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Show CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. The Deseret hospital ball is to be given on the 20th of November. Judge Anderson has been giving his attention at-tention to the chancery docket. On proper showing the sentencing of Jno. R. Howard was continued agaiu until Friday next. The case of George Blanthorm against the Utah Central railway, was dismissed for want of prosecution. Judgment was awarded plaintiff for $620' in the case of Joseph Musser vs. Charles S. Desky, during the day. G. W. Megath. superintendent of the coal department of the Union Paciac, arrived in the city this morning. Frof. Younger's new hall on Mardct street is to be opened on Thursday night with a grand ball and supper. A new Thompson fc Huston loOO candle power incandescent dynamo is being put in by the Electric Light company. Several houses have bought large invoices of holiday goods, some of which are now arriving, but will not be opened for a week or two? The Bohemian club filed its articles of incorporation in-corporation with the county clerk yesterday, yester-day, the object being to form a social organization. organ-ization. The Walker case, in which the defendant answers to a charge of fornication, will be, called again ou Monday morning before Ca ptainGreeman. Several of the directors of the Niagara Mining company arrived in the city at noon today to attend the meeting which is to be held tomorrow to vote on the increasing of the capital stock. Upon the resting of plaintiff in the case of Hogue vs. the Kio Grande Western Railway Rail-way company today, counsel for defense launched a motion for non-suit, which was sustained and the action came to an end. Business men are very much elated over the statement of Uncle Je;re Rusk that the grain crop of the United States this year would exceed that of last by $;00HV!0. They think that ought to make good times all over the country. No one supposed when D. E. Burley went away but what he was going to look at a defective de-fective switch some place hi northern Idaho, but it turns out that he went to meet the "Sinbad" girls, whom he w ill esctirt into the city this evening. Ah! there, Burley; you giddy old rascal. More applications for assistance are made to liie Ladies' Aid society than it was able to attend to, and it was decided at a meeting of the association held yesterday afternoon if give a ball on the lMh inst. in Younger hall, in order to relieve the necessities of the poor during the winter. When the ticket window opened this morning morn-ing for -he sale of the Sinbad scats, several boys had been in line since Sunday, aud nearly all of them had slept last night on the theater platform All had numbers in their hats and tfiose wtio were among inc first demauded as much as $.0 for their places, and contemptuously refused tlO. Several people who are expecting a stormy time at the meeting of the city council tonight to-night over the award of the State street paving contract will probably be disappointed. disappoin-ted. After all the hullabaloo that has been made over the matter, home enterprise etc., the bid of the Pacific Paving company to which the board of public work recommend the contract be awarded is less than $1100 more than the next lowest bidder. |