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Show LOCAL JOTS. . . Ontario stock is quoted at $29. -How was your head this morning? . There were ten deaths from diphtheria I during the past month. Mike Fleming was required to deposit $5 . yesterday for a plain drunk. IThe total number of deaths during the month of December was forty-four.. ' . Sixteen broad guage carloads of Nebraska i ' corn will reach Ogden this evening for San ' Francisco, en route to Australia. Bob Condie and Jack Davis were arrested yesterday for engaging in a New Year's fight. They will have a hearing Monday, at 10 a. m. It is rumored that John Eeeve will succeed to the position of Utah Central Boadmaster, lately vacated by the resignation of Mr. . Leavitt. Sheriff McBride, of Tooele county, is ex- I pected to arrive in a day or two from Des- I ret, where he went after two horse thieves h from Grantsville. !: The Herald still clings to "1885" with an Ej affection that seems to say: "Days that I ' are gone seem the brightest.' Their issue of ; yesterday read January 1, 18S5. Again we hear that well-known voice j We've heard a thousand times before, ' For many winters it hath said: 'Confound you, shut that doorP' Delegate John T. Caine was present at the White Hoasa reception in Washington yesterday. yes-terday. Champagne was discussed more . . freely than Utah matters, and was much I - more enjoyable. Among the many well-su3tained characters of Iolauthe during th9 three performances this week, was that of Mr. John Long, the pantomimic attendant to Mr. James Mo-Curdy, Mo-Curdy, the Lord Chancellor. ' Battery B; consisting of about thirty horse, was exercising on the business streets this ( I morning and created quite a sensation as i the mounted blue coats dashed up - Main I street with horses in full harness. I I Four carloads of Sanpete barley left 1 j Thistle yesterday, billed to F. Krouse & Co., i of the big Milwaukee brewery. This makes I i over 200 cars of barley shipped East the past it 1 season, 100 oars of which went to F. Krouse. J.J The base metal and ore output for the j week ending January 2, 1886, was as follows: Twenty carloads of bullion, weighing 481,- t 365 pounds ; twenty-five carloads of ore, I weighing 704,780 pounds, and two carloads ' of sulphur. The delayed funeral services over the remains re-mains of Mr. Francis Piatt will take place in i the Thirteenth Ward Assembly Rooms to morrow (Sunday) at 11 o'clock. A general invitation is extended to the friends of the family to be present. Prof. Krouse was seen with the opera "Maritana" under his arm to-day,and rather reluctantly explained to a Democrat repor- Iter that he was planning to secure for the cast B. B. Young, Mr. Gorlinski, W. W. Mackintosh and others. The billiard tournament at the Walker House, commenoes next Monday evening with a contest between Lowry and Engler, Lowrytomake 500 points to Engler's 300 for a purse of $50, with $25 added by Bech-tol Bech-tol A Sand's to the winner. Tuesday night j Donnelly and Arthur play an even game. Bets are lively. ' I "Iolanthe" will be repeated by the Salt I f Lake Opera Company on the 11th inst., Si . " when it is expected Mr. Dunbar (Strephon) --r.. will have reoovered from his severe hoarse-j hoarse-j ness, which together with the ' benefit of liints and experience of all the performers, I will conduoe materially to an increased in- . terest in the performance. ; ; ? A 10-year-old daughter of Mr. John Ir- j'' - vine, of the Nineteenth ward, died Thursday ( . morning of diphtheria, making altogether f , three of the family taken off by the terrible i, soourge with a very short time. The be- reavement of Mr. Irvine and his family is the heaviest that has been brought to any house by the fatal contagion this season. A party of thirty tourists from the East, in charge of Captain Tibbitts, arrived via . D. & R. G. last evening, and were taking in I the town to-day in Mulloy & Paul's large drag. ' The party have their own car at the . depot, in which they will go to Ogden this 1 afternoon, proceeding thence over the C. P. I to California, where they expect to spend the winter. |