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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF S. A. Clopton at present has twenty-two horses quartered at the Fair Grounds, New Orleans. There will be over 50,000 distributed in stakes ami purses during the twenty-six days of the Laurel meeting, which opens next Friday. , Two ,000 added races in the Autumn nnd Covington Handicaps will be run at Latonia next Saturday. Tom Scott has arrived at Lexington from New Orleans to take back some yearlings recently, liought for his account by T. L. Pierce. Scott reports that the New Orleans racing will not be affected by the recent elections.