Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-14
Southern California.

He who thinks there is no pulse in the
| fair wrist of Southern California should
60 down there and feel for it. He will
find the ruby blood not only bounding
through the arteries but pinking the
| flesh of that part OF the State. We are
glad of it. A State cannot afford to have
ligature around one of its sections to
cut off circulation and cause commercial
and financial gangrene. The soil and
climate of Southern California are i'm
mutahle elements, and while the one
supports life by its products, the other
sweetens life by its Establishments. To
one who saw Los Angeles, city and
county, when it was a fair savage, grace
full in natural pose and proportion, but
not well dressed, there is genuine pleas
ure in seeing what the milliner and
dressmaker, Civilization has done for
the wild belle.
The old beauty and grace are there,
| adorned by the modest charm which ac-
companies more clothes and better. This
| is the artistic view of it. Good taste and
play-day feelings are satisfied, but they
are not satiated. The very zest of it all
keeps an edge on the sentiments that are
in harmony with it, and the sensibilities,
constantly pleased, are kept continually
| at the point OF appreciation.
But there is another side to it. Com
merce is not sentimental. 1t neither
mourns with those who mourn nor re-
joices with those who rejoice. Commerce
may inspire sentiment, but has none
itself. The mountains and the sea do
the same.
Commerce has located in Los Angeles
and the growth OF that city is phenome-
nal.
We have before us this official notice ::
CONSTABLE'S SALE.
''By virtue of an execution issued out of the
| Office of G. Thompson Burrill, a Justice of the
Peace of the Township of Los Angeles, in favor
of ]. d. Barker and against Bruno Abilo for
the sum of 800 prindipsl, and 81 1926 interest,
and 5000 plaintiffs COSTS and $37 ;S5 costs
of suit, amounting to the sum of $2,265. .35,
| have levied upon and taken possession of the
following property, to wit: z gentle horses. 4
year-old mule, 81 sheep, 23 goats 3 hogs, Q
Spanish carts and wagon, all of which will
sell at public sale, as the law directs, on Tues
day. March l, 1855, at 10 A. M, at the corral,
| in front of the Courthouse, in the city of Los
| Angeles. Terms cash. C. E. HALE,
Constable.
That was thirty-three and third years
ago-only third Of century; the
drawing OF breath in the life of city,
but step in the progress of State. But
that sale of motley live stock is vivid
picture of what was, contrasted with
what is. The old Court House stands
yet, looking like wen on a bald head
sticking up through the sleek hair of a
brand-new wig. The "public corral"
has disappeared, and in its place are
buildings that would attract attention in
Chicago Or San Francisco. Street cars
run by on all sides, and around the VEN
cradle pile is the rush and roar of busy
city. The corral is gone. The goats
and the sheep have gone their separate
ways into oblivion. The wild mares are
tanned, for the RATA of the white rider
has jerked them into horse heaven long
years ago. But g. Thompson Burrill,
Barker and Bruno Abilo-where are
they? And Constable Hale-is he still
hearty?
The scene shifter has been there, and
the curtain has fallen upon the pastoral
life and the nomadic conditions which
required corral in front of of the Court
house, because about the only security
, for debt or source of income was live
, stock, and wild horse, powerless to beat
a judgment, could ontrun an execution.
Reading that old official notice, which
t carried misery to the heart of Bruno
Abilc, one conjures before the eve oi
| mind and memory vision of that Los
Angeles; and looking forth upon what
| enterprise has wrought on the same
J theatre in this Los Angeles, you know
| how Rip Van Winkle felt when he woke
So looking southwark, we say to the city
r of angels and of saints, "Here's to yor
, and your families, and may they live
, long and prosper. ."-[Alta.