The St. Louis & Omaha trains stopped running May 21, 1874 Friday Morn, Jun 21, 1874, a slight frost appeared and tender vegetables were injured. The county received $15,000 in a military script. An account was presented for $25,000. Suit was brought by the bondholders in the US court at Jeff City for the interest on the Chicago & SWern Daviess County bonds, Oct 1874. Dec 18, 1874, suit was also commenced to compel the county to pay the interest on the Omaha & St. Louis and the 10 mile Strip bonds. Tax levy for 1875, $1.50 on the $100, as follows: state revenue...20 cents state interest fund...25 cents county revenue..50 cts for funding bonds...10 cts for poor farm....5 cts railroad interest....40 cts The total school money for distribution of state, county and township fund amounted to $9,051.84. A bridge across the Indian Branch in Union township was put up at a cost of $75. The grasshopper year of 1875, and the pests struck Daviess Co. in June and were around about 1 week. The damage done was very slight. The county gained the suit on the bonds issued on what was called the Ten-mile Strip. $60,000 was thus saved to the county, and lost by the railroad company because of bad faith and broken contract. The first talk of a compromise on the railroad bonds voted, was in Aug 1875, and the County Court concluded that it would compromise at 33 1/2 cents on the dollar, if it could.