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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Joey 12 1883. 



IHE WUWLEDOy TEAM. 



fTMiE American team arc now on the Wimbledon Com- 

 '■■ mon, and within m fortnight the match will have be- 

 come un fail accompli, The reports so fur from the other 

 side show that the men are in good condition, and the few 

 scores made on several occasions show Unit the men have 

 caught: the secret of the air. light, etc., and are able to roll 



ihe records dose to the highest possible, 



The fears that the team of visitors were to sit by, a mere 

 idle squad, during ihe Wimbledon meeting, arc not to be 



i lized, if ihe meagre telegrams received speakaright, In 



place, of allowing the rule prohibiting screw wind-gauges on 

 the real* Sight of military breech-loaders to be set aside in 

 favor of the American shcoters, and others like them, who 

 prefer a modern to an ancient style of tirearm, the Council 

 i : I. il to the team complimentary score tickets to the 



several M. B. L. matches. 



This may accomplish ull that the ritlemeu and their friends 

 here wished on behalf of the team— a chance to practice 

 freely and fully during the fortnight of the Wimbledon 

 meeting, and if so. then the team will go into the match as 

 fully prepared for the struggle as it was possible for them 

 to he under the circumstances. Still, it had been better if 

 this concession or courtesy had been granted earlier in the 

 season, and the vast amount of uncertainty which sur- 

 rounded the reception of the team abroad had been 

 avoided. It is but a roundabout way at best of reaching a 

 good result, and it would have heen far better had the 

 Council turned fairly about on the screw gauge question and 

 confessed by an amendment to the rule that the screw is a 

 part Of a serviceable weapon and that in using it the Ameri- 

 can team is not guilty of employing a mere device for se- 

 curing higher scores, lit only for range use, bid not to he 

 recommended lor Llio.se who desire only a soldier's weapon, 



The work of the team will be watched with interest dur- 

 ing the next few days. Already members have been the 

 center of a great deid of attention on the part of their fel- 

 low-marksmen in Great Britain. FC-tes aud dinners of va- 

 rious sorts are talked of. hut to all the reply is made that a 

 previous engagement will prevent acceptance until after the 

 match has been fought. No date has been fixed for (be re- 

 turn of Ihe learn, but win or lose, Col. Howard is deter- 

 mined to keep his men in good condition until after the 

 meeting of the teams at the end of next week. He has 

 placed them in lodgings away from the temptations of Wim- 

 bledon camp, and when the afternoon for the opening range 

 comes, we hope to hear that the men stepped to the shooting 

 point with every factor of possible error as far as may be 

 carefully removed. 



"Tiie Wild Wf.st." — Messrs. Carver ami Bogardus have 

 turned philanthropists, and are now "starring" for ibe bene- 

 fit of the Small boy who goes to the circus, and his grand- 

 father who goes to take care of him. The aggregation of 

 wonders under their canvas is something to make the pro- 

 prietors of the "only greatest show on earth'' green with 

 envy. Here is a list in cold type of the attractions, Ihe show 

 being under Ihe direction of "Buffalo Bill, the World- 

 famed Prince of the Plains; Ihe Hero of Thousand Thril- 

 ling Scenes; the Most Koinaniic Character in American 

 History, and Br. \V. F, Carver, known as the 'Evil Spirit 

 of Ihe Plains,' whose appalling Skill with Ihe Ride has won 

 for him a place among the Remarkable Productions of the 

 Century:" "One Hundred Indian Horses; a Herd of Wild 

 Buffalo; a Herd of Mountain Elk; a Herd of Wild Texas 

 Steers; a Camp of Sixty Indian,.; a Company of Famous 

 Scouts; a Band of Genuine Cowboys; a Group of Genuine 

 Mexicans; the Original Deadwood Stage Coach; Bogardus, 

 the American Bhotgun Champion; Majoi North, the White 

 Chief of the Pawnees; Tom Wilson, Hero of the Beadwood 

 Massacre; Buck Taylor, the Cowboy King; Jim Lawson, 

 the Wonderful Lassoist; the Chiefs Standing Buffalo and 

 Little Silting Bull; John Nelson and his Indian Family; the 

 Comical Mexican Burros; the Only Baby Buff alo in Cap- 

 tivity; the Squaw and her Pappoose; the Lonely Wagon 

 Train; the Phantom of the Prairies." 



The Old "Beak Market." — The Washington Market, 

 in this city, is to be rebuilt; and apropos of the ohange the 

 Evening Poii gives some interesting particulars of its early 

 history. At the time of its establishment, it was too far 

 away from the thickly settled parts of the town to prosper, 

 and (lie dealers who had taken stands there soon deserted 

 them. "In this uncommercial condition of the new market 

 a fortuitous event occurred. One day a great fat bear came 

 out. of the New Jersey woods and started to swim the Hud- 

 son for a visit to New York, When near the shore on this 

 side he was observed by a young butcher named Jacob 

 Fiuck, who had kept his almost deserted stand. Collecting 

 a few assistants;, Finck boarded a small boat, and prepared 

 to receive Bruin in proper form. After a hard contest the 

 butcher slew the bear and bore his carcass in triumph to 

 LiB market stall. The fame of the encounter spread through 

 the city ; people came from all parts to see the dead beast, 

 and the butcher improved the occasion to let it be known 

 that the carcass was to be dressed and offered for sale, in 

 parcels to suit, from his blocks. The meat was readily and 

 profitably disposed of, and the place where it was sold came 

 quickly to be known, in the absence of any other name, as 

 the market where tin- bear's meat was sold. Finck, with 

 true business sagacity, procured other bears from any source 

 they could be obtained, which he sold exclusively from this 

 market, and it thereby acquired the permanent name of the 

 Bear .Market," which it held until, after the Revolution, its 

 patriotic dealers gave it the name it now retains. 



"Sr-ATDEits" is the only woid that will express it, and it 

 is therefore just the term used by an Oregon paper to sig- 

 nify Ibe amount, id' game in that favored land. For the 

 sake of certain rilled gentlemen from abroad, who with ex- 

 tensive armaments of express rifles, explosive bullets and 

 bombshells, are scouring the Western game countries, wi 

 repeat the weird tale which comes to us of a valley near tin 

 headwaters of an Oregon River, where the "cougars have 

 for years herded deer, one or two keeping watcli at the 

 mouth to prevent, the deer from escaping. Whenever a 

 cougar of the band gets hungry he walks into the little val- 

 ley, like a butcher into n corral, and picks out the fattest 

 !i i i Im sees, and dines oil' his carcass. When the herd of 

 dcei grows small the cougars hold a 'rodeo,' and collect a 

 few score more and drive them into the valley. Now all a 

 man lias to do is to kill off the cougars, and then go for the 

 deer, aud Chore is just fun alive." If the. artillery trains of 

 the gore-thirsty baud alluded to could only be diverted from 

 the antelope and buffalo to the cougars, it were a consum- 

 mation on the attainment of which true sportsmen might 

 fall upon each other's necks and weep for joy. 



A Request fok Words. — The Century Company of this 

 city are preparing an American edition of the Imperial Dic- 

 tionary, which they purpose to make the most complete 

 work of the kind in exisience. The editor of this journal, 

 having undertaken the revision of the terms relating to 

 angling, shooting, and kindred topics, would he grateful for 

 the co-operation of those persous who may favor him with 

 terms in local use. 



The Gueeley RELIEF Expedition. — At four o'clock 

 P. M. on Friday, June 29, the vessels for the relief of the 

 Greeley party left St. Johns, N. F., for Lady Fran kliu Bay 

 or the nearest accessible point to it. The Proteus was Ihe 

 iirst to start and was soon followed by the Yanlic. The 

 wind was fair for them from the southwest, aud the squad 

 ron moved off under most favorable circumstances. 



The Dhnvkh MINING Exposition will be opened July 

 17. Visitors to Colorado this summer may combine a visit 

 to the exposition with a visit to the trout bonanza streams 

 of the mountains. 



The Fourth of July, as will be learned from our rifle and 

 trap news columns, was a great day for targets and clay 

 pigeons. ^_____^___^^^_^ 



ON THE VIRGINIA SHORE. 



JUST a little to the southward of a line between Old Point 

 aud Cape Henry, about six miles from the former and 

 twelve from the latter, with both in sight ou a clear day, 

 there is a very pleasant resort for the summer stayers in 

 Norfolk, Portsmouth and vicinity. Reached by a half 

 hour's pleasant ride in open excursion cars, it. gives as we 

 emerge from the woodland a good view of the ocean, aud 

 with the wind in any of the quadrants, north of west or 

 east, a breath of its salt air, a very welcome breath to suc- 

 ceed those impregnated with the many odors due to combina- 

 tions of great quantities of Africans, truck, imperfect 

 drainage and sewerage, hot sun. chloride of lime and other 

 disinfectants which are liberally used in the main streets, 

 and 1 wish I could say the back alleys, also. 



The resort is appropriately named Ocean View, and every 

 evening that the thunder storms do not prevent, the place 

 is crowded from 6 to 8 P. M., or later, as there is oue later 

 train. 



Ocean View has several advantages over its rival, Old 

 Point. People can go and return several times per day at 

 an expense of not necessarily over thirty cents; while, ex 

 eepl upon occasional excursions, a trip toOldPoint includes 

 supper, lodging and breakfast at Hi-gen's, when croaker; 

 do duly for spots, at one dollar per meal, said croakers beiiu 

 a drug" in the market at live cents per dozen, the spots rang- 

 ing from twenty-live to seventy-live cents; and the spots an 

 served up as "hogflsh," which are quoted at treble tin 

 price. Thus a trip to Old Point is nearly ten times as ex 

 pensive, and Ocean View reaps the harvest of people of mod 

 erate means, or who prefer sleeping at home to temporary 

 lodging at a hotel. 



Old Point has the Fortress, the military band and th< 

 gay uniforms, and is a most, delightful resort. But. Ocean 

 View is not. without its charms; the beach is clean, bathing 

 facilities excellent— better than at. Old Point, if the bead 

 and -.un' are considered. 



There is a comfortable hotel, with spacious verandah 

 facing the sea, a baud stand, a dancing pavilion, restaurant 

 bar, and good attendance, hast but not leasl to me. there i 

 good fishing very near by; aud if the hotel, which furuishc 

 boats and boatmen, would but recognize the tact that, as the 

 good fishing depends upon the right, tide (last of ebb and 

 young flood), and that this phenomenon is bound to oc 

 very often during the extreme heat of the day, and that. 

 when this is the case the most ardent fisherman will think .. 

 dozen times before, he will hire a boat once- anil that the 

 more he thinks the less chance there is of his hiring one : 

 all— and that (to put it briefly) a boat without an awning 

 at such times a delusion and a snare, a pain producer and 

 joy destroyer— and would in consequence proceed to tit out 

 said boats in more comfortable shape, then this letter is 

 written in vain, and "mine host" Kennedy will gathc 

 increased store of shekels, trade dollars, etc" 



From one hundred to a thousand yards from the beach 

 there are many rocky patches, and here and there the sub- 



of wrecks or casks, furnish resort for the 

 e oyer the rocks must swim a countless host 



■ !!. one evening at 5:80 with a company 



ith at G:15. aud at S P. M., again landed to 

 da up, and a preliminary sandwich. Bur- 

 ro had. besides the row to and from the fish- 

 t six or seven dozen fish, ranging from six 

 .vo-poundor; and 1 lest a good hit of my 

 a good-sized biuensb, which scooted off 

 rds on my reel, aud then without pausing 

 lot regardless of coy feelings; and again 

 n 1 hitched on to what, at Iirst 1 supposed to be a rock, 

 ,vhich while .1 was worrying at it, coolly got under way 

 shifted berth about six or eight, yards iii a slow deliber- 

 tyle, that pronounced its character to William Henry 

 (our boatman) as a turtle. 



These two fish 1 didn't catch, and. 



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 fifty v 



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ters, they were the biggest, of our day's 



We did catch croakers, "black wills' 

 perch, spot, trout, roundhead, bluetts! i a 

 two of the latter, for it is comparative!; 

 fact more than to any inherent virtue, o" 

 eminence in price, for I'll del 



ith th 



irought, in conta. 

 ,nd hogflsh. I c 

 •ron° 



i fish, tt 



a well-co 

 and I've 



.ked 



s usual, in such mat- 

 ilfc 



(a sort of perch), 

 rl hogflsh. Only 

 rare, and to thi's 

 CS its proud pre- 

 i, not thoroughly 

 h is winch whan 

 full of spots 



platt 

 i doz 



i' tin 



ugh not quite 

 nt hogflsh, it's 

 is cither. The 

 is to to a trout 

 nd has hardly a 



> value. Of our fish, at least three-quarters were 

 ay fai 



the fair thing to sell two-cent spot for a t( 

 not quite so bad as to try to pass oil' croak 

 croaker is lo a. fisherman here what the cl 

 fisherman, or the cuuner to a tautoger, 

 marketable 

 croakers 



They i 

 can hardly be dis 

 like them'better tha 

 ally as material for ; 



I wonder if the corning process would not prove a very 

 good way of preparing trout, bass, or other fresh-water fish? 

 ft is very simple. Split ihe fish open; remove back bone; 

 sprinkle a little salt; expose to sun. inside up, for about 

 fifteen to twenty minutes, and it is good for two days 



r table fisi 

 uished fr. 



and when slightly corned 

 m the less plentiful, and I 



ouudhead or trout, espeei- 



spots ranged 

 I; and round- 

 ice we could 

 lethod. Gen- 

 inow r twitch; 

 re worth, and 

 I. so much so; 

 on pulling in 

 h "little red 



bluefish were about half-pounders; the 

 from six to eight ounces; croakers ditto; trou 

 heads up to two pounds. .Alter a Utile prael 

 tell pretty well the fish that was biting by his i 

 tlest of all were the spot, and hogflsh. just a mil 

 the croakers bit savagely, pulled for all they W e 

 were quite gamy; the trout were lively, but. no 

 when occasionally we felt a slight, nibble, and 

 a heavy dead weight, it meant: crab, of whic 

 lish that walks backward" we got lots. 



The bluefish was the gamiest of all. He didn't wait as 

 did all of the others for Ihe bait to nearly reach bottom; any- 

 where from the surface to a yard under, did for him. 



The "trout" puzzles me. In general appearance it 

 strongly resembles a real trout, both in shape ami markings. 

 But lacking the second dorsal, peculiar to the salmon family, 

 it is evidently not a member. 



The few spots where sheepsnead can he procured are re- 

 served for those who are willing to tip the boatmen, who 

 depend largely upon said tips for their income; and those of 

 them who fulfil fairly the duties expected of them fully 

 earn their money. 



The boats are owned and rented by the hotel, and a ticket 

 costing fifty cents entitles a person to boat, man, gear aud 

 bait. 



I don't know how much can be gotten for the fifty cents; 

 parties of which I have been one have always feed liberally; 



L-rabs. clams and hard 



Although it is under- 



ie is much surer of good 



1 carrying down a few 



hard to get, the latter 



id we had all the fishing we wanted 



The baits used are peeler crabs, soft, 

 crabs, valuable in the order given, 

 stood that everything is furnished 

 fishing by taking one's own gear, 

 peeler crabs or clams; the former 



abundant and cheap. Unless you carry your own rod and 

 gear, that provided may not suit, as it is of Ibe coarsest 

 sort. 



Take it all in all, a run down to Ocean View pays. 



Pisicoo. 



JDI.Y. I8SJ. 



[We presume that the "trout" is the fish known as weak- 

 fish in New York. There are two species, the Southern 

 form is black-spotted.] 



A STORY OF WAR TIMES. 



SEEING nothing of late from our old army friends who 

 wore the "blue and the gray" in our late family differ 

 ences, 1 give you the outlines of a stirring iucident that took 

 place- -while the writer was stationed at "Goodricbe's Land- 

 ing, La., during the summer of 18(53. 



While the siege of Vicksburg was progressing, aud in fact 

 after its termination, the darkies, in pairs, in squads and in 

 droves, poured into our camp for protection, and formed a 



amis in number. The able-bodied young men were enlisted 

 into 1 1"' several negro regiment.- then forming at that place. 

 All these people had to be fed from our post commissary on 

 the regular army rations, and the food told with fatal effect 

 on these helpless creature.-, who had been accustomed to 

 nothing but corn meal and fat bacon; they were prostrated 

 by hundreds and died by scores daily. Tn'e fatality was not 

 confined to "Africa," as we designated Ihe contraband 

 camp, but invaded the colored regiments, until the hospital 

 was full aud the levee in front of the quartermaster's depot 

 one vast graveyard, alarming in the extreme. Dr. Bruce, 

 our medical purveyor, and lii- able assistants, had exhausted 

 their skill to lessen the fearful death rate, but had utterly 

 failed; not for ihe want of Skill on their part, but owing to 

 their want of kuow ledge of the Southern negro, and his for- 

 mer mode of life. 



About the first of September the matter became SO serious 

 that the General called a Council of Ids staff and field offi- 

 cers to get their views, and if possible lo devise some change 



for the better. 



After a two hours' highly scientific discus-inn by the 

 medical staff cm the causes, effects and cures of acute and 

 chronic dysentery, which was amusing in the extreme, con- 

 sidering their lack of practical success in arresting its fatal 

 effects ;' and the General, observing a broad griu on my fea- 

 tures, remarked, "Well, Quartermaster, you have, said noth- 

 ing; let us he"V from you." 



f remarked, "Why, Bruce, this is not a question of medi- 

 cine; it is one of diet. Return to plantation fare, aud my 

 word for it, all will be well. Corn and bacon are the things 



