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LEGAL NOTICES Hambletonian, which was trained on Jack Merrill's track, Burlington, and Notes. From American Cultivator. The exhibition of roadsters at the late St. Louis fair was pronounced one might have been by Yankee Boy, son of Liberty. The Liberty stock were to a large extent bay.

The dam of Black Lion was a good-sized dark bay mare, tion of the Bullock horse, or North American is Full 16 hands, thin shoulder, roach back, long, sloping hip, tail set well down, long thiu neck, mane and tail fine and wavy. He would weigh 1150 color, dark chestnut. He paced a good deal and was also a good trotter; could trot better than three minutes. It will be remembered 'that North American was sire of Whitehall, sire of Rhode Island, the reputed sire of Gov. Sprague, whose stock, especially the present season, is so prominent upon the turf.

North American was also sire An Old Trap. Mr. John H. Wallace, compiler of the American Trotting Register, has, as is well known, inserted some conspicuous and unnecessary errors in that work, such as locating Grand Isle in New York, placing towns where given horses have been bred in the wrong State, referring to Vermont Black Hawk as "Hill's Hambletonian" and other little pleasantries of that interesting kind. When his attention has been called to these inaccuracies, he has indulged in a playful wink, and said they were "traps to catch theives." It appears that Mr.

Wallace has had some peculiar advice on the copyright law, whereby he claims that pedigrees recorded in the Register cannot be used except by his permission without infringement of his legal rights which of the finest of this class ever witnessed. The listof competitors numbered thirty. lue requirements were that thev should be shown to baggy or road wagon, and no horse was allowed to wear weights or boots. Alcavala, by Alcantara (2.23), carried off first hon ors. He is owned bv Bowerman Brothers, Lexington, one of whom.

Mike Bowerman, developed the speed ot Alcantara, ana gave turn bis four-year-old record of 2.23. Bowerman has always believed that Alcantara was the greatest horse that ever lived, and the success of his offspring in theShow riug this fall indicates that his belief is well grounded. First premium for three-year-old roadster stallion at above show went to Bashaw Boy, a son of Corbin Bashaw. The dam of Bashaw Boy was by Bell Morgan, son of Cottrill Morgan, by Vermout Black Hawk. Corbin Bashaw was by Am boy, dam by Banner Chief, son of Mambrino Chief, and from a daughter ot Down-ing's Bay Messenger, son of Harpinus, by Bishop's Hambletonian.

Amboy had a record of 2.26. He was by Green's Bashaw, he by Vernol's Black Hawk, he by Long Island Black Hawk, by Andrew by Jackson. Young Ba shaw by imported Grand Bashaw. Second premium in above class went tc Demander, by Dictator. Demander's dam was by Blackwood.

In the class for best horse, mare or gelding roadster two years old or under, first prize' was captured by Dictricia, by Dictator, out of Constine, by Conductor. Second money is this class went to the handsome filly Aytoun, by King Rene. The breeders' premium for roadster stallions with five of their get at above exhibition brought out as competitors King Rene, by Belmont, dam, Blandina by Mambrino Chief; Mambrino King, by Mambrino Patchen, dam by Alexander's Edwin Forrest; Don Cossack, by August Belmont, son of Rysdyk's Hambletonian, dam, Latham Lass, by Alexander's Abdallah, and Hamlin's Almout by Almout, from a daughter of Blood's Bl jck Hawk. First premium was awarded to King Rene, second to Mambrino King and third to Don Cossack. White Socks, by Alcantara (2.23), which got a record of 2.28 1-2 at Cleveland, last week, is from a daughter of Rattler, he by Stockbridge Chief, from a mare said to have been of Morgan descent.

Stockbridge Chief was by Vermout Black Hawk, and from a daughter ot Hill's Sir Charles, son of Duroc. Westinont, record with running: mate (2.01 3-4), and to harness (2.13 3-4), the fastest, of Almont's gel, was from a daughter of Cottrill Morgan. Almont lt ittler, owned by Judge Walter I. Hayes, Clinton, whose get is showing remarkable speed, was from a daughter of the same Rattler, that got the dam of White Socks. Almout with a record of 2.26, aud live 2.30 performers to his credit, at thirteen years of age, was by Alnviut, dam Maggie Gaines, by Blood's Black Hawk, second dam Saxe Weimer, son of Sir Archy.

Four of the five 2.30 trotters got by him were from dams strongly inbred to the Black Hawk straiu. No other stallion except Sultan, bred and owned by L. J. liise, ot California, has ever made such a showing. Almout Jr.

is said to possess rare beauty and a very fine trotting gait. Cluster, by Volunteer, died before reaching maturity, but not until he had won a record of 2.17, and shown such speed as to convince horsemen that he was the greatest trotter of his day. Ilis dam was by Stockbridge Chief. Von Aruim, by Sentiuel, full brother to Volunteer, is not only the fastest of that horse's get. but has won many more heat- in 2 30 than either of his others.

His dam was by Blood's Black Hawk. Sally Chorister, dam of Pro-teine (2.18), aud Belle Brasfkld, were by Mauibnuo Chorister, sou of Mambrino Chief, her dam being by Blood's Black Hawk. Dame Tansey, by Daniel Lambert, bred to George Wilkes, produced Busby (2.29 1-2) and Tausey. The latter is the dam of Butterfly (2.19 3 4) aud Easrle Bird, which has a three-year-old record of 2. 25 1-4, and lately trotted a quarter iu thirty-four seconds.

Butterfly was by Young Jim and Eagle Bird by Jay Bird, both being sons of George Wilkes. The above tacts should be remembered by Northern breeders who have mares of Morgan descent, particularly the Black Hawk strain, for which they desire an outcross. Those who have stallions of Ilauibletouian or Mambrino Chief blood may also be benefited by bearing these facts iu mind. Do not discard mares of Morgan descent fer brood purposes simply because a prejudice was created against them a few years ago. They are steadily gaining in popular as an outcross for Wilkes Almont, Hambletonian Star and Mambrino Chief stallions must prove ot great value.

From such crosst-s are likely to result speed, pluck, endurance, beauty, and docility combined. The otlspring may not make the greatest turf campaigners, but they will come as near the ideal geutlemeu's roadster as are likely to be produced with any material now at hand, aud occasionally a first-class trotter will appear among them. Nerve-life and vigor restored in men and women by using (jilmore's Aromatic Wine. for Infants "Caatorla is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription, known to me." H. A.

Abchib, M. Ill So, Oxford Brooklyn, N. Y. lOMMISSIONKKS' NOTICE. Efttad Kollin Bit-chard The undersigned, having been appointe uie nun.

rrouate lor tne District oi uison commissioners, to receive, examine adjust all claims and demands of all per against the estate of Robin Birchard. lad Middlebury, in said district, deceased, aij ciannb vxuioiiea in onset thereto, Hereby notice that we will meet for the purposes a said, at the National Bank of Middle on the Win dav of November and 26th March next, from one o'clock n. m. until o'clock, p. each of said and that inuuius irom we am aay 01 uctooer, A.

is the time limited bv said court lor said itors to present their claims to as for exan tion and allowance. Dated at Middlebury, this 17th day ot uer, A. u. looo, a CALVIS HILL, CHAS.E.PIN.sEr, Jcom HENRY W. BREWSTER 1 State of Vekm v.

Addison Com THOMAS McCLUEE et al. Is Ch ahcer Whereas, Henrv W- Brewster of iddleli in said county, has filed bis petition aga xuumas jvicture anu wm. J. ana wii Collins, partners under the firm name of Collins, au of Boston, in Commonweal! Massachusetts, setting forth that said Thorn, the 16th day of October, 1880, executed to Henry W. a morteaire deed of certain lan said Middlebury, described as lolllows: ail divided one-half interest in the house and then occupied bv Edward McClure and Thomns, tsituate on the west side of Pieaj street in the village of Middlebury, bou north by land of the Nathan Wood place.

by the highway, south by land of James Cr west Dy me railroad, subject to tne rescrval in a deed from Eliza Morion et al. to J. O'Co: dated March 2Sth. 1862. with a cond for the redemption of the same on the payr of a certain note therein described.

And sei forth that said Thomas on the 12th day of 8 1882, executed to said Henry W. another gage deed of the same land with a conditio the redemption of the same on the paymei certain notes therein described. And setting forth that said Lally Collir the 13th day of April, 1885, caused an at ment to be made on the same land and the 1 is still in fore-. And praying that said Thomas may be closed of his equity. Said defendants residing without this Stan that said petition cannot be served upon tl It is ordered that they be required to appei the first day of the next stated lerm of said 1 to be holden at Middlebury, within and '01 county of Addison, on the second Tuesday December, 1885, then and there to answer to petiUon, and for that purpose said petiti snau cause to oe puuiisneu tne suostance 01 petition and this order three weeks success in the Middlebury Register, printed at Miij bury aforesaid, the last of which publicatio be at least twenty days previous to said ter said court.

Dated at Middlebury aforesaid, this 21st da October, ISSa. 43 RUFUS WAINWRIGHT. Cle Eldkedge Slade, Solicitors for petitid STATE OF VERMONT, Addison County- ss, Frank H. Buttles byl Geo, F. Meader, his next friend ami In Chancery, guardian, June Term, 1885.

v. I Marv Dillon et al. Whereas, Frank 11. Buttles by Geo. F.

Mel 01 liristoi in said county, ins next iriena guardian, has filed his petition in said against Mary, John, Johanna, Patrick, lim Michael. Catharine. Mary and Andrew T. Ion, Eugene S. Farr.adininistrator,and Jame Harlow setting forth that ratrick Dillon Marv Dillon.

his wile. of Monkton, In said coi on the first day ot April.1878, executed to Buttles ot said Bristol a mortgage deed of dn land situated in said Monkton and now scribed as follows: Bounded north by 1 owned by F. A. Goss, Ruth C. Gobs and Gleason and land owned by A.

W. and Fred num. east by land owned bv A.T.Smith and owned by M. White, south bv the ore bed I so called, owned by Benj. Wells or his estate lanu ownea Dy vv nite, west Dy tne ore farm aforesaid, and lands owned by said 1 and Kuth C.

Gots and C. J. Gleason, with a dition lor the redemption of the same on lhe ment of a certain note therein described. setting forth that said Hiram Unities ha ceased since the execution ot said mortgage that the commissioners of distribuUon ot hi tate set said note to his son the said Fran and that he is now the owner of said note. setting lorth that the said Patrick Dillon ha ceased since the execution of said mortgage, his widow Mary Dillon and his children Johanna, ratrick, Timotliy, Michael, uatnej Marv and Andrew T.

Dillon still survive: Eugene S. Farr of said Bristol is now adm trator on the estate of said Patrick D1U01: ceased: that s-iid Patrick and Marv Di since the execution lof said mortgage, have cuted a subsequent mortgage of said premis J. T. Barlow ot said Bristol. Ami pravine that said defendants may be closed of their equity of redemption in saidp lses.

Said defendant John Dillon residing wit this State so that said petition cannot be sc upon him, it is ordered that he be required pear on tne first dav 01 tne next etntea ter said court to be holden at Middlebury, and for the County of Addison aforesaid, on second Tuesday of December, I8-0, then and to answer to said petition, and for that pur said petitioner shall cause to be published substance of said petition and this order weeks successively iu the Middlebury Regi printed at said Middlebury, the last of publications to be at least twenty days pre to said term 01 said court. Daleri at Middlebury, aforesaid, this 12th of October, 1885 RUF JS WAINWRIGHT, Cle W. W. Rider, Sol'r. lor peutioner.

STATE OF VERMONT, Addison County, is. Frank K. Button, IN Chance John and Almira Murray. Whereas, Frank R. Button of Brandon, ii countv of Rutland, and State ot Vermont filed his petition against John Murray and mira Murray, his wife, late of Leicester, in Addison county, and now of North Adams, state 01 Massachusetts, setting tortn tnat John and Alinira, on the 2Sth day of Oct 1878, executed to one Jenny of said ter a mortgage deed of certain land lying in eestcr, aforesaid, bounded on the north by hiirhwav and land of Peter Dumas, east by of J.

B. Page and others, south by land oi Ostiguv and others, west by land of said Dij containing one acre more or less also one er piece, with blacksmith shop, bounded 011 soutti by tne nignway, wen, norm anu ea-landofsaiit Page and others, with a cond for the redemnUon of the same on the pavi of a certain note therein described. And: since the execution of said mortgages said ny has assigned said mortgage to the petitid ana praying tnat said aeienuanis may oe closed of their equity of redemption in premises. Said defendants residing without this Stat that said netnion cannot be served uuon the is ordered that they be required to appear on first lay 01 the next stated term 01 saia coi be holden at Middleburv, within and for county of Addison, aforesaid, on the se Tuesday of December, 188, then and there t( swer to said petition, and for that purpose petitioner shall cause to be published the stance of said petition and this order three successively in the Middlebury Register, pri at Middleburv. aforesaid, the last of which lications shall be at least twenty days prev to said term of s-dd court Dated at Middlebury, aforesaid, Oct.

24, Kll VV Al Ji Vt K1U I uic E. 8. Marsh. Solicitor for petitioner. and Children.

Caatorla cares Colic, Constipation, Hnnr Rtnmiuh. Diarrhoea. Eructation, Kills Worms, gives sleep, and wooiotaa dij Without injurioua medication. Tbi Ckntadb Coktamt, 182 Fulton Street, H. died in two or three years.

Mr. N. B. Douglas of Cornwall bred a Black Hawk stallion, dam by Barney Henry. This dam was afterwards owned by Mr.

Eells, who bred from her Thunderbolt and the Miner mare, both by Ma-zeppa. Thunderbolt was sold by Mr. Eells to a builder in Brooklyn for $1175. One stallion colt by Mazeppa was owned by Timothy Cook of Cauas-tota, N. Y.

Thunderbolt trotted in 2:35. Gardner Harrington of Sudbury, bred Black Banner and another BlacK Hawk stallion from a pair of small black mares said to have been Morgan. Jed. Hyde owned the same mares previously. Mr.

Eells thinks that Black Banner went to Canandai-gua, N. Y. Mr. Dana of Cornwall bred a Black Hawk stallion which went to California, taken by Francis De-Long. Mr.

Barnard of Brandon states that the Butler horse by old Black Hawk was owned in Pittsford by a Mr. Butler. (Will some correspondent give us full pedigree and history of this horse?) Mr. Elmer Barnum of Shoreham states that Dr. Nekanah Needham of Shoreham owned a small gray mare about 14-2 or 14-3, by Col.

Doolittle's Post Boy, that he bred to Black Hawk, and raised a colt sold to David Hill and afterwards went to Ohio, called Onder-donk. This colt was kept by Mr. Hill till three or four years old and some colts sired by him in Vermont. James Frost afterwards raised a stallion by Black Hawk from the same mare, called Gold Hunter, also known as Broken Leg; stood by Mr. Frost at Shoreham, and left some very good stock.

Gold Hunter was a small but very handsome horse; Ouderdouk 15, 1000 lbs. plus, thick-set. The dam of Prophet, son of Black Hawk, was sired by Sir Charles, and bred by Azro Northrup, sold to Elmore Jones, who bred her to Black Hawk and raised Prophet. Red Jacket and Jenny Lind. Prophet was sold bv Mr.

Jones to Gustavus Austin. Red Jacket went to Iowa. Azro Northrup bred Vermont, by Black Hawk, from another Sir Charles mare; a good type of Morgan horse; square built. Proph et was more rangy. Mr.

Barnum thinks Vermout went to Ohio. Mr. William Arthur of Ticonderoga says that he brought Fanny Cook, a red chestnut mare, dam of Daniel Lam bert, from Chester, Orange county, to Ticonderoga in May, 1853, she having been bought the winter previ ously by Mr. W. V.

Cook of Ticonder oga of some gentleman name not re membered for two hundred dollars. The previous owners had had some ac cident with her. Mr. Sidney Smith, now of Shoreham, states that he formerly lived in Lafayette county, Iowa, close to where Widgeon, sire of Mountain Quail, was owned. He states that Widgeon was a black chestnut, 15 hands, 1050 to 1100 all Morgan in his appearance, af ter the pattern of Hale's Green Moun tain Morgan.

lie always understood him to be a Morgan horse. Mr. Smith also states that Mr. Wainwright of Sal isbury bred Black Maria, dam of Young Columbus; sold her to Jen nings of Cornwall, who sold her to Benton of Shoreham of whom she was bought by Germain Cutting of Shoreham and sold to O. W.

Smith of Shoreham, who sola her to Gustave Austin of Orwell when she was five years old. Mr. Austin sold her to Jack Williams of Granville, N. or thereabouts, who sold her to a Boston party. She was bought back by Mr.

Sidney Smith of William T. Hanchett of (former owner of the Black Hawk trotting gelding Know Nothing). She was gone twelve years bought back in 1852. She was a handsome bony 15-3 weight, 950 lbs. possibly 1000 if very fat thin shoulder, slim neck, clumsy ear, fine head, big nostril.

She was a kicker. Germain Cutting said that Wainwright told him she was by Harris' Hambletonian. Mr. Smith also gives the following description of the dam of Ethan Allen: A little grey mare 15 hands high, (about 850 rather bony, rather gamey, good length with long, slim neck. Mr.

Smith further says that Old Coiumbus stood at BakBr6field, known as the Lothrop Horse, owned by a man by the name of Lothrop, who lived there; went from there to Fitchburg. Mr. Wheeler bought him. Wheeler sold to Stephen Hayes ot Natick, Mass. Columbus was 12 years old when he left Bakersfield gone 10 years or more, then went back to Bakersfield, and was bought the next year by Mr.

Walter Smith for $1500. He stood after that at Orwell, perhaps five years, and then went to Stillwater, N. Y. He came from near Chainblay, near St. John, Canada.

Mr. Smith referred to Stillman Page of Bakersfield, John B. Newland, Stillwater, N. for further information. Chester Pratt of Bridport, In addition to what has been already published, says that Mr.

Rider's grandfather had a pair of black Liberty colts. They about 1100 got by Liberty, and square built, like her sire. Reuben Gillett bought her of Uriah Miner, who had her when 4 or 5 years old of Benj. Peacock, who probaoly bred her. Mr.

Pratt owned her till she was 31 or 32 years old. He thinks that Mr. Hemen- way's Diomede was by Post Boy. A horse called Eclipse stood at Hill's in 1843, and afterwards at Vergennes; said to have been by old Eclipse. He was a very stylish chestnut horse, rath er light limbed, 16 hands, 11 to 12 hundred pounds.

Mr. Pratt thinks that a chestnut stallion was bred by Freeman Smith of Addison, sired by Sherman Black Hawk and from an Eclipse mare. The Walker horse of Whiting was sired by Black Lion; dam, a black mare, 1000 by the pld Walker horse, a grey of Canadian blood, as Mr. Pratt thinks. Mr.

Cyrus Stow of Weybridge raised two stallions from Black Lion sold one at 3 years old to Stephen Benton of Cornwall, who took him to Illinois and sold him there. He was a black, 15 hands, 1100 foaled 1852. The other was also a black, 15 hands, 1000 and was sold to Gov. bprague dam said to be by old Black Hawk. B.

M. Hanks ef Addison bred a nice black colt of good size by Black Lion from a pacing mare. This colt went West. John Child of Weybridge sold to some parties in Pennsylvania (he thinks) a likely black colt, with white strip in the face, got by Black Lion dam, a black mare. There was also a nice bay horse by Black Lior in the north part of the State from a one-eyed bay mare taken there by Fred Smith of Ripton.

Philo Jewett's Black Hawk was a bay, 15 hands, 1000 foaled 1847 dam (he thinks) by a horse called American Eagle, a very likely stylish horse, 15 1-2 hands, 1100 stood in Cornwall 55 years a man named Delano. Joel Randall bred two stallions from Black Hawk, that went WeBt one, a chestnut, white faced horse, 14 3-4 hands, 1000 that went to or near Madison, Wis. the other, larger, 15 1-2 hands, 1050 lbs, dark bay, star and snip, went to Ohio thinks western Ohio south of Toledo. Refers for further information to Mr. Frank Hall of Bridport.

A bay stallion by Hill's Young Black Hawk was bred by Frank Hall of Bridport aud taken West, he thinks to Ohio a stylish, pretty horse. Another horse was a chestnut' with a little strip in face, 15 L-! hands, 1000 foaled 1845 or '40, bred by Hiram Hall, Bridpcrt.Vt., got by Vermont Black Hawk; dam by Sir Charles. Taken to Syracuse when Austin took Prophet and Wicker took Flying Cloud and sold (he thinks at that time) and went to Ohio, where he was kept by S. G. Foote and others several years, and then taken by Hiram Pratt to Iroquois county, 111.

Another Black Hawk stallion was bred by Cyrus Abernethy, Cornwall, and sold by him to Abram Foote and by him to Ezra Foote of Lockport, N. Y. This was a handsome small black horse, about 14 3-4 hanis, 950 called Black Hawk, jr. His dam a little smooth-turned handsome bay mare about 900 bred by Allen Howard of Addison. (Mr.

Linsley states that this mare was by a sou of Hambletonian. Probably this was the Young Hambletonian owned by Allen Smith.) Jared Foote of Cornwall, sold a stallion by Black Lion, that went West. Flying Cloud, black stallion, white in face, one or two white feet, 15 1-2 hands, 1100 thick-set horse, bred by Gustavus Wicker, Ticonderoga, N. foaled 1847, aud sired by old Black Hawk, was sold to D. W.

C. Doane of Shoreham aud taken by him to Ohio. He was a sharp trotter. Mr. Pratt thinks Solomon Jewett bred a grey stallion from Black Hrwk, out of a large grey mare by Harris' Hambletonian.

This mare was tall and rangy, with long neck a pretty good looking mare. Dr. II irris raised a spotted stallion from Old Black Hawk; dam, a spotted Arabian mare got of Dr. Eells of Cornwall, Vt. Deacon Barrows of Middle-bury bred two stallions from Black Lion, a black and a bay, and took them West.

Prophetby Black Hawk, dam by Sir Charles, was a stylish, beautiful horse, 16 hands high, and weighed 1150 lbs. He was taken to the Slate fair at Syracuse, N. when two years old, by Gustavus Austin, who then owned him. The Felton horse (Ticonderoga) was bred over the lake. Darius Myrick bought him and sold him to Mr.

Felton, who lived on the Foot place at Ticonderoga. He took him to the same State fair at Syracuse. The trotting mare Lady Sherman (record 2:33, winner of 29 recorded races) Mr. Pratt says was a liille chunk of a mare, low-headed, 14 3-4 hands, 900 sired by Sherman Black Hawk. Mr.

Sidney Smith also save that old Columbus was 16 hands high, length in proportion, road back, handsomest hip he ever saw, quarters a little light, fine but rather short neck, tail and mane like silk and a little wavy. Ilia color was a rich chestnut. His descrip of the dam of Strathmore, sire of 15 2:30 trotters to the close of last season, and also appears in other pedigrees. Saunders gives North American as a son of Sir Walter by Hickory. Mr.

Linsley in the appendix to "Morgan Horses," published 1857, gives Sir Walter by Hickory g. sire, imp. Whip g. g. sire, Saltram; g.

g. g. sire, English Eclipse. Dam, Nettletop by Diomed. He adds that he was not kept in Vermont but in Canada near the line, and that he was an excellent four-mile racer.

Wallace in Vol. 1 of his Register gives "North 18; got by Sir Walter, 2320 dam a fast pacing mare blood unknown bred on Grand Isle." In Vol. 4 he has North American (Bullock Horso) br. h. foaled 183 got by a large Canadian bay horse that was kept in the same stable with Sir Walter, name not remembered dam a fast pacing mare.

Bred by a Frenchman near the Canada line at Rouses Point owned by Mr. Bullock for a number of years, and different representations were made concerning his blood corrected from Vol. 1." In a circular issued by Geo. W. Adams of Whitehall, dated May, 1859, advertising American, son of Whitehall, North American is given as by Sir Walter by Badger's Hickory.

Will Mr. Wallace state upon what grounds he has seen fit to change this pedigree? He has given no breeder's name. How does he know that the unknown stable mate of Sir Walter sired North American? The evidence upon which a pedigree so lung established and important is changed, is due to the public. More About Black Maria. In connection with Mr.

Smith's testi mony about Black Maria, printed in the foregoing interview, we give the follow- ing.copied in full from that repository of errors and frauds, Wallace. It is from the November number of his magazine for 1879, page 750, headed "Black Maria, the dam of Young Columbus." "A few weeks ago we were glad to receive a call from Mr.Leonard Williams of Mystic, an old time horseman ot Vermont The special object of his visit was to bring us information about the famous old mare Black Maria, the dam of Young Columbus This is one of the animals that for years, like the daughters of the horse leech, we have been crying 'give, give' but to all our entreaties there was no satisfactory re sponse. Some years ago it was accepted almost without question, that she was a daughter of Harris' Hambletonian, but Mr. Walter Smith, one of the owners of Old and ouug Columbus, expressed some doubts on that point aud since then we have been all at sea. She was a black mare about 15 hands three inches, of most unconouerable will, She was foaled as early as 3KH7 and the first Williams knew of her, she was in the hands of Mr.

Cr. A. Austin, then of Or well, Vt. Austin sold her to Horace Williams, and he to Leonard who took her to Boston, and sold her to Winslow Bright of Cambridge, Mass. From Bright sne passed to Mr.

Urownell and then to Mr. Cotton oi Natick, Mass. In she trotted several races of 1 and 2 mile heats, under the saddle. Her best record at two miles was 5:12 1-2 and at one mile 2:31 1-2, These races are recorded. In 1851 she had twins to old Columbus, and lost them, and the next year she was sold to the Ninth broth era of Orwell, carrying a colt by Colum bus, and that colt became the famous "Young Columbus," the sire of so many trotters.

While she was in the hands of Mr. Cotton he employed Leonard Williams to trace her back and nnd her pedigree. 1 his was in the winter time, probably 1851. He went from his home at Middletown to Orwell, and there learned from Mr. Austin that he got her from a man named Simmons or Simons.

Mr. Williams does not remem ber the name definitely, but thinks it was one or the otner ot these. He went to Mr. Simons' house in the southern part of the town of Haven, and had dinner there, Mr. Simons told him the mare was by Har ris' Hambletonian and her dam was by Mars, son of Cock of the Rock.

From Mr. Simons' Mr. Williams drove to Mr. Harris', the owner of Hambletonian. in the adioin ing town ot Bristol, and the statement of Mr.

Simons was confirmed by the books of Mr. Harris, showing that he had paid three dollars tor the use ot the horse. It is hardly possibly for Mr. Williams to be mistaken in this, as he gives circumstances, names and locations, and approxi mate dates as nearly as his memory will serve. With certainly two, and probably three strains of Messenger olood concentrated in Black Maria, we can understand the great prominence and merit of the Col umbus family.

She inherited the right to trot and she proved it oy her deeds. We now submit the whole business to Mr. Wallace, Mr. Williams and Mr. Smith.

Can it be that Mr. Williams' story is entirely made up? Didn't he have that dinner at Mr. Simons' or Simmons' house. Nobody ever heard of a Simons or Simmons iu the southe part of New Haven or any part of New Haven; but then, as Mr. Williams didn't remember the name definitely, it might have been Jones.

Mr. owner of the Harris horse, lived iu New Haven, not Bristol, but if Mr. Williams couldn't remember Mr. Simons' name defiuitely, he could hardly bo expected to remember the name of New Haven definitely. Wo shall be pleased to hear more about Black Maria, although we presume Mr.

Smith has given the name of her breeder and the hands she passed through to Gustave Austin correctly. lead9 to the pleasing conclusion that if an unfortunate breeder sends a pedigree to Wallace, with fee for having it inserted in the Register, and thereaf-terwards publishes the same by sticking it on his barn door, he thereby becomes liable in damages to the outraged Mr. Wallace. It is needless to say that this erudite logal proposition has never yet been tested by the learned editor in any court. As to the expediency of filling the official register of the American Trotting Horse with gratuitous blunders in the hope of turning the laugh on some confiding writer who might draw materials therefrom, there would seem to be room for an honest difference oi opinion.

To us it appears quite analogous to the case of the man who introduced the itch into bis own family in the hope that his neighbors too-frequently-calling sons might catch it of his daughters. But it has aflorded the editor of the Trotting Register iufinite amusement, and when he hooked the compiler of the Breeders'Trotting Stud Book with a bogus "second dam by Tom Titmouse pacer," he was filled with inextinguishable laughter, and has ever since alluded to that work as the "Tom Titmouse Stud Book." The laugh went round and the readers ot the Monthly became more than ever settled in the conviction that Mr. Wallace was, like Joe Bagstock, "sly, extremely sly." We wish Mr. Wallace all the joy of his "trap," but we can no longer permit him to wear the distinguished honor of being its inventor. "There were brave men before Agamemnon," and there were "traps" in horse literature before John H.

Wallace. It is a fact-painful as the disclosure may seem-that Mr. Wallace's first'knowledge of the shining merits of this peculiar "trap" arose from his falling into one set many years ago in a book called The Mjrgan Horse, by Mr. D. C.

whom the glory of the invention must be transferred. We will cite two instances now before us, in which Mr. Wallace was overtaken by this misfortune. Mr. Linsley gives "Stockbridge Chief, foaled in 1843." Wallace has copied the same into the Trotting Register.

But the horse was a son of Black Hawk, bred in Cornwall, while Black Hawk stood at Bridport, and everybody, except perhaps Mr. Wallace, knows that Black Hawk did not come into that region until 1844, Again, Mr. Linsley states that Flying Cloud "was foaled the property of Gus-tavus Wickes of Mr. Wallace in the Trotting Register saith likewise, and thus our excellent friend Gnstavus Wicker, is to be handed down to posterity under the unprepossessing name and style of "Wickes." These are, without doubt, genuine "traps to catch thieves," and it is with unfeigned regret that we find the worthy and honest Mr. Wallace entangled in their meshes.

We cannot, however, refrain from observing that while he is in this situation, any cruel flings from him at the Breeders' Trotting Stud Book man are in bad taste, being in the nature of the caustic observations formerly made by the pot concerning the complexion of the kettle. A Correction. We are pleased to observe that the thoughtful compositor last week corrected our spelling of the name of imp. Diomed by supplying a final As we understood Mr. Hemenway, he pronounced the name of old Diomed as eyerybody does, but called his owu horse Diomede, pronounced in three syllables, the last one pronounced "meed." Interviews.

We give the following information as taken in interviews with the dlfler-ent gentlemen named: Mr. Everard Eells of Middlebury says thatGustave Austin of Orwell bred Prophet by Black Hawk, and sold him he thinks about 1855 or 1856 to one Latourette of Illinois. Mr. Austin then bought at Middletown, or near there, Andrus' Hambletonian, a bay horse with thin tail. Thinks he sold him West.

He then bought Chilson's.