| Show The City in Brief A special train from San Francisco witha Patti and her company will arrive here this morning The mumps are exerting their disagree able influence in many families in town somewhat reducing the school attendance One of the heaviest snowstorms of the winter set in yesterday morning and the beautiful fell fast and furious all day long The blockade on the Central Pacific is broken and trains are moving along ally right The trains yesterday came in about on time 1 G W Knapp superintendent of the SaltLake division of the Central Pacific railroad and who went west to improve his health is now at Mojave Kern county Dalifornia Sunday was a cold day and yesterday was by no means more caloric The influence influ-ence of the wintry weather upon business In general is realized by all the merchants and not to their delight either Four alleged gamblersSilks Wood Meidland and Christianwho were arrested ar-rested last Friday and bound over will appear ap-pear before Commissioner Cross for examination exam-ination today at 2 oclock pm The prospects for securing an appropriation appropria-tion from Congress to erect a fine government govern-ment building in this city are said to be jirstrrate and that it will be made before the close of the present session Now ve will have a chance to be saved surely Rev Sam Small is announced for the Methodist church for May ISth to 2Sth f1 the fortnight to be occupied by a rousing revivaL It will undoubtedly be interesting Reed Burgitt yesterday closed a 520000 I deal the Mercer property on Washington avenue which was purchased for Salt Lake parties They also sold to Mrs Eitel of Denver one acre on the bench for 1200 A terrible snowstorm was raging on Collusion hill and along the line of the Utah Northern yesterday and no trains came in or went out over the road from I here The southbound train was held at Logan The roads in the country region are simply sim-ply horrid the wheels of even light vehicles sinking in to the hub Hence there are few of our rural friends and customers seen in town and the businessmen feel correspondingly cor-respondingly blue After an illness of three weeks William M Clark has returned to the prescription 4 case as the pharmaceutical genius presiding presid-ing in William Driver Sons wholesale and retail establishment His Salt Lake friends will be pleased to learn of this Felix and Eva Vincent will occupy the boards of the Union opera house this week with the plays of Sire and Son and The Bonnie Fishwife There is nothing against them having a good run of a full house but the inclement weather and the bad streets and sidewalks The Cliff boulevard question is discussed on all sides with great interest and it is expected ex-pected that with the chamber of commerce taking an active initiative and men of enterprise en-terprise and capital sustaining their efforts substantially we will soon see work begun be-gun on that great work Rehearsals of the Ogden Choral union for The Chimes of Normandy that charming little opera will be resumed on Wednesday next a full attendance being requested by the management so as to push the preparation to successful consumma tion and public performance Yesterday the Sacred Heart academy pupils i had a pleasant surprise in the shape Df a holiday The same popular institution Df education had a most enjoyable concert on Friday last at which the scholars again evinced the pleasing results of the painstaking pains-taking training given them by the teachers teach-ers On Saturday evening next the subject of discussion by the Ogden Literary and Debating De-bating society one of the most agreeable social circles here will be Evolution the debate to be opened by Mr Johnson These intellectual bouts are quite popular r and attract much attendance as well as attention at-tention I C L Thompson the architect of the Reed I hotel on the corner of Twentyfifth street and Washington avenue came up from Salt Lake city yesterday to see after affairs incidentally he also presented a set of plans for the proposed chamber of commerce com-merce and opera house buildings which is now a foregone conclusion Quite a number of bids for building the dams and houses 01 the Ogden Power company com-pany were submitted to Mr Mayne yesterday yester-day but none of them were then accepted and it may be that neither of them will be They will be carefully examined by the architect and if any are satisfactory they will be accepted and work commenced without delay The custom which has prevailed in Ogden of backing wagons on to the sidewalks v lI side-walks in front of stores for the purpose of loading or unloading them thus forcing pedestrians to take to the middle of the street is one which should not be followed any longer There Is an ordinance against it and the chairman of the street committee commit-tee of the city council says that it will hereafter be strictly enforced The First district court was engaged yesterday with the case of Merservey vs the Denver Rio Grande Western railway company This is the case in which the plaintiff claims damages for being run into by a locomotive of the defendant while crossing its track with a wagon at a point about three miles south of Ogden whereby where-by he sustained serious bodily injuries Thomas Maloney presented the case for Merservey and Bennett Marsh defended The case occupied the entire day The numerous Weber county and other Utah friends ofPostmasterT W Hurd of Harrisville will be pained to learn that the gentleman is in a very precarious condi iJp lion in fact his physician has as much as It liven him up The doctor is suffering of the same disease that carried off General Srant and notwithstanding all the medical attendance and the most solicitous and lov ing care by the companion of his life there Is but little hope Still the doctor a sturdy American of undaunted courage bears up oravely under the excruciatingly painfnl iflliction of cancer of the throat Said he to visiting friends on Sunday I dont nind so much making room for younger oeople but it is tough to starve to death when a fellow could eat so heartily Liquid food is all he subsists on |
