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paid $1,725 for Mazurka 36th and $LOOO for 

 Grace 4th. Walter Handy gave $1,150 for 

 Louan of Waveland and J. E. Shelley of Illi- 

 nois $1,250 for Mazurka 37th. At Warnock & 

 Megibben's seventy-eight head averaged $457, 

 George M. Bedford giving $1,700 for Airdrie 

 Belle, Col. William E. Simms $1,800 for Rose 

 Jackson, Kirk & Cunningham of Ohio $1,550 

 for Cambridge Rose 3d, Ed Thomas $1,300 for 

 Miss Stonewall Jackson, Col. J. B. Taylor of 

 Canada $1,000 for Cambridge Rose 2d, John 

 Niccolls & Sons $1,525 for 3d Mazurka of 

 Woodlawn, Abner Strawn of Illinois $1,735 for 

 9th Duchess of Springwood and Mr. Megibben 

 $2,475 for two females of same family, etc. At 

 this sale, held July 28, Mr. George W. Rust, 

 editor of the National Live-Stock Journal, was 

 the victim of a murderous assault, narrowly 

 escaping assassination. The affair grew out of 

 charges made through that paper in 1873 in 

 relation to the pedigree of the famous Shrop- 

 shire show heifer Fanny Forrester. 



Ben F. Van Meter sold thirty-four head for 

 $18,000, an average of $539. Abram Van 

 Meter's eighty-three head averaged $565. A 

 notable private sale in the fall of this year 

 was the transfer of four head by David Selsor 

 of Ohio to Mr. Keyes of Wisconsin for $4,000, 

 and three head from same herd to an Ohio 

 party at $3,000. 



