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Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-12-03
Alhambra and SAN Gabriel.

EDITORS HERALD-The people of this
community held meeting at Alhambra
last Saturday evening to consider the
question, "Shall we have boulevard di.
rect from East San Gabriel through AL.
hambra to Los Angeles ?"
After some discussion the matter was
put in the hands of committee, who are
to interview the property owners through
whose land it is desired to open the
road, and consult the Board of Super
visors.
The committee consists of the follow.
ing gentlemen: Mr.. J. De Barth Shorb,
San Gabriel; Hon. 81. H. Markham,
Pasadena; E. P. johnson, Los Angeles !;
VIM. D. Stephens, East San Gabriel, and
Captain F. E. Gray, of Alhambra.
Mr.. Hall, our roadmaster, is greatly
improving the roads. He has graded
Main street, and it is now in excellent
condition. He has also begun grading
several other roads, and Immediately
after the rain will put them in thor
oughly frst-class condition.
Mr.. Langdon expects to rebuild imme-
diately. A movement is on foot to have
. hAOAo ScnFOhACho pooVOhISo uCtlIk dI-
ranged in the new store. In a few days
q paper will be prepared stating the i'm
provements to be made and having
plenty of room for subscribers to write
their names thereon, with the amount
they are willing to pay to help the matter
along. The contemplated improvement
will cost about $3.50.
Rev. o. B. Reed, the evangelist, has
been holding services here for the last
week. He will conclude his services
Sunday evening.
The Valley Hunt Club met at Alham.
bra last Thursday morning. Quite q
number of persons were present. The
scene was charming indeed, and every.
body who attended enjoyed it very
much.
The Methodists gave q very pleasant
Thanksgiving dinner at the restaurant
and everybody so desiring were fully able
to satisfy their desire for turkey.
A very pleasant rain began falling last
Friday evening and continues up to the
present writing. Old-timers say the
prospects of good season are very
bright. M.
ALEXANDRIA, December 2, 1889.
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NOTICE OF STREET WORK.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT, ON
the Council of the City of Los Angeles did at a
regular meeting, adopt an ordinance of in
tention to construct cement sidewalk ON the
north side of Orange street, in the City of Los
Angeles, from the west line of Pearl street to
the east curb line of Loomis street, and on the
south side of Orange stree, in said city, from
the west line of Pearl street to the east curb line
OF Kip street. except such portion as Is already
laid and accepted by the city, according
to plans and specifications on file In the office Of
the City Clerk, for constructing cement side
walks, to which said Ordinance No 466 ref
erence Is hereby made for further particulars.
W. e. MORFORD,
Street Superintendent
By GEO. R. FLINT. Deputy. d3-6t
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-12-03
NOTICE OF STREET WORK.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ON
~ Monday. the 18th day of November. A. D.
1889, the Council OF the city OF Los Angeles
did. at regular meeting, adopt an ordinance
OF intention to construct cement sidewalk,
feet Wide. along Hill street. in the city of Los
street to the norta curb line Of Pico street lex.
cept that portion already paved with cement
or bituminous lime rock), according to plans
and specifications on file In the office of the
City Clerk for making cement sidewalks, to
which said Ordinance No. 447 reference Is
hereby made for further particulars.
W. X. MORFORD,
Street Superintendent.
By GEO. r. FLINT,
Deputy. d3-6t
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-12-03

JOHN BLOESER, Proprietor.
4O8 South Pearl Street. Telephone No. AIT.

The Improved Machine.
We do the best carpet work
in the city.
Laying. bordering and re-
fitting carpets q specially.
Carpets taken up. cleaned
o, d relsid the same day II
necessary.
Ring up Telephone 427,
or address,
4CS South Pearl st.
Our Upholstering Depart
ment ia equally well fitted
up, and If you have any par
lor work, mattresses or
lounges you wish made over,
we can accommodate you on
short notice.
MO eod-m1
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In the Name of the Prophet Fl

In the Name Of the Prophet Figs.
Mr.. F. H. Barclay, of this city, is
making verv superior article of dried
figs at his place up the Tejungs. Here
is letter in acknowledgment OF the re-
ceipr of box of the fruit:
F. Fl. Barclay, Esq.,, Los angeles.
DEAR SIR-Yours of the LIST inst, also
box OF crystalized figs, prepared by your
"Pekena," were duly received. 1 ex-
hibited them at the State Fruit Growers
ConV ention at Fresno, and all those who
saw them pronounced them superior to
anything in our market from abroad,
and, in fact, it is wonderful that such
fruit can be produced in our State.
Thanking you for the same,
remain, yours truly,
B. M. LELoNG, Secretary.
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Health Firurss.

The Health Officer, DR.. Granville
MacGowsn. reports rs deaths during
November. OF these 20 were from
zymotic diseases, II from constitutional
diseases, "a from local diseases, 8 from
developmental diseases, and 8 from vio-
lence; were from typhoid fever, TO-
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A Great Reduction Sale.

An unequaled opportunity to buy dia.
monds, jewelry, canes, watches, silver
ware, etc, at lower prices than ever
before known in Los Angeles, appears in
the advertising columns of the HERALD
this morning. M. NJ. Lowenthal, II
North Spring street, is making the offer,
and you will be surprised to find how
much can be bought for little money at
his establishment.
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DIED.
FUNERAL NOTICES ONE DOLLAR.

PINNEY AT Geresbeck. Ohio, Novem her FL,
Mrs. Anna B. Pinney, wife OF Martin Pinney,
late Of Los Angeles.
DIKHL.-In this city, on December LIST, Mrs.
Harriet B. Diehl.
Funeral on Tuesday. December Sd. at 2
o'clock p. m. from her late residence on
Diamond street, near Belmont avenue, at
west end of Second-street cable railroad.
The funeral service, to be conducted by Rev.
DR.. Chichester and Rev. G. W. Heisler, will
be held at her late residence.
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The sword Awarded.

The ladies conducting the fair voted
the sword to dan cotton for being the
handsomest and most popular man in
the second hand furniture business, at
two hundred and two south spring
street-they declare him to be their
choice and advise all strangers to call on
him.
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from diphtheria, 8 from phthisis pulmon-
alis, from heart disease, 5 from pheu
monia and from entritis. Moro deaths
occurred in the Eighth, Ninth and
Seventh wards than in the others, and
the Fifth, Sixth and Third wards headed
the list with only 1, 2 and deaths re-
spectively. There were AZ males and So
females. The births recorded numbered
rs, of which "a were male and AZ female.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-12-03

A Sore Throat or Cough, If suffered
to progress often results in an incurable throat
or lung trouble. "Brown's Bronchial Troches'
give instant relief.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-12-03

To the Editor:-Please inform your readers
that have positive remedy for Consumption.
By Its timely use thousands of hopeless cases
have been permanently cured. shall be glad
Of your readers who have consum ption IL they
VIII send me their Express and T. o. Address
Respectfully, 7. A. SLoOUM, II. c., 181 Pearl
st.. N. Y.
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Fine, stylish, polished oak cart, made by R,
N. Bingham & Co., Rome N. X; front and
height Wheel ~ inches heisht Of Sody
from floor. 80 inches; length of shaft front of
bar, 9 feet 2 inches; for small horse, 13 to Is
hands high; has been slightly used; is offered
at Q bargain.
HAwLEY, KING & Co.,
Los Angeles and Requena streets.
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First.claBs Mercantile Lunch at
John Embry's, Al South Fort street.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-12-03

With BenOurs Floor Paint. lt dries over night.
For sale by J. NJ. Blackburn, Ill 8. Main
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Great Special Sale
And no humbug, at
THE WONDER.
70 and "a S, Main Street.

To continue until $40, 1000 worth of Mill
merry is disposed of. Dull t;mesI
Creditors are pushing us and the goods
must be sold to meet them. Look at the
bargains.
SO black trimmed Hats. 81 each; reduced
SO trimmed Hats. 81 so EACH reduced from
So 90.
25 fine trimmed Hats. 81 each; reduced from
25 pattern Hats. So. $50 to SO; reduced from
$40 and $18
IF French felt Hats. all new shapes. 81 each;
200 black straw Hats, all new shapes, Csc;
sold elsewhere for Use.
English felt Hats, all new shapes, $780, sold
elsewhere for 81 rs.
for SO.
-, 200 English felt Hats, 25o sold elsewhere
100 wool felt Hats, 1oc EACH sold elsewhere
RIBBONS.
Nc; all-silk Ribbon, loo; sold elsewhere
No IL sll-silk Ribbon, $780, sold elsewhere
No. 16 all-silk Ribbon, zoe; sold elsewhere
for 35c.
No. 40, inches in width, black satin Ribbon.
zoe; sold elsewhere for soc,
AL other Ribbons reduced the same
1000 fancy Feathers at your own price,
Plumes and Tips reduced one-third.
Hat and Bonnet Forms, all new shapes.
Now is the time for bargains. If yeu
want Millinery cheaper than any mil
liner can buy it, give US call.
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Try Elgin brand condensed milk.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-12-03

Unequalled-Elgin brand condensed milk
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THE RAYMOND. EAST PASADEN

~ Gabriel valley,
~ g tn hrdHoue whhM unansN Nh
ILL.,
hs@~aA
board and 9th" matte" obtained
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-02-27
WORSE THAN MARRIAGE.

A bachelor old and cranky
Was sitting alone in his room; J
His toes with the gout were aching,
And his face was o'erspread with gloom,
No little ones shout disturbed him,
From noises the house was free;
In fact, from the attic to cellar
Twas quiet as quiet could be.
No medical aid was lacking;
The servants answered his ring,
Respectfully heard his orders,
And supplied him with everything.
But still there was something wanting,
Something he couldn't commando
The kindly words of compassion,
The touch Of gentle hand.
And he said, as his brow grew darker
And he rang for the hireling nurse:
"Well, marriage may be failure.
But this is a blamed sight worse"
Buffalo Courier.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-02-27
MYRTLE'S SUIT0R.
"Susan, you're cryin'."

"Susan, you're cryin'."
Susan dropped her handkerchief into
her lap quickly. giving her husband an
indignant look. She was a woman of
some so years, tall and large framed,
with fresh, healthy complexion. She
had high cheek bones, her eyes were
black and her hair, though threaded
with gray, retained its dark hue. She
sat by the west window of the large wing
room which served for the dining and
living room of farm house. She had
been looking into the orchard where the
sun, as it sank in bank of red clouds,
FURNISHED the gnarled trunks and
crooked limbs of the old apple trees,
which cast long slanting shadows to-
wards the house. Her husband, who was
also tall, was of slighter build than she,
pale and older looking. He had been
bustling in and out of the room, and had
just thrown an armful of wood into the
wood box behind the stove. That arm
full filled the box full, and he was reach
ing for his pipe on the mantelpiece when
he glanced at his wife and saw her fur
lively wiping her eyes.
"How you do talk, Cyril. amt
thought O sech a thing as cryin'. Ijest
set here lookin' at them apple trees, all
bare as they be, an wonderin who'd be
lookin' out O this winder next year,
when they blowed agin.. That set me
thinkin' O the day you an me first come
home after we'd been to the parsons.
We come through the orchard, an the
trees was all full O. white blows, some on
'em fallin' on the ground, and you said
they was strewin' our path in honor O.
our weddin'. Your ma set in this ere
winder, an when she see us comm she
got up and opened the door, and when
we come up on the stoop we could see
the table all sot for us and the room fixed
up fur company. amt forgot word
she said. She put her arms round my
neck an kissed me, and says she, wei
COM home, Susan. You've got good
husband, an you've come to a good home.
I can't wish you no better'n thet you'll
be as prosperous as I've been here,
an when you're ready to die, as be
now, thet you can look back on as happy
life in the old home as lido. Oh, Cyril,
do hope dead folks can't see back here.
If your poor ma was to see us turned
out o here, all the singin' an playin' on
harps, an all tho gold mansions in
heaven, even if she owned one all to her.
self, wouldn't comfort her. !"
The old man had filled his pipe while
his wife was talking, and now sat in an
arm chair in front of the stove. He
made no reply.
You'll think I'm fool, l know she
went on, ''but keep on lookin' fur that
air paper Somehow | can't give up t
was sech born iddi't as to burn it up
with mess O rags
'It's burnt up fast enough, t'aint no
use O. hopin' you'll find it, was the dis
couraging reply; rwhat gifts me is, how
that old skinfint heard on t. You don't
think Myrtle d think she could hev' i'm,
do ye? Thet's what he wants He's got
big farm an good house. He amt
more'n fifty year old, reckon"
''Land sakes alive! Cyril Pettigrew,
what be you a talkin' about? He's
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-02-27


to foreclose on father. What bad man
he must bel Is it from revenge, because
| refused to marry him?''
"Yis," answered her mother; ''spite,
and mebbe more'n than that. Thinks,
like enough, you'll take i'm now to save
the farm. :"
g 'Cordin' to Jabez Reed" said Mr..
Pettigrew, F'your fathers liar an tryin
to be thief"
''But, father, Sam says you should re-
sist it. He says your word is better than
Mr.. Reeds OATH"
''Sam can do a good deal O. talkin', y
remarked Mr.. Pettigrew, "but twon't
amount to nothin'. Mebbe he's got three
thousand dollars to lend me.
"He hasn't, of course, replied Myrtle
81 know how gladly he would lend it if
he could"
''Wall, longs he amt got it don't see
S he can do better n to stop pesterin' on
ye an let ye marry Squire Reed an done
with it.
Shame, Cyril, cried Mrs. Pettigrew.
Myrtle smiled. "Never mind, mother;
poor father does not mean it. AS for
me l will not believe, till l hear it from
his own lips. that Mr.. Reed can be so un-
just. 5"
Pears likely you won't hev' to wait
long fore you do That's him now,
hitchin' his horse by the front gate, or
I'm greatly mistook. Mebbe he's thought
better ont and come to bring the salts
I, =
"Mebbe them apple trees II blow out
to-night-'bout as likely" grumbled
Cyril.
A sound of stamping and scraping on
the front piazza, and a loup rap on the
door, announced the arrival of u visitor
Myrtle opened the door and admitted a
man of about 60 years, of ordinary
height and size, with a ruddy complex
ion, coarse iron gray hair and small,
light blue eyes. His lips were fabby
and shapeless. His chin was streaked
with tobacco juice.
s'Good day, MI. Reed" said Myrtle;
1--WE were just talking about you. Twas
telling mother that unless you told me
SO, would not believe you would be
cfue1 anu unJuS
Mr.. Reed shook Myrtles hand as
though it were a pump handle, and
winked knowingly at her.
90 course, O. course" l.e answered
"How is the old man, any way; pretty
spry, hey?" st
Cyril gave grunt; but neither an
swered nor looked at the man. Mrs
Pettigrew said stiff1y, Have chair, Mr.
Reed"
"Wall, l dunno" turning to Myrtle.
SCOT fire in the front room? l come
to see you"
.'No, sir" she replied; 'but I do not
object to the presence of my parents"
"Wall, mebbe not, but | told yer
pa"-
''What l wish, particularly, inter
rupted Myrtle, sis to have this affair set
right. If you have not brought another
receipt to father, when will you send
one?'
easy now, easy-Td like to hev' a
talk all by ourselves. Come over and
set on the lounge"
He seated himself, and Myrtle stood
near. "Set down an be comfurble-No?
Wall, s'cuse my settin'. I'm tired.
O course you an me understands one
another. Their amt no use O maxim a
row, but yer pa didn't pay me no money
thet day. Can't see what the devils got
into the old feller. Amt acted queer
lately, has he?"
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-11

to be $40 inches, and after that hour it
rained very hard for several
hours. report was current last
night that an eight-foot rise
was coming from the West Fork and that
it would get here by this morning. This
news was said to have come from Dido and
Springtown. AT 2:30 this morning the
men at the pump house say the water is
rising very slowly.
PREVIOUS FLOODS.
From those who have lived in Fort
Worth thirty years or longer it is learned
that the present high water has never
been exceeded except in 1866. DR.. W.
7. Ferguson, for twenty-six years treas
urer of the county, says in that year the
water was some higher and that
old Maj. Dixon lost number of horses
on the North Side. Maj lessee Jones
says the flood Of 1866 was the greatest of
all, and this is next. There were floods
in 1877, 1882 and 1884 which covered
North Fort Worth and as far
down as the driving park, but
to the east the water was
not within quarter of a mile of its
present limits. In 1896 the country was
thinly settled and Fort Worth very
small place. In 1884 the graveled road
to Slyvania was washed out in two
places, but the entire valley
was by no means covered
with water. In 1877 a Mr.. O'Neill and
young lady lost their lives at the brick
yard crossing while trying to cross the
swollen stream. In all the floods num-
Der of cattle and horses were drowned.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-11

roll of letters l-6at,ng you all
to make that your home forevesee5ff - ~.
New Testament is only a roll of letters
inviting you, as the spirit of them prae-
ticaIly says: 'MY dying yet immortal
child in earthly neighborhood, I have
built for you a great residence. 1t is
full of rooms l have furnished them as
no palace was ever furnished. Pearls
are nothing, emeral6s are nothing,
chrysOphrasus is nothing; illumiaed
panels of sunrise and sunset. moth
ing; the aurora of the northern
heavens, nothing-compared with the
splendor with which / have garnitured
them. But you must be clean before you
enter there, and so l have opened a
fountain where you may wash all your
sins away. Come now Put your weary
but cleansed feet on the upward path
way. Do you not see amid the thick
foliage on the heavenly hill tops the old
family homestead?'' ''In my Fathers
house are many rooms.
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Special to the Gazette.
SAN ANTONIO, TEX, July 3.-Reports
which reach the city from the surround
ing country indicate an unusual rise in all
the streams in this region, caused by the
heavy rains of the past few days. The
Medina river is booming away over its
banks and doing immense damage to
crops, stock and fences along its valley.
Two handsome new iron bridges, built
recently by the county at cost of about
seven thousand dollars each, have been
washed away. The loss of several wagon
bridges in Medina and Wilson counties
are also reported. Railroad traffic GEN.
tering here is not yet very seriously ham
pered, but If much more rain falls the
tracks and bridges will doubtless suffer
considerably.
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THE VIRGINIA DISASTER.
Portions of Eight Bodies Recovered and Many
More in the Wreck.

More in the Wreck.
LYNCHBURG, VA, July 3.-The scene
of the terrible disaster near Thaxtons,
on the Norfolk and Western railroad, is
beyond description There is hardly
enough left of the train of eight cars that
took the leap TO the bottom of the awful
pit to make one car. As soon as the
boiler of the engine exploded the entire
mass of debris took fire, and those who
went down and were not killed outright
were burned to death Portions of eight
bodies have been taken out, and it IS
believed fully fifteen others were en-
tirely consumed by fire. The survivors
of the wreck, whose cries for help could
be heard from all portions Of the wreck,
were terrible, and those unhurt were
powerless to render assistance.
Women who managed to escape lay
about on the damp ground suffering from
their injuries until daybreak, and many
walked long distances to farmhouses.
The few passengers left uninjured did all
in their power for the unfortunates.
Later Particulars
ROANOKE, VA. July 3.-The debris at
the wreck on the Norfolk and Western
railroad has been removed and a number
of charred bodies has been found. The
names of seventeen persons who were
killed have been ascertained. The list is
official and accurate, and Is as follows:
Pat Donovan, engineer;
j. E. Bruce, fireman;
Alvin NJ. James, road foreman of en-
gines;
NJ. s. Bruce, mail agent;
s. W. Lipsey, train dispatcher, Roam
oke, Va;
VIII Hopkins, express messenger.
PASSENGERS.
William d Stevenson,
G.. w. Steeds,
VIII F. Marshall,
John N. Hardwick, all Of Cleveland,
Tenn;
Dennis Mellon of Roanoke;
L. NJ. Moore of Chattanooga;
Nathan Cohen of Roanoke;
James j. Rose of Abingdon, Va;
Hattie Darlington of Texas, aged nine
years;
John kirkpatrick of LynchbIrg, Va.
There were about thirty people who es-
capped with only slight injuries, and tee
who are seriously injured The lish
dead viii be increased as friends OF
missing people come forward in scare,
hem. There is no way at present
certain the exact number of dead, o
to the fact that the train was dest
b. fire.
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Streams Out of Banks.

Special to the Gazette.
RHoNE, TEX. July st commenced
raining here yesterdayevening at s CLOCK
and continued almost without cessation
until y IN. to-day. All the streams are
out of banks and trade and travel are
completely stopped. The majority of
the grain is still standing in the shock
waiting to be threshed, and if the
rainy weather continues the damage to
it viii be great, if it is not entirely
ruined.
Cotton and corn are doing only mod
erately well, but so far we hear of no
reports of worms or their signs.
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Dallas Flooded.

Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, July 3.-The rains of
the past three days reached climax this
afternoon, and for one hour the hardest
rain of three years poured down in
sheets. The broken sewer of Sycamore
street again turned all the water from
the northern and eastern portions of the
city into Elm street and caused the town
to put on a Venetian aspect. The water,
in tremendous volumes, rushed over the
sidewalks and into the stores, causing
large damage to stocks. In one or two
stores the water was three feet deep.
All the Easements are level full, and the
damage to goods stored in them cannot
be computed at present.
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Five DAYS, Rain
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
PALESTINE Tex, July st has
rained here for five days in succession,
some of the showers being very heavy.
What effect such an excessive down
pour may have upon the crops is excit-
ing a good deal of uneasiness in the
county.