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Show BREVITIES. ' S. R. Marks & Co. for furniture. Thtf Sons of St. George will give a sociable tonight. Lace Curtains and Linoleums at S. R. Marks & Col The V. M. C. A. reception last evening was a grand affair. E. T. Graves, a Grand Junction, Colo., cattle cat-tle man, is in the city. It is said that Incas has been sold to a French syndicate for $100,000. . Jim Heighton of Omaha is anxious to get on a match" with Jim Williams of this city. C. A. Judkins of Aspen arrived in the city yesterday and is surveying for an opening. Cheap foldinjr beds at S. R. Marks. A musical soiree, and ball is to be given tonight in the parlors of the Metropolitan hotel.. r.Several thousand dollars will hare changed hands when the result of yesterday's election elec-tion is established. Billy Oliphant, the portly traveling man, has returned to the city and is again studying study-ing up on mythology. . A. H. Kelly, who was shot by the hold-up, is able to get out of bed and will be on the streets in a few days more. J. Dewese. solicitor for the B. A M. R. R. at Lincoln, Neb., has been taking a tour through the northwest and is now in the city. " .... Seven hundred taxpayers have paid a visit to Collector CTuter within the past ten days to drop their contributions into his strong box. Banker Whitmore, residing at Nephi, who purchased a gold brick of somfc dishonest parties at Provo last fall, come In from the "Little Chicago" last night. Alex Lefeve, the Nestor of prospectors, has returned to the city after a w hirl through the hills, and reports the great mining industry in-dustry booming as never before. In the ool tournament at the Cullen hotel ho-tel Manning defeated Magner by a score of 100 to 64. The contest this evening is be- tw een Manning and Kid Gauthier. The temperature at 8 o'clock this morning at the places mentioned was a follows: Salt Lake 4f Bingham 42, Oerden 51. Logan 45, Park Citv 4T. Provo 44. Alta 38, Stockton 36, D -nver :iS, Miles City 38, Helena 4. J. A. Hyde of Nephi, and heavily inter-c-ted in the plaster-of-paris works in that place, is iu the city. Mr. Hyde reports the plaster in. 11 to be running- steadily and the dttmand for the manufacture to be equal to tueir productive capacity. There is to be a mass meeting of the citizens' citi-zens' party held next Tuesday evening, but the place of holding it has not been decided upon. The matter was decided on at a meeting of the committees of that organization organiza-tion held at Co East Second South, street last evening. Prof. Stephens is justly proud of the chorus he rias gotten together to support (iilmore, and he says it is the most capable that evtr rose to the wave of his baton. There will be about 700 voice?, embracing the 6ine:ers of the Choral society and the Tabernacle choir. There was a most depressing shortage of men last night who would bet anything but w ind on the elections. The poolseller in the Cullen beseached the men standing about his rostrum to bet bet anything on some. thing but in vain. If anybody had the money, very few had the requisite sand. Observer Salisbury has made his calcuLi-lat':ons calcuLi-lat':ons of the number of hours of sunshine during the month of October, the total each day being recorded photographically. . This record shows that out of a possible 344 hours there were 2ol hours of sunshine, or a daily average of 8.1 hours out of a possible 11.1, a per centage of 75, an unusually high one. The Lyceum meeting in the parlors of Hotel Tcmplcton last eveninsr was an exceedingly ex-ceedingly interesting affair. Prof's Stewart and Klliot had a set too (figuratively speak ing) in tw o rounds on the quebtion of church vs school. The jude decided in favor of the school. The Lyceum never does anything any-thing by halves all its meetings from an intellectual in-tellectual standpoint have had' no precedence in our city. Few business men went to their home? last night until a late hour, as all were most anxious to hear the results of the election. "When dt finite results were ascertained all agreed that it turned out just as they expected, ex-pected, and that as their judgment was right they ought to have won a good deal of money on it; but then not many of them did. The most intense excitement w as manifested in Ohio, as a defeat of McKinley would be considered as a rebuke to his protection policy. Both democrats and republicans who were unbiased in their hopes conceded the election of Flower in New York. The funeral services of Miss Jennie Anderson, An-derson, daughter of Judge Anderson, were held in St. Paul's Episcopal church yesterday yester-day afternoon, and the remains were buried in Mount Olivet cemetery. At the church Kev. W. M. Lane preached a short sermon, beautiful in its tribute to Miss Anderson's worth and character and most touching in its sympathy. The music furnished bv Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf, Miss Viola Pratt, Mr. C. P. Mason. Mr. C. B. Durst and Miss Jennie Smith was exquisitely appropriate to the sad occasion. There were almost numberless number-less tributes of Rowers from friends who loved Miss Anderson in her ' lifetime and mourned her death as they would that of a sister. |