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Show ! LOCAL JOTS. ' "The Pirates of Penzance" to-night. ' The Legislature has not adjourned yet. The sale of seats for "Carmen" opened . with a boom to-day. Mrs. M. O. Lapham has just received the Spring Bazar Dressmaker and the Queen. Our Methodist friends hope to greet their 1 : returning pastor and wif a on Friday evening. : ; A number of the members of the Legisla- ,. ; ' j ' ture spent the entire night in the chambers last night. i Special meeting of Oquirrh Encampment ' i to-morrow evening at 7:30, and Unity En- l campment at 8:15 o'clock. 1 I McCornick & Co. to-day received Hanauer bullion, $4,200; one car Kent-(Moniana) ore, $725; total value, $4,925. ! ' The announcement of General Dement's I' .' confirmation by the Senate yesterday is a ; ' ; perfect surprise to nearly everybody. ;'5 George A. Snow has been appointed Post- master at Milford, where he has been en- - gaged several years in the forwarding busi- I J ness. ' . I'i A fine upright Knabe piano, on exhibition f at .the Salt Lake Auction and Commission ': House, 2C W. First South street, will be i raffled shortly. Judge Pyper explains that he read the h libel act to Don Carlos Young and not to 1 Mr. Harte, and that the purpose of it was to I show the Sullivan of the House what his ; proper course for redress would have been. i ; The legislators are not only compelled to j : donate their services free of compensation, put find it actually necessary to go down i V into their pockets and subscribe for inci dentals. Verily, the way of the lawmakers is hard. r A shrewd financier, who is as far-seeing as he is honorable, has been offering $230 as a premium for any one who would take up that part of George Q. Cannon's bond which had been secured by one in whom he has an t affectionate interest. ; ; ; It is reported that some of the high-muck- i ' ' . a-mucks of the Legislature received a dispatch dis-patch from Washington to-day, presumably j , , from John T. Caine, requesting the law- I . ; makers to lengthen out their session to the I ! fast possible moment. It is supposed there I is something in the nature of sucoor at I j. hand. When Don Carlos Young performed the slugging act on the Tribune reporter Wednes- ' ; day, the imbecile chaplain of the House, ' Prays every day, "pay or no pay," ;' . . rushed up to Don and enthusiastically con- ; gratulated the bruiser. A few minutes pre- : ! viously he was heard to wail oat in his "way- I ' down-in-Maine" sort of tone: "Help ns, O ,' n Lord, to do good to our enemies, that we i raay not harbor a spirit of resentment for ! the great wrongs we are called upon to : suffer." |