NEWS OF THE WEEK.
— A telegram from Jacksonville,
Florida, says that while Edward Rowe,
a young Engiishman, was swimming
in Cumberland Sound, with fiftean
other boys on the 21st, he was struck
by a shark, which bit off the ealf of
one leg, Rowe was taken into a boat
at once, but bled to death before
medical assistance could be obtained.
—An inflated alr bag, sald to answer
the description of the Campbell alr
ship bolder, passed over Louisville on
the evening of the 21st. It wus watched
for two hours, *‘went straight across
the city from northeast to southwest,
as if carried by a steady current, and
appeared to be about two miles high.”
The wife of Hogan, the missing
aevonaut, has heard nothing from her
husband and believes he Is dead. She
left Jackson, Michigan, on the even
ing of the for New York.
says ber husband had with him $1000
in cash and a balloon and
which he must have left with his
friends.” Mr. Hamilton, owner of the
sloop yacht Emma, al New London,
reports that on the 19th, near Block
Island, he passed Campbell's air ship,
floating with the yellow side up. He
did not know a
and the air ship were missing or he
would have examined 1b.
—The tain of the Atlas li
steamer Alene, which arrived at New
York on the 22d, reports that on July
11th Bippolyte attempted to take Port-
an-Frince,
made several assaults, but was repulsed
each time with loss. Subsequently Le
retreated Croix des Bouquets, a
point about nine miles from Port-au-
Prince, where he er amped. What
was variously supposed to bea ‘‘sea
serpent’’ ora sswhale’’ has been seen
at different
Wisconsin, On the afternoon
20th the monster was seen in a shallow
pool and captured. It was found to be
a sea llon, 11 feet long, which escaped
from a circus four years ago.
James Averill, Postmaster at
Sweetwater, Wyoming Territory, and
Kate Maxwell, a notorious woman
known as the *‘Cattle Queen,” were
lynched by a mob of cowboys, near
Sweetwater, on
99d. Their offence was chronie cattle
stealing.
—A young man named Smith Min
nick. son of a prominent citizen of Har
risonburg Virginia, was drowned Ina
branch of the Shenandoah river on the
21st. Albert F. Whitman, aged nine
years, and Henry F. Hamlin, aged ten,
were drowned on the 22d while bath-
ing 1 the Merrimac river at North
Andover, Massachusetts, A heavy
grain train on the Erle Railroad broke
into three sections at Summit, a mile
west of Middletown, New York, on
the mormng of the 22d, and the cars
ran down the grade. The second sec-
tion ran into the first and the third
section into the second. Ter cars were
wrecked on the streets of Middletown,
and the trestle of a coal yard was car-
riled away. James MecCallough, a
brakeman, had two ribs broken.
main tracks were blocked until the ar-
91 qt
-h
She
cal
to
City and Port Jervis,
trict near Parkersburg, West Virginia,
on the evening the 21st states that
seventeen lives were lost, The tele
gram says of the flood in Little Kan-
awha Valley,
18th: The scene of the greatest dis-
aster was on Pond creek,
county, and Tucker creek,
county.
gether, and a cloud burst must have
occurred near the watershed, Pond
creek feet in an hour. The
water spread from hill to hill, and car-
ried all before it. Four men took re-
fuge in Thomas's Mill
washed away,
drowned.
Iy-
home and
of
Wirt
TOS6 5
perished, Thomas Hughes,
, hong an
| Francisco on the 23d.
{ a recent fire at Lu Chow destroyed 87,-
{ 000 houses. Over 1200 persons were
{ burned to death and 400 others killed,
| Nearly 170,000 people were made home-
less, and at last accounts were camping
out without shelter and were dying at
the rate of 100 a day from want and
exposure, The authorities, it 18 sald,
were providing for their necessities,
—A severe storm of wind and rain
passed over Morgan county, 11iinols,
on the evening of the 21st, doing great
damage to the crops, blowing down
trees, fences and buildings, killing]
horses and cattle, and severely injuring
a number of persons, A heavy rain
fell throughout Colorado on the even
ing of the 22d, doing much damage. |
and cellars in Denver were |
rupted in various directions by wash-
outs,
i
i
—A freight train frightened a hors»
in Harmony, Peana., on the 23d. Tha
animal backed the wagon Over the
throwing the
Miss Nana Oppenbel-
mer was thrown under the traln and
Miss Amanda hlee
and Misses Della
and Florheim were badly
The young ladies are daughters |
in Pittsburg and
prominent in Jewish Soclety. They
{
—An explosion of gas took place on 4
afternoon of the in No. 14 |
shaft at Port Blanchard, 'a., operated
by the Pennsylvania Coal Company.
Harris,
an unknown
burned, first
23d,
Hungarian, were the
Scott Todd, azed 10 years, and
Charles Hoosier, aged 11, were drowned
near Anderson, Indiana. On
the evening of the 21st several hundred
people gathered on the river bank to
A rope was
stretched across Lhe river, and to this
Stephen Dilby was hanging in mid- |
and was
drowned in the presence of Lis wife |
and two children. John and Jessie,
aged 10 and 12 years, the only children
of Edwin Denn, were drowned in Foster |
creek, near Huron, Dakota, on the |
21st. While Lieut. Gov. Meikeljohn
and W. H. Paton were bathing in |
Cedar river, near Fullerton, Nebraska, |
on the 21st, the latter was drowned.
The Lieutenant Governor came near |
sharing his friend’s fate in attempting
to rescue him.
—Frederick Wagner, Sr., stabbed
his son Frederick while he was asleep
at his home 1n Baltimore, on the even-
ing of the 224. The falher tormerly
served a sentence In prison for assault |
ng his wife, and in a drunken mood
on the 23d had driven everyone from
the house, but young Wagner went
home, in ending to prolect his mother
a: d sister, The young IDANR MAY live,
While William Baugh and Green
were wrestling at Falrbush,
Kentucky, on the evening of the 224,
head with a handspike, causing death,
him for housebreaking. Snow Was
—Colonel Roger J. Page, a promi-
teqister at Marion, North Carolina,
murdered at that place on the |
294d, just after alighting |
from a train, by an unknown assassin.
homes. but the water overtook them,
and none escaped but Hughes. On
Jost,
in the millions, There was another
sudden rise in Elk and Poca rivers on
the evening of the 10th. A great
quantity of logs, ties, lumber, bay,
wheat and oats was destroyed. A heavy
rain storm, accompanied by high winds,
prevailed in Northwestern Kansason the
20th. Several light frame buildings in
Stockton were blown down and the
zlsss was blown from several shop
windows. Small grain crops were
damaged, and washouts are reported
sn the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad, near Atchison. During a
thunderstorm at East Brookfield, Mas-
sachuseets, on the evening of the 20th,
James H. Kerner, Louis Harper and
James Corcoran were struck by light-
ning and the former was killed. The
sther two will recover. Lightning
struck the house ef Samuel Layster, in
White Wood, Dakota, on the evening
10th, killing a 22-year-old son of
Layster and injuring a young child,
The house was burned down. A dwel-
ling in Sturgis and a school liouse at
Fort Meade were damaged by light.
ning. Sharpe’s dam, at dugar Grove,
in the Hocking Valley, Obio, was
burst on the 20th by a heavy storm.
The valley for twenty miles, was swept
of trees, fences and crops, and hun-
dreds of heads of live stock were
drowned. No human lives were lost,
the houses being on a bluff above the
valley.
—Charles 11. Scotti, a young business
man of Pittsburg, was shot and killed
on the 21st by James Lebr, at the camp
of the Pittsburg Fishing Ciub, at Con.
flusnce, Pa., on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, Lehr, the camp cook,
was very drunk, and when refused
liguor by the members of the club,
Jdiew bis revolver, tbreatening to Kill
some one unless liquor was given to
him. The men in the camp fled, except
Soott, who tried to talk with Lebr,
The latter fired four shots at Scott,
one of the bullets entering his lungs
from the right side, Scott was a guest
of the club.
Ferdinand Kpaack has been ar-
rested al Kauka Wisconsin, on &
charge of poisoning his wife, whom he
married last May, His first wife died
rather suddenly, and It is now thoug"
‘hat be poisoned
*.
up |
of them when the assassin Came
behind and shot him through the neck,
which was broken by the ball. After |
firing the murderer got on a horse and |
1t is said that a woman
was the cause of the trouble, and that
~M. H. Horney, while putting up
an awning in the second story of a
building 1n Baltimore, on the 234, fell i
to the ground, and, striking his head,
was killed. Joseph Larsen, aged 14 |
years, was overcome by the damp while
cleaning a well near Macedonia, Iowa, |
and J. A. Wilson, who was lowered to |
rescue the boy, was also overcome.
—-A cave-in occurred on the morn-
24th in Hyde Park, Scran-
A
public-school building was badly dam- |
aged, and twelve private residneces had
their foundation walls cracked and
doors badly jammed. Large fssures
have opened in the ground, and in the
centre of the disturbance the earth has
settled ten feet. In the mine six cham-
bers are affected, and the miners are
unable to go on with their work. On
the afternoon of the 24th, while a
number of men wers removing the
rock and coal from the chambers closed
‘n the Central mine, the lamp of one
of the laborers ignited the gas and |
caused a terrivle explosion, John i
Williams and Robert Roberts were
killed and four others wero fearfully
burned,
Two men were struck and killed
by a Western express train at South
Harrisburg on the morning of the 21st.
One was apparently 20 and the other
30 years of age. A paper in the pocket
of one bore the address of John Keiser,
Jersey City. Three 14-year-old boys
attempting to cross a brook at Lowell,
Massachusetts, on the afternoon of the
21st, became entangled iu weeds, got
beyond their depth, aud two of them,
named Fortier and George Oyr, were
drowned. Arnold Francis and a young
mun ne Keim were killed on the
21st by the bursting of a rapidly re-
volving milk and cream separator, at
K mberton Creamery, near Kimberton,
Chester connty, Pa.
— Frederick Tullier, aged 24 years,
a walter at the Hotel Gerlach, New
York, on the 21st, fel! down the eleva
tor shaft from the ninth story to the
basement, a distance of 110 feet, and
war Killed,
~Heavy and continuous rains are
| paported from all parts of Kansas,
' Trains ars delayed by washouts,
&
|
pa
~Chauncey
age, shot and (atally w
aged 28 years, at their home in Lake
Mahopae, New York, on the 24th,
then committeed suicide. Domestic
trouble was the cause, During a fight
in Detroit, Michigan,
of the 23d, Morris Crawford was
killed and Walter Mason badly injured.
Their antagonists were arrested, Jos-
eph Buchner has been arrested at Bad
River, Wisconsin, charged with mur-
der. He is an uncle of Mrs. Fuchs
and 18 charged with beibg au accom-
plice in the killlog, George Lewis, a
negro, living near Belden, Texus, Was
lynched on the evening of the 234 for
poisoning the well of William Shaw,
—A. J. Hodson, business partner of
Mayor Mosby, of Cincinnati, died on
the morning of the 24th, from injuries
received on the Fourth while discharg~
ing fireworks. He was wounded in the
face, and, although the wound healed,
the shock caused a fever from which
—A notorious Indian desperado, St,
Lopki, was killed in the Indian Terrl-
tory, on the 21s, by the captain of the
Creek Indian Light Horse Company,
i, 3 member
of
outlaws. It was he who, while under
AITesL
United States Marshal Philips and a
with his handcuffs,
St.
a the
killed.
fight before LOopkl was
—Mrs. Miranda Lawyer, wife
3ishop Law;
hanged
if | had the Time.
y find a place
full face to fac
With hat stands no show
my better self. ©
1 I would see my soi
nbling stifl toward the shining Zora)
it be nerved by the thought sublime,
if 1 nad the thine |
mig
11 I had the time to let my heart
Speak out and take in my life a part,
"fo look about and streteh a hand
To a comrade quartered on no fuck
Ah. God! 11 1 might but just sit st itl
And hear the note of the whippoor will,
I think that my wish with God would rhyme
ft 1 had the time!
iand;
11 1 had the time to learn from you
How much for comfort my wor ould 4
And I told you then of my sudden will
To kiss your feet when 1 did you ill
{f the tears aback of the bravado
Could force thelr way and let)
Brothers, the souls of us all ¥
If we had the t
Washington Post,
‘%
Know
id chime
ONCE "LOVED.
myid; worse than that 1
plain. 1 tell you this
beginning, so that if you
\
of long ad
I am an old
am decidedly
frankly, at the
are expecting fi
ventures, all
rOWS
SUCOEeREL0I
the loves an
WH
fl
of
4
oad
1 son
y
O11
O13
of one
earth, yOu CAD INRkS
¢ disappoints l. :
We 11, 0a I have said, I am excoecdil £19
3 1
ownright ugly
|
|
|
i
i
| ordinary,
| that I were!
something
just one ol tl
sol m ¥
, r sther a wall of
Yea}
ig UK
years old,
Kentucky,
224d, after
living
“0
-t
+4
wie
suicide on
— It is said that the cotton crop of
that the corn crop will be
Reports concerning the
of cattle and crops throughout
Want of water is felt
it is sald that the
was expected,
in many sections, but
| qu
{ le
sir
the ©
1Y dis
\ y
graau
eyes
| -
his
has
father, stepmother
confessed to
murder
purchasing
teapot.
April 20th a statement Was
struggie,
Limit to a Life
in which the firm Was interested, and
of Isaiah
are largely in
the Williamson estate, The
are mainly New England and New
York banks and houses,
happen
» nite nd a
taliure it is impossible to estimate.
—While Mrs, William
Elwood Crossing, at Washington,
Penna., on the 26th, the horse became
frightened and dashed into a freight
train.
died soon after. Mrs, McVey was
thrown from her carriage, near Fayette
While Michael Merkel, a
was cleaning a gun on the
Two freight trains collided at Bedford,
Perry Cook, fireman, had both legs
crushed, and died In a few hours.
—News was received at Parkers-
that State, from West Fork and Heary
Fork. “Every store from the head to
the mouth of the forks are goue or
ruined. Houses, fences and crops are
washed away and several lives were
lost. Not a sngle farmer or resident
Hundreds are bank-
rupt, and will have to be supported
temporarily by the county. The Com-
missioners estimate the loss in Lee,
Tyaart, Slate and Stesle counties al
half a million dollars, A
its foundation, and many peopla are in
the woods. Help is needed at once,”
—1It is reported that the dead bodies
of three men, pne colored, were found
ing Station, Lake county,
One of the bodies had nothing on but a
ghirt. Each had a fatal wound on the
back of the head. It is supposed they
were murdered for plunder. J. Over-
man, a jealous lover, shot and killed
Maggie Smith, mn Peru, indiana, on
the evening of the 24th, and then killed
himself.
—Dysentery is reported very preval-
ent in Howard county and the adja
cent sections of Baltimore county,
Maryland. People of all ages are alike
affected, aud many of the cases have
proved fatal.
~The G. W. Levering Company,
wholesale grocers of Chicago, made an
assignment, on the 25th. The labl'l
ties and assests are estimated each at
from $40,000 to $60,000.
—Twenty machines are at work
harvesting wheat onfithe Dar mple
farm and many smaller farms in Cass
county, Dakota. This is about two
weeks earlier than the harvesting time
last year. The reports from the har
vesters say that, while the wheat has
not headed so thick as usual, the qual
ity is unusually good, a much r
than ever befors going No.
hard.
o
| was literary
naturalist in
wanting to ©
animals for her menager of Wednes-
dav evening invited me
Now I had never attended a german,
except in imagination with the lovely
heroines of newspaper Stories, and was
astonished at the idea that such a thing
was possible "Tis true I had attended
a few parties, and watehe d from a corner
| the progress of coquetry between the
guy Lotharios and their fair ones; but
this was quite and sherthing. However,
I really wanted to go; and since Mrs
Browne had shown me 80 mu h kindness
and even sent her to say he
would be happy to atl nd me,” I de
cided to do ais, Of QOourse i had to ex-
amine my plain wardrobe, and plan
considerably, with my go wlaunt's help,
to make a decent appearance, and 1
scarcely knew mys 1f when I was envel.
oped in all the pretty things suitable
for the oceasion
When 1 finally found myself in the
spacious parlors of Mrs. Browne, and
| heard the hum of joyous voices, the
13
siiect iris
of curious
wT
cousin
| lively chat, and rems mbered that I was
really old Kitty Bell, with no pretty
ways and admiring friends like other
| girls, T admit feeling a pang, all my
| philosopliy to the contrary notwith-
standing.
But 1 soon became edified and amused
{ in watching the course of divers little
! firtations. Yonder was a tall, dark-
eyed, fine looking young man who, 1
soon perceived, was quite a lion among
the fair ones. He was decidedly the
centre piece of the picture—the reign-
ing bean of the season. As for belles,
there were two or three struggling for
the ascendancy, and whether one or the
gines triumphed was ascertained by the
Rtentions of the superb Mr. Sunder
land.
I amused myself in waiching the
course of things till my eyes airly
ached, when I betook myself to some
volumes which graced a side table to
catch breath in my natural element, 1
turned over a fow leaves, read a half a
dozen verses of Moore's, and raised my
head to encounter Mr, Sunderland's
eyes fixed admiring] uponme! Thank
fortune, I always had strong nerves, so
I did not faint, but kept on the even
tenor of my way. I beheld the gentle-
man seck out Brawne, That lady
in turn glanced at me, and in another
moment the two had advanced toward
the corner where I sat, and “Mr, Sun-
derland” was troduced to *“Miss
»
Bell.
¢
us up, I could
tounded. However, 1
conjecture, as the ger
sirous of entering in
versation.
Bup« rb w oman!
the german?’
I was not in the
germans, 1 told him.
“Ah! he suspected
telleetnal pursuits,
choice. He did not
faction in these ght
ments. He was
sympathy in a highs
ment.
For the first time }
inconvenience of not
ated into the
jut, regrets
was obliged to fall
and r
forward manner i
"Pixs true
EEE
ny sle
since
COMmMmon sense,
of th
(po g1 hl
gust
my
After that memors
rogressed
attended oper
I
' .
lectures, and what 1
Owl
world was opened
In
i
r
what {
stot
CRITE, fo
1:
i
in the }
amid a pleas
and 5
ie, wii
know what asccider
bea
organ that
§ hak vind
just a ciph
PIs 0
fortres
f min i ;
end. The “
sionate letters. All
put to rout. The n
earnest—really,
Here
humanity—and
him.
nt
WAS A Very
spirit
ceased
sent no
gtreot and hi
the re ever be an en
transition was quite
ing a storm; but the
were mine,
again as of cld
Still 1 wondered
wondered to the pr
circumstance
Message.
One day Frank
settle some busines
my uncle. It so haj
gentleman
Frank conde
with me. He ingm
the german, and fins
Yous look, 10OW
and begged him to
eeedingly. When
sufficiently
madd
interpret for yourse
Of course 1 ins
it
“Wall, then, Mr.
Ryder were standing
you were looking
gide of the table,
fair one,
fine bird to eateh-—-t
say.” They
—yonrself! Is that
It ought to have
1 laughed heartily,
felt just a little
counted up
1 have rela
lot, now that I have
Abuse may not
like the former,
been more as
had little time for
wleman seemed de-
to immediate con-
Mrs,
i
Aegan
Was I fond of
habit of attending
{ was fond of in-
H honored my
himself find satis-
, frivolous smuse-
wt happy to find
r grade of enjoy
n my life I felt the
having been initi-
ris of small talk.
HO avail,
$1
rate. 1
readings,
with Mr, Bun-
A new
1 saw
my own
read and
noble truths,
from the lips
] I sat
roOON
10k,
before me
ecard with
1 only
nul
f (is
vith
BEUTC 6
my esco
n, Id
have befallen
my bh
Iv he
a
All i
had rt
. t
mi
ie
Was
#4
wre rat
WAS no
art was uo
BUINErous pas
philosophy was
to be In
in earnest.
ow specimen of
oald not fathom
o'er the
INIKKIVER
not
CACY
The
Canc
met him on the
me not. Would
1 of mysteries? The
like a calm succeed-
of the chase
down
iand
spoils
. and might have
esent day had not a
by which the
Browne oa led to
s transactions with
Jb ned that the old
and consequently
red how 1 enjoyed
lly, with a mischie-
solve the strange
to enjoy ex
he had recovered
sted upon hearing
Supderland and Ed
a moment sogether;
over a book, and
at the opposite
h her
would be a
hat girl over there
child, and her
they
satisfactory?
be
SORSON. LL 1
and found I had
in into an old
content with my
a lover,
be criticism, but
HORSE NOTES,
There have been 147 additions to
ists this season,
Book betting has again been done
Fl Bio Bey appears to be about
best 2 year-olds of the year,
Lorillard won 32000 on
Biggonette at Monmouth, on Raturday
July 20th,
one of the
-1’lerre
a
y
It is said that Suisan, b. wm. by
Electioneer, in John E, Turner’s si
can beat 2.20 handily,
—The Mount Holly
the meeting on October 7
yunts to $20,000,
hat centrifugal water-sprinkle:
used on the stretch at Belmont Course
does its work nicely.
hie
1018,
premium list
to 12
for
—Sheemaker & Scattergood paid
$2200 for the ch, g. Jessie H., by High-
ef, pacing record 2,184. It is
said hie can go a mile in 2
land C1
. 19%,
Jiminy McLaughlin 1 left
Chicago Stable and 18 now at Monm
Park. He will probably
Haggin for the season of 1880,
Among the horses named
in the 2.20 stallion class .
trict, San Francisco, In
Ansel, Dawn, Alcazar, M
and Direct,
Tt
148
wr
N. Y., has prove
proper name being
made a record of 2,25 at
thiree years ago.
~ rivers
Dee
wi 1
iJ Lao
sometimes let their bh
getting the word,
judges will not be as
them for a break at
break at other places on
knowin
— Island Park will follow Detroit's
example and make the opening cay |
the Grand ircuit meeting al
the public As the 4-year-
not fill, a purse of $500 fo
8 has been subst
to
sting his stock at bi,
to Montana, D.
Quintin purchased for Marcus
his employer, the b. m. Fannie
erspoon, record 2.163, two-mile record,
443. and the b., m. Belle F.,
2.154.
sre
record
D. Withers® chestnul filly, 2
years, by Kinglike, dam Miss Bassett,
by Lexington, collided wilh another at
Monmouth Park and broke her
necessitating her being destroyed. Mr.
Withers says she was one of the best of
his lot,
~The programme of the inaug iral
meeting of the New York Jockey Club,
Westchester, N. Y., is out and is a
most unique affair, The meeting
leg,
will
commence on August 20 and continue
antil August 831. The added mouey
amounts to $86,500,
—The Elkton Stock Farm stallions,
New York Dictator and Merit. were
given lif mile trials recently, the first
openings they have had this 3
Crouch drove the former in
L the latter in 1.21, over the
Las Elkton, Md,
—Many drivers consider
feed often in g protracted
order to keep up the strengih
Joe Jefferson fed oats
tween heats mn the 2.20 pacing race at
Belmont { recently, Little Ida,
winner, was allowed nibble at
grass and oats,
The O-year-old
Walton—or rather
will be known since ringing tour
jast fall in the South—is at the { leve-
land tracks and has already sto ped the
watches in 2.194. She 1s by neral
George H. Thomas, and hasa §-year-
old record of 2.27%.
BeASOn.
wong i
horse. WAS
Ourse
the to
mare
. US
SUSE
846
Ge
— Nearly 100 trotters are in training
at the Buffalo Driving Park. Ww. J.
Andrews has 26; W. A. Garlick, 15;
C. F. Dunbar 4; Howard Conkling, 18;
W. Summers, 17; Gerbard Lang, Gus
Fleischman, J. lL. Moore, S. 5. Scheu,
G. R. Beardsley, and George Efver also
have several trotters there,
— Daniel De Noyelles offers to match
his 2-year-old filly by Nutwood, out of
Adelaide, against any colt or filly of the
same age by an undeveloped dam. Mr.
De Noyelles’ filly was not broken to
harness until April, and be stipulates
that the acceptor of the challenge shall
pot name a colt broken apd trained at
an earlier date.
—A New Jersay circuit has been
formed. It embraces the half-mile
tracks at Morristown, Waverly, Free-
hold, Trenvon, Flemington, Somerville,
and Mount Holly, and will hold its
meetings in September and October,
after the horses have filled their en-
gagements at the big tracks. About
$34,000 will be given in purses.
~The Washington Park track at
Chicago seems to be the fastest in the
country this season. There have been
innumerable six furlong dashes run in
less than 1.15, the four and a half Tur-
long record has boen lowered to 55 1-5
seconds, the mile and soventy-yard rec-
ord reduced to 1.45 4-5 by Gilford, and
a mile has been run by Maori, an ime
ported Gly, in 1.39 4-5, the fastest time
ever made in a race, and but a fraction
behind the record which Ten Broeck
established in 1877, when running
against time on a prepared track with
a running start, Other fast performs-
ances on the track have been five far-
longs in 1.014 by Daisy ¥., by Macduft,
a 2-year-ola, ing 112 pounds; the
same distance by El Rio Rey. same age,
the brother to Emperor of Norfolk, in
1.01, with 120 pounds; a milé in 1.41%
by Gardner; the same distance in the
same time by Princess Bowling and Joe
Courtney, the latter a 3.year-old, with
118 pounds; the same distance by Ka
joolah in 1.41 3-5; a mile and a furlong
in 1-584, and agaln in 1.5325, and a
mile and a half by Elyton in 2.544, only
half & second slower than the record.
—W. 8, Barnes, of Lexhgton, Ky.,
has of T. Des Cognets, of
the same the brown filly catelle,
2 years, y Himyar, dam Booty, by
Asteroid, for $4500.
—At Brighton on the 12th of July,
Dave S., won the first
65 in the mutuals
110.50 for a
two straight
race,
straight
only
sold
There was
four place tickets
on him. :