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|pu» Miennel. 
THE KENMEL REGISTER. 
List of dogs registered in the Kennel Register for week 
ending March. 8lh, 1870: 
SETTERS. 
Mr. Sal tils’ Dash, Bess, Lilt III. Mr. n. N. Mann’s Duke, Count, 
Dinks, Scot. Mr. Von Lengerko’s Jersey Boy. Mr. Delano's Doll, 
Adonis, Diana, Blanch, Charm. Dr. ISllzey’s Flora, (laic Queen Mab). 
Mr. J. N. Francis’ Norak. Mr, Lawrence’s Flip and Kate. 
Pedigree B bakes. —We have now ready for distribution 
a Quantity of pedigree blanks, or forms, so arranged that 
it is only necessary to write in the names of the dogs to 
have the pedigree Teady for the printer. This will save us 
all an immense amount of labor in preparing the “Regis¬ 
ter" for the press, and we shall feel obliged if gentlemen. 
Who propose to register their dogs, and who have not 
printed pedigrees, will use them. They cau be obtained 
from this office without charge, more than a stamp for re¬ 
turn postage. 
—Visitors to the Springfield Bench Show, to be held by 
the Rod and Gun Club on April 2Clh and 27tb, will have 
an opportunity of seeing Dr. Goldsmith's fine red Irish 
dogs l’lunkctt, Carrie, and Nell, the bitches both with lit¬ 
ters of puppies by Plunkett. They will be entered for ex¬ 
hibition only, however, and not for competition. It will 
he worth the trip t« Springfield to see this family alone. 
—Dr. M. G. Ellzcy has renamed his puppy by Pride of 
the Border, out of Kirby, formerly known as Queen Mab, 
“Flora," a name which descends to her from the deceased 
mother of the dog with which the Doctor proposes to mate 
her. Flora is blue, black, and tan. 
—Mr. L. H. Smith has sold his puppy Gloucester by 
Leicester out of Dart, also a hitch puppy by Leicester out 
of Victress. They go to California where sportsmen have 
heard of the celebrated Field Trial Setters, and are going 
to try them on the Pacific coast. 
—Mr. Jessie Sherwood, of Edina, Mo., writes ub that his 
setter bitch Beauty, out of Waddell’s Fannie, and the Col¬ 
burn dog Dash (mentioned in Fobesx and Stream of — 
February, 1878,) is now visiting Mr. C. H. Turner’s Ted 
Irish dog Eleho, at St. Louis, Mo. He was first winner at 
Chicago show. 
Boston Kennel Gossip. —Mr. George Linder’s fine hitch 
May, recently purchased from A. C. Waddell, has visited 
Mr. Luther Adam's Rock. In the way of Gordon’s, “pure 
aud undefiled," our friend Mr. A. F. Copeland, having 
purchased Mr. Jerome’s Shot, is likely to establish a ken¬ 
nel without a rival here, and not surpassed in England. 
Shot is too well and favorably known to require notice, 
but Noruh, Mr. Copeland’s splcudid brood bitch, having 
already a grand reputation in England, both as a bench 
and field winner, and as the dam of many noted dogs, 
made her debut at Chicago, carrying off first prize in her 
class, scoring ninety-seven points out of a possible 100. 
The nearest approach to perfection attained in the entire 
exhibition. She has moreover a first class pedigree. Of 
this stock Mr. Copeland has with good reason “great ex¬ 
pectations.” Under Grip. 
Cooksing, —The Waterloo Cup, the great coursing meet¬ 
ing of Great Britain was decided at AUear, near Liverpool, 
the usual ground, on the 16th, 17lh, and 18th February. 
There were sixty-four subscribers at £25 each, the favor¬ 
ite, Honeymoon, was badly beaten in the fourth run by her 
kennel companion Douald, a fourth season dog by Master 
Burleigh, out of Phcenix, the property of Mr. R. M. Doug¬ 
las, of Dervock, Ireland. 
On the night of the annual Waterloo dinner at Liver¬ 
pool, aud just before the sixty-four contestants were drawn 
for the first round, a Mr. W. H. Clark, the famous York¬ 
shire breeder, bought Honeymoon, (the favorite), for 500 
guineas, and two puppies out of every litter she may have, 
lie also bought the English-bred bitch Weathergall, which 
was beaten in the second round by Surprise, for 150 guineas. 
Mr. Clark was not much alarmed by the defeat of Honey¬ 
moon, for immediately after he bet 200 against 4,000 that 
she won next year’s cup (1877), and 500 even that she started 
a better favorite than she did this year. 
- THE DACHSHUND. 
We some time since printed a cut of a dachshund, which 
we received from Fr von Invernois, editor of our German 
contemporary, Der Waidmann. Many of our readers were 
of the opinion that the dog whose portrait we presented 
was not that of a dachshund at all. And certainly the 
picture did not resemble the nimble little hounds in mina- 
lure such as were imported by Dr. Twaddell, of Phila¬ 
delphia, fxom the kennels of the Duke of Baden, and also 
by other gentlemen. But as Fr von Invernois explains in 
his letter below, there are two breeds called dachshunds, 
the long and the short coated. 
Leipzig, Prussia, Feb. 3d, 1876. 
* Editor Forest and Stream:— 
In your issue of Deo. 23d, 1875,1 find a letter from your correspondent 
from Bavaria, in which he says that the picture of a dachshund which 
you got from us does not represent what they call in B .vnriu 11 “real 
dachshund,” Althoagh I date my letter from Leipzig, where my paper 
Is priuLcd, I live myself In Bavaria, and can assure yon that the horrid 
ours which they cali “dachshunds” hero are nothing less than pretty and 
useful. As a breeder of dachshunds since maay years, I kuow very well 
what a dachshund Is. and yon can be assured that I would not have ta¬ 
ken a picturo of such a dog in Tlut Waidmann without knowing him to 
be pure breed, tine, and genuine. 
We have two kinds of dachshunds —oub with long hairs and bnBhy 
tails; these are very rare, but by far the best; the other with short hairs. 
Of these there arc only two. First, the regular black with spots over 
the eyes and on the legs, of a brown color, resembling the rust of iron, 
(white throat). Second, the quite brown ones. Other colors are not cor¬ 
rect. Of both dachshunds—with long, and those with short hair—there 
are again some with straight and some with bended legs. The does 
with straight legs are said to be better. I prefer the other ones. The 
dog of Lieutenant von A,, of the First Regiment of the Guards, of 
which you brought out a picture, is one of the beat dachshunds that ever 
existed. He belongs to the dogs with long hair, brown color, and 
straight legs, and your Bavarian correspondent must not have seen many 
dachshunds if he Bays hois not genuine. 
What they call in Bavaria “dachshunds” are the most disgusting dogs 
1 know of. Since the let of January I have killed two and wonnded 
three, and I pay to every one of my game keepers who shoots one, two 
thalers for the tall, which he mast bring as a token that he shot him. 
Every peasant here has one or two of these abominable curs, which 
follow them when plowing and driving, and which, as soon as they get 
on the track of a roebuck, deer, or hare, chase him, making "pif paf ! 
pif paf 1” all through the wood, and so disturbing the game. These 
beasts! (the noble name dog is too good for them) spoil the shooting 
grounds so much that I, tot instance, have on my five different remen 
(shooting grounds) not more than about seven or eight coveys of par¬ 
tridges, and altogether I have the hunting on over 46,000 Prussian char- 
gen— deer, roebucks, and chamois arc abundant, nevertheless. What 
they call here dachshunds arc ns far distant from a good dachshund us 
a donkey from a Glaiiateur, Leolinus, Blue-Sown, or any pretty good 
thoroughbred horse, They arc too large and high, show marks from all 
kinds of dogs, butcher-dogs, poodles, rat-catchers, etc., with which 
their mothers have been in love; do not go in the burrow of u fox (the 
only thing for which ono ought to use a dachshund), have no obedience, 
and are only fit for disturbing the game, and making “pif paf!” behind a 
poor roebuck, and to hunt him until Uc is almost dead. For these curs 
the best thing is a good portion of shot. If your correspondent ffnds 
them good, it is his taste, aud tie gustibus non esl disputandurn. 
Fn. VON Ivebnois, 
Redacteur des Waidmann. 
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COLORS OF THE IRISH SETTER. 
New Yokic, February 28th, 1871. 
Editor Forest and Stream;— 
In your issue of Feb. 24th I noticed an article on the "Colors of the 
Irish Settor" by your correspondent “Nimrod,” in which he states (if 
I understand his article correctly) that the Irish setter must be blood 
red or red and white, and gives Idstone and Stonehenge as authorities, 
and also adds that no recognized authorities can be found giving colors 
other than the above, in which I beg to differ with him, as I will present¬ 
ly Bhow. Stonehenge distinctly states, in addition to the blood red and 
red and while, that there are good Irish setters nearly white, black-tan, 
or Intimately crossed with black-tan, in the latter case showiugthe dis¬ 
tinctive marks of the cross in the “black tipping of the coat, which Irish 
judges consider a very great fault in co’or; but this last sentence only 
applies to the last mentioned’’—Stonehenge’s “Dogs of the British 
Islands," vol ii. Another authority says: "They are not esteemed (which 
means, substantially, that they are not so much admired) unless their 
color is a deep chestnut and white, or all red,” bat it does not say that 
they are not pure if they are other than the above colors.—Thorn¬ 
hill, 1804. Another authority says: "The Irish Setter ispisnally of a dun 
or yellow color, and a very superior breed of these dogs were owned by 
Sir John Blundiu, Bart, of Castle Blundln, County Kilkenny’’—Richard¬ 
son, 1845. Youatt, at page 91, says that “they may also he lemon color, 
or red patched with deep chestnut."—Youatt, 1841. And still unother 
says that “they may be of two shades of red, one a kind of chestnut, 
and tlie other one nearly black,” which is, to my thinking, not blood red 
nor mahogany.—Meyrick, 1801, I will add one more authority from an 
old work: "The Irish insist their’s are the true English spaniel; the 
Welch contend tbeir’s are the aborigines. But whatever mixtures have 
been made • since, there were, fifty years ago, two distinct tribes the 
black-tanned and the orange, or the lemon aud white.”—Symond’s Suf¬ 
folk Sportsman, 1739. 
Your correspondent also states "that because they arc born in Ireland 
it does not make them Dish setters,” aud I would add because they are 
blood red or red white, born In and imported from Ireland, it does not 
follow that they are the pure article; and in proof of which I will men¬ 
tion a case; A short time since a gentleman imported a blood red Irish 
setter from a celebrated kenuel ia Ireland. Upon his arrival in this 
country he was pronounced the finest specimen of the above mentioned 
breed that had, up to that time, been imported, the only objection being 
that he was rather under sized. The owner of that dog is not aware, I 
suppose, that not many years since a black dog from Scotland was in¬ 
troduced into the above mentioned kennel. Now, such being the case, 
according to your correspondent's theory, the red pups of the litter 
would be the pure article and the black ones would be entirely ignored. 
Now, in regard to the English dog shows, dogs are entered lu a class 
where they have no claim. We will take the Irish setter class, for iu- 
stance. Dr. Goldsmith’s red setter bitch Carrie took first prize at Crys¬ 
tal Palace, 1872 and second prize at Birmingham same year; pedigree, 
by Prince, a pure Laverack, out of Cora; she by Bob, out of Lily. An¬ 
other case: Ben II by Ben I (pedigree unknown, but of a supposed pure 
strain) out of Beauty (which is a black and tan) took fourth prize, Glas¬ 
gow, 1871. I could mention others, but I think the above snflicieul to 
show that, because a dog is blood red, and entered, aud takes a prize in 
the Irish class, he is far from being an Irish Better. I have no doubt 
but what the Irish setter as pure as uny one would wish can he found; 
but I doubt if they can be purchased, being held hy old families, who 
will not allow the breed to go out of their hands. 
1 havo a letter before me as I write, from an Irish gentlemau, who, in 
speaking of tho Irish setters, uses the following language: ”1 liuve the 
Irish setter in its parity, having been in my family for over one hundred 
years, but they are not for sale, and are not allowed to go out of my 
family." 
in condnsion, Messrs. Editors, allow me to say that very many of the 
red setters imported to this country, aud called the pure Irish setter, if 
traced back, some other than Irish blood would be discovered. 1 do not 
wish to be understood as condemning the breed, as they have always 
been my favorires, and the blood red my favorite Color; still, 1 cannot 
but believe but what they are of other colors than blood red, aud 
red aud white. Trusting yon will pardoa mo for taking up so much of 
your valuable space, I remain, Warwick. 
SALT FOR DISTEMPER. 
Batfieud, Wis., Feb. 21st, 1876. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
1 have seen many remedies suggested in yonr paper for the cure of 
distemper in dogs, but I have never seeu that common Hue table salt has 
ever been tried. My first experiment with salt was tried upon a fine 
bloodod setter pup, less than a year old, That peculiar straightening 
out of the head aud neck, and sneezing many times in succession, plain¬ 
ly indicated to ms that the dog was in the first stages of distemper. 
Having lost an old dog with the same disease a few years before, made 
me very anxious about this one, and after much thought and many in¬ 
quiries to find a remedy I had not tried, some rnuiid suggested thru, salt 
might he good to rnako turn vomit, and lliul vomiting might give relief 
to the dog. Knowing that salt could ilouu harm, ir it did no good, 1 ad¬ 
ministered the salt to the dog by holding his head up and month open, 
and dropping a small haudfuj as far don « his throat as possible, then 
bolding bis month shut for two or three seconds to make him swallow 
ail he could of the salt, lu a few' minutes the dog commenced to vomit 
a white, stringy, membraneous substance, and in three days the dog was 
perfectly well. I have tried the remedy on three dogs, and each lime 
with success. The last dog treated I gave a second dose at an Interval of 
two days. I believe that salt will prove efficacious only in the first sta¬ 
ges of the disease. 1 have never seeu it tried after the dog began to run 
at the nose and eyes. K. 
A GOOD POINT. 
Pittsburgh, Pa., Feh. 28th,'876. 
Editor Forest and Stream 
Having read in your columns lately of the exploits of pointers aud 
setters, I cannot refrain from relating one which came under my own ob¬ 
servation:— 
Last season, while hunting in Butler county, this Slale, I scut my 
bitch (Dell) into a stuhhle-fleld, where, after making the circuit and 
ranging for a short lime, she winded the. birds, and commenced sleadily 
drawing on them, when suddenly she came to a fine staunch point. On 
going up to her and beating the ground, I could raise nothing, but no¬ 
ticing that she held her head very high, with nose well up, and pointing in 
the air, 1 glanced in the same direction, w'hen, on a crab tree some thirty 
or forty yards distant, I discovered three quail sitting on a limb, twenty 
feet from tho ground. No other birds were near, and these had evi¬ 
dently been suddenly fiushed hy some animal and taken to the tree, us 
they often do. 
I think this feat worthy of record, and in justice to the bitch hope you 
will give it a place in yonr interesting paper, Dell is the property or 
Mr. Kramer, aud is one of the finest dogs In (he country, and had not 
her early education been neglected, she would ere this have made her 
murk in the various bench shows. She is an Irish setter, possessed of 
all the ponds of that magnificent breed, even to “Nimrod’s” stuiulard 
of color—red, IrV. G. H. 
Kenned Produce.—' The line red Irish bitch Nell, by Scott Rodman's 
Dash, owned by A. J. lluyler. Esq., of Tonally, N. J,, gave birth on 
the 29th ult., to ten puppies, six dogs and four gyps, by Mr. A. Bliven' 
Jack. 
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—The Yacht Vesta, which sailed recently from New 
Bedford with her owner, Mr. 6. M. Mills and a party of 
friends oh board, has arrived at Queenstown after a pas¬ 
sage of seventeen days, en route for the Mediterranean. 
Ice Boat Regatta. —A regalia for ice boats took place 
on the Toronto bay on Saturday fortnight, under the 
auspices of the Toronta Rowing Club. The prize offered 
was a cup. There were six entries. The course was laid 
out in the shape of a triangle, the starting point being 
opposite the foot of Scott street, and the boajs had to 
traverse the ice outside of flags four times, the distance 
being about twenty-five miles. The Snowdrop, (.’apt. 
Lundv, arrived at the winning flag first, Meteor, Cnpt. 
Ellis,"second, there beiDg about, one hundred yards dis¬ 
tance between them. Winning time, 37m. 37sec.—Cents- 
dian Gentleman's Journal. 
Harlem Regatta Association.— This association held 
its annual meeting ou Monday evening, at the Knicker¬ 
bocker Cottage, Mr. Meeker, the President, in the chair. 
After receiving the Treasurers report an election of officers 
was held, resulting as follows: Execulive Board, F. G. 
Brown, of tire Nassau Club; G. L. Reves, of the New 
York; C. G. Peters, of the Stock Exchange; M. Free¬ 
born, of the Dauntless; H G. Meeker, of the Athletic; 
Richard Neville, of tho Nautilus; H. M. Knapp, of the 
Harlem. President, P. G. Brown, of the Nassau; Vice- 
President, II. M. Knapp, of the Harlem; Secretary aud 
Treasurer, C. G. Peters, of the Stock Exchange. The 
question of extending financial aid to the Centennial Re¬ 
gatta was brought up by Mr. Meeker, and, upoo motion, 
delegates were requested to present the matter to their 
several clubs. It being represented that the New York 
Athletic Club, winners of the last four-oared regatta, had 
not received the emblematic flags, by reason of a deficiency 
in the treasury, it was voted that llie clubs bu requested 10 
pay up their assessments, and that as soon as their is money 
enough in the treasury llie flags shall be purchased. 
Columbia Boat Club. —The fifth annual meeting of the 
Columbia Boat Club occurred at their rooms Saturday 
evenimr. There was a large attendance of members, and 
the election of officers was spirited. The following ticket 
was carried: President, Wni. Chapman; Vice-President, 
Herber Seymour; Secretary, J. S. Stokes; Treasurer, H. 
H, Leland; Captain, Pred L. Deavens; Lieutenant, Wm. 
Bruff. The several reports of the officers showed a gratify¬ 
ing improvement in the condition of the Club, both 
financially and as a rowing organization. The Committee 
on Repairs were authorized to make needed alterations ia 
the Club property, and a Committee was appointed to take 
into consideration the leasing of a more advantageous 
waterfront. A communication from the Schuylkill Navy 
was read inviting the Club to participate in llie Centennial 
Regatta. Declined with thanks. 
_Two of the leading professional clubB of Boston—the 
City Point and the Boston—are anxious lo have the honor 
of representing the State at the Centennial Regatta, und in 
order to settle the question of superiority have agreed to 
test their relative merits in two races—the first, in gunwale- 
rigged fours, to he pulled on the 17th of May; the second, 
in shells, fours, on the 24th of June. 
The City Point crew arc a powerful set of hard workers, 
invariably victorious when pulling in gunwale-rigged boats. 
The four will be the same which has represented the club for 
several seasons, aud no change will be made in their posi¬ 
tions. They are sealed as follows:—Bow, Scanlin; 3, 
Wiggle; 3, Landry; stroke, W. J. Higgins (Captain). The 
Boston crew is the well-known Faulkner-Rcagan four, 
which beat tho Biglin-EIiot crew last summer, and has won 
llie Fourth of July shell race for the last three years. 
This is their make up:—Bow, George Faulkner (Captuiu); 
3, McGakey; 3, Mahoney; stroke, I’. Reagan. 
