Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-01-02
LOCAL JOTs.

Ontario stock is quoted at 500.
How was your head this morning.
There were ten deaths from diphtheria
during tho past month.
Mike Fleming was required TO deposit So
yesterday for plain drunk.
The total number of deaths during the
month of December was forty-four.
Sixteen broad guage carloads of Nebraska
corn will reach Ogden this evening for San
Francisco, en- route to Australia.
Bob Condie and Jack Davis were arrested
yesterday for engaging i'll n New Years
fight. They will have hearing Monday, Mt
10 q. m.
1t is rumored that John Reeve will succeed
to the position of Utah Central Roadmaster,
lately vacated by the resignation of Mr..
Leavitt.
Sheriff Mcbride, of Tooele county, is ex-
pected to arrive in day or two from Des-
eret, where he went after two horse thieves
from Grantsville.
Tho Herald still olings to 1885" with an
affection that seems to say: "Days that
are gone seem the brightest" Their issue of
yesterday read January i, 1885.
Again we hear that well-lsnown voice
We've heard q thousand times before,
For many winters it hath said:
"Confound you, shut that door!"
Delegate John Il. Caine was present Mt the
White House reception in Washington yes
terday. Champagne was discussed more
freely than Utah matters, and was much
more enjoyable.
Among the many well-sustained characters
of Iolanthe during the three performances
this week, was that of Mr.. John Long. the
pantomimic attendant to Mr.. James Nc
Curdy, the Lord Chancellor
Battery b. consisting of about thirty horse,
was exercising on tho business streets this
morning and created quito u sensation as
the mounted blue coats dashed up Main
street with horses in full harness.
-Four carloads of Sanpste barley left
Thistle yesterday, billed to +. Krouse & Co.,
of the big Milwaukee brewery. This makes
over 200 cars of barley shipped East the past
season, 100 cars of which went to +. Krouse.
The base metal and ore output for the
week ending January 9, 1886, was as follows:
365 pounds; twenty-five carloads of ore,
weighing 70f, $50 pounds, and two carloads
of sulphur.
The delayed funeral services over the re-
mains of Mr.. Francis Platt will take place in
the thirteenth Ward Assembly Rooms to-.
morrow Sunday at II o'clock. A general
invitation is extended to the friends of the
family to be present.
Prof. Krouse was seen with tho opera
Mauritania under his arm to day, and rather
reluctantly explained to DEMOCRAT repor-
ter that he was planning to secure for the
cast b. B. Young, MIR. Gorlinski, w. W..
Macintosh and others.
The billiard tournament at the Walker
House, commences next Monday evening
with contest between Lowry and Engler,
Lowry to make 500 points to Engler's 800
for purse of $50, with 1875 added by Bech-
toll Il Sands to the winner. Tuesday night
Donnelly and Arthur play an even game.
Bets are lively.
''Iolanthe" will be repeated by the Salt
Lake Opera Company on the 18th inst,
when it is expected Mr.. Dunbar (Strephon)
will have recovered from his severe hoarse-
ness, which together with the benefit of
hints and experience of all the performers,
will conduce materially to an increased in
terest in the performance.
10-year-old daughter of Mr.. John r.
vine, of the Nineteenth ward died Thursday
morning of diphtheria, making altogether
three of the family taken off by the terrible
scourge with u very short time. The be-
reayement of Mr.. Irvine and his family is
the heaviest that has been brought to any
house by the fatal contagion this season.
A party of thirty tourists from the East,
in charge of Captain Tibbitts, arrived via
ID. d. II. q. last evening, and were taking in
the town to-day in Mulloy 81 Paul's large
drag. The party have their own car at the
depot, in which they will go to Ogden this
afternoon, proceeding thence over the G. p.
to California, where they expect tospend the
winter.