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YOL. XXI, NO. 9.
DARLINGTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1894.
WHOLE NUMBER 995.
LOCAL LACONICS.
MATTERS IN AND AROUND PROS
PEROUS DARLINGTON.
A Column of News, Tersely Told, of
Interest to Our Many
Readers.
The Governor has appointed
Mr. R. L. Dargan a notary pub
lic.
f^Good cotton brought in Dar
lington yesterday from 61 to 7
cents. I
Miss Bessie King, of* Ebe-
nezer, is visiting the» family of
Capt. John Floyd.
The Brockenton place between
the Pee Dee River and Low-
ther’s Lake is advertised for
rent.
Mr. R. L. Bonnoitt has remov
ed to the residence on Pearl
Street adjoining Mr. C. S. Mc
Cullough's.
The State Board of Control
has reached no conclusion in
the question of a dispensary at
Dovesville.
Miss Lillie Covington and
Miss Ora Thomas, of Laurin-
burg, N. C., are visiting Mrs. T.
W. Norment.
A special meeting of the Dar
lington Building and Loan As
sociation will be held to-mor
row (Friday) night.
J. H. Holloway, colored, ex
postmaster of Marion, is em
ployed in the postoffice in place
of Mr. J. H. Schmid.
Mr. J. E. Norment will leave
to-day for the North to purchase
the spring and summer stock
for Messrs Norment & Co.
The next regular meeting of
the Darlington County Colored
Teachers’ Association will be
held on the second Saturday in
March at 11.30 o’clock.
Mrs. H. C. Rast fell from the
steps of her residence a few days
since, sustaining severe and
-painful injuries. The fall was
caused by her slipping on the
ice.
During the session of court at
Bennettsville last week a negro
appeared for trial without an
attorney,so the presiding Judge
(A.drich) appointed ex Judge
Hudson to defend him.
Miss Maggie Jones, the pop
ular and efficient milliner, who
will soon open an establishment
in Darlington on her own ac
count, is in Baltimore purchas
ing a stylish and fine line of new
millinery.
Mr. Griffin, the North Caro
lina horse drover who has been
here for several weeks, has re
turned home. During his stay
he sold between twenty-five and
thirty head of horses, all for
cash. This speaks pretty well
for the hard times.
Does advertising pay? The
question will be settled beyond
doubt if you ask Baird, the fur
niture man, about the remark
able sales of the new spring
beds, which he has been adver
tising in The News for sale at
$5 a piece. You should buy one
while you have the advantage
of this low price.
We wish to return thanks to
Mr. John E. Boyd for an invi
tation to attend the commence
ment exercises of the Medical
College of South < arolina, in
Charleston, on the 15 instant,
when Mr. Boyd will be made d
full-fledged il M. D ” We note
also that Mr. T. E. Imwle* of
this county, will graduate at
the same time.
Darlington was wrapped in
snow on Sunday. It began to
fall Saturday afternoon and la
ter in the night changed to sleet,
which in turn changed to rain
by Sunday afternoon. The snow
fall was about five inches. With
the coming of Monday morning
the sun shown brightly and the
temperature became much
warmer. Since then the snow
has been melting rapidly.
Florence was threatened with
a dispensary riot on Friday
night. Spies attempted to seize
some liquor at the depot but the
owners of the property, armed
with guns, refused to let them
have it. The spies stood by
while the men marched off with
the jugs on their shoulders. An
angry crowd had gathered and
a not was only averted by the
spies not insisting upon taking
the liquor. Florence seemed too
hot for them, so the spies took
refuge in Darl'ngton that nigh',.
In consequence of* the affair
Governor Tillman will with
hold Florence’s portion of the
dispensary profits.
THE LAMAR DISPENSARY.
The Octopus Again Shows its Head in
the Little Village.
The advocates of a dispensary
at Lamar are certainly making
great efforts to secure a State
bar. Not satisfied with the de
cision of the County Commis
sioners that the town govern
ment is defunct because of the
failure to hold an election for
town officers at the proper time,
they have had the old town
council to call an election for
intendent and council to be held
on March 15.
The election was first called
for Monday and the following
ticket was placed in the field by
the dispensary people: For In
tendent, R. F. Willeford, for
Wardens, J. H. Taylor, M. V.
DuBose, W. P. Lane and J. H.
Hancock. But upon the post
ponement of the election this
ticket was withdrawn. Who
will be elected on March 15 re
mains to be seen.
After the election the new
council will order a special elec
tion on the question of dispen
sary or no dispensary. If the
dispensaryites win the day,
the question will then be car
ried to the County and State
Boards of Control. The senti
ment of the people of the town
ship is overwhelmingly against
having a dispensary at Lamar
and it is not probable that the
Boards of Control will override
the wishes of so many persons,
even should the voters of the
town decide for a State bar.
March 6 will be the time to
buy jewelry at your own price.
The entire stock of J. H. Mason
will be sold at auction com
mencing on that date.
HE IS THE SAME AT HOME.
The Popularity of a Young Darlington-
ian Located Abroad.
The following is clipped from
a paper published at Franklin-
ton, N. C., where one of our
fellow townsmen has been buy
ing cotton. The article was
written upon his leaving that
town for Abbeville, S. C., where
he is now located.
“Mr. Robert E. James came
in our midst Nov. 1st, 1893, in
the interest of Messrs. Ed. H.
Lee & Company, of Raleigh.
Mr. James by his kind and
gentlemanly conduct, soon won
for himself the friendship of his
associate cotton buyers and not
a farmer was ever heard to
speak of him but in the highest
terms. He won many warm
friends amongst our young peo
ple, and his many kind acts will
ever remain green in their re
membrance. His excellent so
prano voice will be missed in
our church music. In fact, we
all miss him. Our people want
Mqpsrs. Lee & Co., to be repre
sented in our market, and hope
that they can see it to their in
terest to return Mr. James.”
For cotton, corn, tobacco or
any other crop use Bradley’s
sea fowl ammoinated fertilizer,
found only at Blackwell Bros’.
A NEW INDUSTRY.
An Iron Foundry Will Probably be Es
tablished Here.
Messrs James R. Harrell and
C. W. Johns of Bennettsville,
will probably remove to Dar
lington shortly for the purpose
of establishing an iron foundry
here. These gentlemen have
had large experience in the
business and their industry will
fill a long felt want in Darling
ton. If they should decide to
come our people will give them
a hearty welcome. It is pro-
F iosed to locate the plant on the
ine of the C., S. & N. Railroad,
near the junction with the C. &
D.
Bradley’s Wood and bone fer
tilizer made in Baltimore is the
best on the market; for sale by
Blackwell Bros.
FIRE AT LAMAR.
The Store and Barn of Mr. Jacob
Spears Fall Victim to the Flames.
A severe fire visited Lamar
early yesterday morning before
day. The store of Mr. Jacob
Spears and its large stock of
i general merchandise were de
stroyed. The flames spread to
his barn, which was in close
proximity, and it was also burn
ed to the ground and its entire
contents consumed. It is not
known how the fire originated,
nor l*ave we been able to ascer-
| tain the loss incurred though it
i is thought that it is covered by
j insurance.
A HEAVY DOCKET.
FOR THE CRIMINAL COURT WHICH
WILL CONVENE ON MONDAY.
two Cases for Murder and One for
Arson—The Liquor Question
also to Come Up.
As stated in our last issue the
Court of General Sessions for
Darlington county will convene
on Monday next. Judge James
Aldrich presiding.
The criminal docket is qyite
heavy and several of the cases
are of considerable interest. The
most important are
TWO MURDER CASES
in which all parties concerned
are white. Judge B. Reynolds,
James Reynolds and Roland
Windham will be tried for the
killing of Cephus Pipkin in the
Lamar section in December last
and F. Merton Kelly, son of Mr.
Shelton Kelly, for killing Ho
mer King in Kellytown in Nov
ember. Kelly and King were
young men of about the same
age and it is claimed that the
killing was accidental. Kelly
will be tried upon the unusual
charge of “murder by mishap.”
ANOTHER CAPITAL CRIME.
Besides the murder cases
there’is another case in which
the punishment in the event of
conviction will be hanging.
Peter Jordan, colored, will be
tried for arson. He is accused
of burning the barn of Mr. J.
N. Suggs in the Philadelphia
section last summer. As the
barn destroyed was located
within 200 yards of a dwell
ing house, Jordan will have to
answer the charge of a capital
crime.
THE LIQUOR QUESTION
will also have a place in the
court’s proceedings. The cases
against J. M. James and Henry
Appelt for selling intoxicating
liquors contrary to the dispen
sary law will come up for a
hearing. It is not probable,
however, that they will be tried
in the Circuit Court. The de
fendants were arrested under
the first dispensary law which
placed the trial of such cases in
the jurisdiction of that
Court, but the new law provides
that they be tried by a trial jus
tice. It is probable, therefore,
that the Circuit Court will re
mand these liquor cases to Trial
Justice Floyd, from whence
they came, for trial or else they
will be dropped altogether.
' OTHER CASES.
Among the other cases that
will come up for trial we may
mention as of interest to the
public the following: J. 8. Mc-
Creight, two cases for breach
of trust; G. C. C. Taylor fordis
posing of property under a lien;
J. N. Kelly for the same offence;
Will O’Nails and C. 8. O’Nails
for burglary and larceny. All
of these parties are white and
are well known throughout the
county.
THE JAIL BIRDS.
All of the defendants men
tioned above are out on bond
except the two O’Nails and Pe
ter Jordan, who are in jail to
gether with the following who
are likewise awaiting trial:
Quincy Harrison, assault and
battery, John Lewis, swindling;
Simon Scott, assault and bat
tery, all colored.
In addition to these there are
in jail Henry Wilson, col
ored, who was convicted at the
last term of court of assault and
battery and was arrested subse
quent to his trial, a sealed sen
tence having been lodged against
him, and John Dukes, John
Williams, Hardy Morris and
Harrison Gordon, the colored
Lamar incendiaries, who were
sentenced to ten years imprison
ment in the penitentiary, but
in whose behalf an appeal is
now pending in the Supreme
Court.
table seed. In addition to your
allotment I placed 2,000 extra
papers of seed to your credit
and, in order to furnish this ex
tra allotment to each Member,
took more than one million pa
K rs from the Secretary’s quota.
this connection I would state
that the Department has been
quite liberal in sending seed to
your section. The different so
cieties, notably the Red Cross,
have made application for a
supply of seeds and the Secre
tary has in each instance grant
ed the requests.
I regret that I am unable to
furnish you with any more seed
but the demand upon the De
partment is so great that it will
be impossible to do so.
Respectfully yours,
D. MacCuaiq,
Chief Clerk.
Hard times prices on Domes
tic sewing paachines; $45 the
former price $25 the present
price; $20 saved on each ma
chine. McCall & Burch.
DARLINGTON-SUMTER.
An Auspicious Event of Interest to the
Two Counties.
■ [Sumter Cor. News and Courier.]
On Wednesday, February 14,
Hymen dethroned good old St.
Valentine, and taking posses
sion of the home of the bride’s
mother, Mrs. Sarah Wilson, wit
nessed the marriage of Mr. R.
L. Kervin, of Darlington, and
Miss Florida Wilson.
The bride was attired in a
light silk, with ribbon trim
mings, and carried a bouquet of
violets and bridal wreath, and
had in attendance the following
couples:
Miss Minnie Atkins, of Mayes-
ville, and Mr. Clifton Dinkins,
of Sumter; Miss Judith Hodges,
of Darlington, and Mr A. E.
Brown, of Camden; Miss May
Joye, of Sumter, and Mr. James
King, of Darlington; Miss Caro
Cooper, of Mayesville, and Mr.
Willie LaCoste, of St. Charles;
Miss Inez Cooper, of St. Charles,
and Mr. Robert Delgar, of Sum
ter; Miss Theo. Gregg, of Sum
ter, and Mr. John Kirven, of
Darlington; Miss Sallie E. La
Coste, of Charleston, and Mr.
Moultrie Hudson, of St. Charles;
Miss Anna LaCoste, of St. Char
les, and Mr. Stonewell Odom, of
Dovesville; Miss Evie Wilson,
of Sumter, and Mr. Luke Kir
ven, or Darlington; Miss Maud
Kirven, of Darlington, and Mr.
Paul Wilson, of St. Charles;
Miss Lois Wilson, of St. Charles,
and Mr. Tom Kirven, of Me-
chanicsville.
The entire stock of watches,
jewelry and clocks of J. H. Ma
son will be sold at auction, com
mencing on March 6, at his
store on Pearl Street.
GOVERNMENT SEED.
A Letter from the Chief Clerk of the
Agriculture! Department
At the request of Congress
man McLaurin we publish the
following letter:
Dkpartxbst of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF CHIEF CLERK.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 21,1894,
Honorable John L. McLaurin,
House of Representatives,
Dear Sir: In reply to your let
ter of the 16th instant, address
ed to the Secretary, I regret to
inform, you that I am unable to
comply with your request for
2,000 additional papers of vege-
PASSING COUNTERFEIT.
Considerable Spurious Money in Cir
culation in Darlington. *
For sometime past considera
ble counterfeit money has been
going the rounds of the town.
It has become so common that
the merchants were put on their
guard and the matter was re
ported to the police authorities
who immediately began an in
vestigation. In one day alone
(Saturday last) the Chief ran
upon seven counterfeits of sil
ver dollars and has also found
several of minor'denominations.
Suspicion attached to a certain
party, but, before sufficient evi
dence could be obtained that he
was the one circulating the spu
rious money, he left town. The
police are after him, however,
and hope to catch him. It is
probable that a good many of
these counterfeits are still in
circulation and people should be
on the watch-out as the imita
tion is so good that it is difficult
to distinguish the false coin
from the genuine.
THE REMORSELESS REAPER.
The Sudden Death of a Resident of
Darlington.
Mr. W. N. Beck died at his
residence on North Main Street
on Friday morning. He was a
native of this county and son
of the late Rev. Wm. Beck.
About ten years ago he remov
ed to Wadesboro, N. C., and
continued to reside there until
December just past, when he
returned to his old home. His
.death was sudden, he having
been sick only about a week.
His remains were interred in
the Lewis burying ground in
Swift Creek on Friday, Rev. N.
|N. Burton conducting the fu
neral services. Mr. Beck was
forty-one years old and he left
a wife and three children.
A BAD WRECK.
NINE FREIGHT CARS SMASHED IN
TO SMALL PIECES.
A Defective Rail Causes an Accident on
the Cheraw and Darlington
Railroad.
A bad wreck occurred on the
Cheraw and Darlington Rail
road on Tuesday morning. A
defective rail threw nine cars
of the northbound freight off
the track at a point in the cut
between the station at Palmetto
and the t/estle over High Hill
creek. Fortunately neither the
engine nor the passenger loach
left the track, for had such been
the case serious loss of life
might have resulted. As it was
nobody was hurt. The derailed
cars were piled pell mell one
upon another and were smash
ed to piedes making a complde
wreck.
The Hartsville train which
was waiting at the Darlington
station for the freight was sent
to the scene of the accident and
returned soon after with the
passengers and mail from the
wrecked train. Relief was ob
tained from Florence and the
track was cleared of the debris
and repaired in time for the
northbound passenger to pass
on Tuesday night only three
hours behind schedule time.
Barring the fact that there
was no loss of life nor injury to
person, the wreck was the worst
that has occurred in this section
in many a year. It is impossi
ble to describe in limited space
the picture presented after the
accident. The ruined cars were
piled together in great confusion
and the track was torn up for
about two hundred yards. For
tunately the freight consisted
of guano, cotton seed meal, corn
and other like commodities, for
consequently not much damage
was done to it. The loss to the
railroad company is about
$2,000.
During the day many people
visited the scene of the wreck.
FROM THE FAR WEST.
A Letter of Inquiry About Our Famous
Dispensary Law.
The following letter has been
received from Dr. Ed. H. Mc
Bride, a former Chesterfield boy
who is now a prominent physi
cian of Springfield, Mo.:
Editor Darlington Newv:
It is my intention to pay your
State a visit in a short time; in
order to visit back at my oid
home among the boys.
It has always beeu my cus
tom to take with me on such
trips a little demijohn of eight
or ten-year-old Robertson coun
ty, Tennessee, whiskey to have
in case of sickness, and to di
vide with the bo) s who, I know,
hardly ever get a real good old
article. I even doubt if the no
torious “Palmetto brand” could
hold a candle to my nine-and-a-
half-year-old Robertson. Be
that as it may, I write to ask if
it is a fact that I would be in
danger of arrest and incarcera
tion should I be found with a
demijohn concealed about my
person or in my hand ?
In the free Democratic air of
our great Commonwealth men
and women are allowed to eat
and drink what they please and
to breathe all the pure oxygen
they can find in our Ozark
Mountains so rich in lead, iron,
zinc and coal. I have recently
seen in the Globe-Democrat, of
St. Louis, articles wired from
Charleston and Spartanburg al
leging that the constabulary of
the State were trying to “hold
up” free white citizens by com
pelling them .to open the combi
nations of their private safes. I
have seen it stated that the Gov
ernor has been quoted as having
said, referring to certain defects
in the whiskey law, “I will see
to it that the Legislature passes
such and such a law at the next
session.” So I have concluded
that the Governor of South Ca
rolina was in some way endow
ed with supreme and autocratic
powers not possessed by Gover
nors of other States; and hence,
I request that you will ask his
Excellency, in the event of its
being a violation of the law for
me to bring along a little Rob
ertson county for myself and
j friends, with whom I am going
| to take a camp out at the fishery
on Pee Dee, if he will not sus
pend the law in my case and
give me a written permit to
bring along a fine harmless ar
ticle nine and a half years old.
I expect to stop at Columbia,
and I am sure that if His Excel
lency would join me in a glass
of my niue-and-a-half-year-old
Robertson county that hereafter
the “Palmetto brand” would
not be in much depiand at the
State House
Begging pardon for taking so
much of your time and assuring
you of the sincerity of my re
quest, which is the outcome of
newspaper articles relating to
the once grand old Palmetto
State’s whiskey law and the
dreadful and terrific constabu
lary, I am, Yours truly,
Ed. H. McBride.
P. S.—The very name of State
constabulary carries terror to
my heart. I wore a red-shirt in
South Carolina during the mem
orable campaigns of ’76 and ’78
and once or twice collided with
the State dragoons of Moses &
Co. See ! E. H. McB.
Springfield, Mo., 19 Feb., ’94.
[Section 25 of the dispensary law,
which sets forth how contraband li
quors may be seized, has the follow
ing proviso: “That liquors purchased
outside the State, owned and convey
ed a* personal baggage, shall be ex
empt from seizure when the quantity
does not exceed one gallon.” So the
Doctor can bring to South Carolina
from his home in the far West one
gallon of his tine old Tennessee whis
key, without becoming liable to
search and seizure by Tillman's con
stabulary which he seems to hold in
such great fear. When the gallon is
exhausted he and “the boys” will
have to driuk “oBlcial booze," if they
must have liquor and do not care to
violate the law.—Editor The News.]
TOE BLOODED STOCK
A SPY'S DESPIUABLE ACT.
In Seeking for Contraband Liquor ha
Searches a Lady's Trunk.
Darlington witnessed one of
the most despicable results of
the spy system on Fri
day morning, when State
Constable J. I. King—spy is a
better name for him—broke
open and searched a lady’s
trunk at the C. & D. depot.
The facts are these : On the
night before Mr. and Mrs. R. S.
Young, an aged and respectable
coupleof Richland county, came
to Darlington to visit relatives.
They left their trunk over night
in the depot. In the morning
King broke it open despite the
protests of the by-slanders and
searched among the lady’s ward
robe for contraband liquor,
which he failed to find and
which he must have known
would not be there. Such inde
cency has caused a storm of in
dignation and if it be repeated
trouble may follow.
THE MERRY DANCE.
A Happy Event for the Young Peo
ple on Tuesday Evening.
A very pleasant dance was
iven in Hewitt’s hall on Tues-
ay evening, the following la
dies and gentlemen attending:
Dr. and Mrs. B. H. Payne,
Nashville, Tenn., Capt. and
Mrs. John Floyd, Miss Bertha
Herbert, Miss Maud Herbert,
Miss Annie Talbot, Miss Mar
ian Talbot, of Florence, Miss
Aurora Floyd, Miss Leola
Brown, Miss Nettie Williams,
Miss Mamie Floyd, Miss Meddie
Brown, Miss Minnie Nash, Miss
Louise Floyd, Miss Fannie
Caldwell; Messrs A. B. Butler,
P. J. Morgan, Robt.'Loughlin,
J. W. Hatchell, George Moigan,
E. C. Bass, of Florence, J. B.
Floyd, F. E. Floyd, J. H. King,
T. J. Brown, G. D. Williams, J.
L. Williams, A. B. Floyd, W.
E. Caldwell, R. L. Botfhoitt, G.
C. Dean, A. B. Hutchinson.
DIED IN COLUMBIA.
An Elderly Lady, a Native of DaHinp
ton County.
The Columbia correspondent
of the News and Courier says
in his letter of Saturday: “Mrs.
Francis Thompson, mother of
Mrs. C. A. Calvo, Jr. died yes
terday morning at 3 o’clock.
Mrs. Thompson before her mar
riage was Miss Dalrymple, of
Lydia, Darlington county, S. O.,
and for many years lived in
Chester, S. C., where after the
death of her husband she car
ried on a small business to sup
port her four children. She was
in her 72d year. Mrs. Thomp
son was fully aware of her ap
proaching dissolution, beic
conscious to the last, and m
the approach of death unflinch
ingly and without a murmur. ▲
! good woman, a*devoted mother,
has gone to a better world.”
Captain Ricornus — Excuse
i me, but won’t you have a bit of
this delicious overshoe ?
Miss Nannie Goat—No, thank
you. I never chew gum.—Puc/c.
THAT MAY NOW BE SEEN AT DAR
LINGTON'S PARK.
Th« Pedigree of Some of the Fine
Horse*—Darlington as a Great
Stock Centre.
During the past week the
track at the park of the Dar
lington Driving Association has
presented a lively appearance.
Since the arrival on February 17,
of the carload of blooded horses
from the Blue Grass of Kentuc
ky, (mention of which was
made in the last issue of The
News) a new impetus has .been
given to the horse interests of
this region, and that the horse
men and people generally ap
preciate the fact has been prov
ed by the great number of specta
tors daily coming and going at
park. The track has been con
verted into a veritable show
ring, and the expressions of ad
miration from the by-standers,
as each superb animal is
brought out for inspection,
shows that it is not necessary
to be a Kentuckian in order to
be able to tell a good horse
when yoy see one.
Fine style at once attracts at
tention, coupled with the supe
rior form and finish of the mod
ern trotter. The high, intelli
gent head, beautifully arched
neck, large, kindly eyes, the
clean, smooth limbs, the elastic
step, easy and frictionless gait,
all tell that the study of the
breeding problem of the trotting
family, for the past half-centu
ry has not been in vain.
The hard times of the present
year have had their effects upon
every industry, but have proved
a boon to the trotting horse in •
terests not only of Darlington
but to the State of South Caro
lina and even beyond its limits.
But a short time ago a man
would have thought himself
fortunate, indeed, if he could
have obtained a half-brother to
Nancy Hanks alone for $10,000,
but now we have such a horse
and sixteen others here at Dar
lington, all young, all standard,
all sound, all showing speed; all
inheriting speed, and the fright
to transmit that speed. Great
wonders on the turf may be ac
complished with such material.
The prize is within our grasp;
the “tide” has come “which
taken at the flood leads on to
fortune.”
In vie w of the fact that the lot of
blooded horses that strived here
last week are the best ever
brought to the State, the pedi
grees of some of them will be of
interest to our readers, but be
fore giving them it may be well
to state that the horses are rap
idly recovering from the effects
ot their long and tedious trip,
which used some of them very
badly; considering the fact that
many of them are so young and
have never been shipped before
they came through exceedingly
well. The little ten-month-old
brother to C. C. 2.161, the baby
trotter, that has already gone a
full mile to a bicycle sulky in
three minutes, is looking as
bright as when he roamed the
blue-grass meadows.
The beautiful bay stallion,
Count Medium, is attracting
much attention, and well he
may, for, besides being a half-
brother to the great turf queen,
Nancv Hanks, 2.04, on his sire’s
side, ne acquired a most valuaj
ble blood strain through his
dam, the good mare Candytuft,
by Ethan Allen, Jr., 473, the
sire of Tuna, 2.181; Archbishop,
2.191; he is also a full brother to
Daniel Lambert. Ethan Allen,
Jr., 473, is by Ethan Allen, 43,
son of Black Hawk, 5, by Sher
man Morgan, all of which are
found in the pedigrees of our
itest turf performers. Count
ium’s second dam is Omega
(dam of Harbinger, sire of Von
Helmont, 2.191, and 30 others
better than 2.30) by Hambleton-
ian, 10; third dam, Dairy Maid,
by American Star, 14; fourth
dam by Belfounder.
Another stallion that, for roy
al breeding and promise, cannot
be surpassed anywhere is the
bay colt Red Dick, by Red
Wilkes out of Beauty by Dicta
tor. This fine fellow, if horses
had cousins, might with pride
and honesty calf Nancy Hanks
cousin Nancy, because Dictator
was the sire of the dams of both;
and both Nancy and Red Dick
can with pleasure remember
their old grand-sire Dictator’s
brother Dexter, 2.171, who first
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