DAKOTA'S WHEAT CROP. T I8 SAID TO BE THIRTY DUSHELS SHORT, CHICAGO, July 16.—A special to the tnter-Ocean from Grafton, Dakota, mays: The wheat crop of Dakota is 30,- 300,000 bushels short. The figures are arge, but not in the least exaggerated. I'he total production for the territory sannot, under the best possible condi- jons from now until harvest, which will begin in the north by the 25th, sxceed 20,000,000 bushels, and to put it that high is a lhberal esti nate. The greatest detriment to % successful crop this year has been the exceedingly dry season, and only along the streams will there be any arops at all. In the spring the most terific winds raged in this entire terri- tory, and for weeks after the crop was sown the air was filled with the flying particles of soil that should have been furnishing nutriment to the seed that was lying exposed and burning on the surface. Hundreds of acres were sown for the second time, and it would have been a very good thing for the country if the entire crop had been put In again when the winds were stilled. The yrain was for the greater part injured s0 that no amount of nursing would oring it back, and it isaltogether likely that outside of the valley of the Red river all the grain will not fill 500 cars. The best crops, and in fact the only fair yield, will be in the counties of Pembina, MILLION Walsh, Grand ®orks, un small portion of Traill, the santre of Cass and Northwestern Rich- and, Elsewhere the ground is as bare and almost as brown as though a srairie fire had crossed it. In Nelson sounty, famously prolific, wheat will pot vield as much grain as was seeded. Ramsey 18 bare, except in the imme- \late vicinity of Devil's Lake, and in ‘Le famous Turtle Mountain region, ‘he rich soil of which has hitherto been -egarded as drought proof, the earth succumbed, and there will be but little wheat for export in that section. Along ‘he main line of the Northern Pacific, n the once famous bonanza farm dls. rict, the elevators are closing up, and ‘he country tributary to Bismarck is as barren as a sand hill. The Jim River Valley will barely [feed its people, and, in short, nowhere in Dakota will there be any wheat for ex- port save along the main line of the Manitoba Road, from a point 30 miles gorth of Fargo, the boundary. The cry of famine that was raised last win- ter in the western part of Walsh county will find its echo all over the [erritory the coming winter. Aside from this impoverishing of the people by the failure of the wheat, there is another danger which will be felt almost as severely, and that 1s the want of fodder for the stock. The oat crop is bad and the meadows away from the river botloms are as parched as the prairie. Not alone will this territory be the sufferer, but a trip through Montana reveals the same state of affairs. The range cattle will not find enough to live on until cold weather, and a prominent raliroad of- ficial told a correspondent that all the extra cars of the Northern Pacific and Mantapa Roads had been ordered to Montana to pull out the steers as soon as the lack of feed necessitated a reduc- tion in numbers of the range stock. RAILROAD WRECK. TWO PERSONS KILLED AND SEVENTY INJURED. SHAMOEIN, PA. July 17.—This evening a train on the Pennsylvania Railroad, carrying miners to their homes, was wrecked near this place. Johu Roush, married, and Aaron Shipe, single, were killed. The follow- lng were injured: Norton Weaver, leg and face cut; Levi Albright, head sut: Irwin Kashner, leg broken; John Baker. shoulder broken; a Hungarian womagp, ribs broken: James Hodges, leg broken; Patrick Bntion, leg srushed: Mike Britton, back broken; J. Miller, collar bone broken; Jere Fredericks, back injured; Jacob Kulp, injured about the face; John Thomas, head cut aud body injured: Joseph C, Smith, jaw broken; Conrad Drum- heiser. side Injured; Mrs, John Me- Hugh, injured internally; Wm, Linde- man, leg hurt; John Metz, hand cut; Albert Reed, engineer, legs injured; Michael Gabel, head cut and badly bruised : John Darolt, legs mangled. The passenger tran Was running at its regular speed, when the miners, who were standing on the rear plat- form of the train, saw two freight cars rushing down upon them, The cars had become detached at some colliery, and were running wild down the heavy grade. The minere shouted to their com- danions to jump, which many of them did, from the windows and platforms ot the coaches, but the ranaway Cars over- took the train before all were out, tele- scoping the cars, with the above re- sult, The train contained 200 men, who were returning to Shamokin from Hickory Ridge Oolllery after their day's work, A scene of great excite ment prevailed. The list of injured is incomplete. as a number of those who were able to get away went immediate. ly to their homes. ns AAAI COUNTERFEITERS CAUGHT. A SECRET OFFICER SUCCEEDS IN PERSONATING A DOCTOR WANTING “GREEN GOODS,” Dayton, O,, July 18, — An important capture was made here to-day by Unit. od States Secret Service Detectives, and $21,000 counterfeit money secur. ed. Detectives have for several months past been watching the road house of Nelson Driggs, near the Soldiers’ Home, and this afternoon made a raid upon it. Driggs and his wife were arrested and charged with counterfeiting. Driggs is known a8 an expert count. erfeiter, and a member of a large gang. The detective who worked the case up personaied a doctor from Hartford, Conn. , and professed to be anxious to secure a quantity of counterfeit money. Driggs got 1b for him, the bargain be- ing that the doctor was to pay ¥7000 tor $21,000 counterfeit. In making the capture Duaekive A. Donueilo. of Vie- ginia, was upon » rate character, named Guyon, who is one of the counterfeiting gang. he ball SCA ET a NRL the scalp and around to the back of the head. The wound is serious, but not dangerous. The counterfeit bills were of the Issue bearing Daniel Webster's portrait, and all $10 in de- nomination. NEWS OF THE WEEK. —George W. Larmour and Cally Brenheim were drowned in the Patap- sco river, at Baltimore, on the evening of the 12th, by the upsetting of their boat. Charles Harner and Denton Reifsnelder were struck by lightning and killed while unloading grain on the farm of W. W, Crapster, near Freder- ick, Maryland, on the 1ith. John Hessinger, of Easton, Pa., was killed in Rochester, Minnesota, on the evening of the 13th, by a tramp, Ilessinger re- fused to give the fellow ten cents to buy whiskey. The murderer was ar. rested. Elizabeth Ellen Gross shot and killed James E, Coates, in Balll- more, on the morning of the 14th. The Gross woman sald that Coates was beating his wife, and when she inter- fered he turned on her with a razor, when she shot him, — Mrs. Eatenhover and child were murdered on the farm of John Gillman, near Coquill City, Oregon, on the even ing of the 11th, and buried in a guich near the house, where they wera found on the 15th. They were tenants of Gilman and he wanted them to leave, They refused to go until their lease ex- pired. Gilman and his wife are under arrest and may be lynched. —Two heavy freight trains on Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway collided near Boonville, Missourl, on the 14th. The trainmen escaped injury by jumping, but 150 head of cattle, consirned to Chlcagc parties, were killed. Both engines and 21 cars were demoiished, Loss, $40,000, Villlam Hearsley was killed by a Northern Central freight train near his home at Ashland, Maryland, on the evening of the 13th. Lloyd Denison, aged 72 years, of Franklin county, Ohio, was killed by a Baltimore and Oblo train pear Cumberland. Maryland. on the 14th, ~The body of a man, about 30 years of age, was found in a badly decom- posed state in the closet of a Pallman sleeping car, at the depot in SL Louls on the 15th. From papers found on his person it is thought his name i3 Richard Adams, of Sutton, Missouri, A despatch from Wheeling, West Vir ginia, says that at a picnic al leas Run, on the Ohio river, on the 14th, a fight occurred, during which the Jacob rancis, a wealthy farmer, was fatally stabbed, Thomas Cook had his skull fractured, and a man named Rowland was shot In the arm. The fight grew out of a family feud. —Gilman, the murderer of Mrs, Eatenhover and her child, who is iu jail in Empire, Oregon, becoming alarmed at threats of immediate lynching, con- tessed to the double murder and also admitted the killing of George Morris a year ago. He was suspected of this crime and was only saved from lynch- ing by belpg hurried from Coquille City before the mob had been fully organized. Gilman denies that his wife is implicated. A telegram from the city of Mexico says that a Oght has taken place at Puerto del Agua, State of Nuevo Leon, between a parly of 30 smugglers and a force of Custom House guards, in which two guards and three smugglers were killed, A quantity contraband goods was captured. Horace Sebring has been arrested at Three Oaks Michigan, on the charge of poisoning his father, mother and sister, The reason al leged for the wholesale poisoning is that young Sebring wanted Lo marry a girl who refused him because of his poverty, and, as the farm was willed to bim, the death of his parents and sister would make him [18 possessor. Robert Dalton, a Deputy U. S. Mar- shal, was fatally sbot in Oklahoma, Indian Territory, on the 14th, while trying to arrest Lee West, a whisky peddier. Before expiring Dalton shot and killed West, Henry Thornhill shot and killed William Barrett, a well. to-do farmer, near Aurora, Nebraska, on the evening of the 15th. Barrett, upon his return home from towao, found Thornhill moving Mrs. Barrett and the Barrett furniture Into another house which he had provided for Ler. A fight followed, with the resuit sta- ted. —The steamer City of New York, which has arrived at San Francisco from Hong Hong and Yokohama, brought a copy of the Japan Gazelle, which contains news of a flood on June 24 in the Chan Ping and Ping Yuen districts. Many houses were swent away, while others were inundalll Upwards of 6000 lives were jost. —Addle and Kate Gordon and Myrtle Cranby, ranging in age from 11 to 14 years, were drowned on the 16th while bathing at I'aoll, Kansas, ~The Cairo, Vincennes, North- bound passenger train jumped the track near Mt, Carmel, Ill., on the afternoon of the 17th, and went down a ten-foot embankment. The most seriously in- jured are: Conductor Charlies Loug, of Dauville, Ill, left ear cut off and head cut, seriously hurt; Baggage- master Cook, bruised all over the body; Mrs. Porter, of Terre Haute, badly bruised and injured Internally; Mrs, Daniels, Fairfield, Il, bruised und injured internally; Mrs, McMahon, Carmel, lll, reriously injured In. ternally; son of Mrs. McMahon, cat on the head; Miss Luella Cox, of Greene county, Ind., hip dislocated and ine jured internally; Mrs. Cox, Jones boro Ind., body bruised; W. C. John. son. of Vincennes, side and back lu jured. Most of the passengers were extricated only by cutting imto the eoaches with axes, —Four men lost their lives in Lin- coln, Nebraska, on the 15th, from the effects of foul air while trying to re- cover a watch which had dropped into a cesspool. Three others were pros trated, The dead are Jas, Crawford, a bricklayer; Albert Kuukler, a labor. of er; John Cleary, a black smith, and Frank Maloney, a plastere:. ee la — Frank Myers, Edward and James Eagan, ’longshoremen, while at work on the pier of the Ocean Steamship Company in New York on the 17th, were shot and slightly wound- ed by some unknown person or persons. While James Stephens was sitting at home in Strawberry Plains, Jefferson county, Tennessee, with his wife and child on the evening of the 106th, he was shot dead by some unknown per- gon. It is thought the shot was fired by Bill Jackson, a desperate negro, who is a member of a band of thieves against whom Stephens appeared as a witness, William P. Hills, a brakeman, was shot and killed on a passenger train at Macon, Missouri, on the evening of the 156th, by Louls Hughes, They got into a fight over the rate of fare. and the shooting oc- curred when Hill undertook to eject Hughes from the train. On the morn- ing of the 17th the dead body of an unknown man was found in the west- ern suburbs of St. Louls, not far from the place where the remains of Anna Welss were discovered. —During a performance at W. IH. Bristol & Co.’s circus, in Milford, Mas- sachusetts, on the evening of the 16th, the greater portion of the seats fell. A number of persons were injured, but none fatally, Thesupports of the seats nad been forced down into the wet ground by overcrowding. ~-Joseph Boivin, who arrived at Ottawa, Canada, on the 17th, on a raft of square timber, from Upper Ottawa, reports that seven men were drowned on the way. There were three differ- ent accidents. The frst one occurred at Roches, the Captain and four men losing their lives through the breaking up of the crib on which they were, while passing through the rapids at Desjoachims, A second accident oc- curred, where another man lost life through the parting of Calumet was the scene of Lhe fatality, where a man was drowned off the erib while running the rapids, The holler the planing mill of the R. V. Stone Lumber Company, at Chi- in ments and killing three men—Jefler- and Frederick Belffel, teamster, loss on property is about $20,000. -—Tlhe bodies Mrs. John Gregor and two children were found in Of near Youngstown, Ohio, on ing of the 17th. The woman had frst drowned her children and then herself, Her husband had left her in It is the duty of parents to cultivate a taste for good literature in their chil- dren. No matter how poor the book may be in binding, its contents should be good of its kind. Many parents select a book more with regard to gorge- ousness of covering just to please the children’s eves than with regard to the mental food which is to develop the child's understanding. Children’s books and trashy in detail, with hideous vul- gar pictures, with flaring colors adorn- ing, or rather disfiguring the outside. A sense of the artistic should be culti- vated in a child from its earlest year. A child should be taught to love and respect books from its infancy, and when old enough, to keep them ar- ranged in an orderly manner, as worthy of preservation and care, Many shortsighted mothers, more an- xious for neatness than considerate for their children, point to a litter of chil- dren's books and toys and tell them to “take that trash away.” ft is wise, when a child has saved a little money, to teach it to purchase for scrap books of stories, poetry, pic tures. and whatever they find in print as worthy of pres ryvation 1n this way The teacher or parent should to the child what it that the taste refined. A beautiful thought, = verse, a pretty turn to an idea, “0 points d ont by parent or which so quicken the child's me tal vi seek out and deli of | 1 tho iterature an careful and should sel melodious can be 1001 BRS SO mak ght 1n gathi ring gens 1zlat judiei 1 be By i“ as natural science cal amusement al i pleasant mental exer i carcely kn ther be mld be f that & ¢ the one ends ar the Chil atten diligent] Cin, iren s exercised observat IPArisOn, aenteness de Crip tive power activity b ¥ I { ber husband. The principal W. Callen shot and killed at Oro Fino, Arizona, Charles and Work tried to drive from his claim. Arsenic was camp 15th. Callen of Joseph Hunter, a planter, living and three of them have died. The Texas, is 31 feet high and rising. The lowlands are inundated and the crops are destroyed, The damage to the cotton crops is very heavy. moving to the highlands, raining there for three weeks, communication will be cut off. ports continue to come from the coun try surrounding Uvalde, Texas, of high waters, Lives are known to have been lost. Information comes of the drowning of a boy at Leaky. Two meu drowned on the 135th. Both the destruction of property is greal a special meeting in Charleston. Hampshire, on the 18th, and the occupants of the women, to the ground. lis had her shoulder Mra, broken. up. —Martin Boynan is locked up in the jail at Morristown, New Jersey, charged with the murder of his moth- er in-law and brutally assauiling his wife. 1t is said that be is a worthless fellow, and living at Hiberuia, a mio- ing town. ~It 18 said that the Manitoba and Canadian Northwest wheal crop is a failure. Prominent members of the Toronto Board of Trade have re- ceived information that the total yield will be less than half of last year’s crop. The damage 1s the result of drouth. —A mob of masked men attacked the nouse of Nancy Vincent, a noto- rious resort at Moutpelier, Indiana, on the evening of the 17th. One male jumate was whipped with and the Vincent woman was tarred. The other inmates escaped. The house and furniture were demolished. F.if- teen men visited John 3. Scamidi, » farmer, near Sibley, indiana, on the evening of the 16th, and gave him *‘a terrible whipping with switches, for drunkenness and wife beating.’’ The assailants took no trouble to conceal thelr identity. — Anita and Meriam Boggs, maiden sisters, committed suicide in Jackson county, Virginia, on the 16th, by tak. ing arsenic. They left a note, signed jointly, saying, “there was nothing in life for old malds, and they were tired in” Thomas Fualtou and his cousin, Miss Ella Ault, were killed by a Balti more and Ohlo freight tran near Bel. aire. Ohio. on the 14th, while riding in a dog cart. The horse became irightened and ran on the track ahead of the train, Fulton's body was car- ried nine miles on the pliot of the loco. motive before the engineer d that thers had been an accident, «A water spout destroyed Lhe town of Ohirlapa, State of Guerrero, . Mexico, at noon on the 15th, in simple language and instructive Here is a descripti will cost nothing to, very easily made by a baking powder can, the bottom of it; get a pioce and pass it through both holes; tie the string and loop 1% just large enough Can Tu (ret nake, and child: Over Aa will produce a We have known the little ther toys have failed. when nt sund. round rapidly, this simple toy amus Ones for hours, where « Another pleasaut and profitable mode to get o« n wooden toothpicks and old pair of scissors and toothpicks into large and then form them the alphabet, or into numbers or hittle grotesqu Ti ngths, into the letters words or figures A wonder ball in the An CRE harming present for children by winding a milk, rm of makes a © Easter, Yarn, and 8 nade worsted, or at even hidin skein of i ga n egg snd or he re That for winding the varn, silk or worsted is knit eroch ted off, so times called Easter eggs for idle peo- The stookings, mittens or lace grow much faster if a gift 1s ex- These Easter eggs form amusement for a whole family, especially if the gifts are from outside friends, and no one knows what to ex- pect. Mothers should be particularly care- ful about the coloring matter upon toys Unless the toys are painted so that the coloring matter will not come off, they should not be given to little children. We have known emidren suffer from symptoms of poisoning through putting roughly painted toys into their mouths. A little musenm is a source of amuse- ment and instruction to children and can very ecasily be made. Get a small box with a clear glass lid, so that the specimens may be kept free from dust, and the legs and wings of the entomo- logical collection be kept free from ac- cident or injury. The child can be taught to dry flowers and paste and ar- ranga them prettily inside the box. Let the bottom of the box be filled with moss, with bright looking shells dotted here and there. The insects can be painlessly killed and can be nicely mounted with pins with bright eolored heads. The specimens should be ar- ranged as if flying or creeping. Col- looting specimens for a tiny museum will bring new objects of beaut and won- der nnder the child's notice, Tohavethe name put on a tiny ticket will inculeate a knowledge of natural history. The child should be taught that Nature 1s continually performing miracles and that even the most simple objects are full of beauty and instruction. L—————— — ———— William Bickle, Philip Herbst and his son were diowued at Portsmouth, Ohio, on the eveniug of the 14th, by the upsetting of a sail boat. Henry Adams, aged 17 years, was drowned on the the 14th, while bathing in Herring Run, near Baltimore, —Emanuel Escassi, aged 16 years, Escassl, aged 14, were drowned while bathing in the aver. New York, on the 14th. will FASHION NOTES, ——————— At present there is war in the camp belli,” The springs, the tournure all which sustains and extends the skirt is | proscribed by the most elegant, the { the most slender. As for others those | that the slightest “‘embompoint” dis- turbs, those who do not like too much prominence, too sudden changes, they | resist, and cling to alittle drapery a { few inches of spring and fo a slight | tournure, This is in order not to shock any one, neither those who wish to follow fashion step by step nor those who go more slowly and who are not quite 80 ready to do homage to this sovereign, sometimes capricious, and often a little despotic, with these skirts quite narrow, these empire gowns, of which the apron is bias, one adopts the tailor style of common costumes, upon # foundation skirt of silk is placed a skirt of ““Neigense” or amazon cloth, it is quite straight, on the bottom is a broad hem lined with muslin on this hem is 13. 15 or 17 rows of stitching which gives finish to the bottom of the skirt. No drapery mazon corsage with a ¥ ! basque in the back and buttons upon the front, collar is straight yery different from the fanciful rn with light dresses s for eool evenings or for s B11 ler uble rows « the sleeves i 1 f CLOSE, (quits nat ard SU adowdal 0 say dark seen Lhe IIe ENaente fe VII R LECT nodels re nd have { of the work WAS worn ing and the lace which bx riders the soar as the fou 1 or fl se sears are made at a single weav UNees, nds- oCCuUpies many per sume. quests suk asked tulle, lace in short ‘Har 0" NE are ns TAOeR, guipure, Lh n pre sented yposed that we had said on the subject worn the dress Lhe » 18 and we suj il that ace WAS DeOessAry i$ NO MOTE i includes | imitation is no longer the fashion when draped. However a re and skirt irim- | med on the bottom with | satin ribbons pretty Above all style is for tulle, Tosca ole gant ax d garments metallic pa Large rae o | called lace wh ore 3 thing { dresses of # Yery the : which are sanall with jet or Greek, very new She outsid 4 t rimmed wprif always in fas the #4 i i 1: » * i JAarge Ian bottom Ax Exar green d's s CCORTUME A paar \os, embroidered off with a After will array her- nt of (HR Eray-green ks like a petticoat, waist, butwhich really for each limb and fasten 1 to one belt, which gives her a freedom of movement she has never known before since she went out of short frocks. A little low-necked silk bodice goes with the divided petti- coat. and this is frilled with lace and drawn up with little narrow green rib- bons about the shoulders and arms. The tennis dress proper isof gray-green serge, laid in a deep fe m about the foot of the skirt, and embroidered with a deep border of buttercups done in g« id colored floss. The skirt is gathered quite full, and falls just the fragment of an inch below the ankles, The waist is a loose blouse of the Garibaldi shape, made of white serge, with a turnover collar, under which is knotted a yellow silk scarf the same color as the broad, soft sash knotted about the waist. The sleeves are loose and full, and are gath- ered into a deep green cuff which reach- es nearly to the elbow. Over thisblouse goes a little green serge jacket, whose edges are embroidered with buttercups, which is lined throughout with silk of the same shade, and has no sleeves. wonsists of two Iv tHiconta, one DISAPPOINTED. —A New York ar- tist, who was in Charleston on a pleas- ure trip, painted the portrait of a little darky. She was encouraged to sit patiently by having seen a beautiful picture which the same artist had made of a fair-haired daughter of one of the proudest houses in Charleston, in whose service the young darky's mother was laundress, Patiently she posed, and when the portrait was completed the artist brought it round to show it to its origi- nal. ‘‘Here you are, Jany," he said. Jany looked at her counterfeit pre- sentment and burst into shrieks and howls, She ran from the room to pour her sorrows into sympathizing ears. “Oh, Missy Grace!” she cried, Missy Grace, 1 never tink he would mek me look so! 1 didn't tink Mr, Waller would do me so! He tek and mek me a orful little notty-headed nigger Lan’ 1 tought I was jes a-goin’ headed to be a beauti- with blue i HORSE NOTES, | After four trials Practor Knot! succeeded in beating Spokane. —Salvator’s gross winnings thus fa for the season amount to $59.750, | Terra Cotta had aslight congestive | ebill recently, but is now doing well, —Many horsemen profess to believe that Axtell will beat Maud 8.’s rec ord, —8croggin Brothers paid $5000 for the California-bred-3- year-old tobin Hood, by Flood. : —Mike and George Bowerman ars kept busy working thelr own stock at Lexington, Ky. —The prize list for the Grrnd Cen- ntral Circuit meeting at Hartford amounts to $36,000, —]It is claimed that Dr. Herr has a 2-year-old, that went a mile in 2.20, and repeated a mile in 1.06, — Miss Russell, the dam of Maud 8, Nutwood and Cora Belmont, will be bred to King Wilkes this season. ~The running course at Westches ter, N. Y., which will be opened next month, has cost about $1,500,000, —Gus Macey, of Versailles, Ky., re- cently drove the bay mare Gondola a half mile in 1.074 with hobbies on, —A lot of Australian-bred colts wil be sold by Mr. Easton at MM Park some time within the weeks, Lee Shaner denies Dawn, 2,193, 18 mmol next few the re broken down, he recenlly se port tha and | Tile 2.24. —Deck Wright the half-mile tracks in the name of Little Jim, Ti 3 anos 1 alo All ois ances death alone will give i ute plates the at anads all appear- him a ljet- uncer up. Caldwell says that Long- iis delay at the post for the stakes, lost at least onde. which he made up in the half mile, — Within the promising young fillies have been taken placed either the stu stable. —A. L. Washburne, of New York, has sold to C. Perry, of Pensacola, Fla. the bay gelding Day Tom, bY Hamble- i by Long Island Black ot BBO rst past in isk * rid . VOILA, Hawk, for $2500, ~The Maryland State Association, at Pimlico, more, purposes holding meeting on September 9, 1 and 14, when ten purses from $700 to $1000 will be given, $5000 for a special. a 50 ~The mare Tavwt 1 uxum died 3 t+ vy 5 heim Stud Kittson Brothers(, was a chestnut bred in 1579 General W. G. Harding Meade, and was by imp. Bonn land. dam Lady Lindora, by imp. Aus- tralian, Lottie Thorn, who gained a record | of 2.23% in the third heat of the 2.37 | Class at Lexiogton, Ky., is in foal, which makes her performance all the more remarkable, the only daughter of Mambrino Palchen now on the turf, It is reported that the bay gelding Big Jim, that won two races at Balt- more in May, and was suspected of being a ringer, is none other than Grover Cleveland, 2.25§. The horse was owned by a Washington, D. C,, gentleman, who may be asked to ex- plain, Of the ten 33-year-old record-break- ers of the last twenly years six were | bred in Kentucky, while Axtell, who now wears the crown, has strictly a | blue.grass pedigree. The six Ken- tuckians are Blackwood, Lady Stout, Steinway, Jewett, Phil Thompson and Patron, ~The American mare Misty ing won a race of three miles furlong at Paris, France. in Time, 8.01 3-5. The French Capucine was second and Watt, American third. Mazeppa, Jerry, Milton Blanche DB. were drawn. —The Cleveland Driving Park Com. pany is trying 10 arrange as the special attraction for its Grand Circull weet- ing a race between Guy and Jay Eye See for a $5000 purse, and will engage Axtell, 2-154, to go against the stallion record, 2.18%, at the same meeting for a long purse, \ ~The br. s. Diligent, owned by Con- don and McCorkell, of Philadelphia, won a six-heat race at Lexington, Ky., on July 5. There were eleven starters. The race was trotted over the running course, which has quite a hill, and the track was heavy and uneven owing to the rain. Diligent is by Dictator, dam by Antar. ~— Proctor Knott is improving, but he is not yet himself. He will shorlly be shipped to Saratogo and be allowed to recuperate. Sam Bryant says: “What he needs is a good rest, and he will have it, and then, after 1 go East, he will be specially prepared for the Omnibus stakes and the horse that beats him will have to be a wonder, and don’t you forget it,” The Harrodsburg boys did well at Lexington on July 5. Messrs, Smith and Owings’ 3.year-old stallion Bonnie Wilmore won his race in straight heats. —Time~2.31§, 2.344, 2.27. The colt was driven remarkably well by his trainer and driver, Will Owings, Crit Davis won with Diligent in a race that required considerable tact, Young Phil Chinn should have won the run- races with the b, s Liberty; but owing to the horse getting a false start and running all the way around the him unable to go to the hat did not get off it ie Not. She 8 wold ing erolding ECM and ~(3uy trotted the Cleveland trach on Wednesday June 10th in 211§ Th puiormance was under the rule essrs. Edwards, Fasig and Deverew acting as judges and . Alte two warmers in 2.25 sent
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