Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-06-29
From the Nashville Union. !
STOCK BUYING.

fOF some time DtlSI JWO vi Jul JIOIA4A-
nent citizens have had a hankering
after fine blooded cattle. In fact they
had bovine blood badly. Sundry and
divers conferences they had between
themselves as to how they would pro-
cure the finest specimens of blOoded
cattle to be had, and astOnish their
neighbors by a sudden display of their
selections. They kept up close scru-
tiny as to where and how this stock
was to be procured. From the papers
they learned that there was to be a
show and sale of blOoded cattle at
Xeuia, Ohio, and to Xenia they went.
They left the city one morning during
last week, and arrived safely at Xenia
aforesaid. They are both wealthy,
and they looked eomplaeent like upon
the unpretentiOus Western Buckeye
town. On the first morning of the
fair and sale, they sailed forth to the
grounds, having, as they thought,
"rino" enough to bid for every cow
and calf and specimen of horned
stock that would be there. On reach
ing the ground they discovered if 1.-THE
cattle of a thousand hills" were not
there, the cattle of several valleys
were. There were Durham and
DeYonshire and English thorough
breds, and cows, and calves, and bulls
ofevery size, grade and color. Stock
men and judges too were there from
several States. Lucky men were our
heroes. They had been led by green
pastures. Wouldn't they surprise
their neighbors? Our friends took
their places in the front rank of the
steepest buyers. Instantly it became
whispered through thecrowd that two
of the wealthiest men of Tennessee
were there with immense sums to buy
'blooded stock" Those having stock
for sale chuckled. The buyers were
crest-fallen at such formidable COM
petition. All eyes were upon the
Tennesseeans. Aye, Tennesseeans,
" fortyn cOw-buyers looked upon you.
The sale commenced. A fine bloOded
bovine was brought forward, and the
auction commenced. Our friends
were ready to bid-in fact, they were
going ito go for It." They thought,
however, that they would wait for
somebody to 'start" theanimal, when
they would come down with such
bids as would astOnish the natives and
stop competition at once. The cow
was put up.
Ohioan.
Our friends stretched their eyes,
Three thousand dollars ~ said a HOos-
ier.
Our friends dropped their chins.
"Four thousand dollars!!!" bid a
Western Reserve man. Tennesseeans
were aghast. The auctiOneer looked
at them; the people looked at them
Marry bid came from that quarter.
They had never heard of such prices
for cattle as that. And though they
could command thousands at home,
and are liberal, they had not provided
themselves with funds enough on this
particular occasion to bid for a suck
| ing calf of shOrt-hOrns of the McMil-
liam herd near Xenia. Here was a
dilemma, They looked at each other,
they looked at the stock, they looked
far away, and looked in all directions
at once. They were evidently out OF
the ring, and short time found our
| speculatOrs in the outskirts OF the
crowd. After casting a few furtive
glances at each other, one of them
| exclaimed, in mournfui tones, "Let
us go home"
! "Agreed," said the other. A few
minutes after they were in Xenia and
were soon on the train homeward
bound. Few and short were the
words that they said until the Ohio
river rolled between them and the sale
of the short-horned, blOoded cattle OF
the Mcmillan herd, near Xenia.
The friends reached home in safety
after an absence of forty-four and a
half hours, and all that is necessary to
excite in the bosom of either of them
all the wrath of Achilles is to ask
them if they bought any short horns
of the Mcmillan herd, near Xenia.