The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-07-15

NJ Hamlln Will IND plenty OF DacK-
ing.
A horse s. t. b. by Old Tom Hal,
called Probability, got distanced in
Iowa last week. They mai e SO many
Tom Halls now the Probability is he
is not by him.
Mr.. Valensin, the owner of Sidney,
has written letter to the papers in
which he objects to being called
Count" for the reason that he is not
a count and never was.
A cablegram last week from q re
sponsible London grain firm an
nOunced that the shortage in the
wheat crop in India this year would
be 30 per cent.-Breeders' Gazette.
"Just say to the Bob Hill men, says
the genial Allen Harlan, "that I am
not in the mule business, but the Jack
business, and if they expect to beat
imported Taxpayer they will have to
90 back to Spain for the chap, and /
am not sure they will find him
there"
Messrs. John and Newt Due came
/. Sar having Il serious accident yes
terday. IL attempting to cross over
Little Bigby in Mr.. Sol Bunch's field
their wagon was washed down
stream and they with difficulty saved
themselves and mules. No serious
damage done.
independence A lmOnt, by BOstick's
Almont, out of ROXie, second dam
NOVA Maid, reached Columbia from
cha &c of Capt. j. V. Clark. whU will
train him on the kite-shaped track.
Independence Almont is in the pink
of condition.
What's the matter with Ashwood
as a shipping point? The following
postal has been received from the
agent there: "There have been 155
carloads OF potatoes shipped from
this station this season The inces-
SAINT rains have prevented all being
dug. POtato-buyerI are plentiful,
offering good prices. Wheat is sprOut-
ing in the Shocks"
Mr.. Allen Harlan is on top so far as
the wheat business is concerned. His
was the first crop of wheat, he says,
to get to market this year. He
threshed 2, 400 bushels and put them
on the cars at AshwOod Station June
%. He now sits around and listens
with quiet satisfaction to 1.-The patter
of the rain" May his emulatOrs, as
well as his tribe, increase.
Mr.. John 4. Logan, Jr., Young
town, o., is playing in pretty hard
luck. Last winter n very painful alb
scess at the base of the brain brought
him into a hand-tO-hand conflict
with death and left with the hearing
of one ear slightly impaired, and on
Friday last he was thrown from a
pony and suffered a fracture of the
right arm.-Breeders' Gazette.
EweN Farm came out in good luck
at the recent Cumberland races:
Four of the get of Tennessee Wilkes
started at Nashville. Marine, 4 years
old, won in five heats. Tine 2::2S.
Morelia, 3 years old, won the four
year old and under, pace, time 2:2614.
Katie Wilkes won third money and
Chiquita fourth in the 2:40 trot.
These made two firsts, one third, one
fourth for the get of Tennessee
Wilkes.
Isn't it pity but that somebody
could draw a picture of a horse or a
mare that whom reproduced in a
paper would look like the Original?
Take any front page illustration of
mares for Instance and they are all
pretty much like Talmage's sermons
when you have seen one. you have
seen all. Pick up any stock. journal
and the cuts of the stations look So
much alike SIS to be hardly dis
A funny incident happened on the
new road built to the kite track, yes
terday An l.. q n. engine was try
ing n trestle for the first time, in
front of which was a country dog,
who, undertaking the speed of the en-
CINE, got all of himself out of the way
but about eight inches of his tail,
which was cut off by the wheels
The dog raised such a noise that his
owner, a darby, picked up the dis
membered fragment, wrapped it in a
and in the language of a
prominent gentleman present, who is
our au hOTity in this event, swore he
was going to carry it to de united
SIIjtS dISSHlC anu lilsbhC OC IellAOeeN
pay fur it,"
A dispatch from Kirkwood, Del,
dated July 4th, to the American
says:
Belle Hamlin and Globe, G. j.
Hamlin's great double team, beat the
team trotting record to-day by turn
ing the new kite-shape track in 2:12
fiat. 1t was the opening meeting of
the Maple Valley Trotting AssOcia-
ton, and a crowd numbering nearly
1900 was in attendance. Hal Poin-
ter, Mr.. Hamlin's great PAGER, in a
trial against his record of 2:094, put
in two heats, each in 2:11L =, while the
stallion Wilkes Bird lowered his
record from 2:301a to 2:271a.
"The time of Hal Pointers first heat
by quarters was 1924, 1:051a, 1890,
2:lI15. Geers was not satisfied and
gave him another beat, but could
not beat that time the quarter being
3414, :07, :514, 2:111a.
''1'he dog Doe tTotted a quarter
mile in IS seconds, and afterward
Murphy ran a quarter mile against
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