The Princeton union., 1881-08-04


eign laborers by a system similar to that
which has SO successfully withdrawn col
ored labor from Albemarle. Many of the
men who have gone from Charlottesville
and vicinity are sending for their families.
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THE NERVOUS LITTLE SORREL.
A Story Of the Days When Maud s. Was a
Bit Of a Colt.
Deer Park Correspondence of the Pitts ourg
Post
The afternoon mail had arrived on Thurs
day and brought, among other things, the
Pittsburg papers. When opened my copy
Of the Post and saw what Maud S. had ac-
complished at the new driving park, I turned
to gentleman who sat beside me and
said: Maud S. has beaten the record and
has trotted in 10 1-2" "You don't mean
it," said he. Let me look at the paper. "
The gentleman who said this was MI. W.S.
Hubert, of Cincinnati. He is one of the
noted men of that place, is worth a million
or two and is largely interested in the Gin
cinnati Gazette. Mr. Hubert laid down
the paper and said: 81 owned Maud S. for
week once. Captain j. Bugher, an old
river man who ceme from up the Mononga-
hela river, WAS friend of mine. He was
great horseman, and one day we went over
to sale of blooded colts at Alexander's
farm, at Woodburn, Kentucky. Bugher
bought eleven colts and then it began to
rain in torrents. We stood under an UNI
brella as the last colt on the catalogue was
brought out. She was pref
ty, bright-looking thing, and
told Bugher he had better buy her.
He said he had bought enough, and con-
cluded would take her myself and so I
gave $145 for her. put her in with Bugh-
ers colts and they were all sent to his
farm. About a week after this / went to
the farm and asked where my colt was.
Bugher showed me little, nervous-looking
sorrel colt, which had piece Of string
tied around it's neck. He said that was nv
colt and that the string had been put on
it in order to distinguish it. It did not
look to me as if it was the colt I had
bought ana said SO, but Bugher was
positive and let it 60 until the next time
we went out to the farm. remembered
then that my colt was bay and not a sorrel
and 1 told Bugher so and he confessed that
he had been mistaken; so I took the bay
and Bugher took the sorrel and that's
where made mistake. The sorrel was
Maud S. and the bay was her sister.
Maud has trotted in 2.OS and the sister
can t trot under three minutes. Bugher
put the colt into BARS hands to train when
she was three years old and in short time
she did magnificent work. Old man Bug
her died and his son gave orders to Bair to
sell the mare for $3.50. Bair came to me
a dozen times and wanted me to buy her.
He said she was the fastest thing in the
way OF horsefesh there was in the country,
but did not care about making the
purchase. After awhile Stone
bought the mare for $3.50 and allowed
Bair to manage her. She showed so much
speed that Vanderbilt heard of her and
wanted to buy her. Stone said he would
sell for $21 900, $4,000 for himself and
81, 900 for Bair, provided the mare trotted
in 2:10. She was put on the Lexington
track and made the mile in 2:17 3-4, which
was just Dexter's time. Vanderbilt bought
her and put her in charge of man who
could not do anything with her. Wander
bilt wrote to Stone and said: II bought that
mare for $21, 900 ana she can't trot in 2:35.
l don't want to be called an ass. What
shall do about it?' Stone replied that it
the mare was sent to him to train he would
make her the fastest trotter in the world,
and he did. Only few weeks ago @ man
named Woodmansee, who represented
Mr.. Kittson, of St. Paul, Minnesota, went
to Vanderbilt and offered him a certified
check for 500, 900 for Maud, but Wander
bilt only laughed and said she was not for
sale-and that is the nervous little sorreI
top that he would not keep"-and MIR. HUI
bert softly rubbed his chin and looked at
me with queer smile that spoke volumes
"You said she trotted in 2:OS," said I,
"do you not mean in 2:1G 1-2?"
mo, sir" said Mr.. Hubert, promptly.
1T is we'll known that the mare can trot in
2:0S, and what is more, she has trotted
mile on regular track on two different oc-
casions. Of course, it was in private, and
not on record. but she was timed by COM
petent men with stop watches"