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Show j LOCAL JOTS. i Song of the mispects: "Praise God, from i I whom all blessings flow!" j McCornick Co. to-day received one car j ? of Hanauer bullion, valued at $3,103. Main street was crowded with males to- 5 - ' day owing to the sudden appearance of the j sun at 12 M. after a week of clouds. f In the case of Isaacson, charged with pass- i j ing counterfeit money, the Grand Jury , brought into court to-day a report ignoring I j the charge. , The base metal output for the week end- t ', ing to-day is as follows: Twentv-five cars of I ' bullion, 8,611,352 pounds, and eighteen cars i 5 of ore, 51 1,900 pounds. 9 j The Grand Jury came into court to-day j j and reported four new indictments, one un- der the Territorial laws and three under the j ' statutes of the United States. t i The badges of the Utah and Colorado del- s egations to the St. Louis Cattle Convention I are very much admired. Perhaps it is. be- s c cause they are made of solid silver. , I The funeral services of Francis Hurd (son i of William Hard) will take place to-morrow I I t 1 o'clock, from the residence No. 425 S. I Eighth East street. All friends are invited I 1 to attend. j ! A majority of the Utah cowboys at St. ,! Louis favor a government trail, and most of e them will vote for Denver as the place to hold the next convention. They are all in I favor of organizing a distinctive ranchmen's i association. j i The fastest mails ever received in Salt Lake came through on Wednesday night, j the time from Boston being four days, less S thirty minutes; from New York, four days I and thirty minutes; and from Philadelphia, ? h four days andl hour. By the way, Salt I Lake will soon get a reputation for fast mails. 5 A party of 170 eastern excursionists ar- rived in the city this afternoon about 3:15. They came on a special, via the Union Pa- r cific, and are under the charge of J. Hoyt I ' Sherman. The entire party will remain j over Sunday and look about the metropolis, ? ,f and on Monday morning at 7 o'clock pro- ceed on their way to San Francisco. j Last week seven of the most enterprising I business men in Logan incorporated as the ! Logan Electric Light and Power Company, the stock taken amounting to $5,000. The Thomson-Houston Company will install I the plant in thirty days, and there will be ! five large street lamps to begin with. . j Mayor Sharp was asked this afternoon j : j what the city would now do since Judge t j Zane's decision had upset the L. and L. I j prosecutions that had been made. The I j Mayor replied that ho did not know. The f ! matter was in the hands of the lawyers, and 5 j he, therefore, had nothing to say. ' , This morning the closing session of the i ; . Utah Teachers' Association was held at In- I dependence Hall, There was an increased f attendance, the exercises being of averyin- teresting and instructive character. "The j princidal features were the reading of an exit ex-it i ceptionally good mper on " Heligion and I : 'i Education in the Schools," by Kev.-W. H. t ' -. i Thrall, and the opening of a question box j ' : which contains several well-propounded t i j questions. The programme of Mr. B. B. Young's ; i i Sacred Concert in the Walker Opera House s I to-morrow evening is published elsewhere in ! J ij this issue, and the selections and vocalists I i named leave no question but that the con- j : cert will be one of merit and of credit to all I i participants. The sale of seats already . show8that the Opera House will he well t : i filled on the occasion, and this is a pleasing comment upon the Sunday concert enterprise enter-prise of Mr. Young, and 'the spirit of the :. ' Salt Lake public in enoouraging them. : f ; 1 Under the supervision of Mr. Fred Walker, Jr., manager of the Walker Opera House, ; : ; the lobby of that building has been very ; ! i tastily decorated in Japanese style. Trans- i . - I parent lanterns, huge umbrellas, and other ' - deoorative contrivances have been suspended ! from the ceiling and walls. They present a 1:1 j novel appsarance and are quite in keeping I . , with the attraction that next opens thS i beautiful house "The Mikado," by the I i Grau Company. I '; "Alyin Joslin" was repeated at the Thea- I ; tre last night to a good audience, and while j , there is no particular merit to the piece, I s " Davis' eooentricities, the spectacle of New r ! York by moonlight, with the fine music of . 1 the superb orchestra, rendered the entertain- S ment an enjoyable one. The cornet and S ' ; shde trombone soloists again received en- J 1 cores, and such zylophone playing as the 5 I 'Swanee Kiver" was has never been heard I : before in Salt Lake, and received loud ap-, ap-, i ' plause from all present. To-night will be ! the last performance of "Alvin Joslin.'? I Song of the liberated suspects- A wise Chief Justioe he, j A clear-headed jurist he, , - Who knows the complaints of the much- ; married Saints. ! I And setteth the Gentile free 1 , : I Wail of the foiled police. 1 A prejudiced justice he, I t A block-headed jurist he, i ) V A. blRnkety blank, tarnation old crank, j ;M Who setteth the Gentile free. Si1' -The?e t, 861118 for the season of the ; -S ! ."Wfr6 Company, commencing at the I ' alker Opera House next Wednesday night, opened np lively this morning, the operas t , , most in demand being "The Mikado' and I ''Mascotte." Mr. Kent, th baritone of this l i company, ig classed as one of the best, hav- ! t ing held a foremost place in grand opera for ,: , ! many years: and Miss Amy Gordon, the ? Yum of "Mikado," is well-known as a leading spirit of comio op?ra. The "ao- f 1 . quired taste" Salt Lake ha developed for Per prondses a successful engagement for ; the Grau, Company. |