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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-01-19

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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-01-19

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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-01-19

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the Firrmen'S Hal to large and appre-
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moral oat and was we'll rendered by
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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-01-19

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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-01-19

NE ]" KNOWN. that On tais Eighteenth
- day VI December, in the year If our
Lord, one Thousand eight hundred and
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15

accommodation of a decent road by
which to reach their homes in safety. 1t
would cost but little to put this road in
good order, but neither roadmasters nor
supervisors seem to care about the mat
ter.
The same story reaches US from every
portion of Los Angeles county. What
has become of that $685. 900, supposed to
have been expended on our county roads
Before the HERALD sets it's special cor
respondent at work, we solicit informa'
ton from all quarters. Give us your
grievances, men and brethren living in
the country! Wherever you can show
up this neglect or robbery, or both com
bined, do it for present exposure and
future protection.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15

The plains and mesas of Los An.
geles county at the present time present
varied scenes of interest. 1t is moth.
ing short of marvellous the amour,
of land being seeded to grain of the
various sorts. The gang plows are busy
in all directions, and as each of these
powerful implements turns eight to
twelve acres day, the aggregate Of
wheat and barley will be a prodigious
sum. Then the vineyards are scenes OF
busy industry. The vines are
now being pruned and the
cuttings cleaned out and burned.
In the orange orchards the
gatherers are engaged in collecting the
golden fruit, and at all the depots are
strings of teams delivering this crop for
shipment abroad. Then there are the
pasture lands where the the lush, sweet,
nutritious grasses stand green and thick
almost as high as the knees of the cattle
and sheep that revel in something better
even than clover. There are many acres
of new vines being planted too, and
millions OF new fruit trees, from the
orange and lemon to blackberry and
strawberry bushes. The year will be
notable one in the agricultural history
of the section.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15
Those Wretched and Expensive
Roads.

The HERALD never struck more re-
sponsive chord in the community than
when it called the attention of the people
to the horrible way in which their money
is being expended. Every detail of the
enormous total seems to be redolent
either of extravaganza or corruption.
The appropriation of $9S 900 to the roads
of this county has inconceivably shocked
everybody who has been obliged to drive
over them. Notwithstanding this enor-
nous sum thus appropriated there is
hardly road outside of the city limits
on which one can travel. Take Main
street, for instance. This is a great
thoroughfare, which is now we'll i'm
proved, yet when Washington street is
reached it is bad and yet later it is
simply in a horrible condition. As soon
as it passes the southern city limits
and branches off to New Main street,
leading to Green Meadows, and
all the settlements between Los
Angeles and Wilmington, a road
which is travelled good deal, which is
one Of the main arteries of the city, it is
almost impossible. Within short dis
tance of the city limits this important
thoroughfare is 30 washed out by water
ditch that there is cut so big-from five
to six feet deep-that the greatest danger
to life and limb threatens any one who
drives on this county road. So wretched
is this road at this point that it is great
wonder that nobody has been reported
manned or killed from passing this chasm.
The cross-ways to Main street cannot be
utilized because it is impossible to cross
this deep water ditch, and one has to
drive arsy around it to get to old Main
street, or to West Los Angeles. Yet the
property bordering on this fine road is
assessed by the county at from 5000 to
81 500 an acre, for road tax pur-
poses, besides . heavy school tax
1t the same valuation. Notwith-
standing this heavy valuation the
property owners have no. even the poor
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15
THE HOUSE.

SACRAMENTO, January IA. - Speaker
Howe called the Assembly to order a
at 2 O'Clock this afternoon.
The following committees were an
nonnced:
Attaches-Long, Mulgrew, Tucker
Young, Maher.
Elections-Burwell, Long, Mccarthy
Hall, Stande, Davis, Brown.
Judiciary, ,Seawell, Storke, Hall, Shan.
ahan, Tulley, Reinson, Whitehurst, Tuck
er, Coombs, salomon, Hyde, Young,
Dibble, Lowe, Hart.
Constitutional ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Whitehurst. Hall, Tulley, Ccombs,
Damron, Young.
Federal Relations -Renison, Shana-
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15
TUESDAY, JANUARY Is, 1859.
A t.RoSs,, SCOOP.

The Los Angeles journals which are
fond of copying, with emendations
adapted to the locality, salacious stories
which have appeared in Eastern journals
"for time whereof the memory Of man
runneth not to the contrary" steadily at
tempted to discredit the statement,
which first appeared in the Los Angeles
HERALD, of a new transcontinental rail-
way centering here, which is backed by
heavy capitalists interested in the Union
Pacific and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railways. They heaped all manner OF
ridicule upon project, now in earnest
course of work toward completion, which
was first exploited in the editorial col
umns Of this paper and which was
afterwards and intelligently developed by
its enterprising corps of reporters. They
have both "come to their mutton" so tc
speak, the Times doing its crawfish act
on the strength Of telegram from Sioux
City, day before yesterday, and the
Tribune coming in tardily yesterday
morning. Since the world began there
have been great many salacious epi
sodes, which can be written up ad nau
seam, for they occur as often as in the
days when the lust of David was excited
by the spectacle of the beautiful wife oi
his general in the bath, but to get real
news requires enterprise. Now that our
morning contemporaries have at last
settled upon an item which would have
been genuine news if the HERALD had
not made it public, elaborate ly and in
detail, weeks before, we congrat-
ulste them in their order,
first the Times, secondly, the
Tribune. They would both have
shown more intelligence and more en-.
terprise in having reached their present
attitude sooner. But they exhibit signs
OF amendment. If they shall live a few
years longer we can hope that they will
be au courant Of events go beneficial tc
this section.
Meanwhile, the fact remains, as the
HERALD first asserted it, that the build
ing of this new trauscontinental railway,
which will be completed within two
years, will double the population of the
city and county Of Los Angeles, with all
the magical growth and progress which
such great work of development in
wolves. In the next ten years the fight
on the Pacific Coast is between San
Francisco, city and county, and
Los Angeles, city and county, and
the latter will be facile princeps.
We began the race in 1880 with a popu-
lation of this city which only counted up
eleven thousand three hundred. Eight
years later, in the Presidential election,
we showed bigger vote than we had
population in 1880.
The HERALD is fond of this kind of
scoop. 1t would suppress, because they
are often disgusting, dozen police items
to achieve one clean triumph of this kind
we have now chronicled. In all such
contests of journalism in Los Angeles the
HERALD, like the celebrated horse Eclipse,
is first and the rest of it's contemporaries
are nowhere.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15
A Drawn battle.

New York, January 14.-Harry
Thompson of Kingsland and Frank
Evans of Jersey City, middleweights,
fought most bloody and brutal battle
yesterday. At the end of the thirteenth
round both were frightfully battered and
had to be helped to their corners, and
the fight was declared draw. They had
fought twice before and each had won
one battle.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15
Let Him IloWn E.sv.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, January 14.-To-day
Grant w. Smith, the young man who
forged slip pass on the Central Pacific
railroad with the initials OF General
Superintendent Fillmore, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to thirty days in the
county Jail. Judge Armstrong remarked
when passing sentence on Smith that his
previous good name saved him.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15

tural Commission at their semi-annual
meeting charged me with the response
biity of this investigation. This trust 1
endeavor to discharge to the best of my
ability, and certainly will not be turned
aside by any hostile letters from any
quarter, or fears of invoking sectional
prejudice and bad temper. In conclu-
sion, I may be permitted to ask of these
gentlemen, if they have visited our in
fected district and there inspected and ex-
amined "the diseased" vines and made
themselves thereby familiar with its
symptoms or indications, SO as to enable
them to identify 1t elsewhere? and if not,
how "could the most extensive observa-
tions" result in safe conclusions even to
themselves? This is no time. gentle
u,en, for the exhibition of any sectional
feeling; the common enemy and danger
should unite as ALL; first, into close exam
nations and investigations as to the
presence of the disease in any locality,
and secondly, in an earnest effort to dis
cover its origin or nature, and thirdly,
when known, in a determined effort to
stamp it out, and devise means for it's
prevention.
Mr.. John Fl. Wheeler's (Chief Execu-
tive Viticultural Oficer) open letter ad-
dressed to all vineyardists throu yhout the
State, and published in the Merchant of
January 4th, will show conclusively how
anxious the Commission is to discover all
the facts obtainable, and TO aid all grape
growers in identifying "the disease
and would earnestly advise all parties
interested to read his letter and follow
his advice.
If the aid of the microscope is invoked
by any one in making the investigation
for himself, let not sectional prejudice
induce him to look through the wrong
end of the glass in the direction of his
neighbors. Respectfully,
J. DE BARTH SHORE.
We entirely agree with Mr.. Shorb that
it is highly absurd to make a sectional
issue of a matter as to which all the
vignerons and viticulturists OF California
have common interest. As We ad-
vance to the front rank of raisin-makine
and wine-making countries California
will, of course, encounter difficulties.
They will not be such as ought to dis
courage. On the contrary, they ought
to stimulate us to united action. A
strong movement and a movement
altogether will enable US to easily extir.
pate these pests, which have neve,
assumed the gravity which has carried
consternation to the French vignerons.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15
MIR, Sewull of Samoa.

WASHINGTON, January 14.-Coneul
General Sewall was before the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations to-day,
and continued his recital of the events Of
the past year or two on the Samoan Is
lands. He was interrogated with particu-
lar reference to the communications that
passed between himself and the State
Department with regard to his efforts to
protect American interests on the islands.
He will be still further examined by the
committee tomorrow.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15
The WebfooI Legislators

SALEM, Ore., January 14.-Both
branches of the Oregon Legislature Or
ganized to-day. The house elected E.
N. Smith, of Hood river, Speaker, and
the senate Joseph Simon, of Portland,
president, and next Tuesday the Legis-
lature will ballot for a United States SEN
ator to succeed Dolph.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15
The Penalty to be Paid.

NEW York, January 14.-A Port-au-
Prince Hayti special says the question of
indemnity for the seizure of the Haytien
Republic is settled. The amount agreed
upon is $120,000; of this $4,000 was
to-day paid to the owners of the steamer.
The balance will be paid in equal INSTALL
ments on March LIST and June LIST.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15
In the Matter of Woo..

WAsHINeToN, January Alt is now
said that the wool schedule in the Senate
tariff bill will probably be amended 80 as
to provide for clearer and more definite
distinction between the several classes of
wool 80 as to prevent the Importation of
any grade without paying the ddty which
rightly attaches to it.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15
PARTING Their inheritance. g.

WASHINGTON, January 14.-Senator
Dawes day introduced bill for the
division OF the great Sioux reservation in
Dakota. 1t requires the consent of the
Indians to be obtained to the opening of
the reservation, and the fund arising
from. tho sale of the lands shall be held
in trust for the six different tribes, instead
of being held in lump for the whole
nation
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15
Contested Seats.

SAN Francisco, January 14.-The hear.
ing of the contest of Henry s. Martin,
Republican. against William E. Dinan,
Democrat, for Assemblymsn from the
Thirty-Third District, was begun to-day
before Justices of the Peace Boland and
Hebbard. J.W. Gawthorne, Republican,
began proceedings in the Justices Court
to-day contesting the election of E. ].
Reynolds, Democratic Assemblyman
from the Thirty-Fourth Assembly Dis
trict.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15
Election REFORMS.

WASHINGTON, January IA -Grosvenor
introduced in the House to-day a bill
substantially similar in its provisions to
the bill introduced by Senator Sherman
to alter the regulations as to the times,
places and manner of holding elections
for Representatives. in Congress.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15
JUST at present Los Angeles orchardists

JUST at present Los Angeles orchardists
are busy getting their orange crop to the
market, and this fact calls to mind one
OF the peculiarities of this section. To
the granger in the frozen east, the idea OF
reaping harvest in January must seem
strikingly novel. But there is no month
in the year in which the Los Angeles
granger may not harvest some paving
crop. He is now selling oranges, straw
berries, cabbages, peas and tomatoes all
fresh from the fields. The oranges will
last until June, the other crops
named above are perennial. Next
month he will add to these
new potatoes. And they will come in from
that time until December in successive
crops. He is moving alfalfa hay now be-
tween the showers, and this crop he will
harvest six to eight times during the year
from the same patch of land. By the
time the citrus fruit crop is done apricots
and early peaches will be On hand. These
will be succeeded by nectarines, later
peaches, apples of all sorts and many
varieties OF pears until December. In
June the barley hay crop is ripe, and in
July the barley and wheat
are ready for the reapers. The
first grapes come in in June,
and the last are good at Thanksgiving
day. Figs, pomegranates, olives, per-
simmons and many other fruits are not
emphasized here for the reason that
these industries are now in their infancy.
Here is surely an inviting field for the
agriculturist. The man who has capital
to purchase large tract may make a
business out of farming here whose
profits and ramifcations should command
the interest of men of master minds.
Even the possessor OF twenty acres may so
dispose his crops that he shall have an in
come every month in the year. The whole
section is capable of supplying other parts
of the Union less favored than this with
fresh butter, eggs, vegetables, fruit, honey
and hay at all seasons of the year. When
our resources are all developed We shall
see trains going daily from each of our
towns laden with butter, cheese, poultry
eggs, fruits of many kinds and in many
apes-fresh, dried, canned, preserved
and vegetables of legion varieties all
fresh from the gardens in winter as we'll
as in summer. These are the considera.
tions on which is based the claim that
Los Angeles county will ultimately sus.
tain population of million souls.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15
Club Fiela Triuls.

BAKERSFIELD, CAL, January 14-Tbe
Pacific Coast Field Trial Clubs sixth
field trials began to-day. Many promin-
ent sportsmen are present. Quails are
plenty and good work was done to-day.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15

Says a critic of the Signal Service
Bureau: "They used to call him "Old
Probabilities, but since he has lost his
abilities they call him old Prob.'"
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15

The HERALD presents to the public
this morning the city delinquent tax
list. 1t will interest the property-hold-
ers OF the municipality to an unwonted
degree.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15
They backed tho beaten,

RICHMOND, Va, January 1.-THE DEM
ocratic Presidential electors met at the
Capitol to-day and cast the vote Of the
State for Cleveland and Thurman.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15
Notice to Mali su bscribers.

The papers of all delinquent mail subscribers
to the Los Angeles DAILY HERALD will be
promptly discontinued hereafter. No papers
will be sent to subscribers by mail unless the
same have been paid for in advance This rule
Is infiexible AYERS & LYNCH.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-15
DELIVERED BY CARRIERS
At sOc.iper Week, or soc. per Month.

LOCAL CORRESPONDENCE from adjacent towns
specially solicited.
REMITTANcEs should be made by draft, check,
postofice order or postal note. The latter should
De sent for all sums less than $5.
OFFICE OF PUBLICATION, 1885 West Second
street, between Spring and Fort, Los Angeles.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-10

court his trial resulted in hung Jury.
This leaves but two inmates in our jail;
one Hamilton, waiting action of the grand
jury on charge of theft of watch from
the person, and Jerry Digger, who was
sentenced last term for life
under charge of murder, aud whose case
Is pending in the court of appeals.
Pierre St. Guilham, who left here year
ago for Tacoma, W. T., has returned to
Lampasas and gone into business again;
also, 0. Giesics, who went to Ell Paso,
They say that they like Lampasas best.
Rents have taken decided rise here.
Everyone renewing their leases on the LIST
have had to stand considerable rise.
Several new business. houses will be built
before spring. The creamery has been
finished and will begin operations in a
few days.
j. @. Matthews left for Dallas on a
business trip Sunday.
H. Gross, one of our travelling citizens,
received serious fall from the
depot platform at Milan this week. He
had one rib broken and was otherwise
severely bruised and injured. He says
that there were no lights at the depot,
and he missed the steps at the end of the
platform. He will claim considerable
damages against the railroad company.
He is still laid up from the injuries.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-10
GALVESTON ITEMS.
A Ship Carpenter. Under Suspicion of
Murder-A Mysterious Affair.

A Ship Carpenter Under Suspicion of
Murder-A Mysterious Affair.
Special Telegram to the Statesman.
GALVESTON, January THE fishing
sloop in which Vincent Miles, ship car
penter, and Bernard Grago left the brick
wharf in last Thursday evening, and
which was reported sunk and Grago
drowned at the railway bridge, across the
bay, five miles west of the city, by Miles,
has been found adrift on Deer island.
Two policemen visited the vessel to-day
and found her cargo intact and dry. The
vessel was sound, except where the anchor
had beaten hole in her side above the
water line. The policemen hauled the
vessel off and brought her across the
bay to the island side and anchored her
in the bayou in charge of some fishermen.
The matter will be rigidly investigated as
it is generally believed that Grago has
been foully dealt with by Miles, as twas
known the former had quite sum of
money on his person. Miles has told a
number of contradictory stories about the
disappearance of Grago, and when the
officers went to take possession of the
vessel to-day he disputed their right and
became quite obstreperous. A close
watch is being kept for Grago's body,
while Miles is under police surveillance.
John Swickel, well-known butcher,
and a woman we're found in his room on
Winnie street, between Twenty-ffth and
Twenty sixth street, in an unconscious
condition, evidently caused by large
dose of some opiate. AS he failed to be
on hand at his market at the usual hour,
his employer forced an entrance to his
room and found him and his companion
in the condition described. Physicians
were summoned, and, after a hard
struggle, they we're restored to conscious
ness. Neither he nor she can give any
thing like straight story concerning the
affair.
General Comstock, of the United States
engineers department, who has been IN
the city several days, made an inspection
yesterday of the ship channel improve
ment in the upper bay and will examine
the jetties at the entrance of this harbor.
General Comstock is superintendent of
government works in the southern di-
vision.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-10
GALVESTON.
A New Face Put Upon the Re.
cent Accident In
West Bay.
Grego's Fate Still a Mystery-k
Forty Mile Norther Howl
ing In the City.
Special Telegram to the Statesman.

Special Telegram to the Statesman.
GALVESTON, January S.-The story told
by Vincent Millich about the accident last
Thursday night at the railroad bridge and
the probable drowning of Bernard GREGG
is corroborated by the bridge men. An
officer of the police court was detailed to
make an investigation at the bridge and
he reports that the bridge men say that
Millich jumped off the boat on to the east
or Santa Fe bridge; that the other man
on the boat steered the craft along and
succeeded in pulling it through the draw
of the west bridge, and in the darkness
they could see his form until the boat had
drifted some distance from the draw
The man on the boat was moving around
and was certainly alive. At this time Mil
Itch was on the Santa Fe bridge, and there
is no evidence that he ever saw Gregg
after he passed through the bridge on the
boat. There is but little doubt but that
Gregg fell overheard and was drowned.
The rumor that Gregg had quite sum of
money on his person is not credited by
those who were intimate with him.
The cooking main which was announced
to take place between Galveston and Mar
shall, Tex, in this city on or about New
Years, failed to materialize, Marshall fail
ing to come to time. The match was to
be twenty five birds on each side, give or
take two ounces at pit, for $40,
or $500 side, the one win
ming the most battles to take the money.
Galveston sports in anticipation of rat
thing main spent fully $3.50 in birds.
Since the failure of the Marshall
sports to come to the scratch, efforts
are being MADE to arrange a
main with Cleburne and negotiations are
now pending. Galveston sports are spoil,
ing COR fight and claim that they can
produce twenty-one cooks that are world
heaters and are walking around with a
chip on the shoulder defying any cooking
man to knock it OFF,
A bowling northeI is blowing tonight
at the rate of forty miles an hour and
much apprehension is felt concerning
fires. Two alarms have already been
sounded calling the department out,
caused by blazing chimneys on fire.