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FAMOUS BELLE MEADE FARM IS SOLD. Nashville advices announce the purchase at auction of the famous old Belle Meade homestead and twenty -two acres of park by Walter O. Parmer for 2,000. Belle Meade was in its palmy days probably the most noted nursery of thoroughbreds in the Inited States and Mr. Parmer is likely to revive its ancient glories. He has 13.1 head of thoroughbreds at his Eden wold stud on the other side of Nashville. It is an interesting fact in the history of Belle Meade that its foundation was a mare bought in Canada. Ceneral Harding, who established it as a thoroughbred stud, sent to England for a mare by Catton, but did not get her. He was advised that such a mare could be found in Canada, in use as a charger by an officer of one of the British regiments, then stationed in that country. Callopadc was thus located in Queliee and transferred to Tennessee bsefore the Civil War. Chiefly through her daughter. Reel, she founded a family that includes many of the most noted horses il» the history of the America u turf.
