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Show LETTER FROM LITTLE COT-T0.W00D. COT-T0.W00D. Alta City, Utah, Aug. 20, 1872. LJttors Herald: .Ju Sl,0WiDS "Web I left at be telegraph office last evening at 9 o clock, should have been published -JT ISSUl of thia o"ing, and would have been, had the operator vising the blame ?0r its noo-trans-m.ss.on on badly worjtirjg ineB the -..ereoryped jua0 for telegraphic "Klcctio-j for recorder passed of! quietly. John McDonald, the present ''UIIpent, was re-elected by nearly jL'-ajority, out of 667 votes polled." Though the above is not of national itr.portance, it was thought that in your city it might be of interest, hence my attempt to advise you immediately. immedi-ately. For the same reason I endeavored endea-vored a tew weeks ago to tell you about Jacob Ilauck shootiDg himself through tho heart, throwing himself in the creek and iayiog there for three weeks until ho was drowned and not lit for oven a coroner's inquest ; but tho operator, aided by noo-woiking linew, held my dispatch till next wormo?, hn like its subject it had grown old and stale. itie inmost unanimous re-election of Mr. CdcUunald is justly accepted by him as a tribute to the correct .ess and ibility with which ho has condactcd Ins otfico during the past year. Tho ruall vote polled by his competitor, Mr. Isaac Spangler, must not be considered con-sidered a test of his popularity or of the number of his friends. It was owing partly to his late entrance into ihe cod teat, and to the fact that many of his friends had prior to that pledged their Bupport to McDonald. Last night, as is usual and proper in all local elections, the boys "enthused" "en-thused" quite violently and cheerily, and all night long that beautiful thiDg poetized as the "vox populi" was wafted through the streets, laden with tree whisky and beautifully variegated oaths, occasionally emphasized by the "fist populi." There were not, however, how-ever, over a dozen fights and they were of the mildest type. The wind has been on a spree for the last few days, rushing up and down the canyon in a most wild and reckless manner, utterly regardless of the im-i im-i men so clouds of dust it raised, or t clothes lines it wrecked, or new buildings build-ings it unbuilt. This constitutes my budget ot news, except you should call news a few mining items, such as the erection by the Vallejo Tunnel company of a 2,340 feet of wire tramway from tho mouth of their tunnel to the street, which will cost when completed about $10,000, and being above the snowline snow-line can be operated all winter; the constant and successful running night and day of John H. Ely's new saw mill on Grizzley Flat; the installation of Mr. Lem. Colbath, as general superintendent super-intendent of tho consolidated Vallejo and Illinois companys, with "Wah satch" as aide de camp; the perspective perspect-ive of legal troubles, injunctions, et oi, between the fair Matilda and tho rich , DaveDport; and the large shipments ot ore being daily made from the Flag-. Flag-. staff, Hiawatha, Montezuma, Emma and Wellington mines over tho most execrable and execrated road in "the world. Which is all. J.J A v. |