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Show LOCAL JOTS. I Amusements crowd the programme during ) j next week. ' j Tickets for B. B. Young's sacred concert I v next Sunday night are now on sale at the . i usual places. j "Iolanthe" paper of mammoth size is billed j over the town, and its production is expected : to mark quite a local event. Juryman C. W. Lyman, gave way to-day I under the killing evidence in the Hampton case. He was provided a bunk beside the j ! witness stand in preference to postponing t the case. : j "Brig Hampton goes into the fight with j , all the chances against him," says the Salt t Lake Herald. Yes, and apparently all the - j evidence is against him, too ; but then the S 'i Herald doesn't dare say so. ! The editor of the Tribune devotes a column ; this morning to prove that the -Neios lies j .' about the McMurrin-Gollin affair. But such i efforts are useless. The Newt is the organ P of "Truth and Liberty," and never, never j' lies. . i The Marsac mill is new being run daily, in order to get the heavy machinery m proper line with a view of starting by the first of January in active operations. The i . mill presents a handsome appearance since i being painted, and adds greatly to the showing show-ing of Park City. There is on exhibition at the new store, 108 S. Main street, the richest and most '. beautiful bedroom sets of high art furniture ever placed in the market. The elegant sets are of mahogany upholstered with the finest - Turkish damasee, and of the very latest patterns known to the East. ' A match three-ball billiard game between 1 ' . Josh Arthur, of this city, and W B. Lowry, i of California, will come off this evening at j the California Wine Depot, Lowry playing 500 points to Arthur 303. A fine game is ex- ! pected from both players, and at the close j Lowry will give an exhibition of f ancv shots. i It is our opinion that the best Xmas pres- J cat a gentleman can give his lady-love is an : 1 invitation to the Masonic ball next Monday ! evening at the Walker Opera House. It i ; I would certainly be a great pleasure to the j ( lady to share the merry dance, and next, it ! i would assist the Library in its growth and j j usefulness. $ Mr. John J. SchmeLzle, a comrade of the : 7 Grand Army of the Republic and respected ! citizen, has disposed of his lunch stand at I No. 31 W. Second South street, and with the aid of a back pension just received, Mr. Schmelzle will open up a restaurant in Stockton, where the Stars and Stripes have I always had full sway. . As the Salt Lake Herald, with its usual ' j thieving propensities, stole from the Demo- , cbat the report of Rev. MoNiece's Sunday night sermon, omitting the note appended by the reporter, it should to-morrow morn s' f ing steal the correction in last night's Demo- . cbat. Some of its chief subscribers would probably feel proud to read about "the knothole knot-hole brigade. The fifth grand annual ball of the Wasatch Division Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias is advertised to take place at the I . Walker Opera House January 13th. The I different committees have been appointed I and will work to make this one of the finest social events of the season, and as the reputation repu-tation of the K. of P. haB always been Al in this respect, there is no doubt that this I will equal all preceding affairs in its line. I General Traffio Manager T. L. Kimball 1 and General Freight Agent P. P. Shelby, of j the Union Pacific, accompanied by Mr. ! Frank Langford, private secretary, arrived in Salt Lake this morning from "San Fran-cisoo Fran-cisoo in a special car over the Utah Central. Mrs. Kimball and son Richard are also with the party and registered at the Walker i House, where they remain until tomorrow jj ' News reaching us from the Eureka-Tintic j district indicates great activity in the mining I business, result probably of the recent I notoriety given to the locality by the great I mining suit of the "Beck" and Eureka companies. com-panies. We learn that last week two well-i well-i known gentlemen of this city acquired a ; , . half -interest in one of, if not the most, val- ; " uable properties in that now historical I camp. The gentlemen referred to are rustl- ! era, and we predict benefit to the region by the addition of their enterprise. |