Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1893 — Roby and Cruelty. [ARTICLE]

Roby and Cruelty.

J. M. Hodskire showed as an interesting lot of ancient bank bills a few days ago, which are probably of considerable value ss souvenirs or to collectors. The laf-gesi bill was as2o bank note issued by the Planters & Mechanics Bank of jSouth Carolina, Sept. 11, 1723. Next was a §lO bill of the bank of the United Slates, dated June 4, 1828. This was the bank that was suppressed by Gen. Jackson in 1832. There were also a $3 bill of the Union Bank, of Georgetown Virginia, of the date or 1813; bill of the Nashville Bank, INashville, Tenn., dated 1818, and a Fifty Cent bill of the bank of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, date Sept. 1, 1822. They are quite a curiosity, and differ wonderfully from the banknotes of ike present day.— Remington Pres?.

gjg .' f • Running horses through a foot of snow with the mercury 5 or 10 below zero, and calling it spoTt, is one of the most absurd ideas that has come under our notice for some time. shows us to what extremes the Indiana Racing Association will go, in order to get a few dishonest dollars from their pitiable dupes. This "sort of thing is extreme cruelty and no horseman would be guilty of such an act. There are, at times, some very good horses on the turf (if a foot of snow can be so called) at Roby and it is a shame to abuse them in this way. This kind of racing is a barefaced gambling scheme and if there is a state law to prohibit games of chance, or a law to prevent extreme to animals this farce should lie stopped before it goes aay furt'^er. —Lowell Tribunt. We fully endorse the above sentiments. This Roby race business wa3 organised and is, no donbt, managed by a gang of desperate gamblers whose conduct was so flagrant that outraged public sentiment compelled their banishment from Chicago. This fact, in itself, was prima facie evidence that they were a bad lot, and this is confirmed by their practice of continuing their daily motions of racing,-in tracks covered deep with snow and with the temperature at zero. Such “racing" as that is merely a cover and pretext for gambling and the sooner (he state legislature prohibits it the better. By the way, it would be interesting to learn by what process these Roby gamblers secured the good wiil and advocacy of so many papers in this section of fl»e staleT '