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RICHMOND DOG SHOW. 



A DOG show was hold at Richmond, Va., last week in 

 connection with the- Second Annual Exhibition Of the 

 Virginia Poultry Association. This being the first attempt at 

 a dog show in Kichniond, the entries were, of course, not 

 numerous, but the quality was very good, and next year, no 

 doubt, toe show will 1)0 largely patronized by breeders. The 

 following is the report ol the judges, which includes the 

 prize list : 



hmond JJench < 

 i, ' a requested to net as 



jndgea at the esbibitloi j report as follows: At. 10 



o'clock a. a.. Juuusi:; aembled to discharge our du- 



tiea, Our associate, Dr. Jud. It. Wood, was prevented from act- 

 ing by sickness. We secured theaaeistaueeof S. O. ThlSley, lisq., 

 in judging setters and hounds. The following arc our awards: 



Class 3— Rough-coated St. Bernard— 1st, Mr. James Duke. 



Class li— Pointer Dogs — None exhibited ware worthy of men- 

 tion. 



Class 10— Pointer Bitches under oOlbs.— Two specimens deserv- 

 ing mention, but lacking size sufficient to bo awarded. 



Class 21— Pointer Puppies over six and under twelve mouths 

 —Bitch— J. F. Gibson exhibited a very pretty liver and white 

 tick. 



Class 2G-English Setters— Dogs— 1st, T. P. Taylor, Richmond, 

 blue, white and I u 



Class 37— English Setter Bitohes-lsl, T. P. Taylor's Queen 



St months— Dogs — let, T 

 six mouths— Dogs — 1st, 



Class " ' ' it'.: 1'ups 



F. Taylo V V ■■ - ,* and tan 



30— English Setter fup* 

 William Mahone's orange belton; , 



Class 3i— Champion Ulael; and Tan Setters— Dogs— T. F. Tay- 

 lor exhibits Champion King, winner of prixe i'or imps under 

 twelve mouths old at Baltimore in 1878. We do not think highly 

 of this dog. 



Class 33— Champion Black and Tan Setter— Bitch— 1st, Pan, 

 with litter of pups by Champion Bnpert. 



Class 31-Blaek and Tau Setters— Doga—lei, T. P. Taylor's 

 Scott. Very handsome dog. 



Class :>()— Black and Tan Setter Pups under six mouths— Bitches 

 —lat. C. H. ESppB. 



Class 42— Bed or Bod and White Setters— Dogs— 1st, T. P. Tay- 

 lor's Scout by Plunket. 



Clans 43-Kcd or Bed and While Setters— Bitches— 1st, T. F. 

 Taylor's bitch Jane, by Bufus. 



White Pupa under six months— Dogs 

 —1st, T. P. Taylor's pup Hawk, out of Jane by Baont, 



Class 17— 'Bed or lied and White Setters under' six months— 

 Bitches— T. F. Taylor exhibited throe gyps of same litter as last 

 named. 



Class 00— Foxhounds, beat couple— Richmond Hunting Club 

 exhibits Brandt aud Joe Johnson— a fine pair; also handaome 

 brace of pupa ; also lovely bitch of very delicate texture. 



Class B2— Beagles— Mr. AY. B. Bradbury exhibita a brace of 

 very diminutive beagles, of which wo are not judges, aud as to 

 which we could secure no competent judge. 



Class 65— For Terriers— Dogs— Mr. W. L. Bradbury exhibita a 

 beautiful specimen. 



Class 74— Bull Terriers, dog or bitch— George Ives for dog 

 named . 



Class 73— Bulldogs— None worthy of mention. Terriers— Seve- 

 ral exhibited ; wanting points of any specitic breed ; pretty, but 

 mongrel. 



We cannot conclude without saying that we regard the ahow as 

 in all respects most creditable, considering tho short notice given. 

 We think it unjust to dog- owners in other portions of thia State 

 to do more than express that the prize-winners are entitled to tho 

 awards among those present. We think fuller opportunity for ex- 

 hibiuon should be given dog- owners in other portions of the 

 State before any awards attempt to declare a State or other su- 

 premacy. We BUggJBt mat li e State Fair presents a. fine oppor- 

 tunity for a display where the whole State can be represented. 

 whether the State can furnish a handsomer 

 exhibit of English seller doge than we had at your exhibition. 

 We cannot conclude without expressing the gratification we feel 

 at seeing iu our midst a kennel of such varied, well selected, ap- 

 proved and carefully separated strain of sutlers as Mr. T. F Taylor 

 li has already done much toward restoring the pres- 

 tige ot Virginia do:;*, aud, we doubt not, will continue to do great 

 good. All of which is respectfully submitted. 



Jobs B. Wise, W. Russia u Robinson, Judges; S. Or. Ti.nslev. 



SCOTCH TERRIERS AT DETROIT. 



Philadelphia, Jan, 31, 1879. 

 Editoii Fokest asd Stream : 



Your correspondent "Druid," speaking of the Scotch ter- 

 riers at the Detroit Dog Show, says: "The winner of the 

 first prize should have received no notice, he being a red dog, 

 but nicely built." 1 have no knowledge of the facts of the 

 case other than the above words, and am not personally inter- 

 ested in this particular case, but 1 ask i'or information if the 

 fact, of u Scotch terrier being red should be against him in 

 judging ? Mr. Tileston's book of points, compiled from Stone- 

 heuge and adopted by the Westminster Hennel Club, gives 

 the colors as either pepper or mustard (which I understand to 

 include all the shades from red to yellow). At our last show 

 here the first prize was given to a dog of the mustard or red 

 variety, though there were some pure blue dogs exhibited 

 which were not noticed. The second was taken by a light 

 blue dog with buff legs (owned by the writer), and two re- 

 markably fine seven-inoutii pups of a red color were marked 

 " V. H. O., but too young lor prizes. " I shall exhibit at our 

 next show a. pup from one of these two and the first prize dog, 

 and though 1 will admit blue or pepper is perhaps a prettier 

 color in itself, I think 1 have good authority for considering 

 that, point for point, a red or mustard Scotch terrier should 

 be judged as high as a blue or pepper colored one. 



Very respectfully yours, R. S. R. 



Our correspondent is probably confounding a nondescript 

 class which has found a place at our shows, known as the 

 Scotch terrier class, and which admits any broken haired ter- 

 rier with the true Dandle Dinmont class. If there was no 

 class for Dandies at the Detroit show the judge was cmite 

 right in placing a rod dog first, till other things being equal, as 

 certainly the Dandle has a perfect right among Scotch terriers. 

 It is true that this Scotch class was abolished and a class made 

 for broken haired terriers other than those for which specific 

 classes are provided. 



. — •- — . 



MR. DAVIDSON TO ' 



Editor Foukkt and Btheam : 



To "Dead Shot," Iu Hie Chicago pt 

 Davidson dia not judge at Da i 

 Shot " who cowardly slioota from echini 

 of notice. A ring cannot be either straii 



DEAD SHOT." 



MONHOE, Jan. 25,1879- 



>er ot Jan. 86, on " Why Mr. 



.! merely say that, a "Dead 

 a screen 1 consider unworthy 



John Davidson. 



ETHAN ALLIN ON DOGS FOR RUFFED 

 GROUSE. 



PoJrFKET Centre, Jan. 13, 1ST;). 

 JSditor Forkst and Stream : 



In the IrbBEBT A»n ktreui, ol Jan. 2, 1 saw my name mentioned in 

 an article en spaniels, in which the witter infers that my breed of 

 setters have been made by crossing the cltnnbi i > on tin 

 setter. To set this matter right 1 would say that I never- bred from a 

 oamei or bad one a it have I ever bred to 



anything hut a ] 't> to ersl n made from 



different orossei u j own observation 



in the held. I have a I mil aver breed from a dog 



until I have Urst mho Mm on game iu the Held. If all rig! 



he shewed indications ol being purely bred, 1 (II 



to him. it is nj j. I ulo a etc , .. ; I have made 



ray breed ol' setters what they tiro at Hie present day. I have always 



bred for quality, iirespectlve ol eulor, and the result has be*n color iu 



all varieties except solid colors, f have always been .: 



white, or part white, iu preference to solid colurs, ... . 



invariably part white. Huffed grouse hae 



game bird, and I have bred my setters .. . . . 



hind of game, a 



witnessed their held performance out 



tertain different opinions in regard t 



ruffed grouse Upg, yet all a; 



is indispensable to success. Some das. 



depends on tootaoene to As 



grouse can be shot ow -i. 



expects to be within ten feet i 



class either as No. t ruffed gt 



may be. A No. i ruffed grouse i 



Scenting powers suiiiuient, to can 



ground, and he able to point his game si 



yards with the wind iu Ins (a i 



roading before the v. ,, 



tance, and unless he can do it I do not cl 



and Stream, of Nov. it, ists, Mr, Eye 



of raffed grouse iu the wDila 



had with them by riding along wood roa« 



wagon, aud I do not, ...I i i i. : 



sport 1 have jet to 1l ii. n jp 



he would have along ride in Ills part a 



make a War bag In that way. 



ners, but here I do not think they ar 



qnajls. With us they are the most shy game bird 



in this part of New Ungland, and it is on ; I 



tlous dogs that can be depended on to point the 



prrvlng a fast quail dog ot iris range that has bee 



in open fields, and bringing him aown to 



an expeit on ruffed grouse, is, in my opinion, like ] 



fore the horse, and to me seema ridiculous. W 



easier to teach a dog to raDge in open than to 



cover after he had learned to range iu open, e 



grouse, where a Bingle word will often Hash then 



m'md the presence of the rlog 



be right, but this is merely my Judgment. 



leave to 1 i ■■ i ■ . 



trd. Different writers en- 



■ ■ is a fast mass 



alient, easy <-.. ... 



II .n.i. ring dog, t'.aai 

 0. 1. I admit more luffed 



>efore he points, i da not 



tstaimeh they 



If he call tuu 



ill sport. I reckon 

 it before he would 



an inveterate 

 inclined to ru 

 approach we have 



aioir 



urn; 



't be- 



lot be much 

 rteu his range in 



"... OS i'lli 1 ! 

 vlnn they scarce 



Ethan Ai.un. 



Judging at tiie Detkoit Show.— JSditor Forest and 

 Stream : I see your contemporary is still banging away at 

 John Davidson. It only goes to prove what was originally 

 asserted by Mr. Whitman, that it is not his great desire that 

 fairness shall be shown at all trials ant! bench shows, unless a 

 slight departure may be occasionally taken in favor of the 

 blues. I, by chance, happened to meet Mr. Davidson at tho 

 Detroit Show, and he expressed himself well pleased wil It the 

 judging of sporting dogs, andJEelt highly complimented that 

 Mr. Stoddard should have corroborated bis opinion regarding 

 the merits of those he had formerly judged I have heard 

 that Mr. Davidson was solicited to judge the Detroit Show, 

 but the decision was put off until after the Nashville trials, 

 aud in the meantime Mr. Davidson's article regarding Nellie 

 appeared, and he was then informed that thai 

 it— he could not act as judge. If Mr. Davidson did say the 

 show, except in setter classes, showed but tew good speci- 

 mens, he was correct, as worse specuuens than were shown 

 in several claSSSS one seldom sees. The management was 

 good. I think the tirade ot abuse heaped on Mr. Davidson 

 and others had much to do with there not being a larger show 

 than there was. Sportsmen do not view with' favor the rule 

 or ruin policy of your contemporary ; they believe in justice 

 to all. No '"ring" for theui. "Path P'tav 



Detroit, Jan. 24, 1879. 



Fair P'la*. 



Poisoning by Stkiohsisk.— We are indebted to a corres- 

 pondent at York, Maine, for the following account of a suc- 

 cessful treatment of a case of poisoning : 



December 15, 1878, Susie was discovered inn tetanic con- 

 vulsion about 4 p. m. She was taken into the housi Inas 

 of complete rigidity. From the tetanus-like seizure, and the 

 frequent recurrence, as wed as the increasing severity, of the 

 spasm, I diagnosed strichnia poisoning. 



In the Pacific MedMand Surgi a< ui ml for July, '78, an 

 article is copied from the Daily Brapttie, which sheet copied 

 from Mature, an account of a Skye terrier having been 

 poisoned with strychnia, aud rescued by the use of chloral 

 hydrate. I determiued to try it in this case. The experiments 

 of the British Medical Association made last year proved con- 

 clusively that a fatal dose of chloral hydrate would neutralize 

 a poisonous dose of strychnia, and that the minimum fatal 

 dose of tho former for a rabbit was twenty-one grains. Hav- 

 ing only a syrup of chloral at hand, of course hypodermic 

 medication was out of the question. I gave her a tablespoon- 

 ful of the syrup (two drachms to the ounce), with the effect 

 of relieving the convulsion in a few moments. When there 

 were signs of a recurrence 1 gave her another spoonful After 

 having taken four tablesnoonfuls o. the syrup she slept, quietly 

 for a few minutes, and b] ! ah< able to stand, 



although she had not the powei [i in At 11 i\ M. 



the action of the heart was at tinu 



all symptoms of convulsions had ■:: -. ., red md tne next 

 day, except a slight stillness of tin 



was as well as usual. Ii twenty-one grains of chloral is a 

 poisonous dose for a rabbit, certainly one hundred grains 

 wouldbeafataldo.se lor a. dog of less thau live times the 



eight of a rabbit, and the whole amount taken by Susie 

 (about 240 grains) of itself was sufficient to kill til ■■ ■■ 



my experience in this rase I am led to the conclusion that 

 chloral hyratc is as truly an antidote for strychnia poisoning 

 as is albumen for the ordinary poisons, 'the main point io 

 the treatment seems to give a fatal dose of choral to counter- 

 act the fatal dose of strychnia. J. O. St-bwaiit. 



Salt iNDlce.— Editor Forest and Stream; Our Board of 



Health has recently passed an ordinance prohibiting the scatter- 

 ing of Bait on the side-walks and horse-car tracks, on account 



Bty deleterious influence that this freezing mixture 

 has an the feet and boots and shoes of pedestrians and the 



i horses. There have been some letters in the daily 

 papers referring to the Suffering which this process causes to 

 dogs. My setter a lew days ago, while following me through 

 the slush on a side-walk, began to limp in a most extraonS- 



luncr, very much as though he had a thorn sticking in 

 the ball of each of his fore-feet. While I was looking at bun 

 in astonishment he keeled over on his side aud began lick- 

 ing his paws furiously. On examining I could not see any 

 cut or foreign body in the ball of the paws, but I noticed that 

 they felt very largo aud still', and further examination showed 

 that between his toes were solid masses of ice, which stuck SO' 

 hard (he is very thickly furred there), that it was wilh diffi- 

 culty that. 1 removed them. I should think that it would not 

 require a very long exposure of the feet in that mixture to 

 freeze them enough to permanently disable a dog. Of the 

 danger to bipeds of this practice this is not the place to speak, 

 but 1 merely mention the fact as showing the advantage, even 

 to canine companions, of having a competent board of profes- 

 sional men to watch over the health and well-being of a large 

 city. Mio Mao. 



Boston, Jan. 17, 1879. 



A Nkw Retriever. — A correspondent writes: "A few 

 days since I was out shoot' ng wild duck OH a pond some miles 

 I mm Los Angeles, Cal. Some of them fell in the middle of 

 the pond, which was deep. I had no dog with me and was 

 casting about in my mind what I should do in order to get 

 them out, when a boy came along from a neighboring ranch- 

 house accompanied by a greyhound. I asked him to tr}T 

 whether his dog would bring out my ducks. He replied that 

 he though! the dog would not do so ; but at the same time be 

 small stone into the pond near to one of the birds, and; 

 immediately the dog started in, made up to the bird, took it. 

 into his month, and, without munching it in the slightest de- 

 gree, brought it out and laid it at the boy's feet. ' The boy 

 threw in a second stone near another bird, aud again the dog 

 went in aud retreived the bird in the same handsome manner, 

 just as though he had been regularly trained to the work. The 



ole performance struck me as a very unusual and remark- 

 able one, especially as the dog bad no previous training. I 

 wonder whether any one ever used a greyhound as a retriever 

 before. C. B, 



Notk.- We shall feel indebted if persons who desire to 

 claim name will give the breed of their dogs and their age.— 

 Ed, 



— Mr. John IN. Meyer, of New York, claims the name of 

 Bretida for his liver and white pointer bitch pup, out of the 

 Westminster Kennel Olub'S Flirt, by Sensation. 



— Mr. R. M. Harvey, of Philadelphia, claims the name of 

 Cora lilack for his black and white bitch by Levering's Harry 

 out of Levering's Dot. 



— Mr. H. E. McLay, of Baltimore, claims the name of 

 Chance for his Gordon setter by Palmetto out of Belle. 



— Mr. E. M. Kellurn, of Vincennes, Ind., claims the name 

 of Rupert, Jr. , for his puppy bought of T. F. Taylor, Kich- 

 inond, Va., born Jan. 2, 1879, out of Champion Foe 

 Champion Rupert. Rupert, Jr., is full Gordon setter, blaclc 

 aud tan, no white ; exact color of Champion Rupert. 



—Mr. Jacob Eckstein, of Philadelphia, claims the name of 

 Roll for his black and white ticked setter puppy out of Pack- 

 er's Queen, by Levering's Barry; whelped Oct. 14, 1878, also 

 Lady Jane for a red setter bitch out of his Gypsey bv Hart's 

 Patsy. 



—Mr. Geo. II. Thomson, of Philadelphia, claims the 

 name of Diogenes for his red Irish setter pup, but gives no 

 pedigree. ^ 



ffztionzl jfzstimits. 



Tun Pedestrian Fuuoue. — Incited by the success of 

 Madame Anderson, a host of ambitious pedestrians are rush- 

 ing into the sawdust arena, eager to surpass the feat of the 

 English pedestrienne. Iu East New York a wornanis attempt- 

 ing to walk 2,700 quarter miles iu 3,700 consecutive periods 

 of twelve minutes each; in the Fifth Regiment Armory, this, 

 city, two men are on the track, one to cover 2,000 half miles 

 in 2,000 consecutive twenty minutes, and the other to walk 

 3,000 half miles in 2,000 half hours ; at the Brewster Build- 

 ing, Fifth Avenue aud Fourteenth St., Miss Annie Barlel is 

 on the way to fame and fortune. Her task in 3,000 quarter 

 miles in 3,000 consecutive quarter hours. Washington, D. 

 C, has an exhibition of similar character, and there are 

 others throughout the country of which we cannot begin to 

 keep track. They are wise women in their day and genera- 

 tion who take advantage of the present interest in such ex- 

 ploits to wring a generous fortune from the sight-seeing pub- 

 lic ; for the time is coming when that same public will be so 

 satiated with the spectacle of femininity propelling itself 

 around a sawdust trajk that it will refuse to put its hand into 

 its pocket for the chink ; and the homely old proverb has it ; 

 "Money makes the mare go." 



— Toward the close of her late walk in Brooklyn Mine. 

 Anderson made many laps very fast —asleep. 



— One of the pedestrians who recently undertook a long- 

 distance walk was named Trott. Trott ought to be barred 

 Why not give Walker, Foote and Lcggett a chance ? 



—A pedestrian who has been attempting to cover 450 miles 

 in six days at Mozart Garden, Brooklyn, retired at the expirii- 

 liou of his time with 41 1 miks to his credit. Next I 



— C. A. narrimau, who is to meet O'Leary, completed 150 

 miles in three days in Brooklyn last week. 



Fit'TY-Houri.s' Walk— The walk of fifty hours between 

 Miller and Ross at the Ball imorc Academy of Music termi- 

 Liurday evening. Miller had forced the pace from the 

 beginning, and had broken down his opponent. The score at 

 the finish was: Miller, 131 miles; Ross, 105 miles. Miller 

 was off the track 15 hours and Ross 30,hours, 



