Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-10
LOCAL JOTS.

Ogden base ballists are considering the
question of playing the Salt Lake Reds.
The Inspector of Nuisances should pay
attention to the Chinese laundries imme-
diately.
Thomas Mcknight got drunk and
swore because two circuses were coming
to town. He was fined $40 by Justice
Speirs.
A picked nine named the Athletics,
from Willard and Ogden clubs, will play
the Red Boys next Tuesday on Washing
ton Square.
Rawlin's quadrille string band will dis
course music at Lindsay's Gardens to-
morrow night. Read advertisement
elsewhere in this issue.
''The Social and Political Future OF
Utah" will be the subject OF an essay by
Frederick Everett, at the graduating ex-
ercises at Hammond Hall this evening.
The box office for the Frau Materna
Concert will be open tomorrow morning
at 10 O'Clock for subscribers only, and on
Friday morning seats will be sold to the
general public.
Arrangements have been made to give
the annual Old Folks excursion on the
23d inst. to Black Rock and Garfield
Free TRANSFORMATION is rendered by Mr.
Ritter TO all over 20 years of age.
The Denver NewS says that Denver,
Leadville and Pueblo will do to start the
Rocky Mountain Baseball Association.
Now let Salt Lake and Cheyenne speak
up, and the chedule can be fixed for
1885.
The ladies of Unity Club give pleas
ant and interesting entertainment at
Social Hall this evening. Among the
minor features are announced music,
strawberries and ice cream, and a bouquet
for every young man present.
The dry benchers are wondering what
has become of the committee appointed
three weeks ago by the City Council from
that body to take immediate action on
their petition. Not word has been re-
ported, and why is the question.
Through the courtesy of U. S. Marshal
Ireland the Supreme Court were this
morning taken to the penitentiary for a
prisoners quarters. Mgr. Capel accom-
Mgr. Capel delivers a second lecture at
the Opera House this evening, by the re-
quest of many citizens. Subject, "Our
relations with the other world" The
proceeds will be donated to the use of the
new Catholic school now building.
A gentleman in from the lava beds of
Champagne district, Wood River, Idaho,
says that great numbers of men are flock
ing to the lava rock mines. The Martin
mine is turning out large quantities of
free milling ore, averaging 5000 in silver
to the ton.
Nick Odgers, who attempted suicide
few days ago by cutting his throat while
walking along South Main street, has
managed at last to prove himself crazy
without killing himself or anyone else.
He has been kept in handouts, which
did not prevent him from holding high
carnival at the hospital He will now be
sent to S. B. Young's asylum.
The DEMOCRAT was the only newspaper
in the city with enterprise enough to
print the dispatch in reference to what
General Grant says of General McCook in
his forthcoming memoirs. Especial dis
patches" two days old, seem to suit the
tastes of our contemporaries better than
live news. The DEMOCRAT subscribers
get the latest dispatches, and it is always
ahead of any other paper in the city.
Ogden is already considering a Fourth
of July celebration. A committee on ar
engagements has been formed and the
question of what form the celebration
shall take is already being agtiated. 1t
was suggested that an invitation be given
the Salt Lake Fire Department to partici-
pate, and that good old-fashioned bar
becue would be a novelty. The rates on |
the railroad will be one-half the usual /
fares.
Mercury is the morning star till the
twenty-seventh, then evening star. On
the twenty-seventh, at 10 O'Clock in the
morning, he is in superior conjunction
with the sun. Venus is evening star.
She is slowly and surely making her way
TO visibility, and her presence in the |
glowing west will be warmly welcomed. !
On the last day of the month she sets an
hour after the sun, and sharp-sighted OBJ
servers may obtain glimpse OF her.