DARLEY BRIGAT.
“How far is it to Barley Bright?"
“Three score miles and ten."
“Can 1-get there by candle-light?"
“Yea, and back again;
But I pray you, have a oare, sir;
If you're going to the fair, sir;
There are witches over there, sir,
‘Who will catch you as you pass.
You'd better far stay where you are.”
Thus e the little lass.
He looked at her, half doubting
If he'd better go or stay,
When her sweet red lips a-pouting
In a most enchanting way
Made him alter his decision,
And in spite of all derision
Linger where he met that vision
On the road to Barley Bright.
She raised her ayes and caught him
With & secret charm she knew.
The glances from her sparkling eyes
Pierced his poor heart quite through.
And hours went a-fiying,
And the blossoms lay a-dying,
And the autumn wind was sighing,
As he lingered by her side;
Until, they say, it chanced one day
He made the lass his bride,
Hoe gloried in her sweetness
And the beauty of her face,
In ber womanly completeness
And her unsurpassed grace;
And experience never taught him
That tho’ many a one had sought him
This witch alone had caught him
On the road to Barley Bright.
THREE CLEVER ROGUES.
The Pot of Mons. Jouffroy’s Clerks |
Monsieur Richard Jouffroy was a
general agent and broker, and had his
offices on the Rue d’Augout near Rue
me“
Captain Vouille berein informs Mon-
sleur Jouffroy that important business
will prevent his being in Paris before
July 2d, on which day at noon, he will
do himself the honor to wait on Mon-
sieur Jouffroy. This letter has just
been received, and I have Opened it, as
I am instructed to do all letters which
come during Jouffroy’s absence.”
“But on June 24th Vouille will be
here,” said Emil.
“*And so will I," said Favart, ‘ready
to receive him and transact any busi-
ness he may wish to do with Jouffroy.
For that occasion only I shall be Au-
gustin Jouffrov.”
“How will vou get Jouffroy out of
the way?’ asked Emil
“I have tuought of that also,’’ was
the reply. “Youbad no idea I was
such a good business man, had you?—
and so full of resources?’
“You are a genius,” said Emil, “but
I see great difficulties in the way, and
If the thing should miscarry?”’
A CLEVER TRICK,
‘‘Have no fears,” answered Favart,
“You remember that last month Jouf- |
froy was robbed in the bank of his
pocketbook, containing 4,700 francs,
and that he offered a reward of 1,000
francs for its recovery and no questions
asked? Well, on June 24 Jouffroy will
receive a letter by the first mail, asking
him to meet the writer at the railroad |
station ut Versailles, at one o'clock, |
when his pocketbook and its contents |
will be restored to him. He will take
the 11:30 train and cannot return until |
nearly four. In the meantime I will be |
Jouffroy, receive Vouille, take his!
Montmartre, Paris. He was over |
sixty and a bachelor, and boasted that !
he had risen from the guiter, and had |
pot a relative in the world. He was |
vich and mean. He had picked from |
the street an arab, Emil Cadran, and,
after giving bim a little education, had |
taken him into his employ as an office |
boy and then as junier clerk. His |
clerk was named Augustin Favart,
aud was thirty-six years of age, twenty
of which he had passed in Jouffroy’s
employ. Emil Cadran was in his nine-
teenth year at the lime Lhis narrative
ins.
t was the afternoon of June 20,
1879. Jouffroy was out on business,
Favart, who was a well-made, good-
looking fellow, with a deep black eye |
and ruddy checks, stood with his back
to his desk, talking to Emil, who was
tall, slender and pale, with a soft,
dreary eye and a languid air.
“Yes,” said Favart, *‘for twenty
years have I been cenfined to this hole,
receiving just enough to enable me to
keep body and soul together and keep
myself decent in second-hand clothes,
and you, Emil, are going in the same
direction. When 1 studied stenography
it was at his suggestion. ‘Do it,’he
said, ‘and then you will be a great ad- |
ditional help tome, and I will double |
your salary.’ When I became expert, |
so that I could take down ail that |
passed between Jouffroy and his clients, |
I asked for the increased pay. ‘I have |
increased it already,’ he said, ‘and am |
investing it every month for your |
benefit.’ i
**That’s what he said to me when he |
promised to raise me and I reminded |
him of it," said Emil
WINE, WOMEN AND JOLLITY.
*“Yes, just so; and do you believe |
him? 1 think not. There is this com-
forting thought, Emil, he has no reia-
tive in the world, and one of these
days he may go off and you and I may |
benefit. Then for wine, women and |
jollity] Won't we make up for lost |
time—eh, my child?”
“Ah, if it would only happen soon!” |
exclaimed Emil, with a flush of excite-
ment in his face,
“Would you run risks to have it hap- |
pen soon?’ asked Favart, looking in- |
tently at the youth's face,
*“] think I would run almost any
risk short of committing murder,” was
the reply. :
Favart had turned to the desk and
was taking down in short-hand all the
conversation.
“What are you doing that for?"
Emil asked, suspiciously.
“You know it’s my habit,’ replied
Favart,” and I did it unconsciously, |
Still it is not a bad idea,” and he went
on taking down all that had passed,
“Emil,”” he said, after a pause, “a
great chance presents itself just now,
Are you ready to listen?”
“To listen and to act was the reply. |
t 14" Bravo!” Favart exclaimed; *‘then |
attend, See, 1 have but to turn overa |
fow leaves of my notebook and I have
all the facts to my hand. On June
10th, Captain Paul Vouille, of Brest,
wrote to Jouffroy, saying that he had
150,000 franes which he wished to in- |
vest in real estate in Parie, and that he |
nad been recommended to him as a
most person to act as his agent,
Jouffroy wrote back, telling him that
this was a most favorable time for in-
vestment, and asking him to come here
at once and arrange the matter, Cap-
tain Vouille replied that he would be in
Paris on June 24th, and call on Jouf-
froy here at noon precisely, with the
money in his possession. How do you
like it so far as I have gone?"
“It is magnificent!” Emil exclaimed,
“but I don't gee—eewt’
A PLOT.
“Just so,” interrupted Favart: “I
didn’t expect you to see all at once.
Now, listen! On June 24th, at noon
precisely, Captain Vouille will be here,
in this office, with one hundred and
fifty thousand francs in his i n
to over to Jouffroy. He doesn’t
know Jouffroy any more than he knows
you, and any man who sits here and
received him, and says, ‘Lam Jouffroy,’
will be satisfactory to him. Do you
scent an now?"
“f have a faint odor of ”
said Emil, with interest; "pray go on.”
“Emil,” sald Favart, ‘how do you
think I would make up as Jouffroy?”
“Capital splendid!’ was the reply”
“I begin now to understand. Go on—
dogoont* -..
“First of all, we must induce Jouf.
froy to Uelieve that Vouille has post
his visit to Pans for a few days.
He drew from his pheket-book a let
rporting to be written by Voulille
and it beside a
un that gen.
mirable,
ved
i observe,” sald Fava:t,” that
money and not leave him until I see
nm safe on the train for Brest.”
‘‘But suppose he stays in Paris a day |
or two?"
“In that case, I will quit the office
on the afternoon of July 24th, sick, you |
understand, and you must inform
Jauffroy of the fact, You don't know
my address and 1 don’t know yours |
that. You complain also of
very unwell—mind, very wawe!l, Then
in the evening you must come to my |
room. Now, what do you think of 1t?"’ |
“It is a gigantic plot, and I hope in
heaven it will succeed,” Emil
swered, i
When Monsieur Jouffrey returned
from his business outside, Favart
showed him the letter, purporting to be
from Voulle.
“Write to him and
right,” said Jouffroy,
On the morning of June 24th, the |
day for Vouille’s visit, au anonymous
letler was received by Jouffroy. It ran
thus:
“If Monsieur Jouffroy will be at the
railway station at Versailles at 1
o'clock on June 24th, a man will meet
him there carrying a red handkerchief
in his left hand, who will hand him the
pocketbook and the contents, as stolen
from him some time ago at the bank.”
Jouffroy handed the letter to Favart
who said; “Of course vou will go.”
“Then 1 must start at once,” was the
reply, “or 1 shall not catch the train.”
Monsieur Jouffroy departed at once,
feeling
an- |
it will be all |
followed him and saw him enter the
car. On his return Favart retired to
the inner room, and, with the help of a
ened his hair and beard and seated him-
self with much dignity in Jouffroy’
chalr,
CAPTAIN VOUILLE.
Emil gazed at him with admiration
and remained silent. At noon an el-
derly gentleman descended froma cab
and entered the office, announcing him-
self as Captain Voullie. The counter
feit Jouffroy received him with polite-
ness. He pointed out on a map of Par-
is various localities where he said. there
were excellent chances to invest money
in real estate. Monsieur Vouille was
charmed with the business tact and
knowledge of Monsieur Jouffroy, and
said that, from the recommendations |
he had received, it was nothing more |
than he expected.
“To-morrow morning,” said Jouf-
froy, “I will invest at least 130.000
francs, that no time may be lost.” :
The power of attorney was executed,
and the money handed to the supposed
“When are you returning to Brest?"
asked Favars, illy concealing his anx-
“Immediately,” was the reply.
“There is a train at 4:30, and 1 shall
take hat.”
Vouille departed, and Emil watched
him safely on the cars for Brest, as he
had watched Jouffroy on the cars for |
Versailles a few hours before. :
“Do not return,” said Favart to |
Emil before he followed Vouille,” |
*and I will say you have gone home |
sick—with the small-pox or fever or
something. Come to my room to-night
at eight o'clock,”
Monsieur Jouffroy returned from Ver.
sailles ina very bad humor. He had
not seen the man with a red kerchief,
or heard anvthing of the pocketbook |
and its contents. But Favart the clev. |
erest of rogues, had a great surprise in
store for his employer. Out of Vouille's
money he had enclosed 3,700 franes in
an old piece of newspaper. This he
handed to Mons, Jouffroy and sald:
“I think the letter was a trick to get
you out of the way, sv that you wight
not identify the thief: for you had not
been gone an hour when a man came
and handed the parcel, saying it was
for you, and that it was the money you
lost ‘with your pocketbook. The pock-
etbook, he said, was thrown away, so
he could not return it. He said also
that as you had offered 1,000 fraucs re-
ward for the coatents of the book, he
bat retained that puts.’
ouffroy | and sure
on a 8,700 francs, He
was 80 pleased that when the office
closed he asked Favart to join him in a
bottle of wine. Favart declined, saying
that Emil had been taken suddenly fil
very sick, and was afraid that ne had
caught some infectious. disease from
TWO ABSCONDERS,
That night Emil and Favart met
or latter and arranged ir
the room of the their
plans. They went out bought clothes
where they crossed to Dover. They
comfronted themselves witu the idea
that Jouffroy would think them both
sick, and as he dia not know where
either lived, he could make no inquiries,
As soon as they reached London, they
began to live like men who had plenty
of money to spend, but they did not
seek to attract attention.
“After a few days enjoyment,” said
Favart, ““we will start for America to-
gether, and there we shall be safe from
pursuit,’
After a fortnight they began to think
that Jouffroy must have discovered
their roguery. One day coming by
boat from Greenwich, they thought
they identified Jouffroy, in company of
two men who looked like detectives,
on board a steamboat going in the op-
posite direction. They were greatly
alarmed, and, on reaching Westmin-
ster landing, they separated and went
to their lodgings by different routes,
They packed their valises and started
by the first train going north,
A MISTAKE, :
On reaching Newcastie-on-Tyne, they
went on board a steamer just about to
start, as they supposed, for Antwerp,
but in their haste, as they soon discov-
ered after the vessel bad put to sea,
they had gone on board a London
steamer by mistake.
Once more back in the metropolis,
they were at a loss what to do. They
be pounced upon by the detectives.
Liverpool. They went to a boarding-
Une
The table was
close to a window.
peared at it, and as suddenly vanisaed.
Favart swore 1L was the face of Jouffroy,
Then they
to suspect and watch
would desert
li this
Favart had carried the money
about with him wherever he went.
Now Emil suggested that he ought to
have the charge of it occasionally. They
had exchanged a large sum m French
money for English in London, but were
afraid to live as they would fain have
done, for fear of exciting suspicion,
JOUFFROY —~FAVART — EMIT,
was afraid that Favart
pened, Favart bought ticks
self and Emil on an American steamer,
and on the morning of sailing
imagined.
when a strange anxiety induced them,
al the risk perhaps of being identified,
to go on deck.
could observe all who came on board
Presently there came a gen!leman ac-
companied by a very beau! [ul lady,
much his janfor., Tuey immediately
went below. A minute (ater three men
appeared on the dock. One remained
there and two boarded the v Fa-
vart identified one of them i. .uitly as
Degnier, a Paris detective. They spoke
with an officer of the vessel and then
went below. Eavart said o Emil:
“That is Degnier, the Paris detec
tive, We are lost.
Three or four minutes passed and the
two men were still below. Favart
thought of some means of escape. [t
was too late, The men came on deck
accompanied by the gentleman already
described,
“Great heavens!
“it 1s Jouffroy!l”
His white hair had been dyed black,
his eyebrows darkened, and his cheeks
carefully touched up. What could it
mean?
vart and Emil, who gazed with fascina-
ted eyes upon their former employer.
As lie drew pear he fixed his eyes upon
them and in spite of their disguise,
JOUFFROY RECOGNIZED THEM
“Favart! Emil!” he exclaimed, and
paused in apparent astonishment, *‘do
men?” Degnier asked
>
wil
vs
exclaimed Favart,
quickly.
“Know them, of course I do. They
are my clerks who absconded from
Paris nearly a month ago,”
“You had better go with us quietly,”
said Deguoier to the two ex-clerks.
They offere<d no resistance but
signed themselves to their fate,
came ou deck. Her baggage was put
and her baggage.
Jouffroy had been captivated with the
wife of a French naval officer who was
on a distant station, and had spent
large sums upon her. Finally, he de-
termined to fly with her and, disposing
of a large amount of stocks belonging
to his principals, he resolved to quit
France and go to America. His de-
parture was hastened by a visit from
Vouille, who revealed to him the fact
that he had deposited lus money with
a man who represented himself to be
Jouffroy.
Are in the Congo Valley.
The explorers in the Congo Valley are
surprised by the erudity of life there,
The natives have no domesticated beasts
of any sort, nor do they raise or catch
any animals to eat, as they know noth.
iog of flesh as food, No semblance of
clothing is worn, and diet is practically
confined to spontaneous products of the
soil. Letters from missionaries say, too
that the negroes there are so low in
mentality that any hope of Christiani-
zing them must bs bud oi & long und
patient course of intellectual ning.
hey are too densely ignorant to com.
preiiond the mumplest statements of doe-
trine,
Coro Yergeor has jnst been
aymbe of bills i" don his
a
a
Mother and Wife,
“Maud, I wish you would not say
that again. I tell you, once for all, Mr,
Lee is, and cannot be anything more to
me than a friend, so if you respect my
wishes in the least you will not mention
his name to we again.”
And Kote Lane flung back her
bright, bro vn curls as she sp-ke, a lit-
tle disdain ally, perhaps, a» 1 bent a
little lower over the plece of ¢.ocheting
she held in ler hands,
I will not stop to tell you tha’ she, my
heroine, was nandsome; sufi.» it to
say that she was the belle of v1. « pretty
village of M—; and, as a m ter of
course, was sought after and admired
by all the young men of the j'ace, not
only because she was witty ani accom-
plished, but because old Guy 1. we was
the wealthiest man in the place, and
would one day leave his all in the hands
of Katie, as the only legal heir.
Maud Anthony laughed lew and tri-
umphantly as she returned:
‘Really, Kate, you need not speak so
angrily. Everybody thinks you are
going to marry him, and, for my part,
I think be will make some one a kind
husbana,”
| shall take whom I please, despite what
| everybody says.”
The curls flew again, and the spark-
{ ling eyes glanced saucily at the finished
| coquette opposite her,
flee,
i duty.
| hie
Only remember I have done my
yw people are talking.”
“You need not trouble yourself, Miss
after.
afternoon.’
The queenly little head rose proudly
erect at this, and with a scornful ex-
pression on her lips Katie walked
quickly away into the shadow of the
shrubbery of the garden.
the other side of the hedge checked her
the subject of the little conversation
knew. Katie's wandering little heart
sank still lower as she saw what care
and attention the young man bestowed
upon his companion, T'was well her
face was concealed beneath the simple
milk-maid’s dress; otherwise some might
have said she still cared for him.
And, think you, this verdict would
have been wrong? I very much surmise
it would not,
The mask seemed not to have any
eyes or ears for anything save the lady
beside him. And lower and lower sank
Katie’s poor little heart as the evening
wore on, and still Wikes made no ef-
fort to distinguish her from among the
crowd. At jast when she could con-
straip herself no longer, she quietly
slipped away from the throng and went
out into the moonlight garden and
wept alone, in a seat under the trees.
A long time she sat thus, when with
the thought that she would be missed,
she started up.
A hand was laid gently on her arm,
‘Stay a minute, Katie. I want to
speak with you & moment.”
"Twas Wilkes Lee’s voice, and Katie
struggled to get from the grasp that
detained her.”
His warm breath touched her face,
“No. Wilkes, 1 did not,
| from Katie's rosy lips, What if, after
all, he had been true to her? She could
not help thipking of it,
**And you love me still?”
Katie?"
| you? She is your "
be my wife!”
ing scenes like the one which followed.
110 was,
azination, never been there,
| say a few days after there was a wed-
{ ding somewhere, and some one, which
| which means Wilkes Lee, the one who
| 80 unwillingly became once a partici-
| pator in Kate's defeat,
past hm——
Sledges and Reindeer in Lapland,
and hastened away.
3
| & sudden start as she recognized her
old friend and-—lover, as she paused,
murmuring;
“I wonder if he heard what we sald?
I wouldn't have him for all the world.
| A plague on Maud Anthony! She forced
me to say it. 1 suppose she is glad,
too; for now she thinks I don’t care for
him.”
For a moment Katie was silent as
she worked nervously at the pretty
diamond ring that encircled that chub-
by forefinger. It was a gift from
! Wilkes, a bstrothal ring.
“I don’t care!” Kale at last broke
out, poutingly. **Now, that I've sad
it, I'll show Miss Anthony I mean it.
There!” she said, as she drew the dia.
mond from ber finger and cast it away
into the bushes, ‘‘there, lie there and
rust, for all 1 care,
{do you Maud, 00. You can catch
him I know, but whatdo | care?”
one; we shall see,
A moment Kate stood there looking
in the direction of the hedge; then clap-
ping her hands to her face she burst
into a quiet shower of tears,
On the other side of the hedge Wilkes
Lee strode quickly away, saying, sheep-
| ishly:
“Well, well; a preity scrape you came
near getting into, my boy. Didn't mean
dents will happen, you know,
don’t care for you, eh? We'll see, I'll
warrant she don’t know her own heart
now. 1 think I'll run away a few days,
and let her get over her fit.”
the fence,
distance,
* - * * ® ®
Katie waited patiently for many days
i for the visit of her once ardent lover,
and then, concluding that he had not
word, commenced not 10 look alone,
[but to mourn him as lost te her, in-
dead,
this was due, rejoiced that Wilkes
seemed to have suddenly ceased to visit
| forts to entangle the handsome young
| fellow—for Wilkes Lee was considered
the best catch the village afforded,
i ble to her attempt. Indeed, no one
knew that he even noticed her,
Katie, who looked on jealously, think-
ing she could no longer hold a place by
ber side, In Katie's presence alone did
Wilkes seem to care in the least for the
flirt, After a while he cast even ber
off, and disappeared entirely. Ab,
Katie! the battle was more than half
fought when you cast the love of a
man, pure and undivided, from you.
This was only a little struggle before
the actual defeat.
Theres was a greal ball at the An-
thonys; positively the affair of the sea-
son, those said who t to know, Of
course all the fashionable people would
be there; no one would miss such a
chance to show themselves as this bul
masque afforded. The Lane carnage
was in attendance, and Katie was there
looking _ jreuties than ever; a trife
paler t usual, no doubt, thoagh for
the world she would not have had the
sharp-sighted gossips surmised the real
cause, “
The ball was in full blast when the
close carriage of the Lees was whirled
up to the door, and the occupants, en
costume, announced. No one doubted,
even for a moment, that that tall, dis.
tinguished looking fellow, with a lady
a wt ai
Was
was she? This was with all the theme
ior Ii ie elias Maud
coq
Anthony. Some said "twas his wife;
Ee i Ls
coming
ay
The only means of conveyance afford.
ed by the country was the reindeer
sledges and the author gives a graphic
picture of the manner in which the rein
deer is prepared for duty.
“First, two symmetrical bits of wood
are laid above and below the neck of
the deer and fastened together. From
the middie of these a band runs down
on each side toa wooden block under
the stomach immediately behind the
fore legs. To this block the single trace
18 attached, generally made of reindeer
skin, From the end of the wooden
block again a broad belt runs over the
back of the animal, while around the
neck a re placed to which the rein
is fastened. This is the whole harness
It is loose and primitive, but doubtless
best adapted to reindeer drivers,
“The sledge seems from its construe-
to be belter adapted to water than
to land traveling. Cut a low boat in
halves, take the stem part and c'ose it
pe |
tone
HE
wood, and you have a pulk It is about
| the length of a man; without any cover-
ing whatever, and completely empty,
the driver sitting down on the bottom,
pretty clear that is about as easily man.
aged asa boat on terra firma, The pulk
is built of birchwood, but the keel 1s of
fir.
initiated is that the pnlk does not, as the
| keel, and capsizes in consequence at the
slightest bump or want of
{the part of the driver, and that if is
drawn by a single trace and not by
shafts, from which it follows that the
i reindeer can not hold it back down hill,
which often causes the traveler to come
rather more precipitately than he might
used,
| ““There 1s, however, good reascn why
| the Lapps prefer the single to the dou-
| ges of its particular Kind in reference to
the nature of the road. A sleigh wonld
| for instance, sink far deeper into the
| loose snow, and be knocked
| over rough ground,
obstructed with logs and stones, and
the pulk has often to shoot down a de
would capsize quicker than the pulk,
| capsizes only in the hands of an inexpe-
| rienced driver.”
i A CT
Remarkable Shell Heap,
A remarkable shell heap that will
| completely throw in the shade all shell
| heaps that have been uncovered on the
| Maine coast, was uncovered to some
| extent the other day. This shell heap
| on land owned by the Underwood Water
{ Company, It is apparently about thirty
{ feet deep at the thickest point, and
{runs back as far as has been traced
h at & point just above the
are growing near the highest
part of the mound. Shells have been
removed that must have been buried
many hundred years, upon which the
miktis OF fixe S16 4 dress un 3F made vai
yesterday, of removing
the entire mass be considerabls,
but will be at once undertaken by the
of the Underwood, who ex-
peot to
relies,
reap a rich harvest of Indian
The work will be under the
immediate direction of Dr. Charles I.,
Browne of New York, and will proba-
bly be undertaken nextjweek. Governor
Mayor and other promi.
nent gentlemen have invited to be
present.
Marehlomess of Baluwbury,
HORSE NOTES,
~The English Doncaster St, Ledger
will be run ina short time,
~Maud 8, will make another attempt
to beat ber record at Providence,
~Ex-Alderman Hughes, of New
York, recently refused $6000 for Fides,
~The American Jockey Club has
seriously discussed the question of
elimmating lechases from its pro.
grammes after the present racing sea-
son,
~ Imported Richmond and Satler, of
Plunger Walton's stable were trans.
ferred to the charge of Ed Heffuer re
cently, the rest of Mr. Walton's horses
gong into the stable of J. H. MeCor-
mick.
~The Dwyer Bros. have presented
to James Williams, the owner of Joe
Cotton, the once famous ch. g. Check
mate, He will be sent to Kentucky,
to be used as a saddler, and given a
good home,
~The b, g. Judge Osborne died at
He had
won two heats ina race the day before,
but was taken sick and distanced in
~The promising young stallion Edge
Hill, record 2.254, by Dictator, dam
been sold by
I Case to Jacobs Bros, of
~8. Loates, the jockey, who rode
dead heat
the stewards of the Jockey Club,
money— $2000 —for the sec-
the stallions Al
mont Gift and Mohawk Gift isin the
-1he
land track, and the race is
ted September 18,
to be trot-
- Maxey Cobb's defeat by Majolica,
at Narragansett Park, was a bitter pill
to swallow for Mr. Isador Cohnfield.
Majolica’s great fora shown ju that
~—Secretary Vail has prepared and
sending out from the office of the Na
tional Trotting Association at Hartford,
a set of class-books to tracks which are
0b embers of the Association, with
the object of presévving and promoting
accuracy of trotting records,
18
—Isidor Cohnfield proposes a tripar-
tite race between Maxey Cobb, Majoli-
ca, and Harry Wilkes, at $1000 a cor.
ner to be trotted not before Nov. 1 al
Fleetwood, the Driving Club to add
$2000 and the winner totake all. Mr,
France accepts and Mr. Strauss is very
likely 10 do likewise,
~LJuickly following the tragic death
of Moran at Brighton Beach came the
fatal accident in the steeplechase at
the horse Revenge and his
Ford, were both killed, 2!
stantly and the latter li
moments, This is the
entailing loss of human
occurred at this
have been humerons,
—A match for $2500 a mde, $1000
forfeit has been made be tween the Ran-
cocas Stable (P Lorillard) and Mr. Kel.
80 (A. J. Cassatt), the race to be run in
July 18587, al Monmouth Park, for then
2-year-olds, at three quarters of a mile,
the Bancocas stable to name one of the
jockey,
we former
ng only a few
Lrst
{ite which 1
’y ¥ +4 :
course, Lthoug
in
accident
as
$: ths falls
Lae Tal
Stratford,
—The b, g. Captain Curry, foaled
1880, by Voitigeur, dam, Kate Coudell
by his Leamington stallion
Nolan, of Albany, was so seriously in-
jured in the steeplechase at Sheepshead
Jay ou September 3, that it wasdeemed
charitable to relieve him of his suffer-
ings, He was a valuable cross-country
horse when just right, and was a full
brother to Voltaire, now named Jim
~The pominators of stallions for the
the Times cup met recently,
of the race. The proposition of Mys.
tic Park was to add $3000 to the stake,
which sum to be deposited on or before
12th instant, The amount of
stakes and added money is therefore
7125. and under the conditions of the
stake the winner will receive $4987.50
and the Spirit cup of $1000; the second
horse, $1425 and the third horse $712.-
— Frank Vanness has at the Fleet.
and Albert France and the bay mare
Sister Wilkes. 1t is understood they
Harry
togotoateam, Mr, U France ask:
$40,000 for him Albert France is be
Shultz. of
Brooklyn, who, it is said, has offered
$10,000 for him. Mr. France is about
Ky., where he has large
nlerests, and therefore he
— Miss, Woodford, whose name is in
the mouths of all who care for horse
racing just now, is a brown mare. She
ay in on the track shortly,
She was foaled in 1830, bred by D. Me
Intire, Kentucky, sold to George
Bowen & Co., Kentucky, and by
to Dwyer Brothers, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
her present owners, She was sired
imp. Billet, dam Fancy Jane, Neil
second
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