The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-11-13

. youth OF both sexes, to attend Fisl
4 University for the purpose Of preparing
. themselves to teach in the Publ
| Schools of the State"
y CULLEoKA ITEMS.
The Sd inst. was the time appointed
by statute for the holding of election
for Governor, Congressman and Legis
lators. The day dawned most glorious
ly for the American people. The wide
spread influence of that days work may
pass down through generations yet un
born. From out the golden glowing
east arose the sun of deliYerance, pencil
ing with it's broad beams of mellow
light the varied landscapes OF our owl
beloved country, extending that efful
! gence from the rOck-girt Atlantic to the
placid waves of the broad Pacific May
we exult in other successes of like con.
| sequences.
| Some time since the notable incendia.
Ty, George Smith, COL, who was the
midnight actor of that horrible tragedy
| committed in Giles county about six
months agO-whO had escaped confine-
ment from his quarters in the goal was
intercepted near this place by Mr.. Jack
Lowrance, Geo. G. Taylor and Turner
| Hunt, ESQ.,, and is now in his little bed
at the old homestead.
| A new store house is in contemplation
by Messrs. Stephens q Morris.
Mr.. Walter Kuhn has had his resi-
| dence remodeled, and it presents quite a
| different aspect. Also Mr.. Tayloris Civ
| ing the finishing touch to his dwelling.
| DR.. Elliott, OF Nashville, preached at
| the M. E. Church on Sunday, and at
night of the same. He presented some
very good ideas and said many pretty
things in the display Of language. Texts
| were the trio of words used before and
l 1-o ~,
is finished" and Touch me not" He
also entertains the good people of this
vicinity with his most excellent enter
tainment of Scripture Scenes in the BIZ
BILE.
A number of our citizens are in Law
renee county on a hunting excursion,
and have been gone about a week The
| deer of that region had well lie low or
hasten to most remote covert.
Miss Bette Nicholson is absent in
Wayne county, attending the nuptial
banquet of some relative. May she
gather roseate enjoyment from the
scene, and should she desire. anon, be
envelnped in the flowing trosseau of the
bonny bride.
On the 18th some of our citizens will
take their leave for Messrs.
Graves and Bailiss from this particular
point. We dislike to see so many of our
tOwnspeOple seeking other parts,
But then everything und6rgOes this mu-
tation. Natures mighty law, indeIibJy
written, is change.
The TrOItIng Horse.
To the Editor, of the Herald and HAL:
To train and develope them and make
trOtters, they all should be handled at
one year old. a great many men think
to train colt at one, two or three years
old is not right-that they will get bro
ken down before they are matured.
will admit there are some colts ruined
before they are matured, sometimes old
horses are ruiued.) Now, l will give
you the reason. In the first place, you
take your colt up from d pasture when
it has barely strength TO get along;
you give it to the first man that
comes along that will do it cheapest.
Then you want to see your colt trot i'll
3 minutes, in two weeks training and
probably this man knows no more about
training and handling trotter than a
boy ten years old. He goes on with
your colt, drives him his best every
day. You see your colt worked every
day; you say he is good one-he is gO~
ing to make trOtter, perhaps a Gold
smith Maid-yOu think you have the
coming horse. Your colt has now been
trained tour weeks; he begins to ''sin-
gle-foOt;" hop behind; shows you any
SHlG SACCPJ u ASN61 lIOts i gu say.
What is the matter with my colt?'
The trainer does not know why should
he know? he never had any experience.
Your colt is ruined; you give up having
colts handled to make trOGters of. Here
is the trouble. LIST, your colt was thin;
he should not have been speeded in
three weeks from the time he went in
training, and then only little way at a
time-then he would haYe been season.
ed and strong, and gone on improving.
Increase his work as he gets stronger and
feels like trotting.
To train and deyelOpe trotter is a
trade itself. l have known mon to train
trotters ali their lifetime, and the
last few years of their life just begin to
bring out and know how TO train trot-
ting horse. To train colt takes eXpe~
rience, time, patience and money, and
from one to FIVE years to bring them
out. Before | commence on training
l will give you list OF some of the fast
est trOtting horses in the world that
we're trained at two and three years old. |
l will begin with Goldsmith Maid. (the
fastest in the world She was trained
at three years old; was very nervous and |
bad tempered-it took all one winter to
break her to harness, and she was train |
ed three years, winter and summer, be- |
fore she was ever started in a race. Her
first race was against Dexter, and she |
2:35, 1884, and 2.33. They were both |
considered green horses then. Next |
comes Dexter, who was broken at three |
wears old and turned out until the next |
spring, when he was taken up and put |
to work, slow driving on the road. He |
then passed into other hands, and soon |
made 2:30, and later 2:1Sl-5. Occident, |
the California horse, was broken 1T two !
years old, and his record is 2:I6. Lady |
Thorn was broken at two years old, and |
was the fastest and best of her d4y, her |
record being 2:1SH. Ethan Allen was |
broken and trained at two years old, |
and when fifteen years old trStted in |
2:l5 with running mate. ROsalind, with |
record OF 222A, Jim Irwin, 2:3315, Jno. |
Morgan, pa, Pilot Temple, 2:24, Rolla |
Golddust, 2:2l, to saddle, Lula, PIG, and |
Ericsson, 2;3013,-all were broken and |
trained young. Trustee, IT., the noted |
twenty mile horse, was broken at two |
years old. I could give the name and |
record of a great many more horses that |
were broken and trained at two years !
old, but suppose tho above list is sIf1i- |
cient.
Now, we will commeace training trot- |
ters LIST. Your colt is well broken 30 |
harness and in good condition, not too |
fat or too poor; drive him to a skeleton |
wagon, so as to have no weight on the |
back until you get him gated. In the |
wagon you can see how be handles his |
feet. whether he has a long or a short |
stride-if a long stride and has good |
knee action, rolls his ieet we'll under !
him, that is good enough: he will inn
prove. If he has a long stride, but does |
not gather quick enough, put little |
heavier shoe on his front feet, or weight !
boots, from one to two pounds, as occa~ |
sion may require. II he has not action !
enough behind, and does not stifle OUT
side of his body, get lead rollers, and |
have them well covered with sheepN |
skin, so they: will not rub his legs. |
The rollers should weigh one pound |
each, and buckIed on above the pasture |
joint of the hind leg Then your colt |
will have plenty OF action. After you !
have driven a few times, slowly, with |
these on, you can let him move little !
way at time, not over an hundred |
yards. If your colt is feeling finely, |
give him work enough to keep him |
steady. Never drive your colts with a |
full belly, and always give few swal- |
lows of water before and after driving, /
and sponge out his head and uostrils. /
If he is warm, sorape him off well; then |
straighten his hair down well with a
rubbing cloth; then put light blanket /
on him tie it uD we'll around his breast /