Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1876-07-14
Blabber's Letter.

HIT asedther-Hayes refrigerator Remarha-
Jle horse race, about which there wds some mis-
take-A qreat har-And more hot heather.
GAINESVILLE, July IL, 1876.
Mr.. Elitor We had The hottest day yes
terday that we have had for several years,
the thermometer at one o'clock marked l02 in
she shade. IF any thing will make one cool,
il is Gov. Hayes letter of acceptance, for II
is certainly a cool producton--in fact chills
all hopes of reform from that quarter, and de-
monstrates what was before supposed to be
impossible, viz That there is possibility-a
bare possibility, mind you--of our having a
worse president than even U. s. Grant from
which possibility, Good Lord, deliver US
We had horse race last Saturday. 1t came
off some two or three miles from town. | did
! not 90, but have had a report of it, by which
| am much more able to report it TO you than
| if had been there. The horses were Bill and
| Dick, the purse $50, and pools selling, or Of
| fering at least, two to one on Bill. AT the
appointed time the horses and their friends
were on hand. Judges for starting and judges
at the coming out scratch, in addition to
which Messrs. McDouough and Warfeld were
to 90 along on foot to see that there was no
iockeying The race was TO be four hundred
yards-best one in one. The horses and walk
ing Judges got off in fine style, but about half
way they stopped in order that the riders might
put up stakes on a bet Of a dollar they were
Just making, but the wind blew the currency
out of their hands over into a corn-feld and
then there was foot race by several specta-
tors for those stakes. They were picked up
by an agent Of fertilizer house in George
town, and he said he would just keep them
because somebody about there owed him a
little bill on some guanohananape that he'd
sold three years ago and he guessed that was
the very field where il had been used. There
was so much poetic justice in his proposition
that all objection was silenced, and they all
resumed their interest in the horse race. But
just about this time, the horses appear TO have
developed a theory of their own as to how
the race should be finished, for just as they
were about 10 be off again, they both suddenly
wheeled, one to the right and the other to the
left and brought their heads almost right to-
gether over the middle of the road, aud then
with quick 1rt-up of their hind legs and II
derisive snort they pitched the riders right
over their heads. But they couldn't fool those
riders, for instead of being dashed to pieces
against each other, or on the ground, they
each lit on the opposite horse, with Their
/ faces toward the tail, and before they could
get themselves in proper position the horses
! took the word themselves, one toward the
/ starting scratch and the Other toward the
home scratch, and, OF course, each reached
/ his respective scratch first and gave his hackers
| good reason 10 claim stakes. There was some
! squabbling, however, about this, and the
walking judges were appealed to, to deter
mine which scratch the place where the riders
were exchanged was nearest but the walking
| judges couldn't agree on it. Warheld claimed
that il was two hundred and seventeen yards
one foot, seven and ffty-three ninety
inches from the starting place, and Mack con
tended that it was forty-seven sixty ninths Of
an inch further Warleld offered to bet a
thousand dollars he was right, which bet Mack
promptly accepted, and they put up forfeit
of eleven cents each, until they could raise the
rest of the money and get competent engin-
Ger to measure the ground. AT this point
of the proceeding my informant came away,
go can't tell you what was The finale. II
ever find ont L II tell you
N. B.-Since writing the above learn that
have been misinformed about that horse race,
that the race did't come off at all, that the
horses were not even named Bill and Dick,
that the hackers of the one thought was
Dick gave up their forfeit and Withdrew from
the race, and all the people came home or
went in swimming. It's provoking 10 be
| swindled that way, isn't it ! thought the
man who told me was II truthful man. He
| said he knew there would be lot of fellows
trying 10 bamboozle me with their accounts
of the race that nearly every body who went
to horse races was n liar, but that he WASH
a liar at all, that in fact when he waF little
! he was known as the 'curlv headed little
boy who never told a liz" OF course | was
glad TO find such truthful man; though
must say ! thought some parts Of his account
didn't sound exactly right, bus yoa had bet
ter publish it any how, just to show yom
readers what a liar that man was and SO thai
he can't fool them If he comes around talking
about horse races or anything else | expec
IL.
campaign club He'd be good man for it
But o. Greenland ! it is so hot that it is q
hard matter for any one TO tell the truth or
very big lie either, for that part. So please ex
cusc me from saying anything more now.
Yours, swelteringly, BLARBER.