Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-14

family. They had good style and were
not coarse; all good styled horses, well
cut up under throat latch, nice ear, well
set, prominent eyes and showed good
deal of breeding. 1 think the original
was an imported horse. think they
showed more breeding than the Morgans.
They were powerful built with very large
arms. The Magnum Bonums were more
rangy and coarser and not like the Mes
sengers; for the Messengers that we had
had much style, could outstyle anything
else. recollect a Messenger owned by
Gen. Ruggles, gray, 16 hands, 100 lbs. !;
never SAW horse of more style than he.
Ruggles lived in West Martnsburg, n.
V, and think ne shipped that horse to
Fond du Lac as early as 1850 or before.
The Black Hawks came into Fond du Lac
about 1850. My brother. F. ID. Nc
earthly, at Glen Arbor. Mich, is about
10 years older than and would know
know more about these horses. A few
Morgan horses came to New York be-
fore left there in 1896. The Messenger
horses there showed life, sparkle and
spirit and when led out seemed to know
that they we're handsome. The Consall
horses eyes stuck out just like thor
oughbred, always full over the eye;
could stand behind him and shoot his
eve out: this is a feature of the thorough
bred. There was a remarkable pacing
stallion brought to Wisconsin from
Three Rivers, Can, called Jack, that
my brother and owned at one time;
red roam, very blocky, upheaded and
stylish, of the type of the Morgans; a
horse of great endurance, about 159
hands, 1850 lbs, powerful horse to
pull and rapid PAGER. He was brought
there with mare by Canadian, but
not by Frenchman, about 1S47, and
sold to Col. Pier. We owned him about
1854. was married in 1850, and this
horse was brought in before that and
was, should think, eight or ten when
had paced in race his stock were very
good.
A. B. Melendy, Nashville, who brought
Dandy Jack by Black Hawk Tiger to
Tennessee, says: "rhe best stallion
son of Dandy Jack was foaled about 49,
II, and taken to Atlanta, Ca, by Mr..
Price,
DR.. Mccarthy, in second Interview,
says: 81 am satisfied that the SiXpenny
horses were introduced into Wisconsin
at the time of the French war. | think
they were part running blood. They
were red roans or chestnuts, some gray,
no bays, and not single black. The
Tom Hal stock is like the Copperbottom,
blocky built. The Copperbottom was
quite a compact horse and remarkable
for his staying qualities; blocky horse,
1872, rather fine. The Morgans are
naturally upheaded and prompt. The
Copperbottoms more straight neck"
Mr. --, of Holly Springs, Miss,
says: "Gray Charlie was bought in
Texas when three years old for 1858 by
Hannibal Ecles and Hannibal Jones,
who brought him near to Holly Springs,
Miss, about 1868. He was about 10
hands. had all the saddle gaits, paced
very fast. They bought him with lot of
ponies. but | do not think he was mus
tang. | sold him to Mai. Scrugg of Hol-
" Springs, for $3.50, about 1876, and he
died about 1882. lie had large eyes. |
think Jim House, now of Alabama, sold
Kule, jew. now dead, black, chunk
ed mare, l4-2 or 3. Write Thomas Hes
son, Coldwater. Jim House of Holly
Springs owned fine gray stallion called
Morgan directly after the var. lie is
now in livery business at Birmingham,
Ala. He bought this horse In Kentucky.
Write J. Il. Eaton, Coldwater, Miss,
for Shiloh. Eaton got Shiloh from Tom
Hancock near Wahill. Toronto, dark
bay, Canadian, was owned here by
Hannibal Harris; also Montreal, dark
bay, another Canadian, by Bob Landers,
and Quebec, white, another, by Ophalem.
All these were here before the war. All
these horses were about If to 10 hands,
ponies built from the ground up. Tor
onto was trotter, the others PAGERS.
Phalen, a school teacher from the North,
brought him here from Canada; sold
him for 20 bales of cotton. They were
all of them very handsome horses. Que
bee was traded to Garrett Martin of Holly
Springs. think all these horses were here
in 1861. They got very good stock. Phe-
lin was from Ohio ; he came here about IS
46, then about n. Green Mountain
Morgan, dark chestnut, lG hands, was
owned at Holly Springs before the war.
j. NJ. Spredley, now of Oholoma, should
know about him. | think the old man
Corrington brought him here from Bowl
ing Green, Ky" cC\JN IN y
Capt. NJ. c. Campbell, Spring Hill,
Tenn, says: "Don Juan, bay, lG hands,
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