Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-01-15
LOCAL JOTS.

There are good prospects for several days
fine sleighing.
South Cottonwood is said to be badly al
ficted with diphtheria.
The Knights of st. Dennis ball takes plac
this evening in the Olympic Hall.
Mollie Cottington was to-day committed
to the city Jail for thirty days for vagrancy
The estate of the late William Jennings i
roughly estimated in round figures at ;
million dollars.
Mccormick q Co. to-day received two car
of Hanauer bullion, $3.50, and Crescent or
$4,000; total value, $3.50.
Geo. A. Lowe has large assortment O.
cutters, which are going off as rapidly as tn,
sleighing is becoming good.
d. J. Griffith, who was assessed 1929 fol
L. and L. the other day, is still in the Gus
tody of Sheriff Groesbeck.
A great many sleighs were out to-day
The warm weather made the endowment
more than usually attractive.
In the Supreme FCourt to-day the judg.
ment of the lower court in the case of o. J
Wenner vs. Elias Smith was affirmed.
1t is rumored that among the musical
events of the near future will be benefit
performance for Miss Hawley, the much
admired Iolanthe.
The flags on the z. C. M. I. and several
other stores were hung at half-mast out of
respect to Mr.. Jennings.
Walter Wheatley was fined $3.50 in the
police court this morning for drunkenness
and committing nuisance.
And now it is the "Iolanthe' people that
are going to give a sociable, and the event is
being arranged for next week.
The report of the ASYLUM board was
adopted at their meeting last evening, and
was presented in the Legislature this after
noon.
Mr. Will Jennings, who is attending col
lege In the East, and his sister, Mrs. James
Eldrldge, residing in Idaho, have both been
summoned by telegram to the bedside of
their father.
The Empire meat market, on recent of
the news of Mr.. Jennings death, closed its
doors, and will not reopen for business until
after the funeral.
Street Supervisor Charles Livingston, ar
rested yesterday for unlawful cohabitation,
was bound over by Commissioner Mckay, in
$1,000 sureties to appear before the Grand
Jury this afternoon.
The New York Mining Record of the 9th
says: Horn Silver has been irregular, selling
from $3.45 down to 1886 and then ND to
$3.50, showing wide fluctuations, but the
trading has been moderate, only ZOO shares
changing hands.
Tomorrow, says the Ogden Neios, will be
"hangman's day. in the First District |
Court. Several pairs of knees are tremb- |
ling in anticipation of the oracles then to be |
rendered by Judge Powers.
The directors of the Deseret National
Bank met to elect officers this morning, but
owing to the precarious state of Mr.. Jen-
nings the meeting was adjourned without
the transaction of any business.
The juvenile chicken thieves of the
Eighteenth and Twentieth wards had an ex-
before Judge Speirs this after
noon. The six boys with their associates
and relatives looked like an assembly of the
ward Sunday school.
The Philemon Debating Club will hold
their regular meeting at the Ninth Ward
schoolhouse this evening, at o'clock. The
question to be debated is, "Resotred, That
Salt Lake should have reform school.'
To be followed by an interesting miscel-
aneous programme. Everybody invited.