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Show PITH OF THE PRESS. fin Pictures Culled Knim the Best Mirrors or Our lliMintry. The Mining Journal says there are a number of counterfeit silver dollars circulating about Salt Lake City. Hon. C. C. Richards has accepted an invitation from the Democratic National Committee to stump the United States in the interests of Cleveland and Stevenson. "William Harry, th keeper of a herd of sheep in Emigration Canyon Can-yon who so far forgot the proprieties pro-prieties of the season as to permit the sheep to wade in the stream, paid Commissioner Pratt 10 and costs as a reminder Hcrahl. Poor Wyoming! she is having a hard time of it. Now that the "Rustler'1 war is about ended, she has engaged in a battle with a lot of hungry attorneys who are suing a bankrupt county for their fees in the Rustler cases. Mt. Pleasant Pyramid. Ten weeks from Tuesday next the election for Territorial Delegate to Congress and county officers will be held. It will be one of the most holly contested campaigns the Territory has ever seen. Each of the thrco parties, Liberal, Republican Re-publican and Democratic, will put forth thoir best endeavors and the ablest stump speakers in each party will take the rostrum. Tribune. An effort is being made to secure for exhibition in the Horticultural Department of the World's Fair a specimen of giant cactus from the desert region of southeast California. Cali-fornia. This cactus grows at times to tho height of seventy feet. A specimen when boxed ready for shipment will weigh eight tons, and it will require an expenditure of something like $2,-500 to deliver it in good condition in Chicago.-Logan Chicago.-Logan Journal. The carload of slate from Slate Canyon, near Provo, has reached this city and a portion of it is now on exhibition at the yards of Klias Morri. corner of Main anil South Temple. The samples are of various sizes and thicknesses, and of the very best quality. The em stern experts who were here not long ago to bid on tho roofing of the city and county building, all agreed that they could not compete com-pete with the Utah article, and in a consequence, the grand pile that is now being erected on Washington .timre will be the first building of any size lo be roofed with Utah slate. Provo Dixpatch. |