The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-18
Something Queer.

Batavia, Ill. In tDe June III there
appeared under the head of "Horse
History OF Batavia" a somewhat long
article, which aside from a s~prinkling
of rare and erudite Latin and Hebrew
quotations such as "genus homo" "lex
non scripta" and "mene, meme, tekel
upharsin," contained no symptoms of
mental alteration. But in the next
number the same contributor, premis-
sing, 81 propose to cater to the edifica-
ton or entertainment of your increas-
ing army of subscribers by the follow
ing poetic bill of fare between heats, in
a deserved compliment to Johnston"
pours his alleged soul into one of the
most remarkable nightmares ever i'm
posed upon a confiding public under the
guisejof verse. These concluding lines of
a column and a half give a fair taste of
its quality:
GLOW ERE this be of true solution,
We claim thee a Yankee institution.
Born to fortune, wealth and favor,
And all which that would seem to SAVIOR.
If not a sovereign, tell me what
Compared with many a biped's lot?
King of the turf! Thy wondrous powers
Have had their use, tits ours
To know the King divine
His handiwork can cause to shine
In man or beast, and human pride
Can humble in a horses stride!"
These lines call to mind ARENAS
Wards complacent remarks on some
designs in water colors executed by his
own hand. 81 showed them," said Ar
temas, "to several prominent art crit
les, all OF whom said they had never
seen anything like them; some of them
ever went farther, and said they never
wanted to-" Curious TO see who Ba-
tavia's inspired idiot really was, we
looked at the head of the article and
saw that he had disguised his identity
under the nom de plume &C. Alex. G.'
which being interpreted means DR.. G..
Alex. Garnsey homeopathic, of whom
we once civilly requested some hor-e
information with but indifferent sue
cess. We asked for the pedigree of
Abdallah Allen. We did not get it,
but will presently give what we did
get. But when the August number of
the Monthiy appeared, behold the rhap.
sodicai G.. Alex. G.,atter dipping again,
like Silas Wegg, iuto about a column
of ''poetry," devotes four columns to
Abdallah Allen and his dam, owned,
as appears, by the tunetnl Alex.
OF Abdallah Allen 6 N of Wood.
wards Ethan Allen, full brother to
Daniel Lambert and now owned by
Gel. w. II. Withers and used by him
exclusively as a private stallion, all his
daughters being kept as brood maresl
this healing minstrel says: ellis his
tory is briefly told. : lie grew up
about II l-2 hands high, weight about
800 pounds. lie was so constitution
ally V that he was physically in.
capaciated for stud purposes, and !
traded him away for a song. The pur-
chaser had no better success with him
than | had, and he went into the hands
of a third party who had the same
luck. lie was finally sold to parties
back in the country and put to HARD
work in the fields. When he had been
worked down nearly to a skeleton, he
was allowed a limited stud service, ana
strangely enough he sired tWO colts, ont
an uncOmpromiSing PAGER WhO mere,
WOuid trOt a foot, tile other a trOtte,
and PAGER, and both small, but bose,
of the rOad."
Alas, poor Abdallah Allen! Hard
was his lot, the Pegasus of such a bard
OF his dam the minstrel doctor states,
after an account of his long search for
her pedigree: "She was undoubtedly
a Morgan, looked like it, and came
from Vermont where | traced her
Subsequently she bore a fine ~trottine
filly to my horse Mambrino Vandal
Was used here As a buggy animal, lit
orally dying in harness at a ripe old
age" And again: "The dam
a fast-trotting, understood Morgan, the
stable companion and driving mate OF
the horse. She was then Ii or IA year:
old, tough as whalebone, could trot il
2.40, high-spirited, needing 6
blow, and pluck to the backbone kind
gentle, thankful for any kind of are
always the same to the dozen different
masters she owned. Fanny, thou ar
dead now; this much in memory o.
your virtues"
Now here is a verbatim copy of re
ply to III letter of March 80, 1885.
BATAVIA, Ill.,, April A, 'S5.
In answer to the above, will say tina
as | would presume you are collecting
truthful information on Morgan stock
yeu don't want anything in regard tC
the called 'Abdallah Allen NJ
more Morgan than | am All the Nor
gan blood he had in him, notwithstand
ing he was sired by Ethan Allen, jr.
was, even on the sire's side, knocked
into Smithereens by the Abdallah cross
together with Old Black Hawks and
Old Ethan's dams. Abdallah Allel
was called Forest King, Flying Ethar
and l think was sent to Wallace a
Abdallah Allen. He never amounted
to shucks, and his dam, though re
J ported said to be- Morgan, was neve.
and could not be traced to anything
She was a mere plug No Morgan
round here. Queer enough, is it not
that a horse should be rated a Morgan
with one remote, doubtful cross anC
ignoring a half dozen other strains nea
by? DIR. G. ALEX. GARNsEY.
Start not, gentle reader, the worst il
! yet TO come. You are to learn tina