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Show MOUNT PLEASANT. Affairs in San Pete County. Mount Pleasant, Aug. lo, 1S73. Editors Heratd: The smiling fields of heavy grain aro being laid low, and the price thereof has fallen to "ocls. per bushel. Already ;tho peripatetic merchant smells the newly gathered cereal, and with goods " so sheep as never was" he opens his budget of wares. There are somo things that come in streaks. Now it is goods and sewing machines that promise lo sew up the world's rents and chasms. They stand in nearly every house, aud yet still they soil. Littln il uuy ca-di parses, however, it is all done with noles. In-day we have some men stumping the county on slum page. In Uie cow counties it is hard lor us to know who is who. Oue U.S. agent asks $1 per M, lSetson a cordot wood, etc. This seemed reasonable, and there was a business stylo about Mr. Hig-ley. Hig-ley. Another agent hovo iu sight, andaskul of tho shingle machine $20 per SI, and presuming the mill to nave a tax of $2o tor Hlumpage he would lake $18. Tins mill owner de-laineJ de-laineJ to pjy , and iho angry -lumper lei; vowing vengeance. I mer ly suggest would it not Imi good thing to have some badges or official document docu-ment ? Ills presumed the first is right. It has not been questioned, but doubts arose on the second agent. One thousand vott s, 1 learn, were cant for no lence over a? d above the fence. B.iMne.- will start up in the stray pound, and little suits at law I , fear as the result ol this vote. D. C. |