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FOREST AND STREAM. 



tie at 26 and 31 yards. Mr. Flower won the badge. A 

 sweepstakes followed, in which Mr. Maltby won first prize, 

 and for lack of birds the other prizes were divided. 



New York. — A grand shooting tournament, under the 

 auspices of the Central City and Onondaga County Sports- 

 men's Clubs, is arranged to commence at the East Syracuse 

 grounds, commencing Aug. 23d and continuing four days. 

 The prizes, all cash, aggregate $5,000. Class shooting— all 

 purses to fill or be pro-rated. A feature of the last day is 

 to be a handicap sweepstakes, to give ordinary shots a 

 chance. Messrs. Greene Smith, President of the State As- 

 sociation, R. B. Harmon, Thomas Kimber, John A. Nich- 

 ols, John Bedford and James Manning, of Syracuse; Sam- 

 uel Turrell and Fred J. Abbey, of Chicago; Edward Gil- 

 man, of Detroit; and Robert Newell, of Buffalo, are the 

 managers. The following is the programme for the three 

 remaining days:— 



SECOND DAT. 



First Purse $600-Ten single rises— first prize $310; second $150; third 

 $120; four>h$9o; fifth $30. 



Second Pui>e $900- -Fifteen double rises— First prize $315; second 

 $225; third $180; i'oarth $133; fifth $45. 



THIRD DAT. 



First Purse— $400- -Ten single rises— First prize $140; second $100; 

 third $80; fourtb $60; fifth $20. 



Second Pnrse $600— Ten single rises— First prize $210; second prize 

 $150; third $120; fourth $90; tifth $30. 



FOURTH DAT. 



First Purse $600— Ten double rises— First prize $245; second prize 

 $175; third $130; fourth $105; fifth $35. 



Second Purse $800— Grand Handicap Sweepstakes. All winners of 

 prizes 31 yards. All scores of nine and ten 26 yards. All others 21 

 yards. First prize $280; second $200; third $160, lourth $120; firm $10. 



Entrance fVe each class, $5; birds extra. Shooting to commence each 

 day at 9 o'clock. 



IiiLiNOis.— A grand national shooting touraament at 

 Dexter Park, Chicago, under the management of S. H. 

 Turrill, is to commence Wednesday, August 30th and con- 

 tinue four days. Class shooting, prizes cash, at ten single 

 rises in all contests the first three days. The following is 

 the programme : — 



FIRST DAT. 



i— First prize $150; second f 



First Purse 3 

 $50; fifth $25. 



Second Purse 

 $50; fifth $25. 



35— First prize $175; second 



third $75; fourth 

 third $75; fourth 



SECOND DAT. 



First Purse $425— First prize $175; Becond $100; third $75; fourth 

 $50; fifth $25. 



Second Purse $450— First prize $200; second $100; third $75; fourth 

 $50; fifth $25. 



THIRD DAT. , 



»0— First prize $200; second $100; third $75; fourth 



First Purse $ 

 $50: fifth $25. 



second Purse I 

 $75; fifth $50. 



5— First prize ! 



second $150; third $100; fourth 



FOURTH DAT. 



Purse $975— Six best scores to win; 25 single rises at. 25 yards First 

 prize $225; second $200; third $175; fourth $150; fifth $125; sixth $100. 



Club shoot, 60 ouds each at 25 yards rise; open to teams of four men 

 from any organized club in the United States bringing certificates from 

 the secretary of the club that they were in good standing Mayl-t 1876 

 First prize— An elegant gold medal, worth $200, manufactured by Tiff- 

 any & Co., New York, and presented by John A. Nichols of Syiacuss, 

 N. Y. Clubs to pay $20 entrance fee, which will go to make up second 

 and third prizes; 60 per cent, for the second prize and 40 for the third. 



In addition a meerschaum pipe, presented by Mod and 

 Gun, will be given to the person making the highest score 

 in the shoot proper. 



Minnesota.— At the Trap and Field Club shoot, at 

 Minneapolis, on August 10th, the following excellent score 

 was made. The competition was for the club badge. 



Name. Total. I Name. Total 



Tin sley , 19 1 B r own ] 6 



^ va "S SJOjPoweil 19 



•Rand 16i Williams v) 



Langdon 17|Hoy 19 



Hoblitt 1 ... 19 



Keator 19 



Harvey lg 



Haley 1(j 



Camp , u 



EteKman if] 



Bracket* 13 



Noble ...15 



Bussell ! ... IS 



Rodman is 



Babcock 18 



In shooting off ties, Williams won the badge, making 

 five straight birds at 31 yards. 



—We have received from the St. Louis Shell Manufac- 

 turing Company two packages of their admirable iroods, 

 which our friends can examine at this office. Theseshells 

 are made of the hest material, and by the best machinery. 

 Tne manufacturers claim that in the use of the conical 

 base, a large saving is effected in the quantity of powder 

 required, and the recoil is consequently much lessened. 

 The .-hells are made of the standard size, and adapted to 

 all English and American guns of uniform bore, and are 

 warranted sure fire. The sizes made are No. 10, 2£ inches, 

 No. 12, 2f inches, central fire. Other lengths will be made 

 to order at extra cost.— See adv. 



Messrs. Eaton, Holberton & Co., have a supply ready for 

 sportsmen, who will do well to try the coming shell. 

 — — . — •+*+ — 



LETTER FROM GUYON. 



Corinth, Miss., August 14th, 1876. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



"The rain it raineth every day"— more or less, usually more, and it is 

 fearfully hot. In fact, tlie mercury is about to bod out at the top of the 

 tube. The damage to the cotton crop on account of the rain will be im- 

 mense, as it is said that all the white blooming on which the rain falls 

 come to naught. But, as tne farmers say, these rams will make the 

 corn, and sweet potatoes, aud sich "git up and hump themselves." 



The quail and tuikeys are too large to be hurt by the wet weather, 

 and every day brings cheering reports ©f the unusual numbers of these 

 birds. Ten days ago I flushed a bevy chat topped the cover and went 

 away with a whirr that made me feel good all over. There is not a 

 sound that can so thrill my senses with delight as the quick whirring 

 wings of sturdy, swift-flying Bob White. Several broods of tn.keys— 

 now as large as chickens— have been reared within from three to eight 

 miles f.om town. We will make it hot for them the first day the law is 

 off. Squirrels very scarce and wild, and a very little squirrel hunting 

 now will go a long way. with the mercury nearly up to "bilin'," and 

 plenty of "snaix" and woodticks. I went oat to a "clearing" the other 

 day, where report said squirrels were absolutely swarming, attracted by 

 the immense number of dead trtes which they were "barking." An 

 adolescent African, on being questioned concerning them, said: "Yes, 

 sar, dar is heap ov squirrels in dat nugroun', but I wouldn't go in dar, I 

 tell you." "Why not?" "Kattlesnakes," said he, laconically showing 

 the whites of his eyes. However, as my nether limbs were encased in a 

 pair of oil-tanned boots, the legs of which, on accoaut of repeated 

 wettings and dryings, were as hard and about as impervious as a section of 

 stovepipe, albeit I had no snake-bite antidote, and the nearest drug store 

 was eight miles off, I concluded to wade in. The grass was knee-high, 

 and as thick as the hair on a dog's back. I advanced with my eyes, like 

 the poet's, alternately gazing from earth to heaven, looking for "snakes 

 in the grass" and squirrels in the timber. Presently I saw oBe of the 

 latter and knocked him out, much to the delight of a couple of juvenile 

 ©uyons Who watched ine from a fence. A little further on I saw another 



and the Guyonian eye was Just about to glance along the fatal tubes, 

 when right under my feet, fizz, whiz, f-iz-zl Rattlesnake! 1 I will bet I 

 made the best standing backward jump on record. My tongue stuck to 

 the roof of my mouth, and each particular hair stood on end like quills 

 on the ^ack of a demented porcupine . I looked in the graBS expecting 

 to see the fierce eyes and forked tongue, open mouth and envenomed 

 fangs of a terrible rattlesnake, the deadly Crotalus horridus . Instead a 

 cicada— the dogday harvest fly— winged up, cleared the grass, and went 

 zizzaging away. If I could have got my gun up I should have sent a 

 charge of No. 7 after him, confound him, for giving me such a scare. I 

 had as soon be snake-bit as scared to death. Lifting Mr. Sciurus from 

 his elevated position, I returned to the fence, carefully following the ad- 

 monition "ste,» high, my brother." 



Wnen I reached my buggy the small nigger was still on the woodpile. 

 Seeming to take in the situation, he queried: "Snakes?" I did not 

 deign a reply, but hitching up old Hip we pulled out for a drug store. 

 W Moral— Don't hunt in high grass without a little snake-bite antidote 

 in case of accident. Gdyon. 



\m and Bivtr Mi 



FISH IN SEASON IN AUGUST. 



FRESH WATER. 



Trout, Salmo fonlmalis. 

 Salmon, Salmo solar. 

 Salmon Trout, Salmo confinis. 

 Land-locked Salmon, Salmo Gloveri. 

 Grayling, ThymaUus tricolor. 

 Black Bass, Micropterus salmoides; 



M. nigricans. 

 Mascalonge, Esox nobilior. 

 Pike or Pickerel, Esoxlvcius. 

 Yellow Perch, Ferca Jlavescens. 



SALT WATER. 



Sea Bass, Scicenops ocellatus. 

 Sheepshead, Archosargus probato- 



cephalus. 

 Striped Bass, Boccus lineatus. 

 White Perch, Morone americana. 

 Weakfish. Cynoscion regalis. 

 Bluefish, JPomatomus saltatrix. 

 Spanish Mackerel, Cybium macula' 



turn. 

 Cero. Cybium re-gale. 

 Bonito, Sardapelamys. 

 Kingfish, Meidicirrus nebulosus. 



For list of seasonable trout flies for August see our issue of July 27th. 



Fish in Market. —Fish of all kinds continue very scarce 

 and prices correspondingly advanced. Quotations give 

 striped bass as selling at 20 to 25 cents per pound; 

 bluefish, 12 to 15 cents; salmon, frozen, 50 cents, 

 green, 80 cents; mackerel, 15 to 25 cents each; weak- 

 fig 1l 15 cents per pound; white perch, 15 cents; Spanish 

 mackerel, 50 cents; green turtle, 15 cents; terrapin, 

 $12 per dozen; halibut, 18 cents per pound; haddock, 8 

 cents; king-fish, 25 cents; codfish, 10 cents; blackfish, 12 

 to^l5 cents; flounders 10 to 12 cents; porgies, 12 cents, sea 

 bass, 18 cents; eels, 18 cents; lousters, 10 cents; sheeps- 

 head, 25 cents; brook trout, $1; pompano, 25 cents; soft 

 clams, 30 to 60 cents per hundred; hard shell crabs, $3.50 

 per hundred ; soft crabs, 75 cents per dozen. 



-»Magog, Canada, at the head of Lake Memphremagog, 

 is reached by the Connecticut River and Passumpsic Rail- 

 roads to Newport, Vt., and thence by steamboat. It is one 

 of the few places where one can be perfectly comfortable 

 at a rate so low as to beget the feeling that the landlord is 

 the sufferer and the guest receiving more than his money's 

 worth. The Park Hotel, kept by Hubbard & Jemieson, 

 can comfortably accommodate 150 guests. It is pleasantly 

 situated near the lake, has broad verandahs to each story, 

 furnishes the best of food and the cleanest of linen at the 

 insignificant rate of $1 .25 per day, charges nothing for 

 sail or row boats, and in all respects fills the desideratum 

 so much sought for and seldom found. Last month we 

 saw the grouse sitting composedly upon the trees as we 

 drove by, and we are assured that they are so seldem dis- 

 turbed by sportsmen that they are abundant and tame. 

 Deer and bears are numerous, while lake trout and speckled 

 trout can be taken freely at the proper seasons. From the 

 top of Mount Orford, five miles distant, 23 lakes can 

 be counted, all of them containing fish. If any gentleman 

 wishes to take the most delightful portion of the year for his 

 vacation, we would recommend him to go to Magog about 

 the middle of September and remain until the middle of 

 October. We can guarantee him plenty of sport, as we 

 "know how it is ourselves." 



—The Westkampton (L. I.) Fishing Club had the good 

 luck to net at one haul last week 2,500 bluefish, which they 

 sold in the New York market at $1,500 net. 



— C. Parker, more familiarly known to the readers of 

 the Fobest and Stream as Dad Parker, while fishing at 

 the stone piles, Barnegat Inlet, on Saturday last, in com- 

 pany with Col. Evans of Holinsburg, Pa., accomplished 

 the unusual feat of landing two blackfish, both caught on 

 the one hook at the same time, and what is most extraor- 

 dinary both hooked in the mouth. One weighed £ and the 

 other 1£ pounds. The smaller fish had taken hold first, 

 and becoming fast, pushed the bait well up the shank of 

 the hook; the larger fish had evidently gone for it about 

 the time that Parker was reeliug in, and the hook being 

 well through the first fish's mouth, with point out, struck 

 the large fish on the under lip, and both were landed. 

 Have any of our piscatorial friends accomplished the same 

 feat? 



Fishing Movements— Sixty seven fishing arrrivals have 

 been reported the past week, 12 from the Banks, 2(5 from 

 Georges, and 25 from shore mackereling trips. The re- 

 ceipts of codfish have been about a million pounds from 

 the Banks, and 200,000 pounds from Georges. Receipts 

 of halibut 150,000 pounds. Mackerel receipts about 5 000 

 barrels. — Cape Ann Advertiser, Aug. 12tk. 



0< New Jersey.— Kinseys' Ashley House, Barnegat Inlet, 

 August I'dlh.— Owing to the bad weather we have had but 

 a lew days' fishing this week. Sheepshead have bit well 

 on the two days when the weather was suitable to try 

 them. On the 17th Capt. Wm. Predmore took 100 blue- 

 fish; C. F. Beck of Gardville, N. J., 15; Capt. Newberry, 

 23; J. Reeves, 36. Blackfish and sea bass are plenty. Wm 

 Bounce, 8 sheepshead; C. Curtis, Philadelphia, 11 sheeps- 

 head. j£ 



—Perch fishing at Betterton on the Delaware is now very 

 good. As a rule, three hours' fishing are quite sufficient 

 to take as many perch as a person desires. The best way 

 to reach Betterton is from the Baltimore Railroad depot, 



Broad street and Washington avenue. Trains leaves dailv 

 at 8:10 a. m., and in a few hours Still Pond, Kent Countv 

 Maryland, three and a half miles from Betterton, is reached 

 Parties who intend to visit the place by addressing a note 

 to James Crew, at Still Pond, will be promptly conveyed 

 to Betterton. Good board can be obtained at Mrs. Crew's 

 at moderate charges. — Qermantown Telegraph, lQth.' 



— The salmon fishing in the northwest Miramichi has 

 been very poor this season, the poorest for years. The 

 fishermen will lose heavily as they have been under We 

 expenses fitting out nets, etc., and have caught very few 

 salmon ; they have got up a petition asking for an exten- 

 sion of the time for fishing until the last day of August 

 the usual time being the 15th. The fishermen were unable 

 to set their nets before the 15th of June, the water being 

 so high they would have been swept ayvay. 



—The Rimouski and Metis rivers (Province of Que- 

 bec), which empty into the River St. Lawrence, have 

 yielded some fine salmon the past season, the weights 

 reaching as high as 37 pounds in exceptional cases. 



— A conespondent of the Boston Times has been fishino- 

 on Mount Kearsarge. He is an amateur, although he does 

 not confess it. "As soon as the current has swung the line 

 around you feel the telegraphic signal of a bite, which 

 always tingles the furthest nerves of the body, and makes 

 you forget for a moment your winged friends with sharp 

 bites, and up through the foaming water conies the fish, 

 his cream-colored side gleaming brightly in the dark room' 

 as it were, formed by the rocky sides and the canopy of 

 the trees over-reaching the pool, as he flashes through the 

 air and overhead to the bank above. There is a rustle 

 among the leaves, and the next instant, having willed 

 himself off the hook, he strikes the edge of the stream. 

 You suddenly turn, and your glasses tumble off into the 

 brook, your feet slip out from under you, and you mark 

 your length in the sloping bed of the stream, wetting the 

 right leg and right side of tke body, so that you are just 

 one-half wet and one-half dry. But still you grasp the 

 fish with both hands, and holding him hard, attempt to 

 rise. The fish, however, is slippery and muscular, and, 

 with the impetus of your motion, shoots out from your 

 hand as from the mouth of a mortar, and strikes with a 

 splash the center of the pool, hies himself away to his fa- 

 vorite haunt, wondering what was the matter with that 

 crazy worm, or whether he had been drinking, and no 

 mortal eye sees him more." 



H^Mhting midj§aattng. 



♦ — 



All communications trow* Secretaries and friends should be mailed m 

 later than Monday in each week. 



HIGH WATER. FOR THE WEEK. 



Date. 



Aug. 



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Boston. 



H. M. 



2 37 



20 

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New York. 



B. 



M. 



morn. 







5 







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1 



49 



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51 



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Charleston 



' H. V 



10 36 



11 20 

 eve. 7 



1 2 



2 4 



3 6 



4 4 



The Cruise op the New York Yacht Club .—The fleet 

 of yachts participating in the summer cruise of the above 

 Club, arrived at Martha's Vineyard on the evening of I he 

 19th inst., having left Newport on the same evening. The 

 vessels comprising the fleet were the Alarm, Dreadnaught, 

 Rambler, Wanderer, Madeleine, Estelle, Idler, Josephine, 

 Ueta, Foam, Vision, Arrow, Vindex and Windward, to- 

 gether with the America and Alice, whose owners de- 

 termined to try conclusions with the New l r ork yachts. 

 The Palmer and Restless remained in Newport. The 

 rendezvous was at Brenton's Reef Light Ship, the signal to 

 start being given from the flagship at 10:22 a. mi; The 

 wind was from the eastward in the morning, but through- 

 out the day was alternately calm and baffling. The Dread- 

 naught and the Idler had a good set-to, in which the former 

 was gaining the advantage, when a slant of the wind 

 favored the Idler. The Vindex and Arrow had a similar 

 match, in which the former was favored in the same way. 

 But the event of the day was the race between the Made- 

 leine and America, in which the latter received a fair aud 

 square beating on her best point of sailing, viz. : going to 

 windward in a sea-way. The Arrow anchored in Vineyard 

 Haven first, then the Idler, Madeleine, Dreadnaught and 

 America, in the order named, the rest of the fleet being at 

 anchor before nine o'clock. 



— A match race has been made between the yachts Green- 

 point and Susie S., to be sailed off City Island on Monday, 

 the 28th day of August, for $1,000 a side. The above 

 yachts are also willing to sail a sweepstake race at the same 

 time and over the same course, with all other yachts of the 

 same class, the entrance fee to be $250. Entries to close 

 at the office of John M. Sawyer, No. 85 South street, on or 

 before the 26th day of August, at three o'clock p. m. 



— B. F. Butler says he will sail his yacht, the America, 

 twenty-five miles to windward and return, starting from 

 Brenton's Reef in an eight knot breeze or upward, against 

 any yacht of her size, or larger, to equalize on time allow- 

 ance, according to the rules of the New York Yacht Club, 

 for a sum large enough to cover the expenses of the race. 



The Dory "Centennial" Safe Across.— That daring 

 navigator, Capt. Johnson, who undertook to cross the At- 

 lantic alone in a sloop-rigged dory, has accomplished the 

 feat, and arrived in Liverpool in good order on the 17th 

 instant, after a passage of 58 days. He was spoken sev- 

 eral times by passing steamers, but reported all well, and 

 retained his health and endurance to the last. His dory 

 capsized once, but he was able to right her and went on. 

 Many a minor adventure must have befallen him. 



Passaic Canoe Cltjb.— The canoes Delaware and Qui 

 Vive started on June 26th for the Centennial via Morris Canal 

 and Delaware River. At 8 p. m. on the 20th they met the ca- 

 noes Sarauac and Dragon, as previously appointed, at Mus- 

 conetcong on the Delaware, ten miles below Easton. From 

 this point the four canoes traveled in company, shooting 

 every .fall and rapid except Wells's Falls at Lambeitville, 

 where the Saranac, which did go over, was so roughly 

 handled that it took five hours to repair her. At 11 a. m. 

 on July 3d the canoes hauled up at the Quaker City boat- 

 house on the Schuylkill, where they were kindly received 

 by Mr. Samuel Gormsley and others of that club. On the 



