The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-06-25
WASHINGTON ruRNouTs.

/ The National Capital Not Astounding In
Good and Costly Horse-FIesh.
The horse that forms part of q
stylish livery in Washington is not, as
q rule, far removed from a ''hack. !"
To be attached to twenty-fve-cent
Sab or to tug at the traces of a dingy
''night-liner' is the fate that sooner or
later overtakes him. This fate is al
most invariable for the official horse.
One pair of President Arthur's horses
is now engaged in hauling a hack over
the concrete streets of the capital for
| their food and what attention they can
/ get at a public livery-stable. They
were bought at auction by the stable
man, and are the servants of the pub
/ lie. Several of the horses that were
/ driven to the carriages of his Cabinet
/ Ministers and formed a part of their
/ brilliant establishments here are work
/ ing in the street-cabs and look no bet
/ ter than their fellows who have never
occupied such distinguished positions.
| AS stylish private livery may be seen
/ in Washington as in any other city,
/ probably, but there are few teams that
! could stand to have the gold or silver
1 taken from their harnesses. Most of
/ them are scrubs, or have had years
/ piled upon them until they are sway
/ backed. Senator Malone is credited
with driving a very fne-blooded team
| to his drag. was told the other day
I by a man who knows the horses that
! they are old clods without any blood,
/ which he brought from the country.
/ where they have done service for more
/ years than their teeth would like to
/ confess.
The Presidents horses are much ad-
mired, and every body knows all about
/ them by this time, but the only horses
/ in his Cabinet that would be too good
to do service on a milk-wagon are those
driven by Mr.. Whitney. Bayard
makes no essay to stylish livery, and
| his horses have seen their best
/ days. Those driven with much
| display of livery by Secretary Endicott
| served a full Senatorial term with Mr..
/ Pendleton, and were sold to the Secre-
tary of War when he took the Pendle-
/ ton house on Sixteenth street. 1t is
quite a common thing for horses to
/ pass the rounds from one official to an
| other until they are finally sold at auc-
! ton and meet their fate in the shape of
q two-wheeled cab. which is hitched to
them for the rest of their days.
/ The horses driven by Mr.. Evarts in
| 1868 drew Secretary Chandler's car
riage during his term in the Cabinet,
and are now doing duty on the street to
public conveyances.
The horses driven by the Postmaster
/ General have done duty at the depart
! ment for mady years. AttOrney-Gen-
/ eral Garland has no horses. Lamar
! has no use for a horse except when
/ he's astride it, and then he is not par
/ ticular as to the kind. Many of the
! fine-lOOking equipages at the capital
| that pass for private are hired by the
month from livery-stables. The French
| Minister gets the credit of having one
| of the finest private turnOuts. He hires
1t from large stable here, paying one
! hundred and seventy-five dollars per
month. Admiral Temple, who lives in
! considerable style at the Portland, hires
his equipage.
There are some fine teams driven
here, but they are small minority
among those that make pretensiOns.
The finest horses, except Senator
! Stanford's celebrated team, are those
driven by Representative Scott, of Erie.
! They have not been here long. They
| are light bays, with black points all
| around, and are but five years old.
! They are valued at two thousand five
/ hundred dollars. They are driven to 8
| very stylish turnout by a cOachman
whom he pays one hundred dollars per
month and living.
General Singleton drives a fine team,
! and so does the British Minister. Mr..
Palloch has two fine horses. Those
| driven by the Japanese Minister used
| to be beauties, but they have grown
| old in service and are only keeping up
| appearances, like woman bellies. Rep
resentative Fisher, of Michigan, has a
/ good team. Hon. William Walter
! Phelps has very fine horses, as has Hon.
Robert R. Hit, also. Senator Evarts
! has two new horses of good Kentucky
| stock. They are very dark brown.
Senator Cameron has two clipped
BAYS, which he values at 50, 800. He
| drives them to a coupe and a broug
! ham. He has white driver in green
! livery. Senator Payne drives two big
! bays Hon. Warner MiIler's coachman
claims that his Hambletonian bays can
trot to the pole in three minutes. In
/ full livery the turnout is very stylish.
Senator Allison's horses make no pre-
tensions to style. Senator Stanford
doesn't drive his fast horses to his car
riage. His carriage horses are a pair
! of seventeen-hands-hig blacks, max
/ ing an immense team IN a noaVy silver
harness. The livery is black, with big
black rosettes on the hats. The drivers
are white.
OF the old citizens here, General Beale
| probably has the best livery. He is a
| great horseman, and the horses he
drives have good blood in them, but
/ they are a little old. His carriage
horses do not match in color. One is
dun and the other a dark bay. His
turnout is quite attractive. Ex-Sena-
/ tor Yulee has black quipage-black
driver, black livery, black coach and
black horses. Ex-Secretary Robson
rotund person lies lazily back in a
/ handsome coupe, drawn by two fine
/ hOrses-one sorrel and the other gray
which are held in by a coachman
with a broad, patent-leather band on
his hat w w. Corcoran's horses are
handsome, but old. Senator Sabin' S
stable consists of pair of black Ham
/ bletonians, valued at $1,000, a large,
/ black coupe horse valued at $500, and
another valued at 81 800. The finest
teams seen on the streets of the capital
are those that are here only Temporal
rilY.- Washington Cor. N. 7. San.
WHICH IS WHICH.