Los Angeles Herald, Volume 20, Number 21, 13 September 1883 — LOCAL BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL BREVITIES.

For real fan go to the Rink. Supervisor Levy, of Downey City, was in the city yesterday. A woman to do general housework is advertised for in our New To-Pay. Mr. J. B. Unburn-' returns home by this inorniug's train from San Francisco. The ti rat regular passenger train of the California Southern railroad will eutrr San Bernardino to-day. Mr. i, M. Julian, of Snn Diego, was a passenger to his home per steamer Orizaba yesterday afternoon. Thermometer for the 24 hour* ending at 8:15 last evening: maximum, 78.5 degrees; minimum,ss.4 degrees. Mr. Kugene Mcyor, of the City of Paris Store, returns from San Francisco by this morning's overland traiu. The Ban Podro train was hauled up yesterday morning by tv\ o engines. The down train had the same complement. The Boisseranc building, on Commercial street, is Hearing completion. A brea sidewalk will be laid in froM of it. The clerical force at Cur Baz.iar were busy yesterday marking a fresh invoice of elegant fancy goods that had just arrived. Peputy United States Marshal Punlap returns from San Francisco by rail this morning, having in charge one prisoner. Messrs. Perry, Mott & Co., iv onr New To-day, advertise tffHt they will supply Portland Cement, best quality, at $4 per barrel.

One marriage license, in which the names of the high contracting parties are withheld, was tiled for record in theConnty Recorder* office yesterday.

It is reported on the street that Bunker Hill avenue is to have the grade completed, but nobody believes it. It is too good news to believed all iv one

day. Yesterday was a booming day at the County Recorder's office, real c late transfers aggregatings6s,Bsl.'J'J, against 46,500 mortgages, having been fitted for record. A hue residence, with ten acres of laud, located in the most desirable part of the city, is adwertise I fur sale in the New To-Pay column of this morning's H KHALI). We had thu ph.-i.snre of meeting Mr. James Wilson, of Piti-burgb, Pa., yesterday, who, accnmpnnitd hy his wife, is visiting Los Angeles. They aro stopping at the St. Charles. A polo match on roller skates was the attraction ut the skating rink on South Spring street lust evening. The winning side got away with the business by a score of twenty to mm teen. Louis Hoffman, the alleged murderer of Lee, the missing prospector, in whose trial the jury failed to agree, at San Bernardino, last week, has been admitted to bail in $500 by Judge Rolfe. A notice of the dissolution of the firm of Fisher A Hasson will be found elsewhere. Mr. C. L. Fisher continues the business at the old stand, and will settle all bills due to and by the late firm. By change in the schedule it will lw seen that the passenger train on the California Southern railroad hereafter will leave Colton for San Piego at 2:55 p. m., instead of 3:10, urn heretofore. The members of Fidelia Lodge No. 14, Degree of Honor, A. O* U. W., by notice in our New To-Pay are requested to meet at Good Templars' Hall, to morrow (Fridiy) evening at 7:30 o'clock. In City Justice Morgan's Court, yesterday, Ixiuis Stab!, convicted of disturbing the peace, was lined $5, which he paid. Francisco for the same Meant got $"10 hue, or thirty days' labor on the street?. There were riled for record iv the County Recorder's office yesterday twenty-nine deeds, eight mortgnges, six satisfactions of mortgages, one notice of location of qnartz mine, one marriage license aud five miscellaneous papers. The steamer Orizaba left for San Diego yesterday afternoon with the following passenger-: W. O. t iriftVnherg and wife, R. I»wenberg. R. G. Townsend, J. M. Julian, R. Hoblitzell, Fred. Cellar.

Mr. B. F. Coulter is running his fine Woolen Mills night and day, [.inducing

some of the beet work on the Pacific ('oast. The alteration in Ibe tariff does not seem to stop Cilimrniu woolen mills.

Messrs. Smith & Carr are putting in the brick which encloses the two safes

at the new location of the Farmers' and Merchants' Rink, .it the .turner.of Commenra! and Mam street*. The work is massive, and is progressing rapidly. The unfinished IpfjM in the Bernard building, on First street, is rapidly being tilled by the new building now being erected. When entirely completed, the whole structure will be uniform in appearauceHjid an ornament to the city., ¶ H. C. Lincoln and James Robinson filed for record in the County Recorder's office, yesterday, notice of location of the Gray Eagle mine, on the quartz ledge three miles in a westerly direction from Agua Dulce springs, Soledad township. Mr. Samuel HVllner is delivering 25,---000 brick daily for the construction of the new Opera House on South Main street. The total number necessary will be one million, and tho edifice will be a credit to the city. As soon as the grade can he properly established, a hew asphaltum sidewalk is to be laid all around the Temple Block. Another one is being laid in front of the new and old Kuhrts buileh ings on the corner of North Main and West First streets. John Zens returned yesterday from a hunting trip to the Pacoyma cation, which lasted several days. Mr. Zens brings back a trophy, in the shape of the rattles of a rattlesnake, fifteen m number. The snake was over two inches in diameter and six feet in length. Tho new and elegant two-horse cars for the new broad-gauge atreet railway, recently constructed by Mr. I VV. 11. II man, from the S. P. R. R. depot lo Twelfth street, arrived yesterday, add were taken to tho depot of thu company on Twelfth street, to he prepared for immediate use.

Other Smith was arraigned before the Board of Police Commissioners last night on a charge of assault and conduct unbecoming an officer. After a careful hearing of the case the Board decided that the oflicer should pay a fine of $50, rather than do which he resigned from the force.

Mr. R. R. Bryant, on Pico street, informs a reporter of the Hsralo that he has sold this year $ 111) worth of black-

lierles from 8,000 square feet'of land, being less that one-fifth of an acre, which, is at the rale of $000 per acre for the present crop. That is very good farming in a dry year.

Mr. W. H. Workman has eommeuced the manufactnro of wine from his Zinfandel and other early grapes, which are in fine condition. His later varieties of grapes have been reduced in quantity qnite materially by the late warm wave, but ho will have plenty of 0,1 apes from his new vineyecrd on the hills. A new livery stable has been opened nt I'asadena, by Messrs. J. C. (Hidden and Hert Beck, of Downey City. Both of the new hotels are in active operation, one of them being run on the Europi an plan. Quite a number of new and elegaut residences are also being erected at this thriving settlement.

Those who desire to avail themselves of a very capable anil intelligent instructor in embroideries wonld da well to scan the card of Mw. Jewell, which appears cl.ewb.ere. This lady will make her appearauoe in Los Angelas elthei on the isth or SBtb instant. Her instructions will be simply invaluable, and should bo in demand by nnrpeoplo.

Messrs. O. 1,. Manager * Co., the well-known wholesale wine and lirandy merchants, of Commercial and Los Angeleß streets, are huilding a new and extensive wine warehouse on Chavez street, near tho new depot. It will lie finished in about • month, aud Henry Lecroo, will be in charge of the establishment.

We received a pleasant call yesterday from our sometime townsman, Colonel F. Stanford, of Tombstone, Arizona, who is paying a visit to his old home. His many friend* here will ho glad to learn that the Colonel is tho picture of health, and is the same gay and genial good fellow as of old. May his shadow never grow leas, say we.

Jack Baysley has finished boring a well for Mr. Dudaworth, near The well is 181 feet deep, and has 150 feet of water in the tube that Cannot bo exhausted. Jack yesterday commenced boring a well for the Electric Light Company at their headquarters on Alai.ud* Street. He will find plenty of boulders iv that locality, but says he "will bust them, or they will bust him; something must give way."

We learn that Miss Mary B. Lawrence is making arrangements to compete for the ladies' prize for horsemanship at tbe Annual Fair of the Los Angeles Agricnl. tural Society, on October 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13. As it is geuerally conceded that Hho is the champion rider of Southern (.-aiifornia, there is no doubt that victory will perch on her fair brow. —Son Iticyo Sun.

Mr. Richard O'Neil, the present owner of the rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores, is building a fence on each side of4he Los Angeles county road, through the entire limits of this vast rancho. The distance will be about twenty-seven mites. The rancho is to be subdivided, so as to raise different grades of cattle. Large r.lfalfa fields are also to be planted, with the intention of making it the model stock ranch of the coast.

In City Justice Morgan's Court, yesterday, by consent, of District Attorney White, the charge of assault to commit murder against George Rice, preferred by James Kelly, was dismissed. Rice was arraigned on the charge of battery, to which he plead guilty, and was sentenced to pay a tine of $40, with tbe alternative of forty days' lalwr on the public street-'.

On Tuesday laßt Mayor Thorn, together with Councihnen Steere, Moran, Hammel, Sebieffelhi, Moore and Schroodcr and Street Superintendent Boyd, visited Pearl and Figueroa streets for the purpose of devising mea i for the proper repniring and sprinkling tne same, aud will report at the next meeting of the City Council a plan for putting the streets in a first class condition immediately.

Few persons have any idea of the variety of fruits in the Los An Seles market at all times of the year. In a hurried glance yesterday in a leading fruit house we observed in the list of fruits oranges, lemons, limes, pomegrantes, guavas, peaches, pears, piuma tunas, apricots, blackberries, strawberries, quinces, apples, watermelons, inuskmelons, tomatoes, squashes, tigs, raspberries and grapes of a dozen varieties. The supply of vegetables is also remarkable and complete, of all that is needed for the comfort of the human race.

Mnr£ ethnological discoveries have been made in Santa Barbara county by Prof. C. W. Clark and Walter Steele, this time on the northern slope of the Santa Ynez mountains, nearly a hundred miles from Santa Barbara city. The result of the research are as follows: The head and arm bones of a man at least nine feet in height when living. Several queer weapons used by the aborigines ages ago. Queer specimen of pottery and wicker work taken from burial mounds. Ornaments of ivory and bears' teeth. The skeloton of a gigantic bear, an assortment of fossils, and a lot of reptiles, bugs, etc. The discovery is considered ot groat impor tance to scientists.

The readers of the Herald who have settled on Public Land-, will do well to attend to their pre-emption claims, and not depend on their occupancy and a shot-gun for their title, for the Supreme Court has decided "that the bare occupancy of Government land, no other step in the direction of pre-emption having been takeh by the occupant during his life, or by his administrator or heirs after his death, notwithstanding that the Probate Court may have Bet apart the land as a homestead far the family of the deceased, does not stand in the way to provent a third party from filing a pre-emption claim for the same land. Tho setting apart by the Probate Court does not give title, or dispose of the steps requisite to obtain a pre-emption tide. It was our pVasnre yesterday to witness the operation of the invention of Dr. U. Smith, fer the painless extraction of teeth. It is a powerful contrivance, consisting of a large air pump by which ia produced a powerful current of a r that it sent through a refrigerator of his own invention, and comes out through a small tube aud mouthpiece, with the temperature of the Arctic regions. This mouthpiece is placed against the gnm of a tooth to be extracted, and the machine set in motion, sending such a current against the gum as to produce complete iusensibtlity of the nerves of the gums and tooth during the process of extraction. Some of tho moat difficult oases of extraction have recently been performed under the influence of this invention, without the least jmin to the person operated upon. The machine seems to work to a charm und disarms all terror from the dentist's chair without tho use of anaesthetics. It can be used in surgery as well as in dentistry, and become a regular pain-killer.