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Show LOCAL JOTS. Several voung couples went to Logan from Salt Lakelast week to eat turkey, of course. The Z. C. M. I. employes hold their reunion re-union concert and ball in Olympio Hall on Friday night, January 1st. The ball for the benefit of the Masonic library occurs at the Walker Opera House to-night, and is expected to be a most brilliant bril-liant social event. A runaway farm team and two-horse wagon collided with a telephone pole in front of Dr. Beatie's residence Christmas day and laid the twenty-foot pine mast low in the mud. The Theatre box office opened this morning morn-ing for the sale of tickets to the "Iolanthe" performances. Early in the day they were going off very rapidly, and large audiences -are looked for. !A young man named Fields, living over Jordan, sustained a fracture of the left leg below the knee night before last, by his horse falling on him. The injured limb was properly prop-erly set and is in a fair way to recovery. Mrs. Sellers, the lady operated on at the Sisters' Hospital last week by Dr. Benedict, for an ovarian tumor weighing fifteen pounds, is almost entirely well, and will be able to return to her home in Provo valley within a few weeks. John Shafer, 'who some weeks ago in a Main street fight threw a beer glass and severely cut a man's head, came out of hiding hid-ing Saturday and surrendered himself up to the city protectors of law and order. Judge Speirs let Shafer off with a $10 fine. To-night at the Salt Lake Theatre the attaches of that popular place of amusement give their annual ball to the patronizing public The several select committees having hav-ing the affair in charge feel sure of a pleasant pleas-ant evening to each and every one attending. The children's annual ball takes place at the Salt Lake Theatre to-morrow afternoon, doors opening at 1 o'clock. Every thing in the way of musio, refreshments, comic views and shadow soenes will be furnished by the select committees for the entertainment of all present. The Christmas tree entertainment , at the Methodist Episcopal Church on Saturday night was well attended, and a first-class social so-cial time enjoyed by alL One of the Christmas Christ-mas tree gifts was a purse to the pastor, Rev. S. J. Carroll, as a token of appreciation from the members of his congregation. S To-morrow morning at 11 o'clock Dr. J. M. Benedict will perform an important operation opera-tion upon a lady from P. V. Junction, now at the Hospital of the Holy Cross. A number num-ber of members of the medical profession will undoubtedly be present, as the operation is a delicate and critical undertaking. The dissolution of all railroad pool associations asso-ciations on Utah and California traffic on next Tuesday creates no little comment among railroad men, and more especially Utah shippers. The general impression is that the present rates will be maintained by the roads, as no cutting of rates is desired. The Beaver Utonian reports that the U. C. cases before the First District Court have been continued for the term. This is to enable en-able the prosecution to obtain certain witnesses wit-nesses necessary to the cases. A sharp lookout, look-out, it is expected, will be kept for those missing ones, and arrests made as soon as found. , A few survivors of Christmas gathered within the Tabernaole yesterday afternoon, and were addressed by Apostle Lorenzo Young in a few fatherly admonitions to the young men of this kingdom. The patriarch and pillar of the churoh was followed by three young men in their maiden'efforts, and then the congregation dispersed. Mary J. Shannon has been granted a decree de-cree of divorce against her husband, William Wil-liam A. Shannon, by Probate Judge Smith of this city, on the grounds of negligence and habitual drunkenness. The marriage bonds are declared severed and the plaintiff is given the custody of their six-year-old daughter Mary, who lives with her mother in this city. IVioe-President Geo. W. Goss, of the Pleasant Pleas-ant Valley Coal Co., and Receiver W. H. Bancroft, of the Denver t Rio Grande Western Railway, are doing the Samaritan by presenting to the poor of Salt Lake City 100 tons of their celebrated coal. Messrs. Sells, Burton & Co. have joined in the charitable char-itable aot by kindly distributing the cold disperser, and they request the conference of all benevolent societies, in order that the Christmas gift may be properly distributed where deserved. Butte, Montana, has complained for a long time of the depredations of an infesting infest-ing gang of robbers and cut throats. Last Monday night a vigilance committee of 200 respectable citizens determined to purge the - city of its scum. They held up City Jailor W. F. Jordan for his keys and going to the prison took out a number of foot pads, ordered others of that stripe to fall in line and marched them a few miles out of town with orders to never return on penalty of death. , Mr. George Needham, the oldest employe ! of the Union Pacifio Company at Salt Lake, j relinquishes the contracting agency of the I . oompany he has filled so satisfactorily the past three years, and shoulders the duties I abandoned by Mr. iebbetsm his late promo- . tion to Kansas city. Mr. Needham is the right man in the right plaoe, and is to be congratulated on his deserved promotion to a broader field, affording him an increase in I purse and popularity. I j Light comes into the mind through in- t scruction. bat there must be teachers to in- I struct. Within the quiet walls of the Ma- I sonic Library room there are nearly seven f thousand of patient, true, inspiring teach- i era. They have absorbed the varieel treas- l ures of centuries of thought and feeling and s 1 aspiration, and with no slow hand they im- part to high and to low, to rich and to poor f , alike, t he garnered treasures of loving hearts , and lofty minds from all the fruitful past. I : The society that inaugurated and has, with the assistance of helpful hands, sustained the Masonic publio library and free reading f ; room, deserve the profound gratitude of . every good citizen, and to-night at the Opera House there should be such a royal I . collection for the benefit of this institution, I ' in the shape of solid dollars, as will add to f ' the present well-filled shelves many good I . books, and cheer the self-denying laborers j 1 - who have engineered this enterprise to its I j present high position. I .i : 1 . ' |