FOREST AND STREAM. 



201 



up the night. The damage done in various ways on these 

 vast plains is very considerable, hut small when compared 

 with the results that follow tires in the woods, such as we 

 find are raging in a dozen different Slates at once. In the 

 Dismal Swamp, Virginia, among the "knobs" of Pennsyl- 

 vania, along the Pan Handle of West Virginia, in a dozen 

 counties of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky, on the 

 Highlands of the Hudson Paver, in this State, in the South- 

 ern part of Alabama, in Wisconsin, in Canada, and in fact, 

 all over, tires are burning in greater or less degree, in some 

 eases attaining the magnitude of almost uncontrollable con- 

 flagrations, destroying vast areas of valuable timber, barns, 

 dwellings, and stock, impoverishing farmers and scattering 

 destruction. The Peshtigo conflagration and fires that 

 raged two years ago on the borders of the great lakes, were 

 more terrible in the loss of life they entailed, but we be- 

 lieve that such general and widespread fires never before 

 consumed simultaneously so much of the wealth of this 

 country. 



<■» 



Canadian Sportsman. — We have received some copies 

 of a paper bearing this title, from the Dominion, and 

 from its tone and style, we have no doubt, but it will re- 

 ceive a warm welcome among the lovers of the rod and gun. 

 Canada is one of the finest game and fish regions in the 

 world, and, therefore, needs a journal devoted specially 

 in these -and kindred sports, one that will look lifter 

 their interests, and be the exponent of all that tends to 

 preserve the first, and graphically sketch the others. 



If the new paper fulfills its mission, it will be to Cauada 

 what the Forest and Stream is to the United States, 

 and will, therefore, accomplish much good. We wish our 

 contemporary the most unbounded success. 



<!»■ 



Coxnubiax. — At Port Chester on Saturday morning our 

 worthy and esteemed friend J. W. Warren, the gentle- 

 manly and energetic Superintendent at Lord & Taylor's, 

 Twentieth street and Broadway, took unto himself a lovely 

 compahion for better or worse, for the better we believe, 

 as his genial disposition will ever make him what his wife 

 would most desire. 



ghat %un and ffifie. 



GAME IN SEASON* FOR NOVEMBER. 



Red Peer, Caricxs Tirgm 



. Squirrels, red black and £ 



Quail, Oj'tj/x Virginia 



liar.:-', brawn aud gray 

 Wild Turkey, Milen oris qailapan 

 Woodcock. >$coLopa.c nvstmu'tt. 

 Buffed Grouse, Tetrad umbellus. 

 Wild Pigeons. 



yVnder the head of ■■(Jams, ana fun m Seat I 



-;.::' . . , , .-.;, :. ,V . •' J ;',,-'' ..-.- !.. .■!■.;- .", - ;•' '. 



!>,at uxri ice in attempt to yon:, .• ■■■larin ue could 

 (hose entire sections that i elate t,, :ht Kind* of g, 

 would r, quirt a meat amount of o<ir spaa. Jnt 

 guided bit tin hunx of natnn,, ,iikui wluch a" leg, 

 our readers would etov.nl! >o mntv-hie t/nunsehes u 

 epectlre Mates for constant , eferenae. Otherwise, 01 

 will only create confusion.] 



Game in Market.— The market has a fair quantity of 

 game at present. Baltimore and the counties along the 

 Chesapeake send large numbers of red-head and canvas- 

 back ducks, and Long Island is the principal depot for 

 black-heads, mallards and widgeons. Teals are abundant, 

 and generally hail from the West. Ruffed grouse and 

 prairie chickens are comparatively plentiful ; but wood- 

 cock are scarcer than they should be at this season. Quails 

 are also limited in number, New York State and Connec- 

 licut furnish all that are in market, as the weather has 

 been too warm in the West for some time to allow good 

 shooting. Canada ships nearly all the snipe and plover, 

 30 they are scarce. Venison is quite abundant for this 

 season. It comes principally from the interior of this State 

 and from Michigan. Rabbits and squirrels are very pro- 

 fuse, and hail from Connecticut and Long Island. The 

 prices paid are the same as last week. 



— Frost in this vicinity this week, with snow and ice along 

 the Canada border, will drive our dilatory migratory birds 

 to Southern climes; and consequently we may expect to hear 

 of wild fowl shooting "all along the line" from now to the 

 end of the season. There is another flight of woodcock 

 still to come. These are small, hardy birds which have 

 been lingering in Canada; usually very fat and strong of 

 wing, and difficult to hit. They are expected daily, and 

 Humphrey Hartshorn, the veteran sportsman of Long Island, 

 is on the {■(«'««« for them. He despises any kind of game 

 less trying to one's skill. They will tarry but a day or two 

 when they come. Very few bags of quail are reported from 

 Long Island. Nevertheless, birds must be in the cover 

 somewhere, and we know of certain sportsmen who are 

 going out to find them. Ducks are numerous in the Great 

 Peconic and Noank bays, and vicinity. After the present 

 cold spell, until the middle of December, the sport will be 

 splendid. Those who wish to hunt deer on the Island 

 will have to do their business before the 15th of Novem- 

 ber, at which time the close season begins. 



Maine.— Portland, Oct. 30th.— Partridges (ruffed grouse) 

 absolutely swarm in Maine; I never knew them so abun- 

 dant. Black ducks and green-winged teal have also been 

 unusually abundant. We intend to have a law passed this 

 Winter prohibiting the killing of moose for from three to 

 five years. It is about time, as moose are nearly extinct in 

 Maine. Mac. 



Massachusetts. — Shooting wild ducks is now the most 

 popular amusement. Around Gloucester the sportsmen 

 are paying their attention to sea birds, which are now 

 plenty in the harbor and Squam River. 



Amrohdacks, Oct. 30.— la the course of eighteen visits 



to the North Woods within the past twenty vears, I have 

 never found partridge (ruffed grouse) so abundant as at this 

 season. W. C. W., of Boston. 



—The young men of Mount Vernon, N. Y., are talking 

 of getting up a rifle club according to the Creedruoor rules, 

 and to practice regularly. 



Illinois, Pcotone, Oct. 33.— Snipe plenty round here, I 

 have seen two flocks, one of six, and the other containing 

 as many as twenty birds. D. A. E. 



— Fox Lake, Illinois, is becoming a perfect Mecca 

 for sportsmen, especially those fond of duck shooting. 

 Two men killed 420 there" in two days. 



WISCONSIN.— Madison, Od 38<ft.— The weather during 

 the past month has been charming. I think it could not 

 be excelled in auy country. Snooting, in consequence, has 

 been poor. Several parlies have been camping in the 

 marshes of the "Upper Cat Fish," beyond Lake Mendota, 

 all, so far, with indifferent success. Very few ducks and 

 geese have beeu hagged. We must have rough weather 

 before good shooting can be had. Fishing during the 

 entire month has been unusually good, and large numbers 

 of black bass, both varieties, have been captured. Lake 

 Mendota is now full of chicks, geese and brant, but they 

 are beyond the reach of sportsmen— they only fly to their 

 feeding grounds on the distant prairies' and return. The 

 marshes and fly-away places are not visited by them to auy 

 extent. T. ' 



—All pinnated grouse shooting is over Tor the season, as 

 the birds are packing and very wild. 



District of Columbia. — The law prohibiting the shoot- 

 ing of partridges having expired, the woods are crowded 

 With gunners, the greater portion of whom are negroes. 

 Small game is plentiful, but with such destruction as is 

 going on there will not much longer be any left. 



Florida. — The Florida Presx says that wild ducks and 

 sea birds are coming in daily. The markets, both the meat 

 and fish, are well supplied. Some of the finest beef we 

 have ever seen here is offered, and in the fish market, 

 every variety of fish, fat and fine. A string of a dozen fat 

 mullets for five cents; other varieties in the same propor- 

 tion. Fine green turtle abound in the harbor. On Tues- 

 day f.vo were captured which weighed respectively 101 and 

 09*pouuds. 



California.— Deer are very plentiful in the mountains 

 around Gilroy, and the hunters are slaying them in large 

 numbers and shipping them to the San Francisco market. 



— Over three thousand deer have been killed near the 

 head waters of Mad River, within a year, the skins only 

 being used. Legislative action is called for to put a stop 

 to siich wholesale slaughter. 



— One of those very rare animals, a silver grey fox, was 

 killed about half mile above Washington, Yolo county, 

 California, recently. It is the first of the kind seen there 

 for a long time, and is quite a large specimen, measuring 

 from nose to lip of tail three feet and a half. 



Canada. — I spent two mouths in Canada this season iu 

 the vicinity of the quaint old city of Quebec; was too late 

 for Mr. Sa/mo Malar, but had capital trout fishing. Wood 

 cock are curiosities this year in Lower Canada and Maine, 

 and my brother brings the same report from INova St o i(i 

 There were no English snipe in the St. Lawrence Vallev 

 from Sorel to Crane Island up to October 4th. and even tin- 

 great Tantremar Marsh in New Brunswick was nearly bare 

 this year. Mac. 



—Hunters who have returned from the north of Fron 

 teuac report an abundance of deer and other game. 



— We understand that a pigeou match has been made 

 between Carroll Livingston, of this city, and Mr. Peters, of 

 Philadelphia, for if 1,000, to shoot fifty birds each, Engli.-h 

 rules. 



—A match took place at Tom Stagg's, Chicago, Oetohi r 

 89th and 30th, for a Parker gun, owned by J. Butler & C . 

 valued at ; $350 ; a? 10 entrance j 15 single birds ; 31 yard-- ; 

 80 yards boundary ; Kennicott Club rules. Wind blowing 

 a sale, weulher very cold and disagreeable ; birds cmick 

 arid Strong, The Wind blowing the birds away from I he 

 shooters, it required quick work to secure any. Two thirds 

 were carried outside of bounds by force of wind. 



3 JKieraraann Stmt at U kllied 10 



HW Baldwin - li " 6 



\\ T Johnson s "2 



J F WlilmmmNi " If, " 14 



A J Mack (Fi •' 12 



— Game is reported exceedingly abundant in Humboldt 

 county at present, as myriads of ducks and geese are 



Oregon. — viamc of all kinds is exceedingly profuse, and 

 hundreds of sportsmen are out daily after wild geese, 

 ducks, sharp-tailed grouse, deer, and even bears. Two 

 boys near Corvallts killed a large cinnamon bear of the 

 fiercest persuasion one evening last week. The bruins, 

 three in number, were raiding upon the swine pens, when 

 a well-directed shot from a needle-gun brought down the 

 largest one, when the others fled. A number of hogs had 

 been killed by bears in that vicinity this Fall. 



Virginia — Alexandria, October 2dth. — Black bass havj 

 been caught at the old coal wharf aud in the canal above 

 the basiu, the anglers using grasshoppers for bait. 



An immense rock fish was caught on Friday last in 

 the canal, above the water gate, weighing over fifty 

 pounds. 



Partridges are said to be scarcer than ever known Tie fore 

 at this season of the year. They are either driven away or 

 killed off by the numerous gunners in this vicinity. Eigh- 

 teen colored men and boys were counted at one" time last 

 week reluming over the creek bridge from hunting. 



Two gentlemen with a pair of fine pointers hunted nearly 

 through Jefferson Township, over some beautiful fields, 

 and only succeeded in starting two small coveys of birds, 

 one of seven and the other of five. Their entire day's 

 sport consisted of five partridges, two larks, and one ven- 

 erable rabbit. 



A gentleman who went hunting, last night, on the south 

 shore of Hunting Creek, returned this morning with six 

 fat opossums. — Gazette. 



Mississippi.— Corinth, Oct. 28th.— I .have only tried "bob 

 white" ouo.e; it is too hot as yet, and too much high grass, 

 weeds, and leaves on the brush. I slept last night with a 

 window open, and without any covering excepl a sheet un- 

 til nearly daylight. Aud the days are quite warm. My 

 friend ''Junior," Capt. John N. Duncan — who always 

 shoots straight pow r der — has bagged three or four deer and 

 a dozen and a half bobs, killed one afternoon since the 

 season opened. I made a raid on "Scirrus" the day before 

 yesterday and bagged eight, and one pigeon, when I had to 

 stop on account of a most feartul headache, superinduced 

 by looking up in those infernal high trees, and the jar of 

 the guu. Squirrels are very numerous, Junior killing 

 twelve yesterday in ashort time. A few pigeons have made 

 their appearance, but they never come now as they did in 

 the long ago, when you could stand on any hill, morning 

 or afternoon, and shoot until you were tired at the passing- 

 legions of them as they went to and returned from the feed- 

 ing grounds. No ducks, a very few turkeys, some deer 

 six or eight miles from town, and I fear me that the sup- 

 ply of quail is not as abundant as was thought in the Sum- 

 mer. Guton. 



Tennessee. — Hunters are out now everyday after game. 

 A perfectly white deer was killed not far from Clarksville 

 on the 9th inst. There was not a spot of any color except 

 white upon him, even the hoofs being of that color. 



Montana,— Game of all kinds is exceedingly abundant, 

 but the buffalo, deer and bear above all. The cervus 

 family is slaughtered in large numbers. Hounds are now 

 used freely in hunting, so that chasing the fox and stag is 

 a sport often enjoyed. Pigeon shooting from traps is re- 

 ceiving marked attention from the best shots in the Ter- 

 ritory, 



I'm 



•taeg. 



10 



Welch " 14 



C4 C Sherman " li li 



H J Edwards " 13 " » 



Dr. Highland (Fi " 12 " 6 



Jno C Whitimr (J) " 13 " ? 



N Gatesley (W) " 15 " Tt 



HSil-liv " 14 " 10 



.Ino c: Whiting (MoC). " 12 " » 



GCSherman " 18 



Dan Elston " 12 



Jno Davidson " IB " 13 



C Felton " 10 ' 6 



HJEdwards " If. " 14 



O C Sherinau " 8 



Oreeu Smith " In 



— Welch " H " I 



■I Davidson " 12 " * 



JJKleinmann " 12 " U 



Don Elston "' 12 



WT Johnson " IB " 13 



II J Edward- >' IB " 14 



Whiting (Si " 12 ' « 



TStagg(K) " 14 " 10 



Ties of 14, 26 yards— Whiting and Edwards— result not given. 



Ties of 13, 2fi yards— Davidson, 10 1; Johnson, 11 0; 3'. yards. 



Davidson, 10; Johnson, 01000; Davidson, 1011; Johnson. 



0. 



—The Hannibal Shooting Club shot the following match 

 in October, The birds were shot from a ground trap, 31 

 yards rise, 80 yards boundary, and the following is the 

 score: — 



Xam-- Score. ToiaL 



j.TBoiitttitea 11 1111 ill l 10 



B. Reynolds 110*10*01011 6 



G-W.Storrs 111110100 1 1 



a w Hewitt o o o+ i l o o l o l 4 



J. T. Brown 1 I 1 Ot 1 1 1 1 7 



Total 



W. S.Uallock 



J. W. Bouk 



11. C. Graham 



j. Van lirowu 



A. li. Cohen 



. 34 



1 1 00*1 1 1 

 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 



1 0* I 1 



1 1 1 1110 



1 1 I II 1 I 1 



Total ST 



•Fell dead oatside of bounds. tFell Within bounds, but was not gath- 

 ered within the rehired three minutes, trap snapped. 



Crf.edmook.— The ninth competition for the Turf, Wield, 

 and Farm badge was held at Creedmoor last Saturday. The 

 day was exceedingly windy, yet the general shooting was 

 good. It was generally thought that this contest would 

 decide the ownership of the badge — the terms of the 

 competition requiring i hat the trophy be won three times 

 before becoming the final property of the winner— as Messrs. 

 Wingate, Collins and Madison had each been successful in 

 two competitions. Messrs. Collins and Madison took part, 

 Madison making but 1-1 points and Collins 10. In this 

 latter Mr. Collins was tied by Mr. J. J. O'Kelly, who made 

 a precisely similar score, 16. At the conclusion of the 

 match these two gentlemen decided the lie by one shot 

 each, Mr. Collins making an outer, receiving 3, while Mr. 

 Kelly made a center, 3, winning the badge and' first entrance 

 money by one point. The next Competition for the badge 

 will take" place Saturday, November 28. The following ia 

 the score : 



\mr„. Bigg. Scoit. Total. 



JJO'Kellv Ward Burton - 4 3 3 3 3 W 



JTBCollius Remington ! 4 3 3 3 3 16 



H A Gildorsleuve Ballard 4 3 4 2 8 18 



Henry Fulton Remington ... 3 4 4 3 2 IB 



W 8 Smith Remington military.... 2 3 4 3 3 IB 



HS.Iewell Sharp 3 4 2 2 4 IS 



J Le Botltilller .. .Kmmtimmi military 4 4 3 2 2 15 



NcsMiii l'. .mills. . -•>-.•:]— r..-li! . .. .1 •.'■-.:; ., li 



B Burton Ward'Burton 3 3 3 3 3 14 



JWGardner Remington military..;. 2 2 3 4 3 14- 



Sergeant Renam Springfield 2 2 4 3 3 14 



EHMadison Ballard 2 8 4 2 3 14 



G Crouch Remington 2 3 3 3 3 13 



WH Clark Ward-Burton 2 2 3 3 11 13 



J T Van Rensslaer Remington 2 4 3 4 18 



WGBnrtou Ward Burton 3 3 2 2 3 12 



W C Reddy Remington military.... 2 3 2 3 3 13 



C FRobbius Sharp milirarv 3 2 3 3 2 12 



F Lark Springfield 3 3 2 2 2 12 



A V Davis Sharp sporting 3 4 i 3 3 12 



DM Morris '. 2 3 12 2 12 



FH Holtou -.Ward-Burton 2 2 2 3 4 12 



TM Henderson Ward-Bun™ 4 3 2 8 12 



JBHolland Sharp military 2 2 2 2 3 11 



J M Aimory Sharp military 3 3 2 2 3 11 



Sereeant Turner Springfield... 2 2 2 2 3 11 



J L Price ;-■., m.;h, n mil mi ........ , 



AM Mitchell Allen 2 2 3 2 2 11 



JGStorv Remington military.... S 2 2 3 2 10 



J Holland Sharp military 2 2 2 3 2 10 



LBacker Sharp 2 2 2 2 2 in 



A J Hennion, Jr Sharp 2 2 3 3 10 



WBC'ouiduxy Hemillgton military..., 2 3 2 3 10 



R Hickman Springfield 8 2 2 3 10 



:\ Smith S'.v "".", hi u '. : ■ ' :i 



H B Smith B&mingtdn Military. n. 3 2 2 3 9 



RRathbone Remington military.... 2 2 2 2 8 



Wm Mosey Remington 2 2 3 7 



B A Perry Remington military.... 2 2 2 ti 



TBFisn Allen li 2 2 2 6 



OETruslovv Remington military.... 3 2 5 



*im 



Every reader of the Fobest and Stukam will receive free a copy at 

 the best Agricultural and Family Newspaper in this country by address- 

 ing Xoort'4 Sural New Torktr, 78 Duan» street, New York. 



