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Show LOCAL JOTS. j The present indications of U. C. trials show a revelation near at hand. The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle will meet to-night at 7:30, in the M. E. Church parlors. Chas. G. Lange has opened out the Empire Bakery at 128 West First South street. See his advertisement in this issue. Deputy Marshal Vaudercook will arrive to-night with a grist of four prisoners, ground out at the Beaver court. McComick & Co., to-day received, one car of Hanauer bullion, $3,300, and Queen of the Hills ore, $3,099; total value (J,S09. Fort Douglas was thronged with visitors yesterday afternoon, and the delightful concert con-cert hy the band was much appreciated. Richard Evans was buried yesterday from the Eleventh ward schoolhouse. A large number of friends attended the services. Charles Oscnr Federsou, a native of Norway, Nor-way, and a present resident of Sanpete, was admitted to citizenship to-day in Jude Zane's Court. An important rehearsal of "Iolanthe" will take place at Calder's Music Hall this evening even-ing at 7:30 o'clock. All interested are invited to be present. The City Council did one praiseworthy act when t hey ordered t he names and numbers of the Streets placed on the gas lamps. Have you noticed it? The nuisance committee should call in a body at the corner of Main and Fourth South streets and make a charge ou a stroii" enemy of health. Phillip Handcock.for battery, was to-day lined $10, and for the same offense, F. H. Sutherland paid $10, and an additional 5 for drunkenness. The Grand Jury met this morning with Commissioner McKay at the head. The U. C. case of Charles L. White, "Attorney" James Harrington and others, underwent investigation. Edward J. McElliu was naturalized an American citizen to-day in the Third District Dis-trict Court. Like all applicants before Judge Zane, he was sworn to sustain the United States Government in everv particular. particu-lar. The street su)ervisor has fenced in a deep hole in the middle of the road at the corner of Main and Fifth South streets. A drive about the city will disclose a dozen more just as dangerous places in the roads, sidewalks side-walks and bridges. A party of twenty from San Francisco, excursionists ex-cursionists en route east to Philadelphia, Boston and New York, arrived from Ogden this morning on the D. & li. G. They stay over to-day so as to take in the sights of the metropolis of Mormondom. "The Mikado"' rehearsal at the Theatre tonight to-night will be the most complete drill the company has had. All the dialogues, choruses. solos, etc.. will be gone through with. The ladies will receive their unique costumes in perfect fit and style. The skating season opened with a boom on Saturday nifiht, four or five hundred people peo-ple being present in the rink during the evening. No objectionable characters were admitted, and the enjoyment of the evening was participated in by everybody. Richard Oliver, the man from Sugar House ward who attacked Guard Mix with a pitchfork a few weeks since, was arraigned before Judge Zane to-day and entered a plea of not guilty. He was conducted back to the Penitentiary to await his trial. Brother Joseph McMurriu and his U. C. case was excused from the present term of court ou account of two cases of diphtheria in his family, but last night he was just well and careless enough to crowd into a street car with his clothes infected with the catching catch-ing scourge. A few days ago a young polygamous wife arrived in the city from Grautsville and took quart ers in a family near Main street. In a i few days afterward she was found laboring ! under the pains . of .an attempted abortion and was taken to the hospital. Nothing more I need be said at present. i There is existing at the rear of the Wasatch Wa-satch building a L0.40privv vault of the most sickening sort. A few rods from this germ bed of disease are standing tubs of sour swill and slops which scent the Court room and the entire block with twenty distinct smells, anyone of which is sufficient to paralyze para-lyze a jury. Where are the nuisance inspectors? inspec-tors? Echo answers where? ApjsUe Hebor J. Grant gave Judge Zane a little "pointer" in his Tabernacle speech yesterday afternoon, when he declared that ho would knock any man down in t he Court room that called him a bastard or his mother a concubine. It was wind, however pure wind for Ueber J. knows 'he is perfectly per-fectly safe from the clutches of the law. If he wasn't he would have boarded the Underground Under-ground long ago. |