Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-21
LOCAL JOTS.


Mccormick d Co. to-day received Crescent
ore valued at $3.50.
Attention is called to the advertisement of
Mrs. L. W. Rufus Kensington Art School.
If Servia goes to war and gets whipped,
we wonder who will be the first funny news
paper man to say "Servia right"
Several large bulletin boards on Main
Street announce the Grand Sacred Concert
at the Olympic Hall next Sunday evening.
II. @. Chambers distributed several thou
sand dollars among the Ontario boys at the
Park Yesterday. The business men are cor
respondingly happy.
Mr.. Laron Cummings, for q long time one
of Marshal Ireland's able assistants, is now
in charge of the new coal Office at 143 S.
Main street, under Mr.. Il. Il. Clute.
Mrs. Richard Oliver is thought to be men,
tally deranged from cruel treatment at the
hands of her brutal husband. Medical aid
has been summoned, and her condition is
pronounced critical.
At the season meeting of the Pleasant
Hours Club for this year and 1876. George M.
Scott was elected president; Harry Il. Duke,
treasurer; and Frank N. Shelton, secretary.
Parties will resume shortly,
Owing to some unaccountable reason the
telegraph wires, or the operators at the
Eastern end of them, gave out early in the
afternoon, and the DEMocRAT's press report
to-day is not up to the usual standard.
At the new crematory in New York it cost
Just $25 to be reduced to beautiful white
ashes, and the retorting process only lasts
few minutes. "Man's lifes n vapor and full
of woes, He's showed in q crematory and up
he goes"
A religious paper says that the. older
variety actress grows, the higher she kicks.
Good gracious! How did religious editor
ever learn this fact? We presume like the
good old deacon he probably concluded to
go one eye on it.
The buildings on the surface of the DAILY
works, at the Park, are being enlarged to
double their present capacity, in consequence
of an increased force being employed. The
battery of boilers at the Marsao mill were
fired up yesterday for the first time.
The local editor of the Salt Lake Herald
will not go on his mission to New Zealand to
labor with the cannibals, after all. The
church has granted him q respite until the
Herald is out of debt, and-well, the canni-
balls will be everlastingly disappointed.
w. Schade has opened up billiard and
beer hall at 1877 Main street, on the prem
ises formerly occupied by Dinwoodey d
McTiernay, and will keep only the finest
taurant into billiard hall Call and see
him.
The elegant variety of winter suitings ex-
hibited in the display windows of John
Taylor d Sons establishment, No. 43 and 40
Il. Second South street, makes many prodi-
gal save up his spare change while he pom
ders forlornly over his last summers wages,
gone forever.
Yesterday afternoon at about o'clock
Miss Katie Irvine, eldest daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Irvine, of this city, suddenly
died of what is supposed to have been par
alysis of the heart, superinduced by blood
poisoning, germanating from diphtheria.
The funeral services took place this after
noon.
Through the nntiring efforts of Mr.. G. o.
Whittemore, Thomas Simpson, the nom
Mormon sent to the Penitentiary for poly
gamy, has been pardoned out by President
Cleveland, after serving out six months of
his two years. sentence, and four months
while awaiting trial. Simpson is now rightly
free man.
The Swedish Lutheran Zion's Church
and the Catholic College buildings, at the
corner of Fourth East and Second South
streets, are both nearing completion very
rapidly. When finished these buildings will
be two of the finest and most pretentious
edifices in the city; this being particularly
true of the college.
The real estate dealers of Salt Lake re-
port a revival in their line of business
Among the recent transfers of properties
was the sale yesterday through Mr.. A j.
White, of Second South street, of the ele.
CANT Hessey residence in the Ninth ward to
the wife of Mrs. Bonanza Stanton, of Ophir
Consideration, $500.
The Mormons are mourning because they
cannot go to Mexico to escape persecution
Let us assure them that they lose nothing
A good jail in Utah il better than most OF
the houses in Mexico, to say nothing of the
centipedes, scorpions and yellow fever. Bet
ter stay at home and polyg. on the sly thar
fly to evils that they know not of.-.Sdi
Francisco Alta.
Another rehearsal of "The Mikado'' b,
the entire company, with orchestra accom-
paniment, will take place at the Theatre
this evening at 1880 O'Clock. The manage
ment state that no visitors will be allowed
at the rehearsals hereafter, as it is somewha
annoying to the members of the company
and it is also desirable to put the opera OF
the stage before the public whistle it on tn,
streets.
The first of a series of three select hop
was held last night in Heath's Hall, unde
the management of Will III. Farnsworth
Fred Sheets, Will III. TAFT and j. Il. Heath
There was good attendance of young PEG
pie from nearly every ward i'll the city, an,
all present enjoyed dancing to the livel,
music of Rawlins full quadrille band unit
midnight. The two remaining parties occu
on November I'D and 10th.
A card to the DEMOCRAT from the manage
of "a Rag Baby" now playing at the Bush
San Francisco, says that performance is a
popular now as at the start, with no falling
off in attendance, and certainly not in en-
thusiasm over "0ld SPORT and his conse
quent fun. To-day there will be doll bab
matinee, when dolls will be presented To eacl
lady and child in the audience. "a RAJ
Baby" will probably give Salt Lake anothe
call.
From Parsons a. Co. we have received I'll
Library Magazfne for October. 1t is al
eclectic magazine, and the present numbe
contains "rhe Metaphysical Society,n b
R.H. Hutton. "The Paris Newspaper Press,
by Theodore Child; Death and Aftei
wards" by Edwin Arnold; "The Poor Col
lector," by p. G.. Hamerton; "The Art a
Acting" being an address recently delivere
before the students of Harvard University
by Henry Irving.