Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-10-31

| American DominiqueS; Samuel 4. Wheatley, pair
duckwing game, also pair red and pair white
| Pile game, and pair white and pair black game;
W. G. Lee, pair silver Hamburgs; Boileau
| Heagy, pair white LeghOrns: Samuel E. Wheatley,
| pair black Leghorns; Nelson & Seibert pair
brown Leghorns; Bennett & Colby, pair black-red
game bantams; also pair silver game Dantan.S;
Boileau & Heagy, pair yellow duckwing game
hantams; T. B. Dorsey, pair Pile game bantams;
| T. Walsh, pair black African bantams; 4. ].
Middleton, pair black Spanish; NJ. Hart, pair
| white-cfested Polands; S. NJ. Clark, pair La
| FleChe; I. b. Dorsey, pair black Pile game BAN
| tams, also pair Seabrtght bantamS and pair sill
| yer ScaDright bantams.
! Turkeys. Geese and DuckS-Richarl. Smith,
! pair white China geese, also pair brown China
geese, pair Cayuga ducks and pair Pet;In ducks;
y. Mcmahon. pair Japanese geese; Dr.. II. II.
| Evans, pair white Guinea fowls. also pair Guinea
| pigs, pair Angora rabbits, pair AbysSnian
Guinea pigs, pair ", california gpail, and pair
mountain quail; s. " sttnemetz, green parrot,
Pgeons-Dr r. H. Evans pair black pied
| pouters, also pair red. pair yellow, pair white,
pair silver and pair blue ponters: George Can
| thorn, pair black carriers E. A. Dennison pair
dun carriers; Or. r. H. Evans, pair red Barbs;
s. W. Stinemetz, pair white-crestcd fantafls; also
pair hlack-Grested fantails, and pair yellow
| JacObinS; DIR. X. Evans, pair blue Ant
werps; w. Stewart, pair yellow turbits; D. A.
Dennson, pair yellow Quakers also pair arch
George Fahnkop pair yellow R masples; maybe Geprgs
| Gohlu, pair red magpies; Dr. r. II. Evans pair
booted fantails; D. Davis, pair black and pair
"ultt 0tOISe FdHIkOip, ptIlT SWal-
Pltest Dr. R. H. Evans pair white pigmy pout-
ers; S. w. Stinemetz, pair black tumblers; H. F.
Whitman, pair chequered AntwerpS; j. Fahn-
kolp, pair blue owls; C. D. Davis, pair plain
| black, pair plain blue, pair yellow and pair red
fantails; Pa D. A: Dennson; pair ring-doves; F; Eel
| Dennison, pair black Smells.
Beer-Peter Doelger, best beer, not less than
| half barrel.
Culinary-Mrs. G. D. Hanson, for best home
made 1ipht hrpad. m oada
| biscuit; John II. Magruder, best homemade
| rolls; Mrs c. Cooper, best homemade sponge
| cake; Mrs. K. Teel, best home made pound cake;
Mrs. H. c. Whiting, best homemade jelly cake.
Dairy Products and UtenSilS-GeOrge NJ. OyS-
ter Co., best three f1rkns butter not less fifty
six pounds in each firkin, made by the exhibitor
and fitted for expectation, also best frlin but
ter in shipping order, not less than fifty-SiX
| pounds; best butter, not less than twenty-eight
pounds, in rkins, crooks or tubs, and butter not
less than eight pounds, in roll or print; best
three f1rkins creamery butter in shipping order,
| not less than fifty-SiX pounds, made in the fol-
| lowing months: One in June one in July, and
| one in Augusta. X. Ward, OF the Alderney
dairy churn and 500 for collection of wood dairy
utensils.
Wright, jelly cake made by Miss Annie NJ. Mo
hun, little girl twelve years of age and al
mOnd cake, by Miss Chubb, received honorable
mention.
The Races Yesterday.
Yesterdays races were exciting, but all the
| idNoi1eCo WClO uCuUSu. uC LII ldSC \ohO IL
| suit of which was announced in yesterdays
| STAR was handicap of one mile and eighth.
| The starters were Virgfllian, Gabriel Surge,
Konrad, Claudia, utilta and Scotilla, Gabriel
but the Jockeys thinking it was '.go,1 y did not
| hold up until one mile had been covered. Clau-
| dia, who had been entered for the next race,
again. It was very very pretty pref y race, Gabriel lead cad
ing for short distance, after which Surge took
the first place and maintained it to the close,
Kgan sfS Seeond Sc9a tt third Gabrel fourth
| Surge having sold low In the pools brought
$3.50 in the Paris mutuals, much to the disgust
| of those who had bought the other horses.
| The second, a consolation purse, mile heat
race Of 5000 for first and $50 for second brought
Edwin A., Tramp, Ike Bonham, Matilda, Lucky
| Hit, Evangeline and Claudia to the field, the
! latter selling the favorite. Evangeline refused
I to start, and after great deal OF coaXing and
pushing to make her make the venture she was
allowed to stay behind and withdrawn. The
OF it, Edwin A. coming In ahead, Claudia second
| Lucky Hit third, Ike Bonham fourth, Matilda
and Tramp being dstaneed Time 1:47. Edwin
lowed with the remaining four horses, the heat
being won by Lucky Hit. Time 1:5o. Then
Lucky Hit and Edwin A: had the final heat to
Edwin A. leading for considerable OF the dis
tance, when Lucky Hit rushed to the front and
won the heat and race. Time 1:51sl.
| mile, hurdle, over eight hurdles, for purse OF
I $500 for the first and $50 for the second horse
The starters were Pomroy, Lizzie D., Dandy and
| Nigillan. Three Of the horses, Pomroy, Lizzie
| ID. and Virgillian, were from Daly's stable. 1t
was good race, Pomroy leading for the first
mile, and then waiting. allowed them all to
| catch up. Pomroy forged ahead again, and kept
| the lead until the home stretch was neared
| when Lizzie D. went to the front and passed
under the wire neck ahead; winning the race
| in 1851, PomrOy second and Virgillian third At
| the last hurdle Dandy threw his jockey, and
afterwards ran almost another mile before he
| to the judges stand. In the last race Lizzie D.
| brought $1255 in the Paris mutuals.
The trotting races, in which there are sixty
horses entered, will commence on Monday and
| will last for four days.
| The Athletic Sports Tomorrow.
The athletic committee of the National Fair
association held meeting at the Natator1um
last evening, and it was decided that the con-
test should take place on the track in front Of
| the grand stand, commencing at II O'Clock am.
Der OF entries have been made by local athletes
| VIM. A. Wilson, the deaf mute, being among
the number. All contestants who have entered
or desire to enter into these contests should re-
| port at the main entrance of the grand stand at
1920 O'Clock tomorrow morning.
At O'Clock tomorrow afternoon the inter-
state tournament will take place on the track
| opposite the grand-stand The fitting will be at
| hve rings, thirty yards apart; limit, seventeen
seconds Nv ~; charge to the knights vii be de-
| are Maj; George Mckee, ". Il. Il. Cissel, Capt.
| F. A. Roe, Z: S. n, DR.. H. P. Heisken R. W.
| bowman, VIM. r. Smith, r. P. Wilson, j. c.
Ergood and ]. W. Kennedy. Chief marshal,
Maj. Clay Goodloe; assistant marshals, R. C.
Gwynn, John S. Miller, P. H. Heiskell, jr., Clar-
ence Hall, w. ]. Brooke; chief herald, C. H.
Stone; assistant heralds, A. L. Graves ]. H. Jo-
chum, w. H. Hoover, j. A. Talbot. Forty-seven
knights have entered.
The bicycle race five miles for speed, and 100
feet slow, will take place at o'clock tomorrow
afternoon, with the following contestants. h.
S. owen, F. D. Owen, F. G. Collins, Frank Wood,
n. S. Patton, j. NICK. Borden, Max Hansmann,
b. M: Schooley, VIM. Chester, E. T. Pritchard,
Geo. Pritchard and Jas. P. Stabler.
Two ROBBERS attacked F. o. Soders in his
store, in Paige, Texas yesterday, and wounded
him with pistol shot. An attempt by the
sheriff and posse subsequently to capture them
resulted in combat, in which one of the rob-
berS was wounded, but both escaped.
THE CONFESSION OF CLARK BROWN, the Win
chester lOnt.) murderer, is in the hands Of Rev.
DR., MacNish, and will be read Immediately after
the execution. TWenty-Seven persons from
Ottawa have applied for the job of hanging
Brown.