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tries, Tilling, S Boston, 1, Shadow, E Y 0. 2 ; second class, score, 

 3 entries, Breeze, Boat ¥ 0, 1, Mist, D Y C, 2; third class sloops. 

 Eureka, S Boaton, w o : fourth class sloops, 2 entries, Annie, S B 



Y 0, 1. 



October 10, Harlem ; 5th Kace for Dowling Cup, 6 entries, Em- 

 ma D wins. 

 October 10, 8 Boston ; Match. Fancy, B Y C, beats Soamp, B 



Y C. 



October 11, S Boston ; Match. Scamp, B Y C, beats Fancy, B 

 YC. 

 Ootober 11, S Boston ; Match. Fancy, B Y C, beats Soamp, B 



Y C. Best two out of three. 



October 12, Haverhill ; Hv Y C, Match for Champion Flag. 

 Lizzie Warner beats Ellipse. 



October 15, New York ; Match. Gracie and Vision, both N Y Y 

 C sloops; both disabled, no race. 



Ootober 19, Marblehead. Second handicap match between Foam, 

 E Y C, and Kebecca, E Y C, Foam wins ; third match postponed 

 till next season. 



October 22, Now York ; Match. Gracie beats Vision. 



October 23, Quebec ; Match for $100. Enid beats Leontine. 



November 5, New Yoik : Nereue Y C Kegatta. Queen Mab beat 

 liebecoa, Alice and Annie. 



—Q. A. Badger, of West Qaincy, Mass., has patented a registering 

 device for magazine guns, wtiereby ihe user can tell how many dis- 

 charges lave been made. Write to him and tlnd out about it.— [Adv. 



Jf^a and JfiVflf ^p 



FISH IN SKASON~°~FOR NOVEMBER. 



FRESH WATBR 



Black BaBs, Micropterus talmoiden; Pike or Pickerel, E&oz lutiunj, 



it. pdUidta. Yellow Perch, Perca ttavetcens. 

 Muokalonge, Eeex noUlior. 



salt watbr. 



Sea Bass, SeUenop$ occllatuft. Cero, Cybium regale. 



Stuped Bass, Roccw Knneatus. Bonito, sarda pelamys 



Weakflsh, Cynokcion regalU. Kingflah, McnUdrru^ nebuloiufi. 

 BJuensh, Pomatonws saUatriz. 



Movements op THE Fishing Fleet. — The number of Bank 

 arrivals reported at this port the past week has been 13. Six 

 of these were from codfishery trips, bringing 300,000 lbs., 

 and 6 were halibuters, with 40,000 lbs. The number of 

 Georges arrivals has been 7, and the receipts 100,000 lbs. cod- 

 fish. Eight arrivals have been reported from the Bay St. 

 Lawrence, bringing 1,500 bbls. mackerel. The receipt of shore 

 mackerel for the week have been about 800 bbls. The boat 

 and dory fishermen have met with good luck when the 

 weather favored, and will reap handsome returns from the in- 

 shore visit of the codfish schools. The number of fisbing 

 vessels absent on voyages in different branches of the fisheries 

 last Friday was as follows : Georges, 46 ; Banks, 32 ; Bay St. 

 Lawrence, 25; potato voyages to Prince Edward Island, 12; 

 Shore fishing, 30 ; Newfoundland, 4 Several of these have 

 arrived during the week, but others have left port, and with 

 the exceptiou of the Bay fleet, these figures may be taken as 

 representing the proportion of vessels now engaged in differ- 

 ent branches of the fisheries. The Shore mackerel fleet hesi- 

 tate to haul up lest there should be a spurt of fat tish (or a 

 day or two to close the season. The fleet are doing little, 

 though one Swampscott vessel reported a good fare one day 

 last week. — Cape Ann Advertise?; Nov. 22. 



Connecticut— New London, Nov. 21.— There has been on 

 exhibition the largest black bass ever taken in Lake Konomoc, 

 weight 4$ pounds. Have had a new experience in fishiDg for 

 hickory shad at Niantic, and was agreeably surprised. Hook 

 them and then have a care for your tackle. With a rush they 

 are off, then up, then down, and leap higher and oftener than 

 black bass, and require more delicate handling. Misal. 



New York— Shelter Island, L. I., Nov. 21.— The bunker 

 fishing is over for this year, and the yachts and steamers are 

 laid uo, and factories closed and men paid off. It has beeu a 

 rich year for them. Isaac. 



Tennessee— Nashville, Nov. 21.— C. E. Hillman and a 

 party of friends have just returned from a week's fishing ex- 

 pedition in Caney Fork, a tributary of the Cumberland Biver, 

 about 150 miles above this place. They bad magnificent 

 sport, taking a large number of jack, some of them weighing 

 as much as 7 pounds each. Mr. H. says that the best jack 

 fishing to be found in the country is in the Cumberland Hiver 

 above Point Isabel, which is the head of navigation, and so 

 far from a market that the strtam is not pillaged by pot fish- 

 ermen. Jack up there are often taken weighing 12 and 14 

 pounds. J- D. H. 



Arkansas— Jacksonport, Nov. 19.— Some fine strings of 

 black bass (big mouth; from 1 to 6A pounds weight. Striped 

 bass (M. Ghrysops) in fair abundance, mostly taken by troll- 

 ing. Jack salmon are beginning to take the minnow. Alto- 

 gether the brethren of the angle are having good times. 



Yeel. 



Illinois— Illinois River, Nov. 6. — The Illinois is remarkable 

 for the quantity ot fish in its waters. They sell here at two 

 cents the pound undressed. But I wish specially to notice a 

 new feature. This is at the " new lock and dam across the 

 river just at these hunting grounds, completed last year by 

 the State and United States jointly for navigation purposes, 

 vast quantities of black bass and other large fish have been 

 caught throughout the summer and fall with the rod and line 

 and spoon. Bass weighing from one to ten pounds are some- 

 times caught almost as fast as the spoon drops to the water, 

 and I am reliably informed several hundreds are caught by 

 one person in a day. They congregate below the dam aud 

 bite at almost anything thrown over. The reports are truly 

 wonderful. H - VY. Merrill. 

 . — •♦»— . 



FLESH AND SKIN TINTS OF TROUT. 



THE English papers are assiduously investigating the 

 causeB of varied tints in the flesh of trout. Any in- 

 formation which can be added to that already known on thia 

 point will be much appreciated by ichthyologists. We ap- 

 pend what a late copy of the Country (London) says on this 

 bead: 



Trout, when of small size, are generally distinguished by 

 slate-colored bands or blotches on the side, resembling those 

 on the parr, which has rendered it difficult for an inexperi- 

 enced eye to detect the difference between the two fishes. 

 The distinguishing features between them consist in the parr 

 possessing a mure delicate and rounded form, a shorter nose, 

 a. smaller mouth, and in having the caudal_or tail fin more 



deeply forked ; while IJio larger size and great muscular 

 power of the pectoral fln forms in itself a complete distinguish- 

 ing feature. The ads on the fides are also 

 narrower in the parr limn in. the trout ; the general spotting 

 rarely extends beneath the central line ; and two dark spots 

 on the gill-covers ara ;.n jnseparate mark of distinction be- 

 tween tbe two fishes. It is worthy of remark that the dusky 

 bands in tbe young trout usually disappear by the time the 

 fish attains the length of five or six inches, and are never 

 met with in one of three ounces weight. 



But the trout, when in prime order, has a small head, thick 

 shoulders, a hog back, well rounded about the dorsal fin, and 

 bright scales on ihe sides that present a resplendent cast of 

 gold, studded with vermilion spots, which, contrasted with 

 the rich brown above, present an exterior coating lovely be- 

 yond description. But this beauty wanes by degrees as the 

 year advances; and by the time winter arrives the whole ap- 

 pearance is so changed that an inexperienced observer would 

 scarcely suppose that the meagre, cadaverous specimen he 

 then beholds is the identical trout he had gazed on with so 

 much satisfaction a few months before. 



The deep pink color of the flesb in a trout is a certain proof 

 that the flesh is in good condition ; but this tint is not usual- 

 ly found in very small trout ; it is also peculiar to the fish 

 inhabiting certain rivers— generally those the waters of which 

 are limpid, where the bottom abounds with aquatic insects 

 and small Crustacea, and the banks are plentifully supplied 

 with flies, particularly the green drake and stone flies — but in 

 small brooks, and in most hungry waters, the flesh of the 

 trout never acquires the slightest tinge of pink, but when in 

 best order appears of a rich cream color, with a dark brown 

 coating just beneath the skin. 



The age of a trout may be detected by the shape of the tail 

 fln, the extremity of which, when the fish is very young, 

 is deeply forked ; but as it increases in age the central rays 

 and membrane of the fin grow out, and while those at tbe 

 extremity remain nearly stationary, so that the tail becomes 

 in course of time, not only even at the end, but at last acquires 

 even a convex form. 



The exterior coloring of the trout is regulated in a great 

 measure by that of the bottom of the waters they inhabit, and 

 to which these fish seem to have the chameleondike power of 

 adapting themselves, which proves a means of securing them 

 in some degree from the sight of their numeious foes, to 

 which a strong contrast of color between themselves and sur- 

 rounding objects would constantly expose them. 



Y Reminiscences or Early Days in Boston. — Editor Forest 

 and Stream : I am pleased to read in your fruitful columns 

 capital fishing articles from the pen of that ancient angler and 

 sportsman, Samuel C. Clarke. Few writers of the present day 

 give such entertaining and scientific papers on the fishing de- 

 lights by brook, river and sea shore, as does your valued con- 

 tributor, 8. C. C. Samuel and myself were cousins and play- 

 mates together many years ago, and enjoyed in company our 

 earliest experience of rod and gun, and he is now equally in- 

 structive whether he casts his line in the streams of New 

 England, the lakes of the Great West, or the placid waters of 

 Florida. A veteran now, he has well nigh laid aside his gun, 

 but still follows the less laborious pursuit of the angler. 

 Long may he continue to please and instruct us with the re- 

 cital of his fishing successes I 



As school-boy^ and playmates we first began our sporting 

 career together in tbe handling of the old carbine gun and the 

 rustic willow wand, at the hospitable home of our dear old 

 grandfather, Gen. William Hull, at his old farm at Newtown, 

 near Boston ; and never elsewhere were such blisalul days or 

 such unalloyed pleasures. There, by the brook that ran 

 through the meadows, or at the neighboring mill-pond, we 

 caught our first mess of fish, and were as proud of the exploit 

 as any successful salmon fisher of Labrador. We also re- 

 joiced to continue our sport at the wharves and bridges of 

 dear old Boston, and every pleasant holiday afternoon found 

 us, rod and basket in baud, either at the old rope walk at the 

 foot of Boston Common (waters now reclaimed and covered 

 with garden and mansion), or at Cambridge Bridge, the old 

 Mill Dam, or down at Central, India or Long Wharf, where 

 the pollock and flounders, the tomcod and smelt, most 

 abounded. We were then both of us inoculated with the 

 love of sport which has so much contributed to the pleusureand 

 vigorous health of both of our lives. In recalling the joys of 

 these school-boy days, we are reminded of many names, 

 afterward distinguished in art and literature, such as Sumner, 

 Motley, Greenough, Hillard, Sturgis, Bellows, James F. 

 Clarke, Willis, Winthrop, Apthorp, Sargent, Blake, Curtis, 

 Austin, Loriug, aud very many others, many of whom 

 have departed, many of whom survive. And while reading 

 these angling papers of genial "S. C. O.," we are reminded 

 of those early days, and prompted to jot down in verse these 

 few lines, hoping they may be acceptable to him, and also to 

 the Forest and Stream and its editors and readers, lovers of 

 rod and gun ; 



to " S. 



S"6Bl here wliereonce we usedtosrelm, 



And where aie sailboats used to skim, 

 ere pasBd, 



And ba I I u ;»audli lee n ■ 



V. here gulden hours and youthful juys 



Were tli tooabon lur u-. ; 



Risestab 



l,,i . , ud drooping trees; 



Of all those t choolniatca few remain, 

 Few link- I g-eonder'd chain; 



Few of char group thai loved to puss 

 cd grass, 

 Or gather where toe out Klin stood, 

 Tat latest pnt.rii.r-li ot .he wood ; 

 Who down i , ■ > uld ride 



Ou »now Bled, or w.ili awlft skates glide ; 

 Who lov'd In summer afternoon, 

 u n.-n leaves were green aud birds iuturje, 

 To gather where the Hops-Walk gave 

 Its welcome to trie iirtal wave, 

 Just where iho Public etardi u i ow 

 SpruaUB Qowerj uiuo.ue =ud leafy uoligh! 



Those days I love n 



., retail— 



aud delight! 



And in that, few T haply 6 



On stately wpiare or crowded street, 



Iseenolonz-futu)! 



tn Hoowy hair and wrlnMe 



The limbs 



Are or .... career; 



The hands once skilled io pull the oar 



Or swing the rod are strong uo more 



i>rmv bleep in dust of native laud, 



And some repose ou foreign .rrand ; 



.some r.y tha palm I 



Where Indian oiilnwa rave and mar; 



8ome where Pacific billows sweep, 



Long since have laid them down to Bleep ■ 



And some are reverend i.r^ohers now, 



Of s.4emu step and thoughtful brow. 



Or merchant princes, rich In gold, 



The playmate* of tho-e i avs of old ; 



But ail are mindful of the jojs 



Of that far time when they were boys ! 

 Shelter Ialand, L. I. Isaac McLellan. 



There is no person of whom we would more cheerfully 

 print a tribute so well deserved than the subject of the above 

 lines. The apostrophe of one veteran anglor and comrade to 

 another, both of them now far on the shady side of life, is a 

 touch of the same nature which inspired the sentiment of 

 " Auld LaDg Syne." We hope the lines of our esteemed 

 contributors may long continue to fall together in pleasant 

 places.— Ed. F. & S. 



—A rare opportunity for purchasing an Orange Grove IB offered In 

 nr advertising columns this week.— [Adv. 



§ht %mm of §hes8. 



Notice.— Chess exchanges, communications and solutions should be 

 addressed " Chess Editor Fobsst and Stream, P. O. box 54, Wolcotl- 

 ville. Conn." 



Problem No. 33. 



Motto : Tokkaree. 



White to ptay and give mate In three moves. 



80I.CTIONS TO FRUBLKMS— KO. S9. 

 1— B tk3 Q II— 1— B K! 



a- 2-QtksBorKt. a— 



I 8— Mates [B5 



1— Q-QT 1— Btks< 



2-K-QBJ 2- 



3— Mates 

 Other variations. 



Game No. 83— RUT LOPEZ. 



The subjoined game waa ployed by correspondence tn the Interna- 

 tional Tourney, and Is the second which Mr. liomey'n has lot to Ma 

 skillful opponent. It Is far from our intentions to question the fairness 

 of Mr. Belden's pairing ot the players of the Ainerlean team, as we can 

 only too easily conceive of tlie diflleulty that lie encounters i 

 act, without even attempting to closely scrutinize the actual skill of 

 each competitor ; then divide tliem Into classes, at d give to each player 

 U18 position tn a class. As a whole, we think that Mr. Balden displayed 

 excellent judgment, and should th's contest result In the defeat of the 

 American team, which we do not think improbable, we feet confident 

 that it cinnot be justly atlnbuted to the want of good judgment or the 

 lack of discernment of the American manager : 



Black. Black. 



J. V. Komeyo. Wm. Nash. J. C. Homeyn. 



1-P-K4 



White. 

 Wm. Xasa. 

 1—P-K4 

 1— Kt-K B3 

 3-B-K15 

 +-Kt-Q BS 

 6— Cannes 

 e-B K+ 



T-B-KtS 

 S— P-Qs 



2— Kt-QB3 

 3-Ci K2(a) 

 4— Kl-li 133 

 S-P-QR3 

 6—y.i.l KU 

 7-KMlRi 

 8— P-Q8lb) 



o-r ucm f 



M— R-K ((> 

 IS— B-tttS 



tB-B tks B 



18— Etlfci R 

 19— P-K Kl3 



to— y Us B 



17- y K .4 

 IB- BtkS P 

 Is— K t..s lit 

 80 BtksJ? () 



o-r tks p 



m_Kt-Q--. hj-Qyu(c) 



1 1 -lit tks EP(d) 1 1-Kt tks B (e) 



K0T2S. 



(a) A weak defense, which, with the best continuation, must leave 

 ihe second player in a very cramped poaliton. 



(tj) P tka P. though very unsatisfactory, would undoubtedly have been 

 better. 



(c) Pethaps 10— Kt tkB lit would have been better, but in any case 

 Black must suffer Borne loss. 



(d) Perfectly sound, for if Black takes Ihe Kt, White plays 13-B-K 

 B4, and either wins the y. or gives mate in two more moves. 



(«) The best move under the clrcoinstanceB. 



lj) A strong move ; the game Is now entirely In White's hands. 



(4) It la remarkable that this Is the only move to prevest the loi-s of 

 nis y.. If Q tks P, there follows Kt-B3 dls ch, etc. 



(h) At llrat Bight this appears to be a weak move, hut I believe It Is 

 the best at Ms disposal. 15— P-K B8 would be followed by— 

 10— QR5 10-P-Kt.'l (bent) 1 19-Q-R3 cu 19-K-Q 



17— KttksP If— P tea Rt, (best) 2*— li-V; so— y us G J* 



is-y tks itch 18-K-y.i hi-yuKetc 



l5_y.Q would lead to an exchange of Q'a, followed by is— B tks B, 

 10— K tks B; 17— K-R8 ch, etc. 



(i) Black was under the Impression that White's !9th move was P-K 

 B3, and he mw Intended to capture the ICBP. On dlBcoverlng Ihb 

 error bo rcslgued at once. In any cise, however, his game waa per- 

 fectly hopeless.- Ayr Argas. 



ODBBOBT JOTTINGS. 



—The handicap tourney of tbe;Manhattan Chess Club is progressing 

 nnely. Mcaars. Bloch and Balrd lead tlie score, closely followed by 



