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Dunmore's sale Allsopp gave $16,000 for Duch- 

 ess 117th and $13,500 for Duchess 114th, and 

 Sir Curtis Lampson paid $6,250 for Duke of 

 Cornwall 2d (43082). At Lord Skelmersdale's 

 sale at Latham House in September Mr. R. 

 Locler of Whittlebury paid $10,000 for Duchess 

 of Ormskirk. At Lord Braybrooke's sale at 

 Audley End, Allsopp gave $5,000 for Thorn- 

 dale Rose 7th; Earl Bective paid $4,500 for 

 Thorndale Rose 9th and Sir Curtis Lampson 

 $3,000 for Thorndale Rose 12th. At Col. Kings- 

 cote's sale Lord Fitzhardinge gave $5,500 for 

 Oxford Belle 5th; and the bull Oxford Beau 7th 

 (42082), by Duke of Hillhurst, was bought by 

 Mr. Angas of Australia at $3,375. Mr. Angas 

 also bought a number of the get of Duke of 

 Connaught at Lord Fitzhardinge's Berkeley 

 Castle sale, including Lady Wild Eyes 12th at 

 $2,000, At this same sale Mr. J. A. Rolls gave 

 $3,750 for Kirklevington Empress 2d, by Duke 

 of Connaught. Notwithstanding these occa- 

 sional high prices the general trend of values 

 in Great Britain was also downward, the sales 

 for the year aggregating 2,354 head at an aver- 

 age of $240. This average would have been 

 materially less but for the few sensational 

 prices above quoted. 



The rally of 1880. The panic which had 

 prevailed among the holders of speculative lots 

 in America for several years had now spent 



