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Wetherby (31033), was taken by D. Mclntosh 

 at $13,300; Grand Duchess of Oxford 22d was 

 bought by W. McCulloch at $10,500; Grand 

 Duchess of Oxford 21st, by Lord Penryhn, at 

 $7,750; Grand Duchess of Oxford 40th went to 

 S. P. Foster at $8,000; Grand Duchess of Oxford 

 19th to Maj. Chaffey at $4,275; the 44th Duke 

 of Oxford (39774) to H. A. Brassey at $8,250; 

 the 45th Duke of Oxford 'to Lord Fitzhardinge 

 at $7,500, and the 46th Duke to the Earl of 

 Ellesmere at $3,330. 



At a sale made by Mr. J. W. Larking Sir 

 Curtis Lampson gave $7,550 for the American- 

 bred 3d Duke of Hillhurst (30975). The Duke 

 of Devonshire invested $4,525 in Cherry Duch- 

 ess of Hillhurst and $4,250 in Marchioness of 

 Worcester, by 8th Duke of Geneva; and Mr. 

 Allsopp gave $3,000 for Belle of Worcester. At 

 a sale made by T. Holford A. H. Lloyd paid 

 $4,050 for Winsome 12th; D. Mclntosh gave 

 $4,000 for Viscount of Oxford (40876), and All- 

 sopp paid from $2,000 to $3,000 for several lots. 



Dark days of 1879. The year 1879 was a 

 repetition of the previous season except that 

 the depression in values of such cattle as were 

 expected to sell on the strength of their breed- 

 ing was still more profound on this side of the 

 Atlantic. Trade at both public and private 

 sale in America was flat, and hundreds of those 

 who had been chasing the rainbows of fashion 



