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The Late Edward Stablek of Sandy Spring, Md., long 

 a valued contributor to tin- FpBBST «i> STREAM, was at I In- 

 time of Uis death nearly eighty nine years of age. He was 

 in point of service the oldest post-master in the United 

 Mates, having been appointed in 1830, and serving continu- 

 ously until his death, a period of fifty-three years. As n 

 sportsman and fisherman, says the Baltimore Sun, he was 

 extensively known throughout Maryland and the) adjacent 

 Stales, and was a frequent contributor to the spoiling press 

 upon firearms practice, angling, etc. He made valuable 

 improvements in the present styles of breech-louding rifles 

 and shotguns, among them the "magazine" attachment. 

 which enabled the sportsmen (using the Spencer and Martini 

 rifles) to hold from six to fourteen charge! in reserve for 

 any emergency. He hunted extensively (previous to the past 

 five years) through West Virginia, .Maryland and Pennsyl- 

 vania, being frequently accompanied by his friends, Francis 

 P. Blair, Sr., Gen. JUL C. Meigs, and other well-known lovers 

 of the spoils of the forest and stream. Some ten years 

 since be visited California anil intervening States, and en- 

 joved rare sport among the buffalo and antelope of the foot- 

 - 'hills and plains of Colorado and Kansas, using his Roper re- 

 peating rifle, with telescopic sights (tor long-range shooting) 

 and the explosive bard-point balls, both inventions of his 

 own. He killed three buffalo the first day out, at a range of 

 350*to 400 yards While in Kansas. The instinct for spoil 

 was developed by the stale of his health, which required him 

 to lead an out-of-door life as much as possible, lie took a 

 great interest in fishculture as well as angling. He wrote a 

 good deal on fishcultnre, and was equally an adept with the 

 rod and line and the pen and graver. During the adminis- 

 tration ot Mr. Chapman asMavor of Baltimore he introduced 

 the black bass into Lake Roland. He was a member of Ihe 

 religious Society of Friends, of which his ancestry have been 

 members since .1080. During the British invasion of Alex- 

 andria in 181-1 he was conscripted for service in the District 

 militia, but being a Friend could not conscientiously serve 

 or pay the tine, he was committed to jail for three "weeks, 

 until 'President Madison, through Mrs. Madison, a life-long 

 friend of Mr. Stabler's mother, heard of it and immediately 

 ordered his release. He died iu the house in which he was 

 boru. 



Amavei. u PkOTOGBAPBT. — Of late 1 have become very 

 much interested as an amateur in photography, Having 

 seen the working of a small machine made by one of your 

 advertisers. 1 must say that even a 4in. by Sin. camera 

 that costs but ten dollars, produces some very line- pictures. 

 Looking the affair over I concluded to make one myself, and 

 now 1 have a very complete outfit that weighs, Including 

 Iripod and four dry plates, four and one-half pounds; size of 

 camera <i by ti by 5 inches, From a trip to the North Woods 

 1 brought home some tine views, and now think more of the 

 little machine than ever. How many times when in camp 

 it has been said. Now if we only had a picture of our tem- 

 porary home, with the old camp-fire and the surrounding 

 comforts, as well as of our comrades with their swollen eyes 

 and ears, many is the laugh we could have in looking them 

 over in after years. I have found it almost impossible dur- 

 ing my few years' experience to get the same party together 

 nunc than once. The boys say. Next summer we must Lave a 

 picture of those little punkies", for what is camp without the 

 punkies'.' And then there is that beautiful fall of water, and 

 that large boulder on the left, where we east, over the stream 

 and lake, a fine trout, and lead him down through to the hole 

 below where we work him until he gives up and shows us 

 his glistening sides. Views of all these we can bring home 

 and review them during the cold winter nights, as we gather 

 around the camp-fire at home. My machine is so compact 

 and complete, that (can strap it on to my back when going 

 up the stream, and as w T e reach an old familiar spot 1 can rig 

 up and pull it with a thread, standing at any distance away, 

 thereby including myself in the group. I don't know 7 as 

 this will interest the old heads of the craft, but I dare say 

 even thev would give up considerable to have an illustrated 

 remembrance Of their old companions; and 1 advise all who 

 wish to retain your pleasures of the woods, not to neglect, 

 the next time you go there, to buy or make a machine and 

 take it with you, it will pay you for all your trouble. Would 

 it not be well' for amateurs "to" start an exchange of views, 

 thereby gaining new ideas of different parts of the country, 

 together with reports of Ihe same'.' Let us hear from some of 

 the other amateurs on the subject —C. M. II. 



New t Memphis Gen Ci.ub.— Twenty-one gentlemen in 

 Shelby county, Teuu., have leased for ten years the famous 

 Beaver Dam Lake (in parti, three miles east'of Austiu, Tunica 

 county, Miss. Plans for a club house have been accepted, 

 and bbats lor shooting and fishing ordered. Initiation fee 

 is (60, assessment is $30. Membership limited and full. 

 Should any vacancy occur it requires unanimous vote to 

 elect. Three months' delinquency is cause for erasure of 

 name, and all rights and properties of members revert to the 

 club. Following are officers and charter members of Beaver 

 Dam Ducking Club: Dr. Robt. W. Mitchell. President.; 

 Mr. W. B. Mallory, Vice-President; W. A. Wheatley, Sec- 

 retary and Treasurer; M. L. Seldeu and Capt. L. B. McFar- 

 land and above, Executive Committee; Mr. James Phelan, 

 Mr. Julius A. Tavlor. Judge S. P. Walker, Mr. D, H. Bos- 

 ton, Dr. D. D. Saunders, R. D. Jordan, Dr. G. W. Overall, 

 Geo. Mitchell, Mr. A. C. Treadwell, W L. Clapp, Capt. T 

 S. Davaut, T. T. Edmondsou. Mr. (has. P. Stewart, W. T. 

 Bowdre, Col. Win. II. Carroll, Wm. M. Sneed. Honorary 

 Members, Major Jno. D. TJssery, Capt. Sam T. Canies, 

 Lieut. John Kerr, Dr. Richard Owen. 



Quail m Tf.nnesee.— Dyersbunr, Ten., Oct. 1.— Part- 

 ridges (quail) are more numerous in' this section than they 

 have been for years. They sometimes come to town and are 

 seen in the gardens, in the churchyards, in the cemetery and 

 even in the courtyard, and there are, probably, a dozen 

 coveys in the corporate limits. Look out the car window 

 and you sec tln.ui fly from the track, the meadow, the corn 

 field, the cotton held, and the sorghum field, and. in fact, 

 on every baud This is partly accounted for from the fact 

 that the deadly rifle has cleaned out the hawk, as well as ihe 

 deer and turkeys.— T. V. W. 



An Eiectiuc Gek.— One of the mot interesting novelties 

 at the Vienna International exhibition is an electric gun. 

 Tbi' powder is tired by means of a piece of platinum in the 

 cartridge, and Ihe electric current necessary for heating the 

 platinum is obtained from a little accumulator, which must 

 be worn in a licit specially devised for the purpose. Besides 

 the accumulator and the 'licit, a glove and a shoulder-strap 

 are necessary ; the glove is worn on the left hand, and is 

 connected with one pole of the accumulator, the strap with 

 the other. All this would, it must be confessed. In- a rather 

 formidable addition to a soldier's accoutrements, and one is 

 hardly surprised to hear that the inventors do not expect 

 tlnir patent to be immediately adopted in all the European 

 armies. Meanwhile they point out that the electric gun 

 affords several advantages besides the charm of novelty, 

 which ought to commend it to the sportsman. In the first 

 place, it is said to be very economical; and what, new appli- 

 cation of electricity is ever said to be anything else— at first? 

 There is no great saving on the gun or the cartridges, but 

 then only a quarter of the ordinary "marge of powder is 

 necessary. Moreover, the gun is economical of time and 

 trouble." The cartridges serve many times over, and there is 

 none of the bother of taking off the old caps. But the 

 crowning merit which is claimed for the electric gun is that 

 it is warranted never to "kick." If this warranty be really 

 true, the application of electricity to sport ought not to be 

 long delayed.— Pali Matt Qaeette. 



Clinton, Mass., Oct. 6.— The field day of the Cliuton 

 Sportsmen's Club has been fixed for Thursday, Oct. 18, with 

 a game supper Friday evening. The captains, Messrs Har- 

 riman and Gobs, were selected bv a committee, and the sides 

 designated as follows: A. E. Harrimau, P. J. Lewis, C. L. 

 S. Hammond, II. A. Burditt. A. G. Larkin, J B. Frost, 

 Robert Orr, Chas. Frazer, M. C. Healey, 0. T. Cunningham, 

 W. J. Coulter, D. A. Rogers. G. W? Truell, F. W. Cole, 

 Geo. Gibbs, J. D. Haves, Henry Shedd, C. F. Tufts, C. M. 

 Dinsmore. C. W. Field, Jr.. D. H. Hayler, E. G. Stevens, 

 G. M. Livermore, Bayard Thaver, F. G. Jerauld, W. IT. 



Leighton, Jr. G. Walton Goss, John McQuaid, II. J. 



Brown. A. N. Smith, E. C. Osgood, Horace A. Thissell, 

 Geo. P. French, John E. Thayer, Geo. G. Fairbanks. Samp- 

 son. Jenkins, Horace H. Lowe. Abijah Brown. F, TE, Care, 

 A. A. Perham, W. H. Gibbs. B. K. Gallup, F. E. Bailey, C. 

 E. Shaw, George L. Aver v, A. R. Stevenson, Mvron Brewer, 

 G. A. Brown, G. S. Gibson, W. H. Elworcl, George A. 

 Sampson. 



Game ln Texas.— Galveston, Oct. 3. — The weather has 

 turned very warm again, and the duelcs that arrived during 

 the cool spell have disappeared, seemingly to seek ''greener 

 fields and pastures new." There is a storm above us moving 

 this way that is very likely to terminate in what we call a 

 norther" If it does game "of all kinds will be quite abun- 

 dant, particularly ducks, such as teal, pintails, bluebills and 

 widgeon. Canvas-backs, redheads and mallards will hardly 

 arrive before November. Within the last few days I have 

 noticed quite a number of live quail in market. The abom- 

 inable practice of trapping them iu nets and shipping them 

 to points where they command a good price is carried on to 

 a great extent by unscrupulous persons. This method is so 

 universally known that a description is unnecessary. The 

 net when once set does terrible execution, very few if any of 

 a covey escaping'. I am afraid it will be many years before 

 these poor little fellows receive proper protection. They 

 seem to have very few friends in this State.— Nemo. 



Wakrenton. Va., Oct, 8.— A week hence the season for 

 quail, grouse and wild turkey opens here, and, as game is 

 unusually plenty, I hope soon to scud you a practical proof 

 thereof. ' The sport now most in vogue here is fox hunting, 

 there being three meets in this vicinity, with a, fine pack of 

 hounds and many bold riders, several of the gentler sex al- 

 ways participating. Charles Payne, the banker, Major 

 Holman, J, Maddox, and others, lead in the sport, with as 

 line horses as there are in any seotion, Talisman, the favor- 

 ite, hunter ridden by Major Holman, is probabh as good in 

 a steeplechase as any horse in America. T hope soon to gi ve 

 you a detailed account of one of these spirited contests for 

 the red brush, which will enable your readers to know what 

 old Fauquier county is doing in" the way of sport.— Ned 

 Buntltne. 



LOUISIANA Came.— Monroe, La.. Sept. 28.— A few days 

 ago a party of six weut to Lafourche swamp, twelve miles 

 from Monroe, and brought back one hundred and thirty- 

 three squirrels, of the black and red varieties. Two ot the 

 part}' kflleJ ninety-six between them. They were killed 

 during one afternoon and the following morning. Partridges 

 (Bob Whites) are very abundant in the hills west of here, but 

 the clearings are generally small, the thick woods greatly 

 preponderating, so it is difficult to make a large bag. Deer 

 are also abundant, but the prolonged dry weather is verv un- 

 favorable to "driving" with hounds, the usual method of 

 hunting deer in this vicinity. The "bull bat" (goat sucker) 

 is affording some good sport, as he lingers on his journey 

 southward. A lively fusilade is kept up toward sundown in 

 the suburbs of the town on these birds. — Oiacihta. 



hit nnd Biver Mi 



ANGLIXli UESOUTs.— We shall be ylad to have for publi- 

 cation notes of flood fishing localities. Will nut our cut, 

 spundents fa-cor us with, notes of desirable points for anyliny 



excursions? 



To insure prompt attention, com men teat ions should be ad- 

 dressed to the Forest and Stream Fvbli siting Co., and not to 

 individuals, in whose absence from the office matters of im- 

 portance ore liable to delay. 



OPEN SEASONS. 



The digest of open Seasons, printed in our issue of Aug. 10, has 

 been publish™ in convenient pamphlet form, and will lie sent to any 

 address, postpaid, on receipt of 10 cents. 



MlddektoWN, Conn.. Oct. 3. — Game is unusually plenty 

 in this vicinity this fall, and there should be good shooting, 

 and probably will la- on quail, The only trouble with par- 

 tridge is the continual snaring going on in some sections. It 

 is a shame that it canned be stopped. Birds are sold in this 

 market through the w hole season that do not bear a mark of 

 shot.— W. H. G. 



Siiootino Grounds Wanted.— E. A. F. iKev, fork) 

 wants to kuow where he shall go for squirrel shooting, and 

 will be grateful for directions to a good locality. I, P. 

 (Somerset county, Pa.) wants to go to the best place in 

 West Virginia for deer, bears, panthers, etc. Would prefer a 

 county where a generous bounty is paid for the destruction 

 of "varmints." F. W. B. (Philadelphia, Pa.) wishes location 

 for three or four days' shooting, rabbits and quail, or squir- 

 rels, within 7f. miles of Philadelphia, He would prefer to 

 hire a dog on the grounds. 



Vermont Ghouse. — Brattleboro, Vt., Oct. 1. — Partridges 

 (ruffed grouse) are more plenty in this vicinity than for 

 many years past: but the gray squirrels which were very 

 thick hist year, are as scarce 'this as the partridges used to 



be. -b. urn n, 



Montreal, Oct. 3.— Last week there was a big flight of 

 English snipe at the Highgate Marshes, and the writer got 

 his full quota of them. Few ducks there and two guns to 

 every duck, Weather wet and raw here. — Sta.nstkad. 



REELFOOT LAKE. 



IF you want fine black bass fishing this fall come here to 

 the Reelfoot Lake, Reelfoot bayou, and other smaller 

 lakes made by the great earthquake of 1811. Uncle Joe 

 Mitchell, aged" ninety-four years, and who lived then where 

 the lake now is, has just died. He was a great, fisherman, 

 and in his last days would wade iu the water to his waist to 

 throw the shining minnow to a favorite log or stump. It 

 was very interesting to hear him talk of the time that he 

 settled in this country, when a child, and of the scenes and 

 incidents that occurred when the great upheaval of the earth 

 and waters occurred. This upheaval was followed by a, 

 sinking of the land that made a lake five to seven miles wide 

 and thirty miles long, besides numerous smaller ones, all 

 teeming with fish. 



John Tarrant, one day last week, caught eighty black 

 bass and white perch from 2 to (if pounds; he caught nine 

 under one log that lay iu deep water iu Reelfoot bayou. 

 Fishing parties are made up every day to go to these places, 

 from twelve to twenty-five miles 'from here. The writer, iu 

 company of the Rev. J. E. Evans. D.D.. caught a fine string 

 of white perch, black and striped bass in Forked Deer River, 

 at this place, last Friday. Two of the perch weighed 3 

 pounds each, though I once saw one caught here that 

 weighed U pounds'" by Dr. W. A. Fowlkes, and one 4J by 

 J. W. Wilson. Who "can beat them? T. L. W. 



Dyersbcrg, Tenu., Oct. 1. 



THE ANGLING TOURNAMENT. 



THE Committee of Arrangements met at Mr. Blackford's. 

 Fulton Market, on Tuesday. Oct. 0, and arranged the 

 prize list as follows: 



1. Gold medal, given by the members of < tie South Side 



Sportsman's Club of Longlsland, value $?0iW 



2. One Leonard split-bamboo fly-rod, gis en by William Mills & 



Son, 7 Warren street, New York 8U.0U 



One compensating black bass reel. "The imbrie." NO, a, 



given by Abbey & Imbrie, -18 Maiden lane. New York ICtOj) 



4. One year's subscription to Forest ami Stream LOO 



5. Value 8.00 



(1. dopy of tile American edition of Paine Juliana Berner's 



Book, "Fysshe and Fyssllinge," edited by G.W.VanSielen. l.Mi 



Hold medal, given bj tut- members of the Sontli bide 



Sportsman's Club of Long Island. $20.00 



One split-bamboo By-rod given by B. V. Nichols, JS3 Milk 

 Street. Boston - SftOU 



One ll.y book, -t'beEudicott," given by Abbey & Imbrie. 

 48 Maiden Lane, New Tort B.Ofl 



Subscription to Forest and STREAM for out ye&r... . .. COO 



Value &00 



CLASS C- AMATCeii. 



Hold medal, given by the members of the South Side Spo I 



man's Club of Long Island IBWM 



One split-bambOO dy-rod. given byB. if, Nichols, 1C3 Milk 



street, Boston ' SaJ.un 



i tae patent net-ring, handle and net. given by William Mills 



,V Son, ',' Wai-ren street , New Ynrk 6.1)0 



Subscription to Fores i and Stream fur one year 4:00 



Value..- 3.00 



CUASS D-EXPERT. OPEN To ALL. 



Bold inedid, given by members o£ the Sovilii Sld» 6p0 



man's Club, of Longlsland, value ...$20,011 



Cash given by the National Hod and Reel Association 10.00 



One year's subscription to Forest anii Stueam , , J. Of I 



Value 3.00 



Cash given by the National Rod and Reel Association $25.00 



Cash given by Mr.E. R. Wilbur, Forest and Strem office 10.00 



Cash given by the National Rod and Reel Association. 5.00 



Clue year's subscription to Forest amd Stream 4.00 



Value 3.00 



Return of entry fee 



Sir Boyle Roche's flight of oratory iu the Irish Bouse of 

 Commons— "I smell a rat, I see him floating iu the air: but I 

 will nip hirn in the bud"— has been nearly approached by an 

 English legislator declaiming against the game laws. " VYhut." 

 said he, "could be more iniquitous than that tenants should 

 not only be obliged to keep the rabbits for their landlords, but 

 e\ en to" preserve their eggs:" 



(Open only to those who iia ve fished for salmon. Subject to Rule S. I 



1. One split-bamboo salmon rod, 18ft., given by Couroy & 



Bissett, B5 Fulton street, New York, 860 00 



2. Cash given by the National Rod and Reel Association 10 01 



3. Cash given by the National Rod and Reel Association 5 00 



4. One year's subscription to Forest and Stream 4 00 



5. Value _ 3 00 



SALMON. CLASS II.— EXPERT. 



1. Gold medal, given by the National Rod and Reel Association. $25 00 



2. Cash given by the National Rod and Reel Association 10 00 



3. Cash given liytlte National Rod and Reel Association 5 00 



4. One year's subscription to Forest and Stream . . 4 00 



5. Value 3 Ob 



nEAVY BASS CASTINR. 



1. Gold medal, given by the National Rod and Reel Associa- 

 tion JS5 00 



8, Cash given by Mr. Martin B. Brown, 40 Park place, New York. 15 00 

 8. One. year's subscription to Forest ami Stream. .,...., ■ 100 



4 Value ... 3 00 



i.n.iiT BASS OASTlHQi 



i. One septangular split -bamboo bass rod, given b] I 

 Hofe, Fulton stivet. Now Y.,.lr. 



8. Cash given by Mr, Martin IS. Brmvu. 10 Park place, New- 

 York 15 00 



3. One year's subscription to touEsT and Stream t 00 



4. Value 8 DO 



The tournament will take place un the water- of Harlem 



Mere, where it was held last year. Directions forieac 

 the lake will be found elsewhere in our columns. The plat 

 .-tin«- will lie one fool above the water. 

 Uthe last meetiiitr of ihe committee Mr. R. Van Week 



