Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-03-17
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A copartnership has been formed be-
tween WIN. B. Abernethy and Alfred z,
Taft.
There is a rumor OF big 4-story
block soon to be put up here, similar tc
the Nadeau.
The Caledonia Society has presented
Mandie Reese with beautiful gold
mounted opera glass.
There were recorded yesterday 81
deeds, . mortgages, o releases and 8
miscellaneous papers.
A pipe burst up stairs in the Depot
Hotel and deluged the lunch room and
the waiting room below yesterday.
The w. C. T. U. will give a supper to
the bootblacks and newsboys of the
city on Friday evening at the Y. M. c.
A. hall.
Some villainous youths are amusing
themselves by putting distractions on
the cable road track on the steep grades,
thereby endangering life.
On Thursday evening there will be a
meeting of the congregation of the
Church of the Unity. A movement is
on foot to erect church edifice.
The lot on S. Fort street next to the
Millar brick building, which is about to
be improved for business purposes, be-
longs to MIR. Raphael. He will put up
brick building on it.
1t is reported that Mr.. J. Harry Con-
Ian will shortly open first class wall
paper house. Mr. Conlan is an enter
prising and rising young man, and by all
means ought TO succeed.
The Presbyterian Home and Foreign
Missionary Society holds its annual
meeting in the First Presbyterian church
to-day, commencing at 10 o'clock, with
sessions morning afternoon and evening.
The Los Angeles Improvement Com.
pany has reduced the number of its di.
rectors from nine to five. They are now
w. S. Newhall, Il. A. Hall, Jesse Var
nell, ii. e. Whitmer and j. M. Thomp-
son.
The people who are generously in-
clined to benevolent deeds will reme.n-
ber that the entertainment of the Ger
man Ladies' Benevolent Society will
take place on March oath, at Turnverein
Hall.
NJ. L. Wicks, Esq, was driving down
Spring street yesterday morning and his
horses ran away upsetting the buggy at
the corner of Second street. MIR.
Wicks and his little daughter were
thrown out but fortunately escaped in
jury. The horses were stopped at Tenn
Pile street by Mr.. Ed. Smith.
The rendering of ''Preciosa, the
Gipsy," the popular German melodrama,
was given on Sunday evening at Turn
veroin Hall, before a crowded house.
desire has been expressed to have the
same repeated, and arrangements have
been made for repetition OF the per-
formance on the evening of April 4th.
The low rate of freight is inducing
immense shipments of California pro-
ducts to the East. As specimen of
this exchange of products fer coin, a
shipp ent of MIR. ID. Mahlstedt yesterday
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twenty.eight carloads of wine to Chi
cago, amounting to about 100000 gal
Ions OF pure juice of the grape. The
day is no, far distant when such ship
ments will be made daily.
A gentleman of this city has watch
that is curiosity. 1t has small sec
ond dial like other watches. but there
are neither hour nor minute hands on
the watch. The hours and minutes are
marked by figures sunk in the face, the
hour figures near the top, and the min
utes in the center The time is kept by
by these fignres changing from time to
time. AT "a minuteI past 3 when the
next minute passes the 4 changes to D.
At half-past the 20 changes to 80. AT
the end of the hour changes to in
the hour figures.