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Show Yesterday witnessed more record-smashing record-smashing events in the racing world. In the pacing race at Nashville between Hal Pointer and Direct, the California horse won three straight heats, the time of the second being 2:09. The Ten-nesseans Ten-nesseans went broke on the race; and it is not to be wondered at, for such speed is calculated to break something. The colored people of Oklahoma want one of their number, E. P. Mc-Cabe, Mc-Cabe, appointed to the governorship to succeed Steele. They evidently believe that 'people will never get anything any-thing if they do not ask for it, but it is aiming a little high to ask for the chief executive office of the territory. |