Show LOCAL JOTS Xenrly all the city schools opened this morning The grand promenade concert and ball at the Opera House tonight The coming performances of the A M Palmer Company are all the talk in society Thomas Pascoo a drank forfeited 5 by his nonappearance in the Police Court today I to-day I The repairs on the D < k B G road have been completed and through trains started running tpday The tickets for the promenade concert and ball at the Opera House tonight are going at a lively rate A tough problem for mathematical student I stu-dent To find the hriliniit point in a Herald open secret QThere will bo a rehearsal of the Careless Amateur Opera company at Professor Care Joss music rooms at 8 oclock this evening Mary Ham was arraigned in the Police Court today on the charge of vagrancy The fair Mary pleaded guilty and was fined 7f Hrigham Mitchell for being drunk and disorderly left 10 for his appearance in the Police Court this morning He did not appear ap-pear and the X was therefore forfeited 0 F Duo the cohabitive florist who has finished his term in the Pen took the poor debtors oath before Judge McKay this morning and was once more allowed to breathe the air of freedom The Nevada Democratic State Convention meets at Elko next Thursday The DEMO OBAT J calls the following turn upon three nominations Adams for Governor Cas hidy for Congress Belknap for Supreme Judge The reading public is on the ragged edge of anxiety and expectation in regard to General Dements next contribution to the columns of the Trombone Since the withdrawal with-drawal of the General his organ has lost Ionsiderable of its melody and a good lusty blast from his capacious bellows is sadly needed to liven up the tone of the instrument I instru-ment A man whose name cannot be ascer tained was killed by a C P switch engine at the Ogden depot last evening It appears t hat the man was walking along the track with his back to the approaching locomotive i and it is claimed by some that there was i no bell rung PO that the engine was upon him before he realized it He was badly mangled and was of course killed almost instantly A few more of these occurrences will teach people to realize that a railroad track especially in a busy depot is not the promenade conducive to the best health and the longest life The concert at Lake Purkyesterday afternoon after-noon was well attended and went off surprisingly sur-prisingly well considering the disagreeable weather The programme was carried out ns advertised and all the selections were played or sung with great credit to the per formers The audience showed its appreciation appre-ciation by frequent bursts of applause and a willingness to hoar the programme to the end despite the cold The evening concert did not take place owing to the fact that the evening air drove all the people to seek the returning trains The last train that went out returned almost immediately and the people were only too glad to get back to their comfortable firesides Mr S W Eccles who recently resigned his position as general freight and passenger passen-ger agent of the D B G road has accepted ac-cepted a very lucrative and honorable posi tion with the Union Pacific road Mr Eccles says that he is not yet prepared to state the exact nature of his new office but ho says it will be a much better position han t the one he had on the D S R G He will have his headquarters in this city at least for the presint The U P learned more of Mr Eccles strength as a railroad man in its fight with the Little Giant than it could J possibly have learned in any other way and the management no doubt feel t triumphant in i the acquisition of the gen tleman to their forces PERSONALS Airs J 11 Kinney left for Kansas City to day A Hanauor returned from Park City last night U C Chambers returned to Park City last evening Kev A Mroily started for Chicago this morning Marshal Dyer returned from the Park yes terday t morning Messrs S W Ecoles and W H Reining ton leave for their Colorado ranches tomorrow to-morrow A C Trent general manager of the Frazier Fra-zier t Chalmers Machinery Company left for Denver this morning Messrs LeGrand Young Ben Sheeks and their entire camping party returned from the head of the Weber on Saturday evening Dr Hall J M Zane and Miss Kirkpatrick left for the East this morning On dit that when tfco t first named gentleman re I turns society people hero will have the pleasure of mooting Mrs Hall |