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Show LOCAL JOTS. ; ; . One more case of diphtheria was reported . to the quarantine physician yesterday. There will be an "Iolanthe" matinee Saturday Sat-urday afternoon in the Salt Lake Theatre. Quite a number of sleighs and cutters were out to-day, although the sleighing is far from being first-class. Between Sexton Taylor and the dry bench-., bench-., era the Council is not likely to go to sleep on the water supply question. The rumor that Mr. John Reeve was to succeed to the position of Utah Central Roadmaster was not authentic. B. Y. Hampton was brought up to the City Hall this afternoon by Sheriff Groes-beck, Groes-beck, to testify in the J. W. Farrel case. There will be no dividend this quarter on Utah Central stock. The resumption of Horn Silver shipments is the only hope for etock-holders. , . There are rumors of some important changes among the D. fc R. G. offioials. An I authentic announcement will he forthcorn- i iug in a day or two. (The condition of Win. Jennings, Esq., is Btill regarded as critical. He cont inues to sink and is becoming almost skeleton-like through loss of flesh. iNo more diamond rings nor gold watches for a dollar. The Chicago Merchants' Tea Company has promised the city authorities to csas3 its "souvenir" business. I "Goddard's Hats" do not seem to have be come as popular as was hoped for by those who backed the home industry. The salesrooms sales-rooms on Main street have been vacated. Professor J. H. Paul, of the University "of Deaeret, has compiled and had published a very useful volume of choice readings and recitations, which is sure to come into general gen-eral use. Some elegant sign boards were being erected on the walls of the Godbe, Pitts & Oo.'s drug store to-day. ' They make a strange contrast with the rough walls of the building. "The Petrified Head" is suspected, by some, of belonging to one of the Underground Under-ground passengers. What a fortunate thing it would be if somebody would dig soma of them up whole. The appointment of Mr. Browe to the postmastership of Salt Lake meets with general favor on all sides; it is believed he will fill the position with much comnetencv Iand satisfaction. John Aird i3 held up by the Dcseret News as "a bright specimen of those who accept ! the Edmunds law, as 'interpreted by the courts.'" This is rough on Bishop Sharp, Orson Arnold and others. The Butte Inter-Mountain comes to hand in an elegant new dress, which is quite an improvement on its former nice appearance, and puts the Salt Lake Tribune, in the shade as to metropolitan aspect s. The New last evening contained a hearty reoornmendation favoring poultry in prefer-I prefer-I ence to pork for food. The editor is evi- I dently becoming chicken-hearted, having grown tired of being piggish. When the D. fc li. G. folks take possession of the postofflce, said a Union Pacifio em-' ploye to-day, we shall feel justified in putting put-ting a safe in the place of the ordinary drop 1 box for a receptacle for the Union Pacifio mail. The position of city ticket agent of the ;i u.& it. u., which Mr. lirowe will vacate to take the Postmastership, will ba filled by v ' ' 1 Mr. F. F. Eocles, the present agent of the i freight department. The gentleman is emi- ij nently qualified, as he is also universally liked. ' Apostle Lorenzo Snow has been convicted in the First District Court of a second offence under the unlawful cohabitation clause, and it is thought probable he will get a long string of them before the Grand Jury has completed its -investigations into the Apostle's muchly-married state. There will be an excellent opportunity now for some enterprising fellows to make a good thing out of those lovers of skating who patronize the Hot Springs Lake, by j sweeping and keeping clean a portion of the i : ? ioe and assuming squatters', rights to the extent of say ten cents per head for II skaters. , . " . . . if One of the gentlemen who were appii-l appii-l ' cants for the Salt Lake postmastership, and if who was thought to have had most excellent jl backing, to-day received a telegram from a ij Prominent Senator expressing sympathy that j he was unable to secure the position. The answer was sent back that the. appointment j j of Mr. Browe was eminently satisfactory. J jj The second game of the billiard tourna- j i jnent was played last evening at the Walker IE nouse Diuiara rooms, Jjowery and Arthur ' contesting, the game being 500 to 300 points j 1 in favor of the latter. Arthur made 300 I points and won the came when Lowerv had i but 382. . To-night Engler and Arthur play ; If an even game, and a close contest is looked I for. . i jr David Whitmer, the only surviving one of H the three witnesses who claimed to have f. seen the angel and the plates which Joseph h . Smith took from the Hill Cumorah, is at he death's door, according to advices from IT ; Richmond, Mo., the home of Mr. Whitmer. 3 ; "The gathering" does not seem to have had s ; ; many charms for the old man, unless it may I ii be construed that he has been awaiting the Baints' return to Jackson county. . Editor Picotte, of the Wood River Times, jM (who, by the way, is himself a first-class J V i practical printer, ) has a great eve for beau- , ji tiful things in the typographical line. It 1 sr. j j seems that he, too, was more than charmed '.-' I - by the handsome appearance of the New '(' Year's Salt Lake Tribune- Listen to his i rhapsody: "The paper appears in a new ,tff dress, but the tvpe, which, we believe, was ,'f 'invented' by Wilbur F. Storey, of the 'if - Chicago Times, is about as disagreeable and jj trying on the eyes as it can be. It is of a I kind tabooed as 'bastard' in all union offices, ft j and its long, slender, yet 'full' face is pofri- , f tively dazzling. Notwithstanding this grave I defect, we mast confess that it compares " very favorably with the almost worn-out ! type of the Wood River Times." N-e-x-t! .- - |