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Loveland & Ellis have lately thrown on the market a small stock at liberal prices. There has been an average stock in the city of twenty-eight thousand dollars; sales, $107,500

LIVERY --- This business is divided between the hotels already, enumerated, and Routson & Tiffany, west end Thirteenth; Morse & North, corner Tenth and O; and Johnson, corner Thirteenth and M. Together they report an income of $4,450

MASONRY --- Fitzpatrick, Heitzman, Baker, Durr, and Smith have done the brick and mortar business. No report.

MEAT --- J. Rickly, corner Eleventh and M, W. T. Rickly, on O, near post office, W. Deidrick, corner Tenth and Washington Avenue, F. Gillett, Nebraska Avenue, between Twelfth and Thirteenth, Louis Herr, on Eleventh. Sales, $20,468.

MUSIC --- Prescott, on O, between Twelfth and Thirteenth. Who would suppose sales in 1876 to amount to ten thousand dollars?

NEWSPAPERS --- The Era on N, between Tenth and Eleventh, the Journal on Eleventh, and the Republican on Nebraska Avenue, answer to the tune of twelve thousand dollars.

OFFICIAL SALARIES --- Income of county officers $3,962.

PAINTING --- E. C. Kavanaugh, Twelfth near O, Collins & Martin, west end Thirteenth. The business has been dull; twelve hundred dollars.

PHYSICIANS --- Dr. Stillman at his Drug Store; Dr. Bonesteel, Nebraska Avenue, opposite City Hall; Dr. Murphy, corner Eleventh and N; Dr. Hoehen, Washington Avenue, opposite Court House; still minister to the sick. No full report. We wish the doctors no harm, but neither do we wish the people to be sick. This is a healthy country.

PREACHING --- Reverend Father James M. Ryan, Catholic; Reverend Thomas Bayne, Congregational; Reverend J. A. Hood, Presbyterian; Reverend B. S. Taylor, Methodist Episcopal; Reverend Hulhorst, German Reform; Reverend M. Henry, Episcopal. Our preachers are able and faithful men, but this is only a business report. Church expenses, four thousand dollars --- estimated.

PORK --- D. Anderson, with Speice & North, and Raymond for Henry Bros., do the hog business, $29,458.02.

RESTAURANT --- Marmoy, corner Eleventh and P. Others including in saloons. Total business about two thousand dollars.

SEWING MACHINES --- A lively trade on O between Twelfth and Thirteenth; J. Lawson on the west side and R. Compton at the post office, have together done the lively business of thirty-five hundred dollars.

SALOONS --- McNamara Bros., Nebraska Avenue, near the Bank, and T. Delong, O near Twelfth, do the liquor and billiard business on the North Side.

On the South Side, all on Eleventh, are Murray, Farrell, Sheehan, McMahon & Wolfel, Ryan, and Bucher. Hoppen, corner of Washington and Pacific Avenues, in connection with hotel, closes the list.

Stock in trade, including billiard tables, eighty-two hundred dollars; gross sales $16,240.

SADDLES AND HARNESS --- D. Faucette, opposite city hall, M. H. White, opposite post office. Each does a good business. Stock in trade, two thousand dollars; sales thirteen thousand dollars.

TAILORING --- Lee and Bubach, both on O, near the post office, complain of light income --- only three hundred fifty dollars. The clothing stores overshadow them.

TEACHING --- This department is honorably filled in the South town by Professor Rakestraw, assisted by Miss Hanchette; in the North town, Miss Clark, assisted by Miss Coffey. A. M. Buckley, three miles east; J. T. Mallilieu, six miles east. Professor Mason, for November and December, teacher of music, penmanship and bookkeeping. The teaching department has an income of twenty-eight hundred dollars.

TELEGRAPHY --- J. A. McClinchy, agent of W. U. Telegraph Company, twelve hundred dollars. Mc is also a gunsmith and general tinkerer, and is a pronounced genius.

UNDERTAKING --- H. Gass, Washington Avenue, opposite court house, meets our last earthly demands. Keeps a nice stock of coffins, ranging from five dollars to one hundred ten dollars each. Average stock, five hundred dollars; sales, eleven hundred fifty dollars.

WAGONS AND CARRIAGES --- Luers, Schreiber & Bros., opposite Morse and North's stable, do a nice business.

Charles Schroeder on Eleventh and L, the same, and Eastman & Small, with Cole on Thirteenth.

WEAVING CARPET --- A. Scott in Gerrard's Addition. 1568 yards --- $218.72
Together these manufacturers carry a stock to amount seventy-one hundred dollars and their income last year was $8,275.

With great effort this statement has been prepared and yet it is very imperfect, chiefly for the want of full reports. But we make no complaints. After all omissions the showing is good."

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