by the way of Ames and the main line of the Northwestern and ten over the Toledo route. The shippers, we are glad to learn, struck a good market.—(March 28, 1883.)
Mr. S. F. Griffin has received $949 back pension money, and invested it in rich alluvial of Story County. We are always glad to see the old soldiers come to the front with a back pension. They earned it—every one of them.—(Feb. 3, 1883.)
DELAYED GILBERT GATHERINGS.—The thermometer stood thirtyfive degrees below zero last Sabbath, the weather suspending all kinds of business.
Miss Lizzie Keigley was not able to reach her school in Norway this week, owing to the bad weather.—(Feb. 5, 1883.)
A prime lot of hogs was brought to this town Thursday by R. J. Barbour of Richland township; they were thirteen in number; weight, 6,280 lbs.; average, 483 1-13 lbs.; receipts, the trifle of $379.80. The purchaser was O. Dunkelbarger.—(Feb. 14, 1883.)
Sheriff Banks, assisted by Dan. McCarthy, started for Ft. Madison penitentiary with Mrs. Elizabeth and John Porter last Monday afternoon, the 11:15 train being two hours late. There were large but orderly crowds at the depots in Nevada and Ames to witness the departure of the prisoners. Mr. Banks expects to remain a day or two with Warden McMillan, and will not return before Thursday or Friday.—(Feb. 14, 1853.)
Col. Scott was in Lincoln, Nebraska, last week in attendance at the Nebraska State Stock Breeder's association. The colonel entered quite freely into the discussion of the occasion, besides reading an extended paper on " Breeding and Feeding for Beef, and Supplying the Market." The Daily State Journal, of Lincoln, referring to the address characterizes it as "remarkably able," and adds: "It will be printed soon in the agricultural edition of the Journal. There has been but one comment upon it by those who heard it, that it was the soundest ever delivered in Nebraska upon any similar occasion. "—(Feb. 14, 1883.)
H. Barnes has a hog that takes the ribbon for a "long faster," it having been buried under a straw stack, without food or water, for sixty-five days. It now, since its release, seems to be hale and hearty, but somewhat weak.—(Feb. 17, 1883.) XXX.
The idea that farmers' sons do not attend the Agricultural College is dispelled by the record, which shows that of the 280 pupils last year, 118 were farmer', twenty-two mechanics, three millers, three nurserymen, and four manufacturers. The remainder had no profession or trade.—(Feb. 17, 1883.)
After the careful examination of the sworn statements of J. E. Duncan, W. P. PAYNE and V. A. Ballou, relative to the circulation