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A QUAKES DETECTIVE.
BY JUDGE CLASS.
We wpre five pnsseneerp in all ; two
ladies on the back seat, a middle aged
gentleman and a Quaker on the mid
dle and m3'self on the front.
The two ladies mipht have been
mnitiop nnH rinnchfor nnntnnd niece.
governess and charge, or might have
sustained any other relationship
which made it proper for the two la-
diee to travel tocether unattpnded.
The middle aged gentleman was
enrichtlv and talkative. He soon
f truck up an acquaintance with the
ladies, towards whom, in bis zeal to
do he rather overdid, the agreeable
bowing and chatting over his shoul
ders in a very painfully suggestive, at
his time of life, of a "crick" in the
neck. He waa evidently a "gay"
Lothario.
The Quaker wore the uniform of
his feet, and confined his Fpeecb, as
many a parliamentarian would save
his credit by doing, to simple "yeaa"
and "nays " As for myself, I make
It an invariable rule of the road to be
merely a looker on and listener.
Towards evening I wa3 aroused
from one of those reveries into which
a young man, without being a poetor
lover, will sometimes fall, by theab-1
rupt query from the talkative gentle
man. "Are you armed, sir?"
"I am not," I answered, astonish
ed, no doubt visibly, at the question.
"I am sorry to hear it," be replied,
! "for before reaching the nest etopping
place it will be several hours in the
night, and we must pass over a por
tion of the road on which more than
one robbery i3 reported to have been
committed."
(The ladies turned pale, but the
stranger did His Dest to reassure
them.)
"Not that I think there ia the
slightest danger at present," he re
sumed, "only when one is responsi
ble for the safety of the ladies, you
know, such a thing as a pistol in reach
would materially add to one's confi
dence." "Your principles, my friends," ad
dressing the Quaker, "I presume are
as much opposed to carrying aa to
usin? carnal weapons ?"
"Yea," was the response.
"Have the villians murdered any of
their victims?"' the elder lady ner
vously inquired.
"Or have they contented them
selves with with robbing them?''
added the younger, in a tremulous
voice.
"Decidedly the latter," the amiable
gentleman hastened togive assurance,
"and as we are none of us prepared to
offer resistance in the case of an at
tack, nothing worse than plunder can
pospibl3- befall us."
Then, after blaming his thought
lessness in having utmece-sariiy in
troduced a disagreeable subject, the
gentleman quite excelled himself in
efforts to raise the spirits of the com
pany, and had succeeded so well by
the time night Bet in, that all had
quite forgotten, or only remembered
their fears to laugh at them.
Our genial companion fairly talked
himself hoarse. Perceiving which he
took from his pocket a package of
newly invented "cough candy," and
after passing it first to the ladies he
helped himself to the balance, and
tossed the paper out of the window.
He was in the midst of a high enco
mium on the new nostrum, more than
half the efficacy of which, heinsiated,
depended on its being taken by suc
tion, when a shrill whistle was heard
and almost immediately the coach
stopped, while two faces, hideously
blacked, presented themselves, one at
each window.
"Sorry to trouble you," said the
man on the right, acknowledging
with a bow two lady-like screams
from the back seat : "but. business is
business, and ours will soon be over
j if things goes smoothly."
i "Of course, gentlemen, you will
.spare, as far as may be consistent
with your disagreeable duty, the feel
ings of these ladits,' appealed the po
lite passenger, in his blandeet man-
i ner.
. "Oh! certainly, they shall be the
urbianeuueu 10, anu snau not De re-
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quired to leave their places, or submit
to a search, unless their conduct ren-
ders it necessary."
"And now, ladies," continued the
robber, the barrel of his pistol glitter
ing in the light of the coach lamp,
"be eo good as to pass out your purses,
and such other trinkets as may be ac
cessible without too much trouble."
The ladies came down handsomely,
and were not further molested.
One by one the rest got out, the
middle-aged gentleman's turn coming
first. He submitted with a winning
grace, and was robbed like a very
Chesterfield.
My own affairs, like the sum I lost,
is scarcely worth mentioning.
The Quaker's turn came next. He
quietly handed over his pocketbook
and watch, and when asked if he had
any other valuables,' said ".Nay."
A Quaker's word is good, even
among thieves ; so, after a hasty
! "good-night," the robber thrust his
pistol into his pocket, and tvith his
two companions, one of whom had
held the reins of the leaders, were
about taking their departure.
"Stop!" exclaimed the Quaker, in
a tone more of command than of re
quest. "Stop! what for?" returned the
other, in evident surprise.
"For at least two good reasons,"
BEOWNYILLE, KEBEASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1879.
7as the reply, emphasized with a
conple of Derringers cooked and pre
sented. Help!" sboated the robber.
"Stop!" the Quaker again exclaim
ed; "and if one of thy sinful com
panions advances a step to thy relief,
the spirit will surely move me to blow
thy brainBont."
The robbers at the opposite window
and at the leaders' heads thought it a
J ga me lo S-
"Now get in. friends," said the
Quaker, st'li covering his man, and
taking the middle seat ; "but first de
liver up thy pistol."
The other hesitated.
"Thee hnd better not delay ; I feel:
the spirit beginning to move my right
forefinger."
The robber did as he was directed,
and the Quaker took his place by his
side, giving the new-comer the n.ld
dle of the seat. The driver, who waa
frightened out of his wits, now set
forward at a rapid rate. The lively
gentleman soon recovered his vivaci
ty. He was especial ly facetious on
the Quaker's prowe3.
"You're a rum Quaker, you are.
Why, you don't quake worth a cent."
"I'm not a shaking Quaker, If that
is what thee means."
"Of the Hickory or rather of the
Old Hickory Stripe, I should say," re
torted the lively man; but the Qua
ker relapsed into bis usual monosylla
bles, the conversation flagged.
Time sped on, and sooner than we
expected the coach stopped where we
were to have supper and a change of
horses. We had deferred a redistri
bution of our effects till we should
reach this piece, as the dim light of
the coach lamp would have rendered
the process somewhat difficult be
fore. It was now necessary, however, that
it should be attended to at once, as
our Jovial companion had previously
announced his intention of leaving us
at this point. He proposed a post
ponement till after supper, which he
proposed to go and order.
'"Nay," urged the Quaker, with an
approach of abruptness, and Iaj-ing
his hand on the other's arm, "busi
ness before pleasure, and for business
there is no time like the present."
"Will thee be good enough to search
the prisoner?" he said to me, keep
ing his hand in a friendly way, on the
passenger's arm.
I did so, but not one of the stolen
articles could be found !
"He must have gotten rid of them
in the coach," the gay" gentleman
suggested, and Immediately offered to
go and search.
"Stop!" thundered the Quaker,
tightening his grasp.
The man turned pale, and struggled
to release his arm. In an instant one
of the Derringers was leveled at his
heart.
"Stir a hand or foot, and you are a
dead man."
The Quaker muet bae been awful
ly excited, so much eo, as to com
pletely forget both the language and
the principles of his persuasion.
Placing the other pistol in my
hand, with direction to fire on the
first of the two men that made a sus
picious movement, be went to work
on Lothario, from whose pocket, in
less time than it takes to tell it, be
produced every item of the missing
property, to the utmost amazement of
the two ladies, who had begun, in no
measured terms, to remonstrate a
gainst the shameful treatment the
gentleman wa3 receiving.
The Quaker, I need scarcely add,
was no Quaker at all, but a shrewd
detective, who had been set on a band j
of desperadoes, of whom our middle
aged friend who did not look near
eo middle aged when hi3 wig was off
was the chief. The robberv had !
been adroitly planned. The leader of
the gang had taken passage In the j
coach, and after learning, as he sup-i
posed, our defenceless condition, had :
given the signal to his companions by
throwing out a scrap of paper already
mentioned. After the unexpected cap
ture of the first robber, it was attemp
ted to save the booty by secretly pass
ing it to the accomplice, still believed
to be unsuspected, who counted on
being able to make off with it at the
next stopping place.
The result was that both, for a sea
son, did the State some service. iV".
Y. Ledger.
An eternal warfare seems to rage
between the country negro and the
town darkey. This was illustrated at
the passenger depot yesterday. A
colored youth from Pike county ap
proached a town negro and the fol
lowing conversation ensued :
'Whar bouts is de ticket office?'
'Right dar fo yo7 eyes.
'Fo whose eyes ?'
Yone.'
Is you de ticket office?'
Lookyer, nigger, don't you gimme
none o' yo slack.'
'I'm a mighty slack man, ole man,
when I gits stirred up.
An you'll git Etirred up efyostan'
roun' yer foolin' longer me.'
Dat s de kinder ex'ruse watl's pi-
And with that they clinched aud
had a right lively scuffle. They were
separated, however, before a police
man came along, and the Pike coun
ty darkey found the ticket office. The
town negro, it may be well to men
tion, was badly used np. Atlanta
Constitution.
Allow that strong tea does kill
some, sah; Yet, CoL Johnson killed
T comesah!
PELXT. OLITE.
The Leader of the Bandit Who Burn
ed Two
Stake.
"Obscure Men" at the
Special Conespoideoee of the Globe-Democrat.
TAYibRSvnxE, Texas, Feb. 15.
The recent burning at the stake of
Mitchell and Ketch urn In Nebraska
a scene in which Prentice (familiarly
Print) Olive, formerly of this part of
Texas, figurpd has called forth a
statement, published over the signa
ture of Many Citizens, setting forth
the.many crimes and muorders perpe
trated by Print and his brother Bob
OMve while-residents of this county.
The statement contains a record of
bloody deviltry and unprovoked mur
der hardly much surpassed by thelate
Bill Longely himself.
Direcjly after the close of the late
wartheOlive family, who were resi
dents of this county (Williamson),
had but Ihtle stook. Under the man
agement of Print Olive, however,
their herds grow to immense propor
tions and those of their neighbors be
came beactifully less. "Print" show
ed himself to be utterly brutal, Uerce
and savare, and gathering around
him a lot of oowboys and satellites as
desperate as himself,
SOOK BECAME A TERBOB
to the whole surrounding country. So
completely were the people of the
community bulldozed that neither
Judges, witnesses, juries nor anybody
else dared take any stand against
them. Print boasted it was easier to
move taetx than cattle. This ring of
desperate characters became widely
known aa the "Olive party," and so
great was the tyranny they exercised
in the country that people dared not
even whisper about them. The dev
iltries of these men stretched through
many years, and the whole surround
ing country was familiar with the red
record of Print and BobOIive. Event
ually a dozen good and determined
men of Williamson county, net being
able to stand it any longer, secretly
met and determined the bloody rule
of the Olives and their tyrannical
sway should end end their followers
be punished. As a result of this com
bination for self-protection. Jay Olive
was killed and Print, the leader of the
band, seriously but not mortally
wounded. Finding that the commu
nity, so long insulted and cowed
down, emboldened by the leadership
pfj&hsjyncbers. Iiad arisen against
them, ttie Olives and their hangers
on, taking tueir cattle, valued at$100,
000, made ;racks out of Texas and
went to Nebraska. Had thev remain
ed they would all undoubtedly have
been killed by the Infuriated and de
termined mob of their long-outraged
neighbors. En this part of the country
reliable cithens tell many stories of
THE MA?rr HUBDEBS OF THESE OUT
IiAtVS. Like the majority of Texas despe
radoes, these assassins were at the
bottom real cowards, and their mur
ders were generally cowardly, either
actual assassnations or killings after
tha drop was bad on the victim,
which amounts to the same thing.
Among the Qost dastardly and oow
ardly murders of the gang was that of
Deeta Phreiae. Phreme was a highly
respected, peaceable young man of
Salado, Bel county, who moved into
Williamson In 1875, and, like the Oli
vers, engaged in cattle raising. From
some cause the poor young fellow in
curred the displeasure of these hu
man devils. He had been in the
"range" but a coaple of months when,
one day, riding out on the beautiful
prairies, the lovey plains spread out
like flowery carpets in the light of a
semi-tropical sun. Phreme was met
by Print Olive and party, alBo on
horseback, armed with six-shooters,
booted and spurred. Print began
savagely to abuse the young man,
whom he charged with stealing some
of the Olive cattle. Like a set of
sneaking, dastardly cowards, as they
were, these men assaulted Phreme,
giving him no chance, but beat him
over the Dead with their heavy six
shooters, and told him they would
kill him ;he next time they met him
on the prairies. Sure enough, a few
days afterward, Phreme was met by
Print and his crowd on the prairie.
They immediately made the attack,
and althocgh the victim fought for
his life, wounding Olive, he was shot
down in cold blood. The crimson
Btream from his heart flowed out and
reddened (he soft, beautiful green
grass of the spot. Of course the mur
derers were not punished, for no jury
dared find a verdict against Print.
THET 3TUBDBB A 2CEGBO.
Now in Texas it is a dangerous
thing to be even supposed to know
anything of the miidemeanors of your
neighbors. Bob Olive had a negro
named Kelly, who was thought to
know too much cf the doings of the
Olives more than they desired him
to know. The rssult was Kelly was
killed, for fear ba might take a notion
to "blow", upon them. Bob Olive
was, for the murder of Kelly, indicted
in the District Court of Williamson.
To get rid of ,he ev5denee of Docb
-b.eliy, a orotber ot tne muraerea ne-
i gro, jjocc was nimseu aenoeraieiy
and in cold blood murdered by Bob
Olive, who was thenceforth a declared
outlaw. The killing of Dock occur
red in 1S76. His next feat In the line
of assassination was the murder of
Cal. Null. This occurred In a drink
ing saloon at the Email village of Mc
Dade, on the western branch of the
Central Railway. Apparently Null
had given the desperado no provoca-
1 tion, and the outlaw seem3 to have
accomplished the deed out of a pure
desire for blood. The motives of the
deed are, however, still wrapped in
mystery. In 1876 two negroeB from
Liberty county, on the Trinity, en
tered the Olive neighborhood and
suddenly and mysteriously disappear
ed. Shortly afterwards two other ne
groes, friends of the missing ones, also
came into the neighborhood in search
of them. These last two freedmen
were captured by Bob and Print Ol
ive, who had evidently determined to
murder them also. They summoned
several of the gang, and while a con
sultation was being held in a grocery
store the negroes made a bold rush
and escaped. The bodies of their
friends were a short time afterwards,
found in a ravine in the Olive neigh
borhood. THEKIIIISCOF REDBA2E3.
In 1S76 two negroes. Bed Banks
and Jack Dodson, traveling, alighted
in the wood opposite Print Olive's
house, and asked to get a drink of wa
ter from the well in the yard. Mrs.
Olive kindly granted the request, but,
seeing the negroes in the yard, Print,
before they could speak, rushed upon
them with a six-shooter and shot Bed
Banks dead on the spot. His com
panion, Dodson, escaped, after being
shot at by this red-banded and cow
ardly devil. But probably the dark
est, most damnable deed perpetrated
by these scoundrels wa3 the killing of
a boy named Smith. The boy was
aged sixteen years. With the happy
and joyons anticipations of youth, he
thought no evil and dreamed not, as
he passed through the Olive neigh
borhood, of the dreadful death be was
soon to die. He had no quarrel with
the Olives rr any of their clan. They,
however, meeting him, took him for
a spy from the officers of justice a
thing of which he was innocont. He
waa captured in the wood by the bru
tal and devilish Print and his crowd
of dirty menials. Print demanded
hia business in that neighborhood.
The boy, terrified, attempted to ex-
plain the best he could, but the
inhuman fiend would not listen to
him. According to a respectable fe
male witness of the affair, a Mrs.
Wbitmire, the scoundrels set upon
the boy with theirheavy riding-whips
with which they continued to lash
him till he was tortured almost to the
last gasp. Mrs. Whitmire testified
that after they had whipped him
these Infamous villains-took: tha poor
boy into a pasture "near by, when Bhe
heard three shots.
Nothing more was heard of the boy
till his bones were, a few months af
terward, found in a dried up tank be
longing to the Olives. Such are some
of the almost incredible outrages of
these bloody demons in human shape.
And the desire of all good citizens
here is that Print Olive, now In jail
in Nebraska, may be
promptly to stretch hemp
and eave the job to the
zens of Williamson County,
made
there
citi-
who
would most assuredly undertake it if
thesescoundrelsare ever again caught
in this part of the country.
The citizens who put forth the state
ment above referred to by your cor
respondent, conclude the gory recital
of the deeds of the Olives with the
following paragraph : "The bare re
cital of these bloody deeds throws a
chill of horror over us. Words fail to
portray the deep and dark damnation
of these deeds, at which the demons
of hell would seem to blush. And
yet I. P. Olive, the instigator, perpe
trator, the head-devil of all this fear
ful shedding of human blood, cries
out from behind bis prison bars in Ne
braska that he is an innocent man !"
An Anecdote by Blaine
This reminds me of one of Mr.
Blaine's anecdotes. Before the great
discovery of the "kiss-joker" ballot,
a Boston drummer wa3 traveling in
Alabama, and on election day he had
the curiosity to go to the polls in the
little town where he happened to be
stopping. He went early in the morn
ing, and found all the voters assem
bled. There were about 100 whites
and 500 blacks, each race massed by
itself on one side of the little square
in front of the Court House. Three
or four men of each party were en
gaged in consultation in the open
space between the opposing forces.
After a long confab, it was announced
that an agreement had been reached,
and that a white man should vote
first, then a negro, then a white-man,
land so on alternately. Everybody
taaid this was fair, and the voting be
gan. When the seconi negro offered
his vote he was challenged, and ten
minutes were consumed in debating
his status and rights. A few more
votes were cast, and then there was
I another challenge and another long
argument. About every third man
was challenged. Some were white
men, to give the proceedings an air of
fairness. The Boston man observed
that the whites were killing time, so
that the hour for closing the polls
should come when the last white man
had got in his vote. He wentaround
to the polling place again irr-tbernfteT-t
noon, and, Bure enough, the last
white man in the line had voted on
the stroke of six. The polls were
closed, leaving 400 negroes in line who
had not voted , and the Democrats bad
one majority in the town, although
the Republicans outnumbered them
by five to one. Cleveland Herald.
'O, Lord,' a Kentucky minister
prayed, 'thou hast seen by the morn
ingpapera how the Sabbath was des
ecrated yesterday.'
VOL. 23. U0. 37.
The way German Army Horses are fed.
The horses of the German army are
now fed with biscuits. These consist
of thirty parts of oat flour, thirty
parts of dextrinated pea flour, thirty
parts of rye flour, and ten parts of
linseed flour; sometimes of twenty
parts of pea flour, twenty parts of
wheatflour, twenty parts of corn meal
twenty parts of rye flour, ten parts of
grated bread, and ten parts of linseed
flour. The ingredients are made into
biscuits. The first named mixture is
the best. These biscuits are made
with a bole in the middle of each, so
they can be strung on a string, and
hung to the saddle bow, or be carried
by the trooper around his waist. Each
biscuit weighs, when baked hard and
dry, about twoouncea. Seven biscuits
are broken np and given to the horse
in the morning, moistened with wa
ter if convenient, otherwise dry
twelve at noon, and seren at night.
After careful experiment in camp, on
the march and campaigning, they are
reported by all the eavalry and artil
lery officers belter than oats. A troop- J
er -can easily carry thirty pounds of
these biscuits, which will furnish his
horse with full rations for eight days;
or will serve, with forage, for twelve
days' hard marching. The Field
Glass. Skillful Surgery
The New York MedicalJournal re
ports the following case,' where hot
water was successfully used in a very
severe mashing of the hand :
The patient was engaged in a ma
chine shop, and while his hand was
upon the anvil of a trip-hammer, the
hammer, weighing seven hundred
pounds, fell. It so happened that a'
me was on tne anvil, ana ui tuis way
the force of the hammer was arrested
about half an inch before it reached
thebed.
When the hand was examined, it
was found that the whole palm was a
mass of pulp, The metacarpal bones
were comminuted extensively, and
there was, apparently, but small
chance of saving the hand. It was,
however, placed in hot water, and
kept there for two or three weeks, and
then taken out and dressed.
In three months the patient was
sufficiently well to leave the hospital,
and nine months after the accident
able to move the! fingers, and has
quite a useful hand.
Bruises and injuries do much better
when treated with hot than with cold
water. The temperature should be
about 103 degrees Fahreubeit.
Joe Billings, a romancing Yankee,
wasoneeveningseated in the barroom
of a country tavern in Canada. There
were assembled several old country-jin
men discussing various matters con
nected with the pomp and circum
stances of war. In the course of his
remarks one of them stated that the
British Government possessed the
largest cannon in the world,, and gave
the dimensions of one he had seen.
Joe's Yankee would not allow him
to let such a base assertion pass un
contradicted. Poh, gentlemen,' said he, I wo'n't
deny that is a fair sized cannon but
you are a leetle mistaken in supposing
it to be named the same minute with
one of our Yankee gnns which I saw
in Charleston last year. Jupiter! it
was s cannon! Why, sir, it wa3 so
infernally large that the soldiers were
obliged to employ a yoke of oxen to
draw in the ball !'
'The deuee they were!' exclaimed
one of his bearers, with a smile of tri
umph ; 'pray, can you tell me how
they got the oxen out again ?'
'Why,' returned Joe, 'they unyoked
'em and drove 'em through the touch
hole." A story is told of an editor who died,
went to heaven, and was denied ad
mittance, lest he should meet some:
delinquent subscribers, and bad feel
ings would be engendered in that
peaceiui ciime. riaving to go some
place, the editor next appeared in the j
regions of darkness, but waa refused j in 2:15 ; WeHesley Boy, whe-has trot
admittance, as the place was full of: ted in 2:10 ; Erie, who ha3 trotted In
delinquent subscribers. Wearily the j 2:20 ; Manetta, who has been timed
editor turned back to the celestial ' in 22j; Astoria, the sister of Dexter,
city, and was met by the watchman . whojbasgonea mile in 23f : Centen-"
of the portal with a smile, who said : nial, who has trotted in2:23;and
I wasmistaken ; youcan enter; there Keene Jim, with a four-year-old rec-
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are uu usuuuueat suuauriuers witnin :
ourgatea.'
Machinery for shoemaking produ-
t ces maveloua results. One elass of
machines sewed, last year, 45,000,000
pairs of shoes, while another pegged
55,000,000 pairs In the same time. Ten'
men can mace ow pairs or snoes in a
day. In New England, 4S0 bushels of
shoe-pegs are made in a day, and one
cent's worth of pegs will peg four
pairs of shoes. There are 576 patents
on shoe-pegs and peggers, and 2,000
om, ni,.i.:, ,uJ.
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United States, last year. American
Builder.
TU-3.
intent on getting ahead of the law,
have constructed a floating theatre in i
tue Erie sasm, in which they propose
to give Sunday night performances.
The Wheeling Sunday Leader szjs.
'If Aleck Stephens wasn't a Congress-
man ha WOtlld mnkn r tmrA hnnlr.
,; ,
mans.'
It is reported that a son of Brigham
Young is going to marry a nswly es
tablished female seminary.
ADVERTISING RATES.
Onelsca.oae yr
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Eaca sneeeedins Inch. pr year-
unsinca, per monta-
Each additional Inch, pczina;o.
I.ecalalVPrtHm.n atlx-I ; &..
f Mlises orxaaparejl. er lessors: Insertion itj!
eachsnaaeqaentizuertien.SGc.
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OFFICIAL PAPEOF THE COITXTT
BOXXEB'S STABLE.
TlifrPoremost Collection or Trotting
Horses in the IVorld.
Proa taa Tarf. Held and rami.
The greatest collection oCroad.horsea
in the world belongs to Mr. Robert
Bonner. There are now in his sta
ble, West Fifty-fifth street, near Fifth,
avenue, ten horses, every one of
which, with a single exception, has,
trotted in 2:20 or better. The excep
tion ia;MamieR., bv Edward, Everett.
fdam St. Lawrence Maid, one of .
pair driven severallyears by Commo
dore Vanderbilt. She 13 a diminu
tive specimen of horseflesh, standing'
but 14.1. Unquestionably she la th
fastest;trotter in the world, of hersfee.
She ha3 puiled a wagoa a mile on a
three-quarter track in 23 1-2, and
has been timed a mile in harness in
2:21 1-4. She is fairly flying on the
road now, and Mr. Allie Bonner doe
not hesitate to brush with anything
that will accept his challenge j and
well he may, for she has shown a quar
ter in 32J- seconds. She wears a 16 oz.
shoe.
Edwin ForrestJ the phenomenal
trotter, towers like a giant in size
above the little mare. Nowhere
among firstclass flyers, can be found a
contrast so striking in all its featuses.
The beautiful bay, as he has been ap
propriately called. Is a fraction over
sixteen hands, bis head denotes In
telligence, the brain being prominent.
He Is wide between the jaws, high in
the withers, immense through the
cbest, possesses great length aad pow
erful quarters, with drooping hips.
The forearm is long, the cannon bona
short, and the haunch ia unusually
broad and strong. The feei are- good,
and sound, and the legs are without
blemish. Every muscle, every lino
speak3 of power and speed. He I
j seven years old, and was got by a son
of Joe Downing, the son Alexander's
Edwin Forrest ; his damwa3 a high
bred mare, said to be a grand-daughter
of the great Levhiataa. Edwin For-
rest looks like a massive thorough
bred, and he ia full of thorough blood.
In the spring of 1S77 he appea?d at
Kalamaaco, wearing lS-oz. toe
weights. He wa3 then six years old,
and his trainer frequently galloped
him two miles before attempting to
pull him into a trot. He showed ter
rific speed, but had not had work
enough to make him steady. From
Michigan he went to Kentncuy,
where, in the early autumn of 1S77,
he was conspicuous as a bad
actor. Later in the fall he contested
three races with the great mare Pro
toine and beat her in every one of
them. He trotted through the Mich
igan circuit the past sprlngand when
he reached Cleveland, the last week
July, was as good an acting and
as fast a-horse as the world evtrsaw.
At this time he wore 6-oz. toe weights.
The field opposed to him was one of
the most formidable ever seen on th&
trotting course. It included Darbyv
Edward, Trampoline, Dick Moor, and
Woodford Mambrino, and yet he van
quished them without an effort. Hi3
only defeat in the Grand Central cir
cuit was at Utica,V.where he was- not
I allowed to win. At Hartford Forrest
trotted an exhibition mile in 2:14i,
and in the repeat went to the half
mile pole in IiOoj, where a other
horse has yet gone in a race. Along
the baokstretch competent tcrities say
be trotted a two-minut gait. He left
hi3 feet, and Green pulled him upacd.
came home at his ease, having made
two breaks, In 2:16. Those who have
carefully watched the career ofEdwiu
Forrest ere confident that he 13 the?
peer of any horse in the world that
is if he meets with no accidents, he
will trot a mile next year la 2d2,or
possibly 2d0. Mr. Bonner ia driving
him on the road in one pound shoes
forward and in half pound shoes be
hind. In addition to the ten 2s barsea
aboved named, Mr. Bonner has, a$
hi3 farm, Pocahontas, who has trot
ted in 2:17 ; Grafton, who showed a
public trial at Cleveland in 2:15 ; Joe
Elliot, with a public trial at Boston
ora ot :4j. JN one of these have- been
brought down from the farm, for tha
reason that there are bat ten boxes in
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the town stable.
After looking through his wonder
ful collection we were gratified to bear
ifr. Bonner say that probably thia
year be would let the publio see E5I
win Forrest and two or three of his
teams trot. If we mistake not, Hart
ford will be selected aa the theatre for.
Edwin Forrest's display.
Tbe Provdence Journal eongratu-
i-tea Rhode Island that 21.C00.MA
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passengers were carried by rajl in
that State last year, and not one waa
u
The Dining Hoom Magazine says
ja
carrots make excellent pies.
when sifted and made precisely like
pumpkin or squash.
A sheep-collar with sharp points
projecting has been iuvented as a pro-
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rtecuon against aogs, which seize their
victims by the throat.
Farmers should meditate on whafc
iuej reau, ana reaa tnat tney,ra3y
i'haVB food for mpdifnrfnn. 'Jt&WL
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