Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-04-18

| Local News NOtes.
The New England Society will meet
tomorrow evening.
There wus great rush of travellers
towards the north by train yesterday.
The meeting of the Illinois Society
has been postponed till Tuesday, April
9th.
Mr.. C. T. Hopkins, of Olivewood,
Pasadena. went to San Francisco by the
train yesterday.
st. Pauls school take q vacation all
this week and re.assembes on Wednes-
day the 2Sth instant.
The Supreme Court yesterday evening
| adjourned for the session, after having
dispatched large amount OF business.
The officers of Company A, Seventh
Infantry, N. G. c., yesterday received
their commissions. G. A. Keller is Cap
| tain.
The ladies will remember the great
millinery opening tomorrow at the
Peoples Store. 1t will be an immense
affair.
A gentleman Just down from San
Francisco reports that city filed to over
| flowing with eastern tourists. The
hotels and boarding houses are reaping
| a rich harvest.
The S. P. Co. sent out two specials
yesterday taking each about eighteen
cars of oranges. The G. s. Ry sent
one train out from San Bernardino load
ed with oranges.
Shipments of oranges from Southern
California to date for the season aggre-
gate in round numbers 1900 cars. There
are about 200 cars left in the country, and
they will all be gone by the end OF the
month.
Yesterday Councilman Holbrook sold
the Union Iron Works of tins city to
Weston Mccullough, of Santa Ana. Mr..
| Holbrook will continue in the manufac-
ture of iron pipe.
The card of Mr.. A. G. Holmes, one of
the Argonauts, appears in the HERALD
this morning. For fourteen years Mr..
| Holmes has affixed his official seal with
care and in accordance with law to all
documents requiring the endorsement of
a notary public.
| John Schiek had yesterday the most
original sign out in front of the Pop
| MA" opposite the Postoflice. Two fine
| dogs sat one on each side of the door on
| a box each holding hat in his mouth.
The passer.by came, beheld and was
overcome.
The HERALD acknowledges the receipt
of an invitation from the Dean of the
College of Medicine in this city, Dr. J.
2. Widney, and his wife, to the Annual
Reception given to the faculty and stu
dents of the College at their residence,
| 32l South Hill street, Wednesday even
ing, April 81, at s o'clock.
| The ostrches were so long confined in
the car that when released yesterday
morning they all wished to rest their
legs weary by long standing. To do
this they all got away for run. Each
one went of in go-as.you- please for the
mountains, and it took big gang OF
men to corral them in the valley at
Sepulveda after chase OF ten miles.
1t ia gratifying to see the promptness
of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance
Company in its payment of death claims,
rs appears by the card of John p. Early
| in another column. This company has
been doing business for over eighteen
| years, and has gained an enviable repu.
tation for fairness and promptness in the
settlement of its claims, both in the life
and accident departments.
Mr.. s. j. Mathes, the excursion man,
says the day he left Kansas City there
were 1000 people at the depot of the A.
T. and S. +. Railway trying to get
tickets to Los Angeles. His party were
hours trying to secure tickets in the
crush of people. When the train pulled
out, although there were twenty.one
cars in it, fully 500 people were left on
the platform who could not get tickets.
Within few days, so says Mr.. Louis
Blankenhorn, General Passenger Agent
of the l.. A. & S. G. V. R'y, that road
will place on sale at all its stations en-
cursion tickets at reduced rates to Long
Beach and Santa Monica. This, in con-
nection with the new schedule time
table of the S. p. Co., by which tourists
can visit these lovely seaside resorts and
return the same day, will be very con.
venient for the people.
The Society of Missourians met last
night, at the Board of Trade rooms, and
effected permanent organization. A
constitution and bylaws very like those
OF the other State societies was adopted.
A series of resolutions was passed eulo-
CYSTIC of the many merits of the State
they hail from. Some forty five persons
Joined the society. Col. Rowland acted
as chairman of the meeting in the abb
sence of the president. A committee
was appointed to provide literary pro-
grammo for the next meeting on the Sec
ond Tuesday in May.