60 NOTED MAINE HORSES. 
BELLE KNOX. 
Brown mare foaled about 1870; got by Gilbreth Knox. 
Owned by H. D. Donovan, Auburn, Me. Record 2.34, 
at Gardiner, Me., Aug. 21st, 1877. 
BABY BOY. 
Black gelding foaled in 1879, bred by A. D. Bumps of 
Thorndike, Me.; got by Joe Irving. Sold to Chas E. 
Ruggles of Massachusetts. 
BLACK KNOB. 
Black colt with one white hind foot, foaled in June, 
1883; got by Blackfoot. Owned by E. S. Richards, 
Charleston, Me. 
BRIDGHAM HORSE. 
_ Bridgham horse or Young Indian Chief, for Mr. Bridg- 
ham, who formerly owned him, assures us that he was 
always known and advertised by that name, was a large 
showy horse weighing in good condition thirteen hundred 
pounds. He was a powerful horse with an open slashing 
gait and fine knee action, and could trot fast for the times. 
He was a flea-bitten gray in color which did not bleach 
out with age, the spots being large and diamond shaped. 
His ears were large and set wide apart on his head which 
gave him the appearance of being lop-eared. 
Mr. Geo. Bridgham then of Poland Corner bought him 
in 1849—the horse then being called eight years old—of a 
gentleman named Wentworth Archibald, who brought 
him to that place and said that he bought him of a truck- 
man in Bangor named Hathaway. 
It seems that Mr. A. was a sickly man, and died shortly 
after disposing of the horse, and we have the impression 
that he lived at Poland Corner. Mr. Bridgham, whose 
letter lies before us, adds ‘‘he was always called a Messen- 
ger horse while I owned him, and I never heard it dis- 
puted.” This latter statement, together with the endorse- 
