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Show Paying a Bet Charity, Recently EJ. Gilman and John Schowalter laid a wager on the election elec-tion in New York, the former that Hayes would carry the state and the latter that Uncle Sammy Tilden would obtain a majority of the New York voles. The conditions of the bet were that the loser should roll the other and a sack of flour from Wnllrot- Rrrtllin1 nfnrfl tn tliA Wurrn Springs and return, in a wheelbarrow. wheelbar-row. The Excelsior Btate having declared for Tilden, yesterday the terms of the wager were fulfilled. The wheelbarrow was arrayed ia the stare and BLripea, and as Gilman went up East Temple street with his load, ho was followed by a triumphant crowd of democrats, who were shouting "Hurrah for Tilden." The distance to the Warm Springs is about two miles, and the trip was performed in less than two hours. The flour, a fifty pound sack, was donated by Walker Brothers to St. Mark's and St. Mary's hospitals. In the afternoon the flour was taken around town and sold at auction by Fred Carter, each successive purchaser pur-chaser again putting it up to the highest high-est bidder. Up to the closing of the sale the flour had been sold fourteen times, the aggregate proceeds from the sales being $49.25. The purchasers, purchas-ers, and the prices paid are as follows: Ned Wallio, $2.75; Wm. Jennings, $2.50; Holloway, $3; M. H. Walker, Wal-ker, $2; H. Graves, $10; H. Graves, $5; John Frank and Frank Baxter, $2.50; Ed. Gilman, $2.50; P.it Lnn-nan, Lnn-nan, $5; J. M. Murphy, $3.50; O. P. J Arnold, $2; Dr. Benedict, $0; N. Nalross, $2.50; J. Schowalter, $3. We understand the sack of flour will bo taken to Bingham canon on Saturday, aud there sold at auction, and subsequently Alta and other mining min-ing camps will have a chance to pur-: pur-: chase it. A handsome sum for the ' institutions named will doubtless be realized before the flour is finally disposed dis-posed of. Mortal Sharps and Flats. The Western Union telegraph company did not keep "open house" last evening, hcuce there were not eo many public exhibitions of what a UttI telegraphic news will do for a man, in the way of cheering or depressing his spirits. |