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next morning he offered Weaver $100 if he would not 

 take the horse. Weaver replied that he had bought 

 the horse for Peter Barker, of New York ; that he had 

 notified him of the purchase by mail, and that it was 

 too late then to consider any terms of compromise 

 whatever. 



"It is said that Dutchman got a few colts before 

 he was castrated, at three years old, and after he be- 

 came famous as a trotter, John Weaver, the owner of 

 Andrew Jackson, and some friends went down to 

 Salem to pick them up. When they went to Denny to 

 learn where they could be found, he flew into a 

 terrible passion, calling them thieves, robbers, and 

 everything else that was abusive ; ordered them off his 

 premises, and would give them no satisfaction what- 

 ever. It was while Dutchman was owned in Phila- 

 delphia he lost an eye ; but whether this was caused 

 by a timothy stalk in his manger, as has been gener- 

 ally represented, or by the cruel treatment of his 

 former master when on a drunken spree, cannot now 

 be determined. The story that he was used in a string 

 team hauling bricks is a pure fabrication ; and the 

 same story was told about Charcoal Sal, the dam of 

 Andrew Jackson, with about the same amount of 

 truth. Daniel Jeffreys owned them both, and was a 

 brickmaker, but he was an active participator in most 

 of the trotting events of that day about Philadelphia." 



Cyrus Lukins, a genuine Monkbarns in horse mat- 

 ters in Philadelphia and that vicinity, made a number 

 of inquiries from people who knew all of the parties 

 connected with this horse, and in order to put the 

 string team story to sleep for all time, published on 



