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FOREST AND STREAM. 



tioa; hosts o£ old bachelors, not to say married men, who 

 would never have dreamed of them I Modern morality shud- 

 ders to contemplate -what developments arc yet in store if such 

 things are allowed to go on. We know that our voice is feeble 

 and our influence slight, but our duty is plain, and wo are 

 scrupulous and unswerving in the performance of it. We have 

 little expectation that the virtuous secretary of the Society for 

 Suppression will venture to act officially in the matter, and 

 have therefore decided to place the offenBe of the Fashion 

 Plate Publishers squarely before the public, and herewith 

 hold it up to the open light that they may the better determine 

 its true character, (which see). 



We are well aware that a nice sense of perception has en- 

 abled the aforesaid Secretary to affirm that circumstances may 

 so alter cases that the bad may sometimes appear the better 

 thing, and that indecencios become indcencies only according 

 to the purposes they are intended to serve, or the light in 

 which they are regarded. Profoundly impressed by this phi- 

 losophy, we have felt that the public good might be best served 

 in the instance before us by turning the facts to the best ac- 

 count and adapting the odiius suggestions to the requirements 

 of sportsmen. In the accompanying diagram we have a cooi- 



. binalionof thebest devicesof Holabird and Cording. Madeof 

 waterproof fustian, we secure a garment for hunting and fiB'aing 

 almost as impervious to water as a Boytou swimming suit. 

 Being all of one piece, it can be slipped on over one's ordinary 

 clothing, (except the coat,) with great facility. Three yards 

 oi material should make a suit. Buttons need not come be- 

 low the waist. Boots aud shoes two sizes larae can be pulled 

 on over the, feet ; approved wading shoes for angles are made 

 for the very purpose, with lines of holes punched in their 

 sides near the soles. For wading streams, or for work in 

 marsh and swamp, nothing more satisfactory can be imagined. 

 For horse-back riding through wet underbrush and in rain 

 storms, the combination suit would prove most comfortable 

 and serviceable. For hunting, their great advantage would 

 consist in dispensing with heavy rubber or leather boots, and 

 keeping the feet dry. Shoes are just as practicable for hunt- 

 ing as for wading. We have long used the English wading 

 pants and have always kept dry although in water to our 

 waist for hours. Manufacturers of waterproof hunting suits 

 are welcome to our ideas if they choose to adopt them. 

 New Haufshiee— Nashua, Dec. 2.— The shooting season 



j 

 idge have been 

 unusually scarce ; snows have about finished them m this sec- 

 tion. Ducks gave us the "go-by" in their southern flight, 

 but few have Deen seen. Borne fine bags of gray squirrels 

 have been taken. On the whole, the past fall shooting has 

 been rather dry. The fishermen are laying in their annual 

 supply of shiners for winter fishing, which about here is ex- 

 cellent. A few coveys of Bob "White's have been bobbing 

 around here this fall. Bappy to say that but iew have been 

 shot. Webb. 



Dover, Dec. 4. — Game has not been very plenty around here 

 this fall, especially beach and marsh birds. Now and then a 

 good bag is brought home by some iucky sportsman. Quite 

 a number of foxes have br;eu killed this fall on the outskirt 

 of our city. Two were shot a few mornings since by Mr. 

 Wesley Beck and one by Oapt. J. S. Dame. W. A. G. 



Massachusetts— Sulem, Dec. 9. — Game with us at present 

 is somewhere else when one is after it. There are 



in Boxford and vicinity ; also some in Wenhain, with a fair 

 lot of rabbits, and some partridges in both localities. I h»vi 

 seen two partridges, one quail and a rabbit brought to bag (hi 

 past week. Salem harbor quite bare of birds. A few auks 

 about since recent gales. ft. L. NbWcomb. 



Wormier, Dec. 9.— There is some big game still left in old 

 Massachusetts. A large wild cat shot in the East Princeton 

 woods, i"Jov. 5, by Mr. George H. Cook, has been set up and 

 placed on exhibition. It measures 36 inche3 from tip to tip 

 and stands 14 inches high, while the girth is 30 



ay Mr. Charles E. Johnson, of Worthborougii, captured 

 one ot the finest fur otters ever seen in this vicinity. This is 

 the third he has captured within a few days. The weight of 

 his last one was twenty-three pounds. It measured oft. 4in 

 in length. The same day Air. Johnson captured two minks, 

 two muskrats and a partridge. 



JJhode Ibiaud— Ifeupprt, Dec. 2. — Ooots, old squaws and 

 some black ducks have beeu shot in our bay the past week. 

 irted by the gunners to be very abundant iruthe 

 neighborhood of Providence and Hope I - 



Occasional. 



DosHBOTItTOT— Farmxngton, Dec. 5.— Grouse and quail 

 have been rather scarce here this season, but woodcock have 

 been quite plenty and the shooting good. Three of us bagged 

 in one day's shooting sixty-eight woodcock, five grouse, eleven 

 quad, which, in this locality, comes once in a lifetime. 



Traxis, 



Nev> London, Dec. 10.— Black ducks are quo 

 around Black Pond, Niantic, and numbers have been shot. 

 Saw a flock of wild geese flying this morning during the 

 snow storm, heading about southwest. 



N»w Yobk— Bhdterlsia-M, L. I., Dec. 5— Yesterday, the 



4th, being a remarkably calm day, with smooth water for 

 battery shooting, a good" field day was had against the coot. 

 Probably there will not be such another chance this season, 

 unless the winter months are as mild as the; 

 X was not very fortunate in anchoring my boat, but I got 13 

 foul, all killed singly on the wing, though hit chiefly on other 

 places than on the wing. My friend Al. Tuthill gathered 

 them up in another while the writer did the shooting. The 

 weather being so very favorable for the sport, some ha I f dozen 

 other batteries and a score of sail boats were out for fowl, 

 Payne and Bruce got 18 ; Flagg and Congdon, 14; Captain 

 Cartwright, 10; a white yacht, 5; and others not reported. 

 There are but few quail on this island, but the two Conkhns 

 got 21 yesterday. Babbits very plenty, but of low price. 



Isaac. 



NbW Jersby — Ashley Souse, Barnegat Inlet, Dec. 7. — 

 Shooting has never been as poor for years at this time of year. 

 Such a scarcity of wild fowl of all descriptions never was 

 known. I have not heard of a dozen geese having been killed 

 up to date. Very few flocks of brant have been seen. We 

 are all looking for cold weather hoping an improvement. 



B. 



Kenttcky— Hickman, Dec. 4.— Reelfoot Lake being only 

 12 miles distant, wild fowl shooting is spiendid, the lake being 

 the feeding-place for ducks and geese in their 

 flight. Deer and turkeys are abundant. Squirrels and quails 

 are found in great numbers, but little attention is paid them, 

 however, as the splendid shooting of larger game attracts both 

 the attention and ammunition of the sportsmen. There were 

 shipped to-day to Columbia, Miss., 72 ducks, being the bag 

 made by Col. Johnston in one day's shooting on the lake. 

 The man who brought them to town said the Colonel killed 

 60 that he did not get— pretty good day for ducks. A party 

 from Madison, ind , on iheir'way back from Little Biver, 

 Mo., about 40 miles south, t 



turkeys with them, the result of lour days' hunting. Among 

 the notables now at the lake are E 8. Wheat, U. 8. Marshall, 

 with Messrs. Priest, Perkins and Short, of Nashville, compris- 

 ing one party ; and W. A. Knight, Trustee Davidson County, 

 and Mr. VV. L. McKay, also of Nashville. On my way here 

 from Columbia I met Mr. H. S. Gillings, of Dickson, Tenn., 

 with his black setters Jet and Belle, on his way to the fields 

 near Gillem. Ma told me he killed over 200 birds in three 

 days' shooting over them. A party from Illinois River en 

 route for White Biver, bear hunting, gave us a caii, and 

 showed a very fine swan that they killed on the river above 

 Here. They had a boat fixed up for the Ql 

 taking the world easy. One of the party killed V lai 

 bear last year that waB ever killed on the ri- ; 

 this is the sportman's paradise. He can find anything ha 

 shoot, and the miid winter makes camping out very 

 ..a lor those who do not want to camp 



modations to lie had on the lake. VAX. 



iSKB — Piney Falls, Dec. 7. — The principal game in 

 . deer and turkeys,, hut the deer fire 

 fast diminishing in numbers, in consequence of the detestable 

 practice of hounding, which nearly all Southern huutcrs art- 

 addicted to, and not a single month in the wb I 

 exempted. 



A Missoubi Side Hunt.— Scdalia, Mo., Dec. 6.— In the 

 history of States and individuals there occurs Bom 

 event as a kind of climax. Our Nimrods concle 

 the cap sheaf on their fall shooting, by organizing a grand 

 match hunt for Dec. 5. On the evening of the lib, quite a 

 respectable company convened at the gun store of Mr. A, B. 

 Dempsy, and soon arranged the preliminaries. There was 

 but a single prize offered to the one making the highest score, 

 and that was the exquisite privilege of "bragging." Other 

 prizes were talked ot, but the party seemed to be entirely free 

 from any bare desire for filthy lucre, and were only intent 

 upon that exhilarating sport that makes us start 



'■To feel ourselveB a man." 

 Dr. Majors and Mr. F. floustou wen; selected captains of the 

 l ose their men as follows: Capt. 

 Majors— T. Newton, L. Kreruon, J. Parmerlee, S. O. Gold, 

 Wm. Brandon, W. B. Thomas, C. H. Gauss. Capt. Hous- 

 ton— J. G. Sloan, W. A. Sloan, W. Baker, Dr. E 

 Dempsy, Ed. Small. Arthur Maltby. Early Thursday morn- 

 ing they scattered to the lour winds, and laic Thui 

 ing the returns began to come in, and by 11 P. M., without 

 ■.,uy bulldozing, the votes \ dnl 



.... kts' 184. Capt. 



Houston had the largest score, 36 birds. Two Lui 



brought in, but nolhing was said about who pulls 



the roost. Taking it ail ; 



themselves highly, and many a pleasant incident could be r t- 



cited in connection with the day's Bport. Occident. 



Illinois— Charleston, Coles Courtly, Inc. 6.— The sportsmen 

 have had considerable fun for two days hunting two deer with 

 fox hounds four miles west of here, near the India 

 St. Louis Bailroad, on Biles Creek. The second <: 

 hist., there were 25 men and Bight hound I 

 four hounds, Scott Dowliuetwo, William ' 

 excellent fox hounds. They jumped up only one deer the 

 second day, a fine doe. She took B circle of two miles. Late 

 in the evening William A.Jeffries gave her a load of buckshot 

 in the side and stopped her wild career Weight, about 100 

 pounds ; age, about one year ; she was very fat, J. B. D. 



: vraboo, Dec. 5— Baraboo is a small place, of 



about 3,000 inhabitants, but there is considerable sport here. 

 We have two" shooting clu be 1 1 ng « nu ' '. ae 



other a rifle tfiiim. The former have a shoot once or twice 

 1 Deei hunting is the main sport at present. Snow 

 fell the other night to the depth of two inches. S' 

 sportsmen started the next morning, and, before night, eight 

 fine deer were killed. One buck weighed 190 pounds. 



Ed. H. 



Iowa.— Pommy, Dec 12.— Large fowl are all gone, but 

 ducks still linger in countless myriads around the larger bodies 

 of water ill s gradual ap- 



pcoach of winter having driven them i small ponds by 



: em up solid and hard. But they come from the 

 lakes in clouds to the cornfields for their morning am 

 feed. Tney are very wild, so that a large amount 1 

 is required to make a good ,■ 



c und it partially frozen and all the open water liter- 

 ally black with ducks and more coming in large E 

 the north and lighting continually without any preliminaries. 



With a good sink boat and decoys there would be no end to 

 the spurt there for the next week or two. Two of the boys 

 from Dubuque were here a short time since. They arrived in 

 the morning, went north Of town and got three ducks and then 

 went home in the evening disgusted, when at the same time 

 there were millions of duck at the lakes and a market hunter 

 there killing fifty per day. Deer are quite plenty back seven 

 or eight miles, and every day one or two are brought in. 



IAOOTAH. 



Kansas— DelpTws, Not. 30.— Quail and grouse very plenty, 

 even neatly as plentiful as before our hard winter of '74. 



Geo. N. B. 



Complimentaby. — A benefit will be given to Mr. Bubser at 

 the Arcade Theatre, Jersey City, on the 19th inst. Mr. Bubser 

 is a well and favorably-known sportsman of that city, who 

 wsb injured not long since by the premature discharge of a 

 cannon at a Eahile given him by his" sporting friends. Captain 

 [us has kindly tendered bis services for the occasion, 

 and the programme will be an interesting one. 



The Champion Quail Eateb. — Here is a chance for a bet- 

 ting undertaker. If ho lost the $500 he would at least bury 

 the man who had buried the 90 birds : 



On the 28th of October, says the Nashville (Tenn.) 

 American, Alex. Ament made a wager of $50 with Charles 

 Descbaw that be could not eat 30 quails in 30 consecutive days. 

 Desehawwas to commence Nov. 1, aud every succeeding 

 morning, between eight and nine o'clock, devour bis quail 

 He experienced no sickness until Nov. 36, when he threw up 

 his bird. On u at retained his 



quail. He was all right aftei that date, and instead of ■ 

 one, Nov. 30, he finished two, making 31 birds instead of SO 

 he devoured, and so he won the Wager; He will commence 

 Jan, 1 and eat 30 more birds in as many days, and will bet 

 S500 that he can eat 90 in 90 successive days!" 



The Law ov Trespass.— We are indebted to a Philadelphia 

 correspondent for the following very clear elucidation of the 

 law of trespass, which he sends in response to a note in last 

 issue. The writer is a lawyer, who therefore speaks 

 with authority, and gives legal advice, without fee or hope of 

 reward, to thousands of interested readers, The instances 

 mentiope Iy very curious, Inlhe couris we know 



little of the troubles and vexations of the trespass laws 

 which so vex the landowner and intruder in the closely 

 settled counties of England and other countries. Our corres- 

 pondent writes under date of Dec. 6 : 



■ ■sue of the 5th Inst. I stien, pro- 



pounded by a correspondent, as to '° 



A person gave him permission to shoot on his farm 

 rose near the dividing 'line of the land, and a dead bird fell on 

 bird Bt the time it 

 had crossed the line. Trespass was trad 

 committed by sending the dog on the neighbor's property to 

 bird. If a wild bird flies from mj land to the 

 land of another, and I shoot that bird after it bus crossed my 

 line, 1 have no right of property in the bird so shot. It be- 

 longed to my neighbor under the common law relating to 

 ownership of beasts (ferce natural), and the maxim of the law 

 beiiig, " O,, " ; * est usque ud cmlum" (He who 



ni intewsst in, and exclusive right 

 which is upon or above i , to an indefinite height), gives the 

 person over whose land the bird was flying an ownership in 

 the bird for so long a time as it remained iu the air over his 

 ■-■sled on hie property. 



11 j law, the correspondent really did 

 not own the bird at all. (No offence ia intended to him.) The 

 1 "What 1= rrespass" is very interesting, pnd some 

 curious cases are to be met with iu connection with this sub- 

 ject. For instance, it was decided in England many years 

 ago that a parson shooting a rifle ball high in the air 1 

 trespass against all the property owners over whose lands the 

 ball in its flight had passed. So also is reported a case of a 

 person sailing over the laud of anoth n, who was 



in consequence, of his act adjudged a "tr< s] 



It would seem then, if the correspondent so pointed his gun; 



that the shot not only passed through the air over the farmer's 



upon his land, he was a trespasser 



before he thought of calling his dog to retrieve. 



This will explain how a person may commit trespass witb- 



ing liable for damages, C. G., Ja. 



That Ofpicb Boy Onob MoBE.— Just home from Florida; 

 he has been to Jacksonville on the steamer Western Texas, 

 and, heartily enjoying the trip, thus describes it: He sailed 

 from this oil 



Leamahi 

 the bar; at Si. John's Biver. She - 

 & Sons and is measured at 1,181 12-100 tons bur;;: in 



ped and has ace 1 a thirtj -two first- 



class passengers and twenty steerage. She was in charge oi 

 Captain I. Bines, who is one of the best sailors on the ocean 

 itO] rfi Btion. Of the mates, purser, 

 ■■.. crew he soys ' E - I) as to their 



. etc.; but the. no noble king 



says be 

 and passed Cape Hatteras 

 onlay; but off Frying Pan Shoals they encoun- 

 | f gale, but it did not trouble the steamer any, al- 

 ivatei swept the main deck. They passed several 

 the day, among which was the City 

 the sism ah:p of the line. He passed 

 Charleston 'Light about 11 a. m. Monday, and 7 p. m. was 

 in Port Royal, where all there was to he seen weie 

 ores and negroes, and not much good 

 1 wo or three good 'longshoremen would do the 

 work of twenty of them, and not make half the fu83 about it 

 either. Hut it" was very amusing to see them labor unloading, 

 etc. At 9 p. M. they left, and at 9 a. m. Tuesday they were 

 at Brunswick, Georuia, where they remained about one hour, 

 aid from what he could see of it thought it a very pretty 

 icely laid out. At 3: SO p. 11., same day, they cast 

 anchor off the bar at St, John's Biver, and had to lay 23 

 hours before they could go over, as the tide was down and 

 wind from 'he west, which blew the water out of 



and went over the bar as 

 !\ the soundings, which was a little 

 , on account of the west wiud. The boy 

 has brought all the soundings, which shows that the report 

 that any steamer could go over the bai that wanted to would 

 be an utter Mr. Aster's yacbt Ambassadress 



lay off outside the bar drawing 10 fest of water, and could 

 not get into port until after the Western Texas sailed on her 



