The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-25
LOCAL BRIEFS.
MERRY CHRISTMAS.

JAMES 0LLERT0N, of Parowan CITY.
has been commissioned a justice of the
peace.
THERE WAS total eclipse about one
block south of THE HERALD Office yes
terday.
". II. WHALoN yesterday sold lot
N Jennings North Salt Lake addition
.or$225
NEARLY 1000 children have called in
to get tlcketsfor Johnson, Pratt q Co.. s
free Christmas tree.
hUMoRs REACHED the city on Sunday
of an unknown suicide near Copper
Gulch, in Southern Utah.
THERE ARE messages at the Western
Union Telegraph office for j. S. Patter-
son and Charles S. King.
MCCoRNICK & Co. received yesterday
HanaueE bullion, 81 500; silver and
lead ores. 81 800; total, $4,000.
BENJAMIN HAD six geese sent up from
Mill Creek yesterday which will be
{ std on his counters to-day
THERE WILL be Christmas services
with sermon and holy communion at
st. Paul's Chapel at IL .. N. to-day.
THE USUAL morning delivery of mail
will take place to day. Thegeneral de-
livery window Will Os open from u 30
to 1.30 o'clock.
TIE BEAUTIFUL spectacle, the Fairy
Fountain, for the Chhdren's BAH
Christmas Day, is the great theme with
the young folks.
ONEoT the busiest places in Salt Lake
yesterday, was Swaner's iewelry store.
He reports business considerably :
adTsnce of q year ago.
THERE WERE sixty-four transfers OF
real estate last week, amounting to
$238, 600. This is immense, considering
that tle boom is dead.
THE COMMITTEE in charge OF the Chill
dren's Ball, Christmas, have decided TO
make no extra charge for the great at
traction, the Fairy Fountain.
AT trial exhibitions of tie Fairy
Fountain last night everything moved
like q charm and the young folks can
expect treat on Christmas Day.
THERE WAS rumor of 6 train wreck
on the Denver & Rio Grande last night,
but it was denied by the officials and no
verifcation OF it could be obtained.
TIE POSTAGE on The CHRISTMAS
HERALD, domestic, is 3 cents to all
foreign countries in the postal union,
including Great Britain and Ireland,
5 cents.
VIsCOUNT BEAUMONT, young English
gentleman, who is travelling for pleas
ure, is in this city enjoying our health
full climate and beautiful mountain
scenery.
THE CHILDREN of the Seventh en- Ward
Sunday -scnool will indulge in dance
on Thursday afternoon, which will be
followed by one for the grown people in
the evening,
TEE FAIRY Fountain ball for the
hIdren IN the Theatre Will commence
Al I.3O to-day The fountain Will be
dispLayed at 90 Children % cents,
adults 50 cents. q.
An ARTISAN we'll has been driven on
the jennings addition in North Salt
Lake and good stream OF pure fresh
water flows constantly for one and one
forth inch pipe.
TIE UNION PACIFIC "fyer" made the
run from Uiutah to Ogden Sunday
night at the average rate of ffty-fiYe
and a-half miles per hour, and reached
8 mile minute on certain stretches.
a SPECIAL to The HERALD dated Rich
field, December 24tL, says: Charles
Nield, OF this place, committed suicide
last night. He locked himself in the
schoolhouse and blew out his brains
with a rife"
WIETER HAS fairly set in at Park City,
a gentleman who came down from
there yes erday reports one foot of snow
OF Main Street, which means from three
TO tour in the hills, where most of the
uire3 are located.
The HERALD will take its Well-earne /
holiday TO day, so no paper Will
issue before Thursday morning. The
counting room, however will be open
till neon to. day for the sale of copies
OF The CHRISTMAS HERALD; they can be
obtained ready for mailing for l5c.
4rWe'ye done with dumps and grumbling,
We've quite abolished signs,
Ard wise men take to tumbl1ng,
And only fools are wise.
GOODBYE to sober reason,
Let none bat ma1caps lose;
The only sage in season
Is that which stuffs goose"
A DARK BAY mare, the property of
Thomas Golf, of Sandy, was st0lon
from that place on Saturday evening.
z g animal had a saddle and bride GA,
and was branded with figure three
with a quarter circle on the left side.
George Lewis. the live constable OF
s .ndy, has the matter in hand.
MACKINTosH's ANNUAL turkeys came
to hand promptly on time yesterday,
and each of his thirty-fve EN- ployees at
the Pioneer Mill, Sandy, and the Park
City Mil, became the happy possessor
of good fat bird. the merits of which
they will determine at to-day's dinner,
at the same time appreciating the kind |
ness of Mr.. Maskintosh
THE Tribune. with its usual yerecitv.
savs TIE HERALD only sends two COP
les into Bose. 1t must have been a
good sized two, to create the rumpus #
did among the Solons and Daniels of |
Boise City. Boise is too far north and |
has too many newspapers of her own,
for either The HERALD or Tribune to
obtain a circulation there to boast of. |