Year: 1875




Court. Cotton was granted until
Wednesday morning at 8 A. NJ. to
plead to the indictment. Mrs. Norton
was given till Wednesday afternoon
at 2 p. NJ. to plead. Sheriff Covarru-
bias will not start out to summon a
jury till the latter end of this week or
the first ofneXt.


About two weeks since it was stat
ed in the Press the Luce Bros. had
leased the gas franchise, and had
agreed to have the wotks erected with
in three months, and ifpossible by the
first of September. These men have
gone to work right earnestly. The
last steamer brought large amount
of iron tubes and castings, and from
appearances, by the first of September
the works will be erected.


Our reporter interviewed several
gentlemen who returned yesterday
morning from Santa Monica. The
first days sale, which was on the 10th
instant, was we'll attended, there being
nearly two thousand people there.
The front lots sold from $500 to $500,
while one small lot, 50x100, in the Ho-
tel Block, brought $65. The second
days sale was not so we'll attended,
but bidding was brisk.


An ill-timed and most unhandsome
and unjust reference was made by q
contemporary to the beautiful and
talented pianist, Madame Sauret, to
the effect that she was more vain of
her beauty than her art. Even the
slightest knowledge of this delightful
and most Accomplished lady would
convince any gentleman or lady who
knows anything of good society that
more unfOunded charge could not be
made. Indeed, for simple ungenerous-
ness and naiuette, Madame Sauret has
few equals in any circle of society, and
in private life the unaffected simplici-
ty of her whole demeanor is even
more charming than the grace and
beauty of her person. The frequent
and indignant allusion to this ungra-
cious fling by our cultivated people
leads us to resent this most unpro-
voked slur in this manner.


from the Republican, 10Th.


While Mr.. Anderson was working
on the roof of his new residence, he
slipped and fell. He is somewhat in
jured, bnt not seriously.


The District Court will be in session
to-day. Judge Sepulveda of Los An
geles will preside in the place of Judge
Murray. The calendar is long one
and the sitting will be long one.


From the News 10th inst.


A couple of men were standing on
the wharf on Saturday, and looking
off among the kelp they discovered a
queer sort of an animal making its
way through the tangled net. They
straightway jumped into boat and
when they found it to be good-sized
grunter, that had taken it into his
head to navigate the channel on his
own hook and on the principle of Paul
Boynton. They soon secured the
stray swimmer and got him to the
shore; but no sooner did the four feet
of his porkship touch the land, than
he turned upon his captors and by
mastery movement to the front, put
them both to flight. This so digusted
one of them that he sold his interest
in that pinto hog for 50 so, and yes
terday he was enjoying the fruits of his
venture on the sea in the shape of var
ious and sundry drinks of pin. The
hog had probably jumped from some
vessel in the channel.


The Californians had a grand time
yesterday at Montecito. 1t was one
of their anniversaries, regular annu-
al celebration, at which cockfighting,
burying chicken except its head and
bringing it out of the ground while
riding at full tilt on horseback, bull
fights and the Turing pleasures of the
fandango are practiced and enjoyed,
together with the dguadiente and a
side game of monte. That is, it used
! to be so; but the Internal Americans
have immigrated into the country
with their Puritanical notions, and it
is more than fellows liberty is worth
nowadays to put chicken in the
middle OF the ring. So all of these
luxuries in the way of enjoyments had


to be done away with yesterday, at
the instance of our alert Sheriff Covar-
rubias, and the participants had to
content themselves with simply at
tending fandango at the Big Grape
vine and another short distance be-
yond, at which they washed the dust
out of their throats with good wine.
There was big rush to Montecito
from the city yesterday, and return
of disappointed sight seers in the
evening.


The daughter of a respectable resi-
| dent of Anaheim, who was formerly
Deputy Sheriff of Los Angeles county,
eloped-or attempted to elope-a few
days ago with one of the performers of
Jackley's circus, which exhibited here.
The company performed at Anaheim,
where the parties met, and then went
to Los Angeles. A telegram was sent
from there to the girl to come, and she
went to that city with lady compan-
ion and met the young man. The
young lady's companion, after short
absence from the room on the morn
ing after they arrived, returned and
found that the girl had left, unaccom-
panied, on the stage for San Buena-
ventura, the young man having gone
in one of the circus wagons the night
previous. Before the love-lorn dam
| sci reached that place, a telegram was
received by Sheriff Stone from her
father, to detain the girl and arrest the
| young man, who was supposed to
have caused the mischief, his name
being given. The Sheriff received the
young lady and obtained quarters for
her at the Santa Clara House, and ar
rested the young man and kept the
parties under surveillance. The lively
acrobat who thus found himself in the
strong grasp of the law denied the soft
impeachment most strenuously, and it
afterward turned out that he was the
| wrong man and that the real cnlnrit