The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-12-23
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The moon lie becoming rather siekl,
g again.
Hon. Geo. Teasdale was in lo4n oI
y Wednesday.
8 Two days more and We have the
j day of all days.
The butcher shops are putting on
their gsyeet decor .tIons.
/. The bullion shipments from Butte
! average $3.50 per week.
On Wednesday the mercury as.
cended to Az; minimum, SOo
The frightening in the days was
quite apparent on Wednesday,
The bullion shipments. on Wednes-
day, aggregated 10 value Ola. $40.
The clerks, il no others do, will re.
loice when the holidays are over.
! Ogden is agitsted over hoodlum
Developments as well IS Salt Lake.
The traffic in turkeys is almost -
lively as 1t was on Thanksgiving Day.
A Boston man who was told that
something was q dollar q plate,
ordered . sSucerful.
The weather continues clear and
mil but the streets are in g fearful
condition with mud.
Chicken Charley was arrested last
night. for stealing buggy robe ont OF
the buggy OF Gen. D. H. Wells.
White & Son will display their i'm.
mense steer at their shop, to-day, to
gether with some fine hog meat.
A shooting match takes place at
Ogden to day, between John Tyler OF
Ogden, and Cy. Patterson, Of Salt
Lake.
Tho fog vas 90 heaYy in parts of
the city on Wednesday morning that
one could scarcely see across the
streets.
James knight. indicted for embez-
element, was arrsigned before Judge
Hunter on Wednesday, and pleaded
aot guilty.
The Germania made its fret fne
bullion shipment for this season,
through the Express Company, on
Wednesday.
The box Office OF the Theatre opens
this morning for the sale Of reserved
seats TO the performance on Friday
evening. No extra charge is asked.
The United States still produces the
principal amount of gold AMI silver
each year, although Australia, Africa
and Mexico furnish large quantities.
Judge Hunter instructed the U. s.
marshal to pay the grand jurors for
three days service and one mileage
for attention TO United States busi-
meas.
Bullion shipments from Leadville
smelters aggregated for the month OF
November q value of 5000, 270,
which shows decrease from the ship
ments Of the last two months.
1t is reported that the Thirteenth
Ward Coop. has purchased the build
ing adjoining the Express Office and
few doors below the HERALD build
ing, and will move into it next sum-
mer.
In a communication to the Ogden
Junction, MIR. @. O. Ruthrauff, states
that he is unable to get the electric
light started there on Christmas Eve,
but will start it up some time early
in January.
Annie Jones. one OF the "culled"
girls fined $50 a few days ago, for
vagrsncy, managed 10 skip, the other
day, when an opportunity was pre-
scented. She WAS again arrested last
night, and will doubtless have little .
tackled on to the end Of her fine.
The turkey bought Ey Mr.. MeearS
for his Christmas dinner in the Sam
Ple Rooms, OIL Saturday, nOpped on
the scales voluntarily, and with the
pride of q peacock pointed to the
scales. which turned at eighteen
pounds, and told a tale of many q de-
lightiul repsst.
According to the report OF the su-
pervisor OF streets, the substance of
which is published this morning.
there WAS expended OF street i'm
prosements, (which includes new
bridges. culverts, etc. during the
year ended November 30, 1880, the
sum of S24. 904.3S.
Our dispatches this morning state
that during 1879. 2, 900 inhabitants OF
the Province OF Khsrkofi died Of
diphtheris, aud 500 during the first
six months OF 1880. We can gather
therefrom some idea OF the ravages of
which this disease ia capable, and
whether or not it ia contagious.
A nice couple have a neighbor,
An awful, hOrrid man,
Whose delight II is to labor
To do what harm he can.
Whenever anything goes wrong,
That neIghbor gets th5 blame,
And all the day, both loud and long,
They cry with one acclaim:
''Just like Jonesl"
He crowds himself into everywhere,
And has deal to say;
There nothing that he does not dare
To do in cheeky way.
And so, around that neighbOrhood,
In matters grave or gay,
If the result be bad or good,
Do all the people say:
''Just like Jones!"
That young couple might be, may be.
A very happy pair;
But, you see, they've got baby,
And baby has red hsir;
And all the day. and all the night,
Is heard horrid din;
And people cry with all their might
Though tits, indeed, sin