Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-01
NEWS NOTES.


ington Garden to-day.
The corner stone Of the new Luther
an church will be .laid next Sunday
afternoon.
The Los Angeles Board Of Trade
moved yesterday to its new quarters,
corner of First and Fort streets.
The examination of Charles Jones,
for smuggling cigars, was set for April
s, before United States Commissioner
Van Dyke.
Parties desiring to contribute decor
atiye plants for the Flower Festival
can confer with Mrs. H. P. Widney,
I'll South Fort street.
(, The work on the foundation for the
new Court House is progressing
slowly. The cement work is nearly
completed and some Of the granite is
j on the ground.
aii The foundations for the new City
Hall are progressing slowly. Brick is
being laid in some parts of the exca-
avation, but it is not yet up to the sur
face of the ground.
Transfers of real estate yesterday
amounted to 1884, 4,0S1, and were 166
in number. OF these, 43 were for
nominal considerations, and 6S for
more than $1,000 each.
John w. Woodcliffe was examined
yesterday On writ of insanity in
Judge Gardeners court. He was de-
clared to be of unsound mind and was
sent to the insane asylum at Stockton.
Mr.. Raskin informs us that his glass
company will have specimens OF their
vitreous manufacture ready for public
inspection this week. He says that
the sand they have secured for their
glass works is of an admirable quality.
A very pleasant excursion to Mon
tslvo took place yesterday, on which
occasion Messrs. Easton & Eldridge
sold seventy-three lots for $l5, 1888.
The sale was conducted under the
auspices of the Los Angeles Land
Bureau.
A large delegation of Prohibitionists
left the city yesterday for San Fran
cisco to attend the Prohibition convcn
ton to be held there in April. Among
those who went were Jesse Yarnell, !,
Fl. G. Wilmer, R. R. Haines, Julius
Lyons and wife, A. M. Ellsworth, n.
III. Matlock and l. w. Davis.
J. F. Pendergrast was yesterday held
by Commissioner Van Dyke for ap-
pearance before the grand jury, with
bail fixed at 1000. The original
charge Of robbery was abandoned and
the charge of receiving stolen goods
was substituted, for which he will be
held.
The following persons were yester-
day licensed to wed: Charles w. Grid
ley to Anna E. Peter; George Pier
son toMattie Fowler; Albert Johnson
to Beda Carlson; Alfred R. McCul.
lough to Fannie Crutchfield; Joseph
q. Albright to Lizzie Venable; III. s.
Pratt to 2. P. Brown; Louis E. Hagan
to Jennie McCart.
Sunday school class meeting and
singing service will be held every
Monday morning at Grace Methods,
Church. Strangers in the city are
city are most cordially invited. Rev.
Will E. Knighten organized this
NEE ing some four weeks ago for the
especial benefit of the Sunday school.
From the very beginning the meet
ings have been largely attended, and
the interest seems to be growing.
The Cactus made a ten-strike yes
terday. 1t blossomed out into g
double-page portrait Of Mast by Mast
himself. This is a great triumph for
our local pictorial weekly. The Cactus
and Harper's are the only publica,
tions that have been honored by de,
signs from the pencil of the great
caricaturist of the age. There are
touches in Carl Brownies frontispiece
yesterday that have peculiar Nastear
air.