FOREST AND STREAM. 



103 



serviceable and lasting barrels as Bie put on higher -priced 

 gnus, i ime or foreign - 



ii i : i ■ liini workmanship throughout, which pre- 

 - tie gun from rattling after one or two .season's use. — 

 Ed.] 



Capt. Bogaedtjs Last Feat.— On Friday night last Capt. 

 Bogardus ace I if of breaking 1,000 glass balls 



in the re aai . u le time of one ! our forty-two minutes and 

 fifty! entered the building the upmost eon- 



■ rl rea like file firing, and it seemed 

 incredil :■■■ ,n. uld b< produced by one man with one 

 gnu. Unfortunately, a stormy night prevented the captain 



i e full bouse that otherwise would have i 

 him. Ihose who Stayed away missed a rare exhibition of 

 skill and endurance, Still, the attendance was largo, but in 

 the immense Hippodrome a thousand or more persons are 

 scarcely noticed. At the upper. end of the arena n wooden 

 screen' had been erected and covered with white muslin 

 Some ten or fifteen yards in front the six traps were 

 arranged, with strings leading to the shooter's stand, eighteen 

 yards further in the rear, Oapt. Bogardus used Dittmar 

 powder and No. 8 shot, shooting 3i drachms measurement 

 of black powder, of the former and 1} ozs. of the latter. 

 Many of the balls were hit but not broken, which we think 

 ■would not have been the in used Childs 



shot. He had set his task to be done in two hours and forty 

 minutes, but it was evident after the first hundred balls that 

 he would be even aside of that time. The first five hundred 

 were shot at in 45 min. 50 sec, when an intermission of 18 

 minutes was taken, the second five hundred were shot, at in 

 just 43 min., and the 1 Ban to make up the misses 



occupied 15 minutes, u hi D fch« -booting was. over, time had 

 been beaten 57 nun. and 10 sec. He was 10 minutes in 

 shooting at the first hundred, but the fifth hundred occupied 

 only S min. 51 sec. As many as fourteen balls were marked 

 in one minute. We trust that Oapt. Bogardus will repeat his 

 performance, when we would suggest to all who wish to see a 

 wonderful exhibition to be present. ILr. Bergh was on hand, 

 but did not iaterfi ■ 



The Captain informs us that he will repeat his perform- 

 ance a! G-Umore's Garden on Friday night, backing himself 

 for$5QQ tobreiL ■■■ in. 100 imitates. After the per- 



k himself to break 100 balls while any 

 person in the. audience is breaking 80. 



— The Kentucky State Sportsman's Association have en- 

 gaged to give a tournament at their annual meeting at Lex- 

 ington, on May 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18. at the time of the 

 races, Prizes to the amount of $3,975 will be aiven, 

 including a gold medal, for tue championship of the South 

 and Southwest, and a silver service set for the club chain - 

 ship of the same. The tournament will be open to the 

 world, and among those certainly to be present is Abe Klein- 

 man, who goes, so air. Martin writes us, with the expectation 

 of meeting and matching Captain Bogardus. 



Value of the Compass ik Tkateling. — Col. Dodge, 



in his new book, "The Plains of the Great West," says: — 



"The importance of having always a compass cannot be 

 too strongly impressed on all who travel on the plains. 

 "Old Plainsmen," and »u called " scouts," or guides, who 

 desire to be regarded as "Old PlaiDsmen," frequently pro 

 fess a great contempt for a man svho cannot, travel with- 

 out "one of them little boxes." With some this coutempl 

 is real, and comes from the entire ignorance of the nature 

 and use of the instrument. Others' who profess this con- 

 tempt are actuated by interested motives. They desire to 

 ue employed as guides of scouting or hunting parties, and 

 not unnaturally are very indignant at seeing an officer or 

 civilian, with no guide but his "box," plunge uuconcern- 

 edly into a country the details and difficulties of which it 

 has taken them years to become acquainted with. 



Besides this, old plainsmen aud guides who ignore the 

 compass, in my experience are not always to be relied on 

 for close or direct traveling. They will lead a parly into 

 the wilderness and bring it back, but for my own part, and 

 with ample opportunity to form an opinion, I would not 

 give up "the box" for the best guide on the plains. Of 

 course this is very different in mountainous regions, where 

 the lines of possible travel are very few, and local knowl- 

 edge almost absolutely necessary." 



A Panthku Hunt. — A friend sends us the following ex- 

 tract from a letter to him, describing a panther hunt near 

 Wells, in Hamilton county, this State: — 



I came across a panther track a short distance from my 

 shanty recently. My brother was with me, and I proposed 

 we should go after him in the morning, but Lysander said 

 it would do no good — as we hud uo dog we could not 

 catch him; but 1 told him we would hunt him, and if 

 there was any deer we would find them, as he, the panther, 

 was a better hunter than we were. So we started in the 

 morning, soon after daylight, with, our knapsack aud 

 hatchets. We started the panther in about au hour, and 

 we pressed him as last over the worst mountain you ever 

 saw its possible. About noon we succeeded in running 

 him in a cave fn the mountain. 1 watched the place where 

 the panther entered, and Lysander went in after him. 

 Lysander, traveling about titty lector more through the 

 rocks, found another place the brute had got out, and 

 then we pursued him again, aud at about one o'clock we 

 had followed him so close he came down to the fool of the 

 mountain, and run under a log I bat had fallen down by the 

 if a rock so close that the snow from the rocks and 

 I'd was connected! and when 1 stepped on the rocks 1 

 stepped so close to the edge that the snow was broken 

 down, and 1 saw the panther lying at my feet, perhaps 

 two feet from where 1 Blood, not more than that, and 1 

 commenced firing. The first shot went down through by 

 his back; he then began to try to get up on the rock, and 

 When ho turned around 1 put another ball through his lore 

 shoulder, and liter he put his head almost against my feet, 

 and then 1 put a ball through the center of it, and that 

 ended his lit e. lie was a large one, measuring eight feet 

 from tip 10 tip. Thus ended one of the most exciting 

 huuts 1 ever hud. Silas Call. 



Ciiamois Hunting. — At gray dawn the chamois hunter 

 is en the alert, aud by the aid of his clear-eyed Swiss guide 



and a good deerstalker's giass, he sweeps the rocky peaks 

 aud ledges within his ken. if he is lucky enough 10 Spot 



■ nclied on some pinnacle of rugged 

 u .:, the party separate in ordar to circumvent the 



flock -a proceeding which in nine eases out of ten euds iu 

 miserable di-couiUtutC. Sometimes, however, thcpuity 

 above get a crack, at others those below. 



Even should the bullttl tot a bone of the quarry 



may ever be picked at the camp fire. Sometimes the 



death-struck chamois topples off the giddy ledge, and 

 bounding from projecting crag to crag, as he falls down- 

 wards, eventually lodges in some ins 

 mere pommelled mass of shapeless skin and bone. At 

 other times the hunters find it impossible to get at tho 

 ridge upon which the chamois has fallen. Should the 

 party, however, succeed in catching the old goat, great is 

 the rejoicing and horn blowine, and many the nips of old 

 cognac indulged in. The flesh of the chamois cats more 

 like a goals than deer's meat, and from a gourmand's 

 point, of view is a dead failure.. The wild, Stei 

 manlic scenery, the dead silence of the Alpine heights 

 where the dangerous sport is pursued, and the extreme ar- 

 duousness of the pursuit, all have charms for the true 

 sportsman and lover of nature. — British Mail. 



RARE SPORT IN LOUISIANA, 



■Em-roB FoBEOT and Stream; 



We have Bad rare sport In ducting, and are now turning onr atten- 

 tion to the snipe, whose " scalp-scalp" rarely fails to arouse the ambi- 

 tion to tramp through mud and mire, heedless of the depth of the 

 numerous tunals-rat holes our prairies afford. Deep and dangerous, too, 

 are eotne of these Bhodes or* prairie vermin, and to sink down suddenly 

 into tho cosy parlor of the aUigator who, snugly ensconsed, dormant 

 and oblivions to all transpiring in the wintry onter world, le a reali- 

 zation from which the writer beseeches exemption. Sometimes gnus 

 are lost, bags and all, in the struggles to regain firm footing. 



We have no fame law ; an Institution most earnestly needed. Turkey, 

 partridge, deer, aud all game indigenous to this locality, are slaught- 

 ered and trapped at all seasons, to the lasting shame of our legislators, 

 irrespective of political persuasion. The sportsman is blessed, in- 

 deed, with the rare advantages our country affords. Within a radius of 

 thirty miles of New Orleans game of great variety can be successfully 

 bagged. Of course, onr prairies do not afford us the engaging sport of 

 grouse-shooting — concerning which, Ihave been delighted in the perusal 

 of ma,ny accounts iu your pleasing journal — nor do our Western friend I 

 know the keen flavor of our " papa-bottes." Altogether, our bags are 

 different; so, too, do our grounds differ. 



Our prairieB are peculiar— mostly affected by the tides of the lakes — 

 are covered with a tall, rank growth of reed and grass, ranging in 

 height from three to six feet, and almost impenetrable. Throughout 

 the prairies are found shell-banks, or islands, showing unmistakable 

 indications that, at some remote period, this whole expanse of marsh- 

 land must have been covered by the waters .of tho sea. We burn tho 

 grass In early fall to afford "snipe-burns," where they feed iu great 

 numbers, aud along the edges of the bayous and lagoons we rathor liko 

 the grass to grow, as it furnishes the best of blind' for concealment in 

 ducking. In ducking, the prevailing custom is to hunt in the pirogue; 

 very cranky specimens of the ship-buildor's craft to the inexperienced. 

 To the experienced, the plroque is safe and comfortable as a Clyde 

 steamer, and the writer remembers having frequently seen men so ex- 

 pert as to staud upon tho gunwale and shoot or paddle without ma- 

 terially rooking the boat 



Among the most popular resorts within easy access are Miller's 

 Bayou, Chef Menteur, Bayou des Allemandes, and Bayou Labranchc. 

 The first two-named are situated upon the Mobile E, R., the latter, re- 

 spectively, upon Morgan's It. It. and Jackson K. E. At Mi Ilex's, th a 

 hunter or fisherman, as the case may be, finds a camp, so to speak, of 

 three or four houses, situated upon a shell island of the prairie near 

 the shore of Lake Catherine, and direct upon the bayou, where ample 

 provision is furnished— such as piroque, decoys, a clean bunk, and 

 plenty of duck, and fish, and coffee, and other consolation for the inner 

 man, all for a moderate sum; and at an equally modest sum can bo 

 procured guides. These guides are experienced in manceuverlng the 

 piroque across the betimes angry waves of Lake Catherine, or through 

 the intricate maze of a crooked, narrow bayou. Woe to him who, un- 

 der " TomV care, fails to kill ducks at Seven Ponds, Bayous Bob, 

 Pecan, or Cassenay, at Grand Point, or the Corridors, or snipe on 

 Frederic Burn, or Ween's Island! Black, gray, mallard, canvas-back, 

 teal, "fan-fan," " bee see," "dos gres," aud many varieties of duck, 

 with names peculiar to the Creole vocabulary, are found here in groat 

 numbers front November 1st to March 1st. Prior thereto aud after 

 large bags are not frequent: Wo have as joUy and open-hearted hunters 

 as the land affords, and boast as fine shots, good guns and dogs. We 

 have, too, as enthusiastic disciples of Isaac Walton as of "Forrester ;" 

 and here again. Miller's Bayou offers suporior inducements — the 

 possible catch including red-fish, sheeps-head, green trout, and 

 striped bass. The green trout I conceive to be very much like your 

 black bass. Am I right? Perhaps some of your readers might kindly 

 venture enlightenment. 



New Orleans, March 10, 1877. Eabkesi Hunteb. 



Tub Hermit of Mt. Desert. — ''Old Cling" is a charac- 

 ter well known to the people of the western part of Ml. 

 Desert Island. He seems more like a hermit than he does 

 like a maniac, but some would probably call him the latter. 

 He lives in a hut near the seashore made oE brush and sea 

 weed, which are' packed between perpendicular stakes 

 driven into the ground, and not much larger in appearance, 

 than a largo cock of hay. He lives principally on raw 

 pork aud molasses, but he cats raw clams iu their season. 

 When he leaves his hut, as he frequently does to get his 

 pork and molasses, he carries with him a short piece of 

 hard wood plank to sit on. He will not even sit in a chair 

 without first placing this piece of plank upon it. He wears 

 nothing on his feet even in the coldest weather, but a pair 

 of old stockings, and these are seldom whole, especially in 

 the region of Ihe toes. Any one going near his hut soon 

 after a light snow may sec the prims made I. y his very large 

 feet, and not untrequently the marks of his toes. Aft hen he 

 goes into a house, as he is sometimes oblige to do, he al- 

 ways stops the clock, if he isallowcd to do so, for he can 

 not hear the least noise, not even lhat made by an ordinary 

 clock; auti the crowing of a cock almost drives him mad. 

 When he hears that dreadful sound he will place his hands 

 over his eats and commence to cry "murder" at the top of 

 his voice. He has been heard on such occasions for the 

 distance of nearly a mile. He has another strange habit, 

 Which is steaming himself over a tub of hot water every 

 morning. He earus enough money by making baskets aud 

 by repairing trinkets and tin-ware, to supply himself with 

 his simple food, and is said to have quite a slock of bank 

 bills which he keeps between the leaves of au old book. 

 He came lo the island in a boat a few years ago, but what 

 his history is previous to his coming lo the island is not 

 generally known, aud nothing can be drawn from him iu 

 regard to It, — Maine I'Wm&i: 



— A woman has made a heroine ol herself in Marion, 

 111. She is the wife of a bank cashier, and one night rob- 

 bers entered her residence, lied her lo her bed, and 

 threatened to kill her if she did not tell them where tbu 

 keys of the bank were kept. She screamed boldly, and 

 the robbers fled, after cruelly beating her to make her keep 

 silent, 



he Mmntt. 



The Kenxel Begisteb.— List of clogs whose pedigrees have 

 been entered in the Kennel Register for the week ending 

 .i lOShj— 



SETTERS. 



Clip-Red. It. n. Gillespie. 

 Brai;— Black and lau; H. B. Norlh- 



cott. 

 Cora 11— Ked; Emott Smith. 

 Cale— do do 



Brnce — do do 



Cosette— do do 



Kahgo— ao do 



Dixie— Black, white, and tan ; G. 



Lou — Ked; C. P. Nolnud. 

 Buck— do do 



Mav— do do 



Ratiy— do do 



Pnnch— Red: C. P. IVobuid. 

 Chance- lV.ac-k aud tan ; C. 11. 



□inkle. 

 Dou— Ora \ aien- 



sir Fred— Orange and white; n. 



P. Carlson. 

 Glenlioswk-^yiarlos Do Rouge. 

 RedHogh— BBu; John Fattier, Jr. 

 H.ir-o— Orange and white; E. i>. 



Hemphill. 

 Dash— Black and tan; R. Pnncoasr. 



Colon— Block and tan; G. A. Ed- 

 munds. 

 i:. -iiudlemon; G. A.Ed- 



THE NEW YORK BENCH SHOW, 



From William Lincoln's letter, which we print below, it 

 will be seen that the New York Bench Show is fairly under 

 way: 



Westminister Kennel Club, Hatch 20, :sT7. 

 Editor Forest and &tueam. 



Iu assuming tho responsibility of superintending this show, I do ee. 

 with Ihe greatest confidence tout tho managers have only one object in 

 view, viz.: The improvement of the various breeds of doss. The 

 judges will be chosen for then- well-Jinown capabilities aud unbiased 

 opinions, and those sending dogs may rely on having fan- judgment, as 

 far as the Committee arc concerned. In all probability, a noted English 

 judge will act fts Advisory Judge, particularly with regard to non • 

 sporting classes. The premium list is now ready fer dislribntiou; the 

 prizes are valuable, and embrace nearly all breeds of dogs. All prizes 

 given in gold, will be paid in "gold coin," before the show close*. 

 In addition to the prizes offered by the Club, numerous and valuable 

 special prizes have Oeeu promised, ne-ne of which will be ol J 1 - n ■ j 

 than about $50. When all are received, they will he published In u 

 separate list. The non-sporting classes Will receive B good share of rhe 

 special prizes, and it maybe expected that such a sin * of St. (ientar&'S, 

 mastiffs, shepherd dogs, terriers, etc., will be collected together, a* 

 never has been seen before in America. 



The place of holding the show (Gilrnoru'a Garden) is, without doubt, 

 the Unset and best place iu the world to hold such au exhibition; ptenjy 

 of light and air, aud enough room to hold and exhibit two thousand dogs 

 if necessary. I have great pleasure in inviting all breeders to in:c 

 their dogSj as 1 am sure they wilt Qml everything done foi I 

 comfort of their dogs. Entries close the 55th of April. True Lists , 

 etc.. can be had by applying to me, at IT CI - . Box, S.tBS. 



Tours, truly. CaABUSS bD(<so f nttruuent. 



We have reeeived a copy of the Premium Liat, of which we 

 give a brief abstract — all that our space will permit. The 

 pamphlets, themselves, will be forwarded on application. 

 LIST OE PREMIUMS. 



Divtsio: 

 Champion Classes.— Foi 



■ imported dogs or bitches 

 in this country or abroad, 



lOl included. 

 the best dog; prize valued 



r proceny of the first gen- 

 JSO. For the he« Ijuoh, 



ivy. under twelve niunltis 

 :■. eke mouth* of age, $10. 



I i . b setters, or their 



rer.-, either Irish or cruss- 



IjlassS.— Champion Gordon seiiers. Prizes as above. 

 Class 4.— Champion pointers. Prizes at bovt 



(Judges hi this Class will he instructed not to discriminate with re- 

 gard to weight.) 



Class 5. -Imported English setters, 

 tratiou: Fer the best dog, £30; seeul 

 530; second best, %-M. For Ihe it.-. 

 of age, £10. For the best hitch puppy 



Class 6. -Mauve English sellers. 



Class 7.— Imported red, or red a; 

 progeny of the lirsi generation. Prize 



Class 8.— Native red, ot red aud \\1 

 breed, frizes as in Class 5. 



Class 9.— .Black and Ian, or black, white, and tan, Gordon setters, 

 either native or imported. Prizes as in ClabS 5. 



Class 10.— Pointers of liny pounds weight or over. Prizes as fn 

 Class 5. 



Class 11.— Pointers under fifty pounds weight. 



class 12.— Pointer | uppies. For best pointer puppy, under twelve 

 months of age, $10. For best Ditch puppy, under twelve months of 

 age. $10. 



Class 18,— Chesapeake Bay dogs. For best dog, S?o; second best, 

 $10. For uesl bitch, fcHO; second nest, §10. 



Class U.-lrish water spaniels. For beet dog or bitch, §30; second, 

 best, $10. 



Class 16.— Retrieving spaniels other than pure Irish. Prizes as in 

 Class 14. 



Class Iu.- -Cocker spaniels. Prizes as iu Class 14. 



fc'LASs 17. — Field spaniels of auy oiber breed. Prizes as in Class w. 



Cness is, — Foil hounds. For best couple Idoaa or bitches), $*)•, 



■ - i' nest, $10. 



Class ID.— For best couulc. tdoga or bitches). 815; second best. ,*I0. 



Class SO.— Beanies. For best dog or bitcli, Jin: second best, SI 1 !. 



class 21.— Dachshunds. Forbestdogoi W oh J15; second best, $10. 



Class 22.— Fox terriers. For best dog or Uitcn, $20; second beet $10. 

 For best pnppv.d.ig or bitch, $10. 



Class23.— Greyhounds. For best dog or bitch, $15; second best, $10. 



Class *!. — fcStughonnus. Fur beet dog ur hitch, stlu, eeteiud best, glO. 



Class S6.— Deer hounds. Prizes at iu ClussU. 



The non-sporting classes will be printed next week. The 

 Special prizes will be particularly valuable. Dp I 

 number have been contributed. One ehiss, which was 

 omittediu the General Class, will be included in the S[ i lisle : 

 that is, n class for native i>i;i,i. and U a setters, either pure, 

 or cross-bred with Irish, or English, or both. Tl pi 

 will be of the value of $30 fox dogs and bitches, res | 



PROFESSIONAL. DOG STEALERS. 



HOW PET AOTMALS MXSlTilvIOliSLY D1SAFPEAE. 



AN officer in the Clairmont. Savings Bank, on Greenwich 

 street, not far from Fulton Btreet, in the COUJ of 

 conversation, mentions facts corrohorating the common im« 



pression that dog^steaUng is Nev Sforls is reduced to a 

 science. He purchased from a gentleman, a Irigh-bloaded 

 pup, which a day or two alter smhleiily ,!: ,, LtqO 



the hank. Calling a boy. who was well iicejutun ■ 



ehborhood, ami directing hat an n, should 



iera,1 boy ran -I guess 



I | , ad thai ■' - ire enough, rhe next day Wi Li " 



that the dog could be seen in the store of a dealer in animal.-, 

 birds, &c. . tit uo great distance. Accompanied by the i rigini 



