Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-07
LOCAL J0TS.

The REQUIEM for General Grant" is for
sale by the newsboys.
.'Only a Farmers Daughter" has dates at
the Salt Lake Theatre.
The Daughters of Rebekah will take part
in the Memorial procession tomorrow.
The roads and weather are in splendid
condition for the memorial obsequles to-
morrow.
The Encampment branch of the L. o. o. f.
will be mounted in the procession to morrow
in full regalia.
A cage of spotted Chinese mice attracts
MANY visitors to the notion bazaar of Hong
Hop, on lower Main street.
The poem commended by the programme
committee of the memorial services by Mr..
j. H. Ward, appears in another column.
Two hundred tons of ore from the Tus-
carora and Bullion mines in Nevada were
sent to the Sandy smelters during July.
Two bows. Hanaak and Cooper, for engag-
ing in a fight in front of Smiths store, on
Second South street, were to-day fined So
each.
The name of Mr.. H. Watson appeared in
last nights issue as one of three arrests. 1t
was Chinaman arrested by Mr.. Watson in
stead.
Nothing has so comfortably cooled off the
heat of Salt Lake as the several refreshing
showers the just and unjust have enjoyed
to-day.
Jacob Moritz has been appointed Grand
Marshal of the l. o. o. F. encampments,
which take part in the memorial services to-
morrow.
C. Larsen, for filling himself up with
liquor to the detriment of his navigating
qualities to-day left S. to helpreplenish the
city treasury.
1t is reported that a couple of prisoners in
the penitentiary made a futile attempt to
escape over the garden walr' by means of
hook attached to horse hair rope.
Mr.. B. F. Whittemore requests the resi-
dents of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Nine
teenth wards to meet at the U. G. depot to-
morrow morning, to take part in the memoir
ial services.
The greatest trial of private families these
days seems to be in getting and retaining
eliable girls about the house. Utah is filled
with women help, but they all belong of late
years to the Independent party.
Yesterday three society young gentlemen
AMI number of small boys went fishing on
M in street with great success. In front of
Alf's store they caught fine string of trout
from the calvert beside the street.
Josh Billings, the great concentration of
speech, delivers his popular lecture at the
Theatre this evening. Subject, "The Prob
abilities of Life" All who have heard this
lecture speak in praise of its merits.
The Stockton mines are all looking well
and the attention of capitalists is being di-
rected that way. Many of the old districts
of Utah will soon be inspired with new life,
should lead prove to be on permanent
boom.
Special attention is directed to important
changes in the Memorial programme of the
procession tomorrow. The line of march
has been changed to First South street in
stead of Second South. See the programme
in another column.
The material for the Bingham telephone
line to connect with Sandy, West Jordan
and Salt Lake has been ordered, and the
system will be in running order inside of
six weeks. This will be the only copper
wire line in the Territory.
The amateur opera artists of the city are
all on the QlI UiUe regarding 'Iolanthe" and
"The Mikado.'' Both operas are full of
catching music, the latter having great
deal of the style and jingle of "Pinafore,' -
and their production by home musicians is
a lofty and laudable effort.
The Butte papers state that the showing
of the Alice mine for the last quarter, pub
lished in the DEMOCRAT a few days ago. is
quite satisfactory, and while the expenses of
the new quarter will be likely to show con-
siderable reduction, the chances are consid-
cred good for an increased bullion product.
The Montana press association propose to
have a good time on the occasion of their
first annual meeting at Butte on the 10Th.
The Union Pacific Company tenders 1.-The
freedom of the road" for an excursion to
Utah, which will probably be accepted, and
this is but one of the many treats in store
for those who attend the sessions of the as
ISOLATION.
DR.. J. r. Thompson has recently rented a
suite of rooms over Hardy g. jennings gro
cery store, on Second South street. The
Doctor has nicely fitted up these rooms for
dental parlors, and will be glad to have his
friends and the public call on him. DR..
Thompson being an excellent dentist, can
be consoientiously recommended to those IN
need of professional dental services.
Bedbugs are now having their annual pic
mic at the Utah penitentiary, and the mid
summer nights dreams of the prisoners are
frequently, if not piou5ly disturbed. Half a
dozen of the inmates ore said to be very
tough, however, and the bugs have left them
in disgust. The other prisoners complain
that the snoring of these half dozen, as they
dream of Mexico and a land where a man
doesn't get six months for living his relg-
ion, is painful in the extreme and breaks
them all up.