Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-09
LOCAL JOTS.

Lead is now quoted at 81 per hundred in
New York.
The Firemen's band play for the Reds and
Blues tomorrow.
John Thompson at the Opera House to-
night, in around the World" John is ION
Hand.o
The Madison Square Company has made
q hit in San Francisco with 1.-The Private
Secretary"
Wells. Fargo q Co. to-day received three
bars of Vienna, $685. and Honerine ore,
$5,6S6; total, 81 1886.
Mccormick & Co. to-day received two cars
of Hanauer bullion, 5000, and Queen of the
Hills ore, 81 300; total, $1,000.
The Queen of the Hills Mining Company
declared their second dividend to-day of 10
cents per share, payable July Both.
Barlow q Wilson'S Minstrels, after their
very successful two nights engagement, left
for the East over the q. p. r. r. this morn
ing.
In the fifth precinct primary meeting last
night, Charley Grow was elected delegate to
the County Convention, to nominate county
officers next Saturday.
Arrangements are being made for another
.eX
grounds over the Rio Grande. The fishing
is reported unexcelled anywhere.
The funeral services of Mrs. John L.
Evans took place yesterday afternoon. A
large attendance of friends were present and
participated in the last sad rites.
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood appears at the
Salt Lake Theatre again tomorrow evening;
Low rates of admission have been gwen and
frOOd hnnGa pYnnntp0 Nee ADVERTISE
ment.
The suit of the Excelsior VS.. Beardsley,
which will decide the ownership of the most
valuable parts of those prominent Bay
Horse mines, has been continued until the
September term of court.
The Red Boys and Bankers play a match
game of base bail for $50 side on Wash
ington Square Friday, July 10th, at p. m.
Good attendance is guaranteed, and an inter
esting game is sure to take place.
The citizens living about the Eight Ward
Square were alarmed last evening between
the hours of and 10 o'clock at the rapid
firing of several shots. Just what 1t meant
il a conjecture, although the affair is not
uncommon.
A new time card went into effect to-day
on the Utah Central. The only important
change made is relative to freight trains be-
tween here and Ogden. The freight train
now arrives here at 7:45 am. and leaves for
Ogden at 300 pm.
The half holiday special committee ap-
point to wait on General Eldredge, were
recei, I'd very kindly, but informed that he
would c~"sider the advisability of signing it.
The nr nature will decide the life OF
de6 D. I'd &c plan.
Il Referee was awakened from its slum-
bers n the Fourth and made its second ad-
vent in glowing colors. 1t will be devoted
to light literature, sporting events, humor
and sarcasui as set forth by Mr.. s. A. Ken
ner, lis versatile editor.
The date for ne formal opening of the
Terri 5orial Asylum is fixed to take place on
the 18th inst, Dsitively. Invitations are
being prepar ld 10 e extended to the leading
official aud -, :, siunal gentlemen of the
several ooIit.es OF the Territory.-PrOuO
Enquirer.
The Referee alno lnUes its intention of
asking some questions regarding the peni-
Tertiary and its management soon, and says
they will be awkward and hard to answer.
But why should the edi.or of the Referee
take such an Interest II the penn has he
been "holding out" more than he ought TOT
The little Provo s. redler says the raising
of the flag at the Court House and q. G. M.
L.. IN SALT Lake on Tue ASlldlu VI a.
erent and threatening mob, Is much re-
GREETED by the respectable citizens" This
little penny-whistle sucks the church-teat
and, of course, vo1ces the sentiments of
those respectable citizens"
A gentleman down from Alta reports that
everything is very quiet in that camp at
present, owing to the great amount of sur
face water, caused by the melting snow, that
is flowing into the mines. With snow-slides
and surface water Alta miners have hard
time of it, but there are some excellent
mines there that pay good dividends, all the
same.
A "Qreenhorn" bicyclist made a grand in
itiatory circus of himself on First South
street this morning, and in his wild attempts
to hang on to the machine made some in
elegant mid-air leaps and ungraceful
s'scoots' along the sidewalk on his back
bone. We would advise fedgling bicyclists
to 90 off the business streets to practice
their pants-sp,itting gyrations.
Some Indians wandered about town yes
terday, endeayoring to sell an old eagle and
one of her young for IS. They were secure
lv tied in willow basket and at distance
might have been mistaken for pappooses. A
fourteen-yeRr son of Mr.. Allen, of the
drug store, purchased the birds this morning
for seventy-fve cents, and hopes TO dispose
of them to the Museum or Robinson's circus
for small fortune.
Henry Z. Tyson, greengrocer, ON Market
Row, made an assignment last evening, with
G. A. Granger assignee. Yesterday morning
an attachment of Mccormick d Co. was
served upon his goods and some of them re-
moved by Constable Crow TO satisfy the
claim. Later in the day he made an assign
ment for the benefit of his creditors, and
until stock of the goods is taken nothing
definite can be known. As near as we can
learn the liabilities are in the neighborhood
of Sl.5OO, and assets about $500.