freight received $2.465.61. There were also 949 tickets sold for $827.31."
1878.—Railroad business at this station, (Nevada,) for the month of September was as follows:
Received.—Lumber, thirty-three cars, charges $940.12; Other freight, twenty-two cars, charges $431.59; Merchandise, 435,055 lbs. charges, $1,028.8. Total— $2,400.51.
Forwarded.—Grain, fifty-nine cars, charges $3,074.93; Stock, nineteen cars, charges $1,139.98; Other freights, thirteen cars, charges $278.93; Merchandise. 104,585 lbs., charges $547.76; Tickets sold $1,036,79; Total $5,078.37; Total business, $8,478.90.
September 20, 1878.—"John Nass, aged fifty, a shoemaker, of Story County, was brought before the insane committee Tuesday, who heard the case and pronounced him insane and ordered him conveyed to the Asylum at Independence, whither he was taken by Deputy Sheriff Tyler. He is impressed with the idea that he is doomed to endless punishment, and his mind is hopelessly gone,"
October 2, 1878.—"Messrs. Dutton & Son have just had shipped to their bank, to accommodate the business wants of the community, $1,000 legal tender silver dollars. They paid for them $1,000 in currency, besides paying three or four dollars expressage to get them here. Mr. Dutton told us in speaking of this shipment, that they paid in about a year over sixty dollars expressage on small change, silver dimes, quarters, halves, dollars, &c., besides paying full face value of the money which they had shipped to this town to accommodate the business wants of this community."
December 20, 1878.—"Six cars of hogs and cattle were shipped from this station to Chicago last Saturday."
December 20, 1878.—" W. H. Mead has now a force of twenty men employed in his poultry packing establishment. The poultry is dry picked, entrails drawn, head taken off, then after cooled, packed in barrels and boxes and shipped to Boston. Mr Meads' father is one of the largest commission dealers in that city, and is the owner of a large refrigerator there. He handles all of W. H.'s poultry, and if the market is not good when the consignments arrive, he places them in his refrigerator and holds them until the market advances. Hence W. H. has the inside track."
January 12, 1881.—'`On Thursday evening of last week, a small portion of the friends of Capt. I. L. Smith, made a raid on him in the Clerk's office, for the purpose of a thorough examination of his official bond and properly inaugerating him upon his third term. The meeting was called to order by Supervisor R. W. Ballard, and upon motion of Supervisor Ersland the matter of approving his official bond was opened for discussion. Mr. F. D. Thompson thought his bond should not be approved, for on or about December twenty-sixth, after the fire had gone out in his stove, he put