Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-01-06
LOCAL JOTS.

to the quarantine physician yesterday.
There will be an "Iolanthe" matinee Sat
urday afternoon in the Salt Lake Thentre.
Quite number of sleighs and cutters
were out to-day, although the sleighing is
far from being first-class.
Between Sexton Taylor and the dry bench
ers the Council is not likely 60 go to sleep on
the water supply question.
The rumor that Mr.. John Reeve was to
succeed to the position of Utah Central
Roadmaster was not authentic.
b. Y. Hampton was brought up to the
City Hall this afternoon by Sheriff Groes-
beck, to testify in the j. w. Farrell case.
There will be no dividend this quarter on
Utah Central stock. The resumption of
Horn Silver shipments is the only hope for
stockholders.
There are rumors of some important
changes among the d. & Il. G. officials. An
authentic announcement will be forthcom-
ing in day or two.
The condition of VIM. Jennings, ESQ.,, is
still regarded as critical. He continues to
sink and is becoming almost skeleton like
through loss of flesh.
No more diamond rings nor gold watches
for n dollar. The Chicago Merchants Tea
Company has promised the city authorities
to ccase its souvenir" business
"Goddards Hats do not seem to have be-
come rs popular as was hoped for by those
who backed the home industry. The sales
rooms on Main street have been vacated.
Professor j. II. Paul, of the University of
Deseret, has compiled and had published
very useful volume of choice readings and
Rotations. which is sure to come into gen.
eral use.
Some elegant sign boards were being
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Co.'s drug store to-day. They make
strange contrast with the rough walls of the
building.
''The Petrifed Head" is suspected, by
some, of belonging to one of the Under
ground passengers. What fortunate thing
y would be it somebody would dig some Of
them up whole.
The appointment of Mr.. Browe to the
postniastership of Salt Lake meets with
general favor on all sides; it is believed he
will fill the position with much competency
and satisfaction.
John Arid is held up by the Deseret Ne,os
as ia bright specimen of those who accept
the Edmunds law, as interpreted by the
courts.'" This is rough on Bishop Sharp,
Qrson Arnold and Others
The Butte sr-Mountain comes to hand
in an elegant new dress, which is quite an
improvement on its former nice appearance,
dul putb tilc SodlU lIuKe Il TtONUg Ill the shade
as to metropolitan aspects.
The NeOs last evening contained hearty
recommendation favoring poultry in prefer
ence. to pork for food. The editor is evil
IDENTIFY becoming chicken-hearted, having
grown tired of being piggish.
When the ID. & II. G. folks take possession
of the postoffice, said Union Pacific en-
ploye to-day, we shall feel justified in put
ting safe in the place of the ordinary drop
box for receptacle for the Union Pacific
mail.
The position of city ticket agent of the
ID. d. II. G., which Mr.. Browe will vacate to
take the Postmastership, will be filled by
MI: Z, +. Eccles, the present agent of the
freight department The gentleman is emf
nently qualified, as he is also universally
Apostle Lorenzo Snow has been convicted
in the First District Court of second
offence under the unlawful cohabitation
clause and it is thought probable he will
get long string of them before the Grand
Jury has completed its Investigations into
the Apostles muchly-married state.
There will be an excellent opportunity now
for some enterprising fellows TO make a
good thing out of those lovers of skating
who patronize the Hot Springs Lake, by
ice and assuming squatters' rights to the
extent OF say ten cents per head for
skaters.
One of the gentlemen who were appli-
cants for the Salt Lake postmastership and
who was thought to have had most excellent
backing, to-day received telegram from a
prominent Senator expressing sympathy that
answer was sent back that the appointment
OF MIR. Browe was eminently satisfactory.
The second game of the billiard tourna-
ment was played last evening at the Walker
House billiard rooms, Lowery and Arthur
contesting, the game being 500 to 800 points
in favor of the latter. Arthur made 800
points and won the game when Lowery had
but 1892 Tonight Engler and Arthur play
an even game, and close contest is looked
for.
David Whitmer, the only surviving one of
the three witnesses who claimed to have
seen the angel and the plates which Joseph
Smith took from the Hill Cumorah, is at
deaths door according to adviees from
Richmond, Mo-, the home of Mr.. Whitmer
"The gathering does not seem to have had
many charms for the old man, unless it may
be construed that he has been awaiting the
saints return to jackson county.
Editor Picotte, OF the Wood River Times,
lwho, by the way, is himself a first-class
practical printer,l has great eye for beau
tiful things in the typographical line. II
seems that he, too, was more than charmed /
by the handsome appearance of the New
Years Salt Lake Tribune. Listen to his
rhapsody: "The paper appears in new
dress but the type, which, We believe, was !
Invented, by Wilbur +. Storey. Of the .
Chicago Times is about as disagreeable and I
trying on the eyes as ii can be. 1t is of a
kind tabooed as bastard in all union offices, [
and its long, slender, yet full face is posi-
lively dazzling. Notwithstanding this grave
very favorably with the almost WORKOUT
tyne of the Wood River Timesn N-e-Yti