Show city supervisor and water master mr isaac groo of bf the oth ward has been appointed supervisor of streets by the city council in place of john van cott resigned also water master to fill the vacancy occasioned casio ned by the resignation of E F sheets the appointment of mr groo to those two very responsible offices we have no doubt will give general satisfaction though no fault has been found with the former incumbents further than would naturally be expected when the one did not keep the streets in repair at his own expense empens e and the other was very lenient with those who took water for irrigating purposes where and when they pleased without permission we heartily approve of the plan of having those two offices combined in one man as they are inseparably connected and cannot be performed by two persons without occasionally casio caslo nally raising 0 the question of jurisdiction with mr groo we have no particular acquaintance q but from what we ave have seen and heard we believe him to be an energetic straightforward straight forward business businessman man one thing is certain whatever energy or business he may possess will soon be called into requisition if he causes the thi streets and water courses to be put in good order and kept boj boy BO especially if he has to do it at his own expense which however is not a supposable case but there is certainly an ample field opened for his consideration and action and if he faithfully discharges the duties of those offices he will no doubt soon render renden himself popular with the female portion of street pedestrians if not with the citizens generally MUNICIPAL appointments the city council has recently appointed samuel IV richards esq alderman of the ad municipal ward vice N Y V jones resigned theodore mckean councilor vice IV 11 II hooper resigned and andrew ahdrew cunningham councilor to fill the vacancy occasioned by the appointment of S IV richards to the office of alderman all of which were good selections will these new members of the city council move those who have had seats there for a ion lon long iong 0 time to be more energetic in the discharge of their official duties fires fines last thursday some bos toys in in lighting a match for the purpose of smoking or for amusement accidentally set fire to some hay stacks belonging 0 to mr charles cowley of the ath ward and five or six tons of good hay was burned up fortunately by timely interposition no further damage was done on sunday the ath mr A P trees frees stack yard or corrall in the ward was fired in the sam someway eway and from twelve to fifteen tons of hay one hundred bushels of wheat at a quantity of corn and other products with the entire fence around the hi inclosure closure was soon consumed and a number of fruit trees weri werl more or less injured expensive smoking that IN ariu Anit ARRIVED iVED on thursday last daniel davis with a small train of merchandize merchandise dize on friday 31 J and gen J hunt with I 1 four or five wagons each and on yesterday A R wright with a train of eight wagons arrived from the states P all well and in goo ngo good 0 condition col thomas S smith of farmington with a drove of sheep about one thousand in number and a train of merchandize merchandise dize will arrive in a few days and E R K homar homer E IL young and J C nalle naile are expected ere ion lon long iong t each with trains mr sir naile nalle having 0 in his company eight or ten families of emigrants MOST PAOL Iric the cucumber vine referred to in the report of the exhibition at provo prove was the most prolific specimen opec imen of the genus that we have seen in a long iong time in additon anditon aa diton aiton on to the eighty cucumbers that were on the vine at the time it was removed from the garden for exhibition there had b been een ninety of equal size gathered from it previously as reported if each cucumber produces the usual number 1 of seeds and the future increase continues in lri the same ratio there will soon be plenty of that kind of seed in the territory those 1 wishing to obtain some of the seeds ha had haq better apply in season |