Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-12-23
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

Reserved seats for the Philharmonic
orchestra's concert on Friday night are
on demand.
E G. Handles, of Antonchico, has been
appointed postmaster in place of J. M.
Abercrombie, resigned
A lively program, comprising musical
and literary exercises. is being presented
to visitors by the pupils Of st. Michael's
college this afternoon.
The orchestra of the 10th U. S. infantry
band goes tomorrow to Las Vegas to sup
ply music for Christmas hop given by
the order of Railway Conductors.
There are now three convicts in the
females department at the penitentiary,
the two latest additions being the Albu-
querque women convicted OF arson.
Capt H. NJ. Davis and Elias Brevoort
are also in the field for the office of Pueb-
10 Indian agent. Special Agent Lewis
has arrived and assumed temporary con-
troll of affairs.
There was the joliest sort OF party
at the opening OF Gray's opera house on
Saturday night. The music was good;
the roller skating delightful, and a big
crowd there to enjoy it.
Conway has imported pair of Missouri
'possums for big Christmas dinner,
which he proposes to do to turn along with
the necessary trimmings, which means
sweet potatoes, quartered, and few
chunks of hog fat.
The law passed by the last general as.
semhly makes it obligatory upon citizens
selected by the county commissioners to
act as judges at the January elections, to
serve as such without pay, and liable to
punishment if they refuse or decline to
serve.
Sheriff Frank Chavez has ordered that
lumber for the acequia crossings on Don
Gaspar avenue be delivered to day. 1t is
a timely move which the people will ap-
preciate. Those crossings and that
new street will constitute splendid drive
way.
A branch of the Taos Valley Herald
office, at which business of the Taos Val
ley Real Estate & improvement COM
pany will also be carried on, is to be es-
tablished at Espanola in about ten days.
A weekly newspaper will then be issued
at Espanola. John Kofal, late of Trim.
idad, is at the head of the undertaking.
The entertainment at the M. E. church
on Christmas eve promises to be de-
lightful occasion. The large, we'll laden
tree, appropriate literary exercises by the
children, choice selections of music by
the choir and the Indispensable Santa
Claus will present a very pleasing pro-
gram. Exercises commence at 7. A
welcome to all.
The record in the Coler case has been
sent by the printers, who agreed to take
the county's contingent expense bond for
their pay, to Las Vegas to be bound
The district attorney has notified E. H.
Salazar, the only part the county recog-
nizes in the premises, that unless the
record is forthcoming tomorrow the con-
tract so far as the county is concerned
will be annulled. 1t is promised that the
record will be in the hands Of the attor-
neys for the county tomorrow.
Hon. Jayne A. Whitmore, of the San
Marcal Reporter, one Of the rustling re-
gents of the territorial agricultural college,
was in the city for short time this morn.
ing. He says that very interesting pro-
gram OF public exercises is being arranged
for formally opening this institution at
Las Cruces on January2l. Mr.. Whitmore
was one of the working members OF the
state constitutional convention and he
expresses much qualification at the way
in which the state movement is growing
both at home and at the national capital.