Show LOCAL JOTS A llock of Crescent changed hands yesterday at 110 Horn Silver was quoted in New York yesterday at 245 and Alice at 180 James Kelly charged with drunkenness i drunken-ness and trespass was fined 5 by Justice Speirs this morning There was an increased attendance at the Theatre last evening the house being be-ing pretty fairly filled The Fish and Game committee is doing an energetic work in providing fishways 4 i in tributary streams and removing obstructions 1 ob-structions t 2 The little daughter of Mr and Mrs F 0 Horn is recovering from her severe i and combined attack of diphtheria and S scarlet fever The special Council committee appointed ap-pointed to consider the prayers of the S dry benchers will hold another meeting meet-ing at the City Hall tonight It is rumored that a Salt Lake jeweler I will purchase the Emporium clock and use it for a sign If it is to be nothing more than a dummy hereafter it should be S removed The Patience Opera Company will hold a business meeting at Calders Hall tomorrow S to-morrow evening at 730 oclock The managers will present a statement of their disposition of the profits which will be acted on S The Salt Lake City canal is now boom Ii ing and measures are being taken to provide 4 pro-vide against an overflow The Jordan is also high and on the rise but it is too early in the season to apprehend any j serious danger f The consolidation of the two Danish weeklies will probably result in the estab j ment of a Scandinavian paper A Mr Sandberg is reported as the projector IfS If-S there is anything Salt Lake needs it is a Scandinavian newspaper Y Last nights D 1 R G express did not I arrive until nearly 2 oclock this morn ing The delay was occasioned by the slow speed now necessary through the canyons the recent melting of snowS snow-S having loosened the rocks S The DEMOCRAT is the only evening paper l I pa-per in the city that publishes a full ret re-t port cf the important decision delivered I 1 by Judge Zane in the liquor cases this morning The morning press will steal the DEMOCRATS report and publish it tomorrow to-morrow The DEMOCRAT is indebted to Mr H Pembroke for the latest and most reliable war map of the British and Russian possessions pos-sessions in Central Asia Mr Pembroke has also received Captain Codmans latest work entitled Solution of the Mormon Problem Several miners while exploring a tunnel tun-nel Bingham last Sunday were put to flight by encountering a huge grizzly bear At least they declare it was a grizzly although they did not make a very close examination A party was to be organ ized to go back and annihilate the monarch mon-arch of the mountains S A boy named Jensen living in the Second ward was found drowned in the ditch yesterday morning The boy was subject to epileptic fits and it is supposed he was seized with one and fell into the ditch The coroner was notified but as no doubt existed as to the cause of death no inquest was held itA very sensible letter was the observation ob-servation of a Mormon after reading Mr W Shearmans letter in last evenings DEMOCRAT It could not have expressed ex-pressed my sentiments better had I written writ-ten it myself said a lady who has had some personal experience with polygamy The letter however is not endorsed by the editor of the NewS who when asked last evening what he thought of it shook his head and declined to commit himself |