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Bowling, and Springbok will meet again. Distance two 

 miles. The third race is the Nursery stakes, a dash of a 

 mile for two-year olds. The fourth race is the Manhattan 

 Handicap for all ages, a mile and a quarter. The fifth 

 race is a selling race for a purse of $500— a dash of a 

 mile and three-quarters. On the same day a match be- 

 tween Mr. L. Lorrillard's four-year old filly Girl of the Pe- 

 riod, and Mr. Peet's four-year old filly Ophelia; half-mile 

 heats. In the Nursery stakes, Mr, Belmont has wagered 

 that Steel Eyes will beat Mr. Morris' filly Regardless, one 

 or other to be placed. 



Point Breeze Park, Philadelphia, September 25th.— 

 The first race was for a purse of $500, mile heats, best three 

 in five, in harness. There were three entries, all of whom 

 came to the post. W. H. Dobb's Snowball won the three 

 last heats. Time, 2:33^, 2:34, 2:35. 



The second race was for a purse of $2,000, mile heats, 

 best three in five, in harness. Goldsmith Maid and Judge 

 Fullerton entered. After an exciting race between these 

 well-known horses, Goldsmith Maid won. Time, 2:22, 

 2:22i, 2:23i. 



—The Prospect Park races were attended on September 

 25th by a large number of people. The track was in excel- 

 lent condition. Five horses started for the first race, which 

 was for a purse of $1,250. Morrel won in 2:28-|. The driver 

 of Morrel was enthusiastically cheered for his splendid 

 driving. The second trot was for 2 :29 horses, and for a 

 purse of $1,750. Five horses started. Bruno won the race 

 in three straight heats. Time, 2:28. 2:25, 2:26. 



—The owner of Judge Fullerton has issued a challenge to 

 the world, stating that he will trot his horse against any 

 horse, mare or gelding in the world, mile heats, best three 

 in five, in harness, over Fleetwood Park Course, for ten 

 thousand dollars a side, half forfeit. Race to be trotted 

 between the 10th and 20th days of October. 



— Chas Reticker, who has just accomplished the feat of 

 riding fifty miles in two and a half hours, offers to ride 

 fifty miles in a shorter time than any two men — one to ride 

 twenty-five miles and the other the same distance. He 

 proposes also to accomplish one hundred miles in a shorter 

 time than any three men — one to ride thirty-three miles, 

 the second thirty-three, and the third thirty-four miles — all 

 parties to use horses which have no record; the matches to 

 be ridden over the Greenland Racing Course, near Louis- 

 ville. 



—A veterinary surgeon of Philadelphia says that tight 

 reining is a common cause of the disease known as "roar- 

 ing" in the horse, by mechanically obstructing free perspir- 

 ation, especially affecting horses driven in pairs or in double 

 harness. In the heavy draught or team horse, he says, the 

 practice is cruel, and the surgeon has been trying for years 

 to induce drivers and owners of horses to discontinue the 

 use of the check rein. 



Endurance of Horses. — Some curious and interesting- 

 experiments were made some years ago at Alfort, the 

 French veterinary school, to ascertain the endurance of 

 horses. It appears that a horse will live on water alone 

 twenty-five days ; seventeen days without eating and drink- 

 ing; only five days if fed and un watered ; ten days if fed 

 and insufficiently watered. A horse kept without water for 

 three days drank one hundred and four pounds of water in 

 three minutes. A horse taken immediately after feeding, 

 and kept in active motion, completely digested his feed in 

 three hours. When kept perfectly quiet in his stable, 

 digestion had just commenced in three hours. 



The Police Commissioners of Jersey City have recently 

 purchased horses for the mounted service. The one wlii-li 

 Officer Glenny of the Third Precinct rides is ravenously 

 fond of tobacco, which he chews like an old veteran. 

 When shown a paper of tobacco, he manifests as much 

 anxiety to obtain it as a hun ry horse does to obtain his 

 feed of oats. Unlike an ordinary tobacco chewer, he does 

 not expectorate promiscuously, and when he has extracted 

 the strength of the weed he quietly swallows the quid. 



— The will of the Rev. Abijah P. Cummings, editor of the 

 New York Observer, was before Surrogate Coffin in White 

 Plains. There was a stir in the court-room when the inven- 

 tory of his estate was read. The reverend gentleman had 

 speculated in worthless stocks. Among them were 100 

 shares in the United States Leather Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, 320 shares Valley Coal Company of Wilkesbarre, 500 

 shares Mamakating Mining Company, 300 shares Broadtop 

 Coal and Iron Company, 100 shares Knickerbocker Anthra- 

 cite Coal Company, 76 American Eyelet Company, 500 New 

 York Moharaea Mining and Discovery Company, 300 shares 

 Atlantic and Great Western Petroleum Company, and other 

 worthless paper. There was a deposit of $27,000 in the 

 Union Trust Company. 



—Mr. J. M. Bailey, the Banbury News man, advises his 

 sporting friends to read the Forest and Stream. " Then," 

 he says, when they array themselves against the blood- 

 thirsty pumpkin seed and the ferocious robin, the agricultu- 

 ral community will not have to adjourn to their wells." 



— Last Monday the Athletics secured a victory over their 

 city rivals, the Philadelphia White Stockings, by a score of 

 7 to 6, after seven previous unsuccessful attempts. 



— In the contest between the Nassau and Concord Base- 

 Ball Clubs, at Prospect Park, on Saturday, the former won 

 by a score of 18 to 7. 



— Up to September 30th the number of legal games played 

 in the championship arena, the Brooklyn Eagle says, was 

 134, of which the 



Athletics won 21 and lost 18. 



Atlantics won 12 and lost 29. 



Baltimore won 23 and lost 15. 



Boston won 28 and lost 11. 



Mutual won 17 and lost 23. 



Philadelphia won 30 and lost 12. 



Washington won 3 and lost 26. 



There are no less than five first-class matches on for to. 

 day, October 2d. 



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INCE January, 1872, the United States Army has lost 

 two major-generals, namely, Major-General Halleck, 

 who died January 9th, 1872, and Major-General George G. 

 Meade, who died November 6th, 1872. 



—Brig-General Silas Casey, U. S. A., retired, the author of 

 "Casey's Tactics," for so many years in use in the army, 

 is a hale old resident of Brooklyn, New York. The author 

 of the present tactics of the army, General Emory Upton, 

 Lieutenant Colonel of the First Artillery, is Commandant 

 of the Cadets at the Military Academy, and instructor of 

 artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics at that post. It Is 

 he who first teaches the new military idea how to shoot, 

 and who drives into the noddles of the young plebes that 

 " right forward, fours right "does not mean "right for- 

 ward, fours left." &c. 



—Brevet Brigadier-General H. L. Abbot and Brevet Col. 

 Thomas L. Casey, of the U. S. Engineers, are in France, 

 looking after the interests of their own peculiar service, 

 and noting how much better we do some things at home, 

 and how much inferior we are in others. At one time we 

 imagined France and other nations could teach us consid- 

 erable, but a few years of w r ar in our own country devel- 

 oped more of the sciences and arts of war than perhaps 

 ever before heard of. France, now that she has lost so 

 much of a bombastic confidence in her own strength, will 

 profit largely by the lesson. The talent is not dead, and 

 the people have the will. Germany is to-day undoubtedly 

 the strongest and most progressive warlike nation of the 

 world. 



— Second Lieutenant M. Frank Gallagher, of the Second 

 Infantry, who in May last, brutally shot and killed a dis- 

 charged soldier, at Spartanburg, S. C, and who afterwards 

 was tried on the charge of "conduct unbecoming an offi- 

 cer and gentleman," has suffered the mild punishment of 

 being cashiered the service, which sentence has been ap- 

 proved bv the War Department. This, probably, is about 

 all the army could do in the matter, and the civil authori- 

 ties will now be compelled to take up the case, and see 

 that the murderer is properly punished. It is per- 

 haps well here to state, en passant, that the treatment of 

 the enlisted men of the army is not always such as to se- 

 cure the necessary respect desired. Officers are too fre- 

 quently overbearing and tyrannical towards their men, who 

 often obey only through fear, instead of performing their 

 duty with the pride of a soldier. A man, because he en- 

 lists, is not necessarily a slave, nor does the Government 

 expect him to perform menial labor or any other duty but 

 what is naturally expected of a soldier. Therefore, when 

 an officer compels a man through fear of punishment to ex- 

 ecute a task which in any way demeans the uniform he 

 wears as a United States soldier, this man soon loses all 

 respect for the army and its government, and at the first 

 chance deserts. The army contains, it is true, many hard 

 characters among its enlisted men, but officers will find 

 that an appeal to a man's self-respect goes a great way in 

 the majority of instances; and in the end will secure far 

 better discipline than the tyrannical process so much in 

 vogue in both services. 



— Many of the engineer corps stationed at Willet's Point, 

 N Y., earn considerable money for their services as mark- 

 ers at the National Association Range at Creedmoor, L. I. 

 A certain number of reliable men are daily granted passes, 

 and those who stroll to the range a few miles distant gener- 

 ally make it pay. The Association price of markers per day, 

 is two dollars. Recently, however, the men have charged 

 three dollars per day to all outside organizations requiring 

 their services, and there is scarcely a day but that a dozen 

 markers are employed, and very frequently more than this 

 number. In ordinary marking for parties practicing fo 

 a few honrs, the men get two dollars. The duties ol 

 a marker are very simple and by no means labori- 

 ous and with ordinary care no wise dangerous. Now and 

 then, however, one is slightly exposed by the splutter of 

 lead on the targets ; which is sometimes the fault of the fir- 

 ing party, and then again the sheer carelessness of the 

 markers themselves in not giving sufficient time for the dan- 

 ger signal (red flag) to attract attention at the firing point be- 

 fore leaving their post. Some of these markers are vete- 

 rans, and in times past have become so used to tf e buzzing 

 of bullets they have become careless and don't seem to mind 

 them, " worth a cent. " There is nothing, you know, like 

 being used to these matters. We understand it is the in- 

 tention of the Rifle Association to employ regular troops 

 altogether on the occasion of its regular prize meeting, com- 

 mencing October 8th, for markers, scores, &c. They will 

 require about fifty men for three or four days, and propose 

 to pay two dollars a day for their services. 



— Major Gen. McDowell was at the reception given to 

 Wilkie Collins at the Lotos Club rooms, New York city, 

 September 27th. 



— Brevet Major Maubken, the dashing adjutant of the 

 Eighth Cavalry, so long stationed in New York city, is 

 now wasting his chances for his country's good at the post 

 of New Mexico. 



—Many years since, or in the good old times when the 

 chapeaux, the stocks, ruffles, knee breeches, &c.,were worn 

 as portions of the full dress of our officers, a small party of 

 officers attached to a harbor post in New York, started m 

 full uniform in a Government yawl across the East river to 

 attend an evening reception to which they had been in- 

 vited in the metropolis. The officer in command of this 

 post, and who was one of the party invited, was a soldier 

 of the old school, one having the most peculiar notions of 

 the dignity of his position and the nicety of his dress. 



Just as the boat reached midway of the stream, a sailing 

 vessel under full headway was discovered bearing for the 

 boat, and the chances were that they would surely be run 

 down. The commanding officer in the stern of the yawl 

 sung out for the men to "give way with a will," which 

 they did, but only just in time to pass under the bows of 

 the vessel. In passing, however, the commandant, think- 

 ing the boat was lost, eagerly reached up and caught the 

 bowsprit chain of the vessel, and as he did so, the yawl 

 passed from under him, and left him dangling on the bow 

 of the vessel, his elegant knee breeches submerged in the 

 briny waters. His position as he hung — high but not dry — 

 was extremely ludicrous, and after being rescued rather 

 put a damper on the anticipated enjoyments of the recep- 

 tion, as well as for years being the joke of his fellow of- 

 ficers. 



—Captain Richard Comba, Seventh Infantry, recently sen- 

 tence to be cashiered for neglect of duty etc. , by recom- 

 mendation of the Court and the reviewing officers, General 

 Terry, on account of previous good character, had his sen- 

 tence commuted by the President to suspension from rank 

 and command for the period of six months and the for- 

 feiture of all pay during that period with the exception of 

 $50 per month. Fortunately in this case previous good 

 character saves an officer from utter disgrace. 



— Major David Faggert, Paymaster, U. S. A. resigned Sep- 

 tember 11th, 



— Camp Haulpai, Arizona Territory, has been discon- 

 tinued. 



— Companies H. and K. First Cavalry have left Fort Walla 

 Walla, Washington Territory, for Camp Harney, Oregon; 

 Company B Fifteenth Infantry, Fort Craig, New Mexico, for 

 Tabrosa, New Mexico ; Company B, Twenty-third Infantry, 

 Camp Date Creek for Fort Whipple, Arizona Territory, 

 and Company K. Twenty-fourth Infantry, Fort Duncan, 

 for Ringgold, Barracks, Texas. 



— Captain J. J. Van Horn of the Eighth Infantry has been 

 granted a five months' leave, to take effect on. the return of 

 the Yellowstone expedition. 



— Colonel W. H. Wood, of the Eleventh Infantry, com- 

 manding at Fort Richardson, Texas, reports that on the 

 morning of the 13th inst., three citizens were attacked by 

 Indians, at Little Salt Creek, a branch of Kechi Creek, and 

 two of them, Mr. Howell H. Walker, aged fifty years, and 

 his son Henry, aged thirteen years, were killed The other, 

 Mr. Mortimer Shreeves, made his escape and reached Fort 

 Richardson at five P. M., having been compelled to travel 

 some twenty miles in a circuitous route to avoid the In- 

 dians, although the distance in a direct line is about nine 

 miles. Captain Thomas Little, "f the Tenth Cavalry, with 

 all the available officers and men of his company (L), was at 

 once ordered out in pursuit, with instructions to investi- 

 gate this affair, and ascertain the names of the persons 

 killed, and send their bodies to the fort, as it was under- 

 stood they were residents of Jacksboro, and should the 

 trail of the Indians be found, make a vigorous and deter- 

 mined effort to overtake and punish them, sparing neither 

 men nor horses to accomplish that object. The 

 bodies of Walker and his son were found horribly mu- 

 tilated. The Indians took away the old man's gun, car- 

 tridges, and shoes and the boy's hat. Captain Little found 

 the trail at daybreak on the 14th, and started at once in pur 

 suit. Mr. Shreeves says he counted twenty-seven Indians 

 as they were approaching to make the attack. 



— A correspondent of the Commercial Advertiser, writing 

 of the Lake George region, says : — 



" The mountains about this portion of the lake are in- 

 fested by rattlesnakes, whose dens are the crevices in the 

 rocks where they can remain during the winter below the 

 reach of frost. During the summer they are out and 

 around on the hills, but upon the approach of cold nights 

 they return to their habitations, and are to be found about 

 this season of the year near their homes. Frequently they 

 are seen swimming across the water, and a good old gentle 

 man, a deacon, I am told, on Lake Champlain, saw a num- 

 ber thus swimming, and getting into a boat, rowed out and 

 killed no less than twenty -nine, the largest number ever 

 killed by any one in this locality at one time. I know the 

 story does not sound fishy, but rather snaky; still I had it 

 from a man who was personally acquainted with the dea- 

 con, I forget his name, and have since seen the statement 

 in print in one of the locals. Just beyond Sabbath Day 

 Point lives a man named Davis, a celebrated rattlesnake 

 catcher, whose reputation has reached every place for miles 

 around, and who is rightly esteemed the second of the 

 natural curiosities about the Lake. Davis is one of the 

 old settlers, and knows every den and the number of 

 snakes inhabiting it in the vicinity. He catches the snakes 

 by putting a notched stick over them just below their heads, 

 which renders them powerless, and then he extracts their 

 fangs. He catches the snakes whenever anybody wants 

 them, but generally has a quantity on hand in a box at his 

 house. He furnishes them, dead or alive, as may be de, 

 sired, for the small sum of a dollar apiece. Those who 

 want to try their hand at bringing up these pets, and 

 mothers who want rattles for their children, had better in- 

 vest. Davis sometimes goes out to catch snakes in his bare- 

 feet, and has been bitten several times, but he counteracts 

 the effects of the poison by eating what is known as 'rat- 

 tlesnake weed,' and applying it externally. This is a sure 

 cure, and while perhaps less to the liking of some than the 

 'whiskey cure,' is nevertheless more certain; its effect is 

 very similar to that of tobacco upon the system, and the 

 leaves have by no means a pleasant taste. There are some 

 people, however, in our worthy metropolis who are so 

 saturated with alcohol all the time that they could with im- 

 punity expose themselves to the fangs of the rattlesnake, 

 and should they be bitten the only result probably would 

 be the death of the snake. 



— In what tone does a ghost speak ? In a tombs-tone. 



