The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-11
HORSES. MULES. AND CATTLE.

Parties having we'll bred stock are
requested to send items to this paper
for our popular live stock column
MULE QUoTATIoNs.-rhese quota
tions are corrected weekly by J. w
Howard IL Co. Must be choice and fat
from to 7years old, in good flesh.
IA to Az hands high s 81 to $11.
Ia to Is hands high i12 to 13i
10 to I51S hands high 137 to Isl
l515 to 10 hands high 162 to III
1t is reported that after the Di
recital Pointer race at Columbia
Tenn, as George Starr was nearing
the grand stand on his return t.
greet the judges, he was surprised to
observe a beavy of about 20 lovely
young misses in the grand stand In
dustriously engaged in shooting kiss
es in his direction George plainly
felt the smackety-smack,a as the kiss
es borne on the waves of the atmos-
phere, run up against his Adonis-
like face, and he was greatly pleased
until informed that the little messages
of love were intended for the little
black Direct.-Rushville (Ind. }
Graphic.
Prince Wilkes, 2:1424, the trot-
ting champion of 1888, has broken
down in South America, and has
been sold to a Buenos Ayres livery
man for small sum.
Daughters of Sidney now hold
both the yearling trotting and pacing
records.
The two-year-old trotting record
has been reduced thirty-one seconds
in twenty years.
Among the mares that are to be
bred to AllertOn in the spring is the
dam of Polly, a mare that was for
three years the champion of Europe.
Allerton's fee for 1892 has been fixed
at 81 500 with no return privilege.
Thomas Bros, shipped one car
load cattle to Louisville Saturday.
w. b. BURNETT shipped one car
load of cattle and hogs from Mt.
Pleasant to Birmingham Monday.
-Chas. Skillman shipped one car
load of mules to Eufaula Ala, Tues
day.
Henderson & Rainier shipped one
car load of mules to Troy, Ala, Tues
day.
j. G. Coats shipped one car load
of mules to DemopOlis, Ala We'd es-
day.
Mr.. Williams, OF Independence,
shows his usual degree of enterprise
in offering to breed ten fillies, got Ly
Allerton, to Arion at 81, 500 eacL.
The Senator will probably accept the
offer if arrangements can be made by
which he can become the purchaser
OF one or two of the produce. We
have no such man as Mr.. Williams
in California, more's the pity.
Scores of retired merchants a
manufacturers are going into the
breeding of trotters on a large scale
and making their nomination stakes
lob nfl To- N
value. The trotting turf may not
witness one of its stars sold at auctif q
for 500, 900, as was the case with st.
BIaise, for some time to come, but its
grow tn is healthy one, beyond dis
pute.
-"RecentIy," said Bishop Fitz-
gerald, who made Kentucky a visit q
short time ago. "I found myself in a
section of the State where they breed
the finest horses. Having to travel q
distance of fifteen to twenty miles, 8
coIored stable boy was sent with me
to drive my buggy. He was densely
| ignorant, and thought to utilize the
| time spent on the journey by doing
some quiet missionary work. began
| 20 tell him in the simplest language
the old, old story. About the time
I thought the boy was interested an
| ,
magnificent specimen of the equine
race. Ny companions face bright
ened, and he turned to me, his eyes
dancing with enthusiasm, and said
'Look-ee darI look-ee daT! OATS Ber
Bolt, full brudder to Volante; h'
win four outen five starts yOnder IL
Lexington, aud made mile in l "A
on a slow track l was somewhat
taken aback, but after the boy
enthusiasm had subsidized I took vi
the thread of my discourse and began
again. 1t was of little u g. l pitte'
the New Testament against, it seemed
to me, all the blooded stock in Ken
lucky, and absorbed enough knowl
edge of horseflesh to last me life
time. We met a son of LODgfel
low during the flight into Egypt,
and trotter that had made a mile il
l2:20 'on the coasts of Galilee.' /
winner of the Derby, led by colore'
man, passed us as we crossed tn
Jordan, and we ran against Joke
who had won eleven out of twelv
mounts as we entered the temple o
jerusalem