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Virginia steeple-chase. •
THE BEST BADE EYEE RUN IN AMEEIOA.
Brief mention has already been made of the
recent steeple-chase in I'auquier county. The
correspondent of the Forest and Stream, how
ever, gives a full description of the race, which
is so vivid that a reproduction of the principal
points cannot even at this late date prove unin
teresting.
Some fifty miles from Washington is Fauquier
county, a section of exceeding beauty. Watered
by the Rappahannock river, and many other
smaller streams, it hag a charming diversity of
mountains, hills, valleys, meadow and rolling
land, as a general thing rich and fertile ; a ride
through this region is a pleasure to one fond of
beautifnl scenery; it is changing, and ever
varying, of wild nature, thorough cultivation, of
mountains and recks of savage grandeur, of
handßome mansion and picturesque farm house,
and lowly cabin ; all strixe the eye and charm
the senses. This country id inhabited by as no
ble a set of gentlemen as ever swung themselves
into saddle—hospitable, kind, and brave, with
an enthusiastic love for hounds and horses that
nothing could extinguish. Turner, Ashby, Ran
dolph, Payne, and many others of war fame
came from old Fauquier, and it was from the
same place that the famous “Black Horse Caval
ry” were recruited. Many of your readers of
the Federal army will recollect this county
knopn to them in war times as Mosby’s Confed
eracy. and many of them in memory will recall
the dreary Winter’s camp on the Rappahannock,
the Summer’s bivouac at Warrenton, and the
dashing charge against Stuart at the fords, or
fighting “hand to hand” with Mesby’s rough
riders in the gorges of the Blue Ridge: Yes,
the old veterans of both sides will remember
them, of the deeds done, the actions performed
and expleits achieved which, in history, will yet
“Point a moral and adorn a tale ”
The Warrenton Riding Club has some thirty or
forty members; General Payne, President;
General Bethune, Vice-President, and C. Payne,
Secretary. Rather much of one name ? Well,
yes ; but almost every other man you meet in
Fauquier county is bound to be named Payne,
and the other half sure to be named Marshall.
The club all own fine herses. Many of the
members are well-to-do Englishmen who have
located with ns, and who have brought their
love of the turf from the old country. The cos
tume consist, of white corduroy pants, top
boots, jacket, and caps of the rider’s own color
and design.
Several thousand people are on the ground.
The judges—the two Generals Lee—are on the
stand ; the time-keepers are in their places
watch in hand, and the contestants are harness*
ing for the race. The costume ‘is white cordu
roys, top boots, English style, and jacket and
cap in the choice colors of the riders. The
•tandard weights are 155 pounds. The horses
are brought around and tach is surrounded by an
eager, and speculative crowd, which examines
his points, and discusses his chances. The riders
now mount their horses and move to the start
ing point. There are three favorites, backed to
win against the field. The first is Green, who
•port, blue and white colors ; he is a splendid
rider, and is mounted on a handsome, huge,
racking chesnut gray, with very fine shoulders,
and an all over like going head, the winner of
last year’s cup. Green is the old Black Horse
Cavalry’s “crack,” and they back him against
the field. There is Rowe, with his mare, “Effie
Dean,” rather small, but light and compactly
built, with elegant limbs, and as tough as a pine
knot—colors, French gray and green. Daniels
rode a brown gelding, a beautiful creature, with
a rich tint of the horsc-cliesnut on her glossy
coat. He was a little, active horse, with great
bottom and endurance. Daniels is an English
man, as are others of the “chasers,” and there
is much good jnatured rivalry between them,
and the native-born colors were crimson and
purple. Avery good horse, with a gamy look
about him nnd noble shoulders, with the going
name of “Comet,” was entered by Payne, a
fenther-weight, who had to carry twenty-three
pounds of dead weight. Payne’s colors were
purple and orange. There were other riders,
with their varied colors of black and white,
blue, red, and black, and scarlet and gold, and
they made a gallant appearance, as they formed
for the race, the colors showing like a ratnboyv
in the rays of the sun as they moved and min
gled together. All are in line; a lull is beard
in the mingling voices-—a moment of intense
interest—the signal is given by the flag drop
ping, and the lines break at full speed for the
run, scattered, Rowe leading about two lengths,
when white and blue, worn by Slidell, with his
habitual fast burst, caught up with him and
sailed gracefully over the first blind ditch. Be
hind trailed black and red, who made a clean
jump across, Green coming next; his horse Max
stumbled and went down as though lie was shot,
but be rose again and as lie recovered his feet,
his rider mounted him and strove gallantly to
recover and take the lead but it was not to be
’l he ‘Track” of the “Black Horse” came to grief,
fortune smiled not on him that day, and the
victor of last year's cup, pounded on behind,
with no chance to overtake the flyers in front,
and lie is passed by all except YVorsely, who,
wearing the black jacket and white cap, let his
horse swerve from the track just belore lie
reached the water jump, and was thrown vio
lently to the ground, his foot catching in the
stirrup. He was dragged some ten yards. His
horse, mad with fear, dashed on and rid himself
of the rider, disappeared over the brow of the j
hill. Worseley rose up, swayed backward and
forward, aud then fell prone upon the ground
and lay there still and quiet. “My God.” said
the judge, “he must be killed !” “No,” said an
other, “only stunned.”
But look 1 look ! Fee bow t iey run! The
tailiug had commenced ; every horse took the
hurdles, and they rose one after another like the
billows of the sea. The pace wus fearful and
was beginning to tell on the horses, but notwith
standing they were ridden carefully am! judici
ouslyby their riders. Still onward—and then
fearful water jump and ditch together
loomed up to the tired horses, some of whom
were giving symptoms of distress, the most no- 1
liveable 1.1 whom was the brown mare Queen, j
ridden by Slidell, the chestnut mart of P.owe’s
litterally flying ahead of her, owing to the mad
ness of the first burnt. Purple nnd orange rid
ing a bead a little distance, nnd sweeping along
third was Harold with his magnificent stride
slowly drawing up. The water jump is reached
—a clear leap of twenty feet, if an inch—to
clear it. Payne gathering his brave little bay
together, put her to it, and like an arrow be was
carried high and clear over the cropper. A half
length behind came Rowe with Eihe Deans, with
her greyhound stride ; she went over with a
rush, and Daniels with his Crimson cap was
seen to rise in the air and lay as easy as a bird
on the opposits side. The favorites were hav
ing their own way. Black, red and white was
thrown out, his chesnut gray—Murad—flying
the track, the rest making desperate but una
vailing efforts to retrieve their lost distance;
but it was a vain hope. Keeping the lead,
Charley Payne held his horse in ; not once had
be touched spur, or plied whip, and Comet was
going at a steady swinging pull, when Rowe,
ridding behind, shouted: “Payne, you have
dropped your weighing pad !” Glancing behind
his saddle he found it to be too true, and with a
heavy heart pulled up.
The struggle was now between Rowe and
Daniel, with Gray and Green in the advance.
The chestnut mare’s head was Btretched out like
a racer’s and with hoofs seeming neTer to touch
the she skimmed over. Effie Dean
flew on to the sixth hurdle, gathered herself up
in her impetus, and then, like the rise and
swoop of the heron, she cleared the hurdle,
launched forward with the lunge of aspeardarted
through the air, while behind, restless as fate,
certain as death, followed Herne the Hunter,
Purple and Crimson keeping close distance.
Onward and the seventh hurdle bars the way.
Green and Gray took the leap in magnificent
style and thundered on, riding like Gritnshaw
himself, the crimson cap, a mere speck in the
landscape, was seen to fly through the air, aud
descending keep on, working up slowly towards
the chestnut mare, but that was scouring to
wards the winning post, where the breathless
crowd watched their coming. Another solid
earth and plank fence was reached, and letting
the animal out, the mare and the horse, now
nearly neck to neck, true to their biood and line
age, with heaving flanks and convulsive breath
ing, both with a masterly effoit jumped it at
the same moment and sped onward to the goal.
The last grand rush was to take place. Not
knowing, or looking, or heeding what happened
behind, the two tore over the course, the Gray
ard Green, and the Purple and Crimson sitting
oven cheek by jowl, while the gallant horse and
brave little mare thundered forward to the last
.leap. The turning flags were passed, the
jump taken, and the two straggled desperately
for the victory. From the crowds on the course
a great hoarse roar came louder and louder, and
tlie shouts rang, changing every second—“ The
horse wins 1” “Purple and Crimson ahead !”
“No, Green and Gray 1” “The horse is up with
her!” “The mare beats I” “A cracker on the
mare !” “Hurrah ! Green wins; Crimson is
beat!” Was he ? As the shout rose he surged
ahead ; the land seemed to fly like a yellow
sheet before them, aud at the killing pace they
rode to the winning post, every fibre strained
every nerve was at the utmost tension. One
moment and the mare nearly closed the gap. A
roar like the roar of the sea broke from the
thronged concourse as the crowd hung breath
less on the even race. Thousands of cheers
arose, and thousands of eyes watched the clos
ing contest, as superb a sight as the country
ever saw, while the two run together with
every sinew strained to tension—the horse and
mare, Crimson and Gray. Louder and wilder
the shrieking uproar rose -‘ The chestnut
beats 1” “The brown beats 1” “Green and
Gray’s ahead ; Daniel’s caught him 1” “The
mare is winning! the mare is winning!” “Net
yet; not yet!” “The mare wins!” “No; no.
no I” Sent along at a pace that Epson Flat
never eclipsed, sweeping a hundred yards or so
towards the judge’s stand, like a flash of flame
they ran side by side, their foam flung on each
other’s withers, their breath hot in each other’s
nostrils, while the earth flew beneath their
stride. The final effort came. A blind ditch
was in front—the last 1 With one superhuman
crowning effort the horse swept by the mare a
full length, jumped the ditch and galloped up
the straight “run in”—Purple and Crimson had
won the silver punch bowl, and the brown horse
swept to the judge’s stand. The air was rent
with deafening cheers that seemed to reel like
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drunken shouts from the multitude, and when
the rider pull3 up with the full sun’s shining on
tne Crimson and Purple, winner of the plate,
there was not one who did not know that he
had won it by the hardest, most dashing ride
ever performed in theconntry. England had won!
Time 2J miles, 4J minutesi Worsely and Green
were stunned, but no bones broken.
♦——
HOW THEY FOOLED HIM.
The Dallas (Texas) Herald says : A
jolly party of Germans concluded to get
off a joke on their friend Chales Deppe,
the barber. So they had a notice put in
the paper that he had “found a baby’s
shoe at the Mai Fest, and not having
any further use for it wished to return
it to the owner.”
Early in the morning one of their
party goes to Deppe and says :
“Here, Deppe, my baby lost her shoe
and I want it.”
“What shoe ?”
“You know well enough. Look for
it.”
Then poor Deppe began a wild hunt
for the missing shoe, and ransacked his
shop, but in vain. It was not to be
found.
Then the owner of the baby he “riz up
on his back bone” and said he didn’t
want “no foolishness, by gracious! but
that shoe,” and showed him the pa
per.
Deppe read the paragraph with a com
ically puzzled look, and said: “Yell, I tell
you, poys, vot I dinks. I was go to dot
tern Mai-Fest, and I vas trinking beer
mit George Blume and Bohny poys, and
I vas wery happy, and I speck may be
dot editor, and so me gracious, I don’t
know vedder I vas find dot sho or not.
Mein Gott in Himmell vot bizness is a
dot.”
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by hard times entered a yard on Lafay
ette avenue yesterday and stretched out
in the shade of a tree. The gardener
came out and asked him whr.t business
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be far from the maddening crowd.”
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“I am looking for solitude !” shouted
the stranger, kicking with all his
might
It took three officers to get him out,
tie him and load the body on a wagon,
but he got just where the solitude was
thick enough to |be cut lengthways with
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