, 1885-01-04
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Unbranded News Notes Picked Up
About the City.

Miss Dolloff S Kindergarten and select
school will reopen Monday, January s..
Charley Russell yesterday received a
very large 'possum as a holiday gift from
friends in st. Joe. Mo.
The police courts were comparatively
idle yesterday-only one poor, forlorn
hummer was in the dock.
Something nice in the way of scientific
skating is promised Monday night at the
West Side Skating Rink.
The Hayden Tilla grand concert at the
Opera House tomorrow night. A fine
programme Of English Ballads.
Mile. Helen Avery's voice possesses
great volume and power and shows good
training .-Denrer Republican.
The oldest inhabitant, indeed several of
him, predict that mild weather will pre-
vail during January and February.
Rev. S. J. Num-, the new pastor of the
First Baptist church, will o~ficiate to-day
at the morning and evening services.
Mr.. w. w. Knight rendered Saved
from the Storm" by BARR, and did full
justice to his well known reputation. =
Denrer Republican.
A beautiful quality of ice, fourteen
inches thick, is being cut on Lake Mime
haha. Large gangs of men and many
teams are hard at work there.
Madame Dora Viscinia will play the ex
quisite moroccan "Minne-ha-ha," of which
she is the composer, by special request, at
the Opera House tomorrow night.
Speaking of Madame Dora Viscinia,
the Denver press says: ''Her selections
embraced a number of very difficult pieces
all of which she rendered in a truly artis-
tic manner
The County Commissioners held a meet
ing yesterday. The session was devoted
to settling bills and preparing the affairs
of the board so that the new one may be-
gin where the old one left off.
The Signal Service office reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was $50
lowest, 10o; mean temperature, 24o;
mean humidity, Ga per cent; highest
velocity of wind, II miles per hour.
The concert tomorrow evening at the
Opera House by the Hayden Tilla COM
pany will be enjoyed by every one as it
consists solely of simple and well known
songs. The audience promises to be large.
Desirable tenement houses are difficult
to obtain. Sheriff Craig had something
like fifty applicants for his house as soon
as his election was announced. and one
wide-awake man spoke for the first chance
as o as the nominations were made.
Rev. George w. Barr and Miss Clara
S. Wannamaker. of Hicksville, o., were
married January !, and the next day Rev.
Barr was installed pastor of the Presbyte-
rian church Of that place. Mrs. Barr nee
Miss Wan1amaker, is a niece of the
Cowhicks of this city.
A remarkable feature of Mr.. Tilla's
singing last night was the magnificent b
fiat he produced in the baccarole. Right
from the chest, clear as n bell and lasting
over seventeen seconds it brought the
house down. He is the only singer in the
United States who can do Chicago
Ne,os Letter.
Tip" the large black dog that was the
only property left by Mosier after his dis
astrous attachment to a telegraph pole,
and which Sheriff Sharpless has kept,
has been sick for several weeks. Tip came
very close to the happy hunting grounds,
but from present appearances he will be
an interesting relic for some time to come.
The statement of the condition of the
Stockgrower's Bank is published this
morning. The bank has recently in
creased its capital and its surplus, as will
he seen from its advertisement. AL
though one of the newest banking institu-
tons in the West it has become one of
the strongest and most popular. Its con-
dition is a compliment to the management
and to the city.
\ Chinaman who had a banker to be
like a Mclean man, appeared at one of
the skating Kinks the other night, He
was neatly dressed, was a very gentle
manly sort of a fellow and was permitted
to try the rollers. Spectators say that
that Chinaman stoicly endured more hard
falls and ~good-naturedly permitted him
self to fly out at move tangents than any
novice seen on skates for many a day.
Deputy Sheriff Hosford ran across
Dutch Charlie, yesterday, the chronic
nuisance who recently escaped from his
quasi-coninement in the city jail. Mr..
Hosford pretended to be anxious to cap
ture Dutch Charlie, but the latter ran,
W hen the officer fired a shot into the
ground. The last seen of the Dutchman
he was running as he has not run for
months. The officers are trying to make
him run in a straight line until he will 90
50 far from the city that he viii never ne
turn.
The finest holiday goods at Rhodes &
Troxelrs.
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