Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1859 — Foot Race. [ARTICLE]

Foot Race.

The quickest time ever made at a foot I race was accomplished at Troy, N. Y., a few days since. Two Indians, named Smith and Bennett, matched themselves to run one hundred miles within twelve hours. During the morning the atmosphere was very sultry and the mercury, at ten o’clock, stood ninety degrees in the shade. Notwithstanding, both men started in the race, and ran to the twenty-eighth mile when Bennett gave out, leaving his rival to acc mplish the feat alone. The first fifty miles was run by Smith in seven hours and twenty-four seconds. He continued the raci to the sixtyfirst mile, when his feet become so swollen that he was almost unable to walk, and he gave up the race. The time occupied by Smith in the sixty-one miles was nine hours, twenty-nine minutes and thirty-six seconds, the quickest time for the distance on record. Who Cut them Down? —There has been found in “Quigley prairie,” (a low wet swampy piece of land about two miles nor'h of here} a number of stumps four feet below the surface. These stumps indicate that the “Woodman’s axe” has been at work, but when, the “oldest inhabitant” knoweth not. In excavating for the Chicago and Cincinnati R. R., a great many have been found, and they seem to be in a good state of preservation.—Pulaski Democrat.