Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-07-19

her to an imported French morse, ana the
colt produced was kept entire, and stood
in my neighborhood. Thomas Rawlings,
who married sister of Humes, bred to
this horse and got mare colt; sold her
to Sam Humes, and Humes bred her in
time TO horse that William Runyan
brought here from Kentucky at the time
of the war. This Runyan horse was kept
around here, and think some one here
sent back to find out his breeding, and
they claimed good deal of Messenger
blood; | don't know how authentic it
was. Well, Humes got a FLY from this
horse, and in time bred the FLY to Pow
ellis Cloud by Jackson's Flying Cloud,
son of Vermont Black Hawk, and got
FLY that became the dam of Civilization.
She is gray mare, 16 hands, rather
lengthy, slim neck, but well muscled.
strong, and quick stopper. She had
two colts by Washington q. III. Welch),
so Sam said, but l am not sure of but one,
and he was of no account. AT the time
Sam bred for Civilization he was living
at his fathers, about II miles from me,
between here and Urbana. He and Ihad
some horse talk about every time we met,
which was often. His father died that
summer. In the fall the farm was sold
and a near neighbor of mine rented it.
Sam tried to sell him the gray mare for
$3.50. l advised the man to buy her, and
we talked of how the mare was bred to
this Plumwood horse. am telling him
the same that he told me and others, and
told his brother Edward up to the time
he sold Civilization to Henry COnklyn,
then nearly two years old.
"Conklyn lives about two miles from
me. Some four or five years ago he
scraped him off a rude track and went to
breaking colts for people. He was lin
tied in means, living with his widowed
mother, but he picked up little, and
bought and sold occasionally. Urbana
Belle got to trotting fast, and Henry
(Conklyn) thought he would buy Wash
ington; so he goes to Sam Humes, who
lives with his two unmarried sisters, who
have small farm two miles this side of
Urbana. Sam is an old bachelor, has
drank good deal and is quite uncertain.
He had been keeping his brother Bills
old black Richelieu mare, and breeding
her to Washington, and had quite nice
looking FLY out of her, coming five, and
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ing four, and Civilization coming two.
Conklyn wanted to buy Washington.
Sam wanted to sell, so he called them all
Washington. Now Sans brother, Ed
ward-who is and always has been man
of high standing, took Sam to task for
disappearing the breeding of the colt
to Conklyn-says to Sam, what did you
tell him that colt was out of Washington
for?' Sam replied: by G. he is QUO Of
Washington; he amt in him. Ed testi
fled to this in court. (Mr. Freeman had
mentioned the suit described in Mr.
Foulk's letter, but refers to it as an adj
versary suit. Ed
"Plumwood was raised by r. G. Dunn
20 miles east of Urbana. He and the
Jennings, who lived at Urbana, deal
with each other. Mr.. Dunn sent his maj
up to Mr.. Jennings with Plumwood, ant
when on his way back Sam Hume'
stopped him and got him to let the hors'
serve the gray mare. Sam told me abou
it just a few days afterward. They wen
back on road not much more than hal
"A mile from where now sit writing. San
could not have had any interest in lying
to me about it. His brother, Edward
testified in court: Sam told it to me il
good faith; believed it then and be
lieve it now Sam swore he never breC
the gray mare to Plumwood, but said h,
bred the black Richeleu mare to him
When asked what he told that he bre(
the gray mare for, he said, for joke.
Would it not have been just as much of
joke to tell that he bred the black?
"Now as to the Stillson mems claim
Humes never took the mare to StillsOl
only in the fall. They try to make 1t on
he is fall colt. He was not fall colt
My wife and l, coming home from town
saw the mare and foal, and was UNEASY
about the colt, thought he had never go
up and sucked, so stopped at neigh
boris across the way and inquired, ant
they said the colt was day and a hal
old. Stillson no more sired that col
than he sired me. When Sam sold tina
colt he had no idea of his becoming not
ed horse. Sam got his foot in it, unex
pectedly, and now he is trying to stick T.
it, partly on that account and partly be
cause the tricksters about Urbana hav
got him in tow. DR.. Converse is the ma
who brought Welch in here and aliases
him Washington, and afterward had t
acknowledge the fraud and call him j
II. WEIGH. Converse now has turtle
footed Washington, and Brooks Kenag
has one, and they think to build them u
on the credit of Civilization.