last two large
stacks of hay, containing about 1865
tons, belonging to Mr.. Kenyon Cox,
were burned at his ranch, North Ana
helm. Ii is certain that the hay was
set afire, rs the two stacks were two
hundred yards apart, and both bla2ed up
at the same time. No clue has been
found. as yet, to the guilty parties. and
Mr.. Cox offers reward OF 500 for their
arrest and conviction. The hay was in
sured.
Yesterday a gang belonging to one of
the factions Of the Republican party
took advantage of the suspension Of
business and tried to hold a caucus in
the Supervisors room. They marched
confidently in and stated their object to
County Clerk Dunsmoor. To their sur.
| prise, this official refused to allow them
to occupy the room for political pur
poses, aud the crowd adjourned to Con-
gress Hall.
Messrs. J. L. johnson and A. M
Switzsr have climbed TO the top Of
Strawberry Peak, that high rocky
mountain in the Sierra Madre. This
peak was measured by Lieut.. Wheeler
and found to be $500 feet high. II is