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Show From Washington County. St. Gicohue, Mvy 12, 1S77. L'ri or Herald: We are now getting a daily mail service from the north, which brings us mail from your city in from three tofourdnyrt. This ia a slight improvement im-provement to customers but death to postmasters. Tho weather still remains unoctllod and bad health still prevails. Very little of importance or interest inter-est ie transpiring. Dr. l'alnipr, tho most inJwfatigahle- Rocky M iuu-lain iuu-lain botanists and collectors of sain plea of what is native in Utah in hVany, mineralogy and Indian ruliea, IB siill here aud making careful research re-search f all this region, for fifty to one hundred miles around. The "Union" club, early iu this week, cave two amusing entertainments entertain-ments to cro vdud houses. Tho receipts re-ceipts were givi'u to ouo of the missionaries. We have not been more amused for years than we were at witnessing their performances. On Monday evening next they perform per-form again, the last for the season. Several large flocks ot aheop have arrived or are near at hand from California, Cal-ifornia, aggregating some 10,000 or more. A portion are to be exchanged for horned slock, while a portion are to he driven northward. Tbo herds art yeueralljr in good condition, and sheep of a good quality. Business at the Reef still remains slow and dull. The two mills iu operation oper-ation are turning out their usual bricks ot silverdaily, but tba new mills come along slowly. Strawberries, mulberries, new potatoes, po-tatoes, turnips and peas have appeared in that market. J. E. J. |