New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-28
.LFXlNDERS ANvUAL HORSE SALE.

from Our Own Reporter
AT "wooBuRs FAM" Ky, Aug -.
rR. Aitcheson Alexander annual sale OF hns
tloroueh.bred Ia ues cots, and ies, trorng horser,
etc took place to-day. ct bic extensive estate Wood
hmm Farm, in No dtord County, Kentucky. The
sale waa not largely attended as former ones nave
t,er. there 10, being than five or elk hundred
rersops on the ground The Of interest taken in
il and the comparatively low prices for which the
stock was old, may be ascribed in great measdra,
to the approximations Of scarcity OF grain, owing u
the lopg-oOntirusd and excessive dTouth in various
uarrs of tie Tennessee aud sou hern Kentucky
especially.
Wooobnrn IL situated on the BONNEVILLE aud LAxing
ton Railway about seventy five miles from the former
city snd twenty from the latter The place contains
nearly four thousand @res Of some OF the rest blne
erss, land in the stare. Though rolling and agreeahy
diversified with woodland and PASTURE i'is ecarcey 80
fue-lookpg a cuutry we ind 10 Fsyetts and
Bourbon counties.
The stables, dairy -house ard some of the out-bud
gs are of h.wn stone aud have snbstantal aud neat
appearance. The clearinghouse, however, is a neat,
one story structure Of wood, aud hardly in kfepifg
with the other surroundings, though the hospitality
dispensed in it lie like Topper pbosophy-p'overb
bat of rather better quality than the philosophy
IT, am told that Mr.. A. PURPOSES erecting an elegant
stone mansion shortly. He has already built stately
bewn-stone entrance gateway, which reminded me OF
an approach to of the lordy homes OF England,
at come o. which have virtsd upon terms of even as
much intimacy as the great Dion Bourccault-in fast,
had Duke an Earl and tso Lords bang on to my
arm and press to stay only day longer. But TO
return to Woodburn. Between fifty and sixty horses
had been advertised to be sod sting of about ID
thorough red brood mares the number of trOt-
ting mares and the remainder yonng stock of both
sorts The bidding at first rather lenguid, two or
three animals bel put up, and, finding no purchasers,
were Withdrawn. IT, fact, thought the VIII lie affair
was going TO be rather dull There few persons
from d lance, the majority being residents OF the
nephboriug counts, with a few horse men from Ten
nessee and Mississippi They soon roused up little,
however, and the biddisg became more animated.
The truth is, Mr.. AexaDder's place is rather over
stocked, and it was to get rid of what a good many
persons and he slso) cJnside ed his NEST Indifferent
stock that this sale was gotten up.
The picnic or barbecue dDnerspre under tho lofty
grecnery of the old forest eagerly discussed
with politics for dessert. Ii was most substantial
dinner, the Sou'hdown mutton exq ise. 1t is the
only mutton t for geDtlem 70 eat; the other kinds
may DO for the Mndsills.' Where's Hammond
No spiruous liquors of any knds were allowed moon
the grounds. They could not give as toast the
cry of the Neapoltsns-d bas le Bourbon! for there
was nc Bourbon there 10 he put down. That
good for Mr.. A. Two wealthy gents f,om the South
made nice little bet of 81 000-the one betting that
RIecknrdge would beat Don. las 90 900 in Kentucky,
ct which the Douglas man cleDched hands and the
money was put mp. Even il the Vics-PresdeDt beats
The Senator 20 much as that It rally believed
Bell may carry the State, there about 10000
voters in Kentucky.
suboiu lirt of stock sold with accurate pedigrees
purchasers names aud prices paid: Sally Ann, fns
thoroughbred, chestnut mare the dam of Harper and
Kate Qpinr fosl in 1915; the purchaser A. j. Alex
arder, of Woodford Co.. Ky. After some little COM
petition she knocked of at sl75. Her pedigree is
ar f. lows: