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Show CHIPS. Wind. Another wet. Matinee tiis alternoon, Valentine's day has elapsed. Nulhirg in the police ccurl for to day. The Morgan smeller has resumed shipment?. Some of the blue boys were on n tear yesterday. How many cau complain ot not gtting a Ut;er yeterdy. Tue mortality does not seem to h aa great this month as last. A washout on the U. P. is what delayed the traio on Thursday night. It is sii.i that passenger traffic from east to west is already picking up. Fears are entertained of a late spring io coueequecca of the mild weather. Tha educational association meets ag-iin to-day in me Thirteenth ward ajiofiubly rooms. Plowirg has commenced in Davis county. The thrifty burner is taking lime by the forelock. The Hyers were lo bnve played at Oden on Thursday night, but did no because o' t.ie U. P. dtUy. Dry farming bs paid S3 well in Davis county that a much greater area is to be cultivated this year. The clerks in the pott office were converted into cupid's mesiengers yesterday, and kept pretty busy too. Ad ice gorge io the Weber river baa broEen. It almost tock the Utah Cent:al bridge (rom ila foundation. founda-tion. There h said to be a full fledged gambling bell io the Twentieth ward, which is nightly crowded by disciples of the green cloth. Lead has taken another rise, this time ruoniog up to $45 $o above the last quotation. We are in a condition condi-tion to stand any amout of tbi. A case involving titles to considerable consider-able preempted land throughout this territory is now pending in an early stage before the Third district court. Probably there h nothing in the world that a man resents so quickly and so deeply as to Bod you awfully busy when he is perfectly at leisure. Buds are starting out a little. This thaw will last just long enough to let the buda get so far advanced that the frost will kill them. However, How-ever, as it'a either frost or worms, we should not complain. Last night was made hideous by the yells of the diminutive adorer as he laid the tender micslve conveying his undying afleclions at the door of hie adored, and then run, after banging bang-ing the door with a rock. By last night's diapatchea it appears that Major H. C. Gjcdspeed made a speech before the Bullion club of New York yesterday. The telegram states that a report was received that the "Telegraph" mine bad been sold in Paria for $3,000,000, relative to which the Major ia reported aa having Eaid that he did not think the mine v;ould net $100,000 in thirty yeare. A gang of highwaymen are in(e3t-J ing the Twentieth ward. For the pest two nights they have plied their daring vcca'iou, aud in every attempt have come cfl successful. They are three or four in number, and are eo completely disguised with masks as to' be totally b?yond recognition. On Thursday evening three persona were robbed, and quits a number last night, It is Bftid that they must have obtained, by these exploits, as many as thirty-five or forty comic valentines. valen-tines. These modern C!auda Duvals are aged from 10 to 12 and 14 years. Oh! that seme power tho gift wud gio 'ein To see their sidewalks as ithers eeo 'em, It wud frae monie a "cuisin" f ea 'em And a deuced sijjht of uncomplimentary and irreveront remarks. |