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sum was said to have been refused. After this 

 sale two of the Red Roses (Renick Rose of 

 Sharon) were parted with privately at $10,000. 

 On Nov. 30 following Mr. Simon Beattie shipped 

 for Lord Dunmore from America five heifers, 

 all descended from imp. Rose of Sharon, by 

 Belvedere (1706). Three of these were bred by 

 Abram Renick Minnie 4th ? by old Airdrie 

 (30365); Duchess 10th, by Joe Johnson, and 

 Rose of Thorndale, by 8th Duke of Thorndale. 

 The other two were of the Ohio branch of the 

 tribe, tracing through Lady of the Lake, and 

 were bred by Mr. Chauncey Hills of Delaware; 

 one of them got by Mr. Hills' Imperial Star- 

 light 8270 and the other by Judge Jones' Ma- 

 zurka Duke of Airdrie 10478. Remarkable as 

 was the Dunmore sale of Sept. 5 a still more 

 sensational one was soon to follow. Messrs. 

 Harward & Downing sold on Sept. 18 sixty-one 

 head for 15,458, an average of 253, the three- 

 year-old bull 8th Duke of Geneva going to Mr. 

 Leney at l,650, or fully $8,250 in gold, the 

 highest price paid at auction for any animal of 

 the breed up to that date. Mr. Downing had 

 paid Mr. Sheldon of New York $4,000 for the 

 bull in 1869. Col. L. G. Morris of Fordham, N. 

 Y., was a buyer at this sale. The highest-priced 

 female was 5th Maid of Oxford at $4,500. 



Oakland Favorite 10546 and London Duke 

 6th 10399. In 1870 Mr. Charles E. Leonard of 



