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Show LOCAL BREVITIES. At the chamber of comnierco tomorrow tomor-row evening tho polytechnic society will meet. Wells, Fargo & Co. s shipments yesterday yes-terday were as follows: bulliou, $1270, ore $1840. McCornick & Co. received yesterday: Hanauer bullion, $2-150; silver and lead ores, $7-100. Three hundred shares of Bear river canal stock changod hands yesterday at $2,50 per share. Watermaster Harvey is cleaning out the Jordan canal and tho ditches, preparatory prep-aratory to letting in tho water. There are messages at the Western Union telegraph office for J. II. Griffith, J. W. Hounds aud B. F. Hake. There are messages at the Western Union telegraph office for J. II. Griffith, J. W. Ronnds and B. F. Hake. t' The street railway company is lowering lower-ing tho ridge along East First South street, on which their track runs. .Tho Social Wheel ciub meets this evening in the front room, second slorv of the Daft building at 8 o'clock sharp. The Irish-American association will meet this evening at Col. Murray's hall, No. 58 Second Wouth street. Business of au important character will be transacted. Firo Chief Stanton had a forco of men at work yesterday sprinkling the streets in the eastern part of the city from tho fire hydrants. Today ho will operate iu the western part or town. Residents living near the Utah & Nevada depot arc protesting against the establishment of a saloon in that neighborhood neigh-borhood by a man named Sullivan. Thev will nsk the council not to grant tho license. ? In Social hall tomorrow night the students' society of tho L. D. S. college will meet to hear a lecture by I). (!. Young, C. E.. on "Architecture," and im address by Instructor Croxal on "Field Club Work." Thomas Engn, a Kio Orande laborer, lab-orer, who was on trial yesterday in tho district court for having robbed a hack driver named Chauncev Hansen of S9. 50, was discharged. The jury, after bearing the ev idence, ret urned a Verdict of not guilty. ' A' meeting' will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon in Editor Hirschiug's Frio i'resso ollicc, 2-1 East Second South street, for the purpose of organizing a Gorman club in this city. From this it is expected that the real Turnvereiu society so-ciety will lie formed. Tomorrow evening at 7:30 the students' stu-dents' society of the L. D. S. college will meet iu the Social hall. The exercises exer-cises will consist of a lecture by D. C. Young, C. E., ou "Architecture," au address by Instructor Croxall, on "Field Club Work" , and selections by members of the guitar and maudoliu club, etc. All iuvited. The city has ordered from Studobakor Bros, ten of their patent sprinkling wagons of 730 gallons capacity. These sprinklers are of the latest design and finish and include all tho latest improvements. im-provements. They are hung on platform plat-form springs and the spray is in perfect per-fect control of the driver. It can bo thrown to the right or left, heavy or light, at pleasure. Many citizens believe be-lieve that ten will not bo a sufficient number. They think that the city should have at least twenty. The mayor and council are boiug severely criticised criti-cised on account of their diliatorv action ac-tion in rretti.us the streets sprinkled. |