FOREST AND STREAM. 



m 



The last regular event was a military team match, open 

 to teams of eight men, seven shots each off-hand at 200 

 and 300 yards. Only two teams contested, with the fol- 

 lowing result: — 



PRESCOTT POST TEAM. 



200 

 Names. Yds. 



Gray 27 



Collins 26 



Nichols 26 



Butts 19 



Boffier ^3 



Bent 25 



Gifford 23 



Sweet 27 



300 

 Yds. Total. 



22 



49 



18 



44 



21 



47 



10 



29 



22 



45 



19 



44 



13 



36 



11 



3^ 



SLOCTJM GIT ABB TEAM. 



200 

 Names. Yds. 



Stringer. 29 



Williams 23 



McSoley 24 



P.M. Forsyth .... 20 

 S- 3 r2t. Forsyth. ..25 



Hallett 23 



Barry 28 



lioberts 16 



300 

 Yds. Total. 



17 

 19 

 21 

 16 

 17 

 23 

 19 

 15 



46 

 4.2 

 45 

 36 

 42 

 46 

 47 

 31 



Team total 332 Team total 289 



The meeting, on the whole, was a success. 



The State Match. — To-day a very interesting match 

 will be contested — that is if the conditions are faithfully 

 carried out — a long-range match to be shot by teams of 

 eight men in Louisiana, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode 

 Island, Connecticut, Wisconsin, New York, and perhaps 

 one or two other States. The credit of originating this 

 match rests with the Crescent City Rifle Club, of New 

 Orleans, who threw out the challenge to all Glubs in the 

 United States. Not that we think tint such contests are 

 always to be taken as indicating superior skill in the 

 winners, for the conditions of atmosphere may be most 

 favorable to one team and quite the contrary to another. 

 Still they should be encouraged as being beneficial in pro- 

 moting emulation as well as goodfeliowship among rifle- 

 men. The clubs which will participate are as follows: 

 Crescent City Rifle Club, New Orleans, La.; Amateur 

 Club, Piovidenee, R. 1, ; Amateur Rifle Club Rochester, N. 

 Y. ; Dearborn Rifle Club, Chicago; Burlington Rifle Club, 

 Burlington, Vt. ; Ogdensburg Rifle Club, Ogdensburgh, N. 

 Y. ; Connecticut Rifle Association, Hartford, Conn., Leath- 

 erstocking Rifle Club, Goshen, N. Y. ; Milwaukee Rifle 

 CJub, Milwaukee, Wis.; Worcester Sportsman's Club, 

 Worcester, Mass. ; and the Amateur Rifle Club of this city. 

 The teams of the latter club will be selected from the fol- 

 lowing riflemen: R. Rathbone, Isaac L. Allen, L. Weber, 

 Lieut. Col. VV. 13. Farwell, Major H. S. Jewell, C. E. Bly- 

 deuburgh, E. H. Sanford, A. Anderson, Frank Hyde, L. 

 Geiger, and Major Henry Fulton. The conditions of the 

 match will be 15 shots each at 800, 900 and 1,000 yards. 

 The match will begin at 10 a. in., and the result be known 

 by telegraph in the evening. 



Yonkers Rifle Association. — At the annual meeting 

 of this association, held last week, the following officers 

 were elected for the ensuing year: G. L. Morse, President; 

 Matt H Ellis, Vice-President; William B. Edgar, Treas- 

 urer; Hyatt L. Garrison, Secretary; Douglas Smyth, Range 

 Superintendent; A. H. Jocelyn, M. K. Couzeus, Hugh 

 Hughes, and H. J. Quinn Directors. The bylaws were so 

 amended that by paying the annual dues, $3, a person may 

 become a full member wiihout paying an initiation fee. 

 Two matches have been arranged for the fall shooting 

 which will take place on Tuesdays, and a team match for 

 off hand shooting at 200 yards between members living 

 north and south of Ashburton avenue will probably take 

 place this mouth. 



Glen Drake.— To day is a special match day of the 

 American Rifle Association. Two matches, one open to 

 to all residents of Westchester, and the other to allcomers, 

 both at 500 yards, will be shot. There will also be pool 

 shooting. The other match days of this association are 

 Thursday, October 19th, when the De Peyster badge will 

 be shot for; Saturday, October 21st, and Thursday, Oc- 

 tober 20th. The matciu s are open to all comers, and at 

 distances varying from 20U to 500 yards. Glen Drake is 

 reached by the K, Y. N. H. and H. R. R. to Pelhaniville. 



California.— The fall meeting of the California Rifle 

 Association commences on the 2'6d instant. Among the 

 matches to be shot arc the Military Short Range, Kellogg 

 Challenge Cup Match, and others. The assoeiaiion pre- 

 sents a silver challenge trophy of the value of $350, the 

 city of San Francisco gives a $500 trophy, and Messrs. 

 Remington & Sous have presented a Creedmoor rifle to be 

 shot for. 



— The annual meeting of the Empire State Rifle Asso- 

 ciation will be held at Syracuse, N. Y., on the 17th, 18th 

 and 19th insts. A general invitation is extended to all 

 who take an interest in rifle shooting, and any person can 

 become a member of the association by the payment of 

 five dollars on the grounds. 



The Filed Sights —The quarrel between the Forty- 

 eighth regiment of Oswego and the National Rifle Asi>ocia 

 tion still rmains in an unsettled and unsatisfactory condition. 

 It will be remembered that at the recent fall meeting at 

 Creedmoor the prize, which had been won by the team of 

 this regiment, was witheld and awarded to the next score 

 on the grouud that the sights on the rifles used by the Os- 

 wego team had been filed, contrary to the rules of the N. 

 R. A. As the same of the rifles submitted to Col. Wingate 

 for examination at the time certainly had been so tiled, it 

 was impossible to do otherwise than to "shut out" the team, 

 and the same rifles were examined by a number of other 

 gentlemen and pronounced by all to have had their rear 

 sights filed. But now the members of the team, having 

 arrived home, make affidavit that their sights had not been 

 lampered with, and Mr. Hepburn of the Remington works 

 also makes an affidavit that the sights had not been changed 

 since the guns left the works. The question now is 

 whether the guns submitted to Mr. Hepburn were the same 

 as those examined by the Executive Committee of the N. 

 R. A. 



The "Yate's Dragoons," of Syracuse, prize winners at 

 Creedmoor, also have an explanation to make to clear 

 themselves of the accusation of having men on their team 

 not entitled to the position While the protest against 

 them was withdrawn on the solemn assertion of their com- 

 mandant that the men had been members of the troop since 

 last June, it now appears, on application to the Adjutant 

 General's office at Albany, that the men objected to are not 

 on the roll of the Yate's Dragoons. 



Rifle Notes. — The Oswego papers are indignant over 

 the loss of the prize in the recent Slate match. The Times, 

 in noticing its arrival at Auburn— it having been awarded 

 to the 49ih Regiment team — speaks of it as "the cup our 



boys were swindled out of." The dates of the Sixth 



Division (Syracuse) Rifle Association have been fixed for 

 the 24th and 25th of the present month, and seven differ- 

 ent competitions authorized, including tne Directors' 

 Match, a short range, Duncan badge, Division, officers, 

 military, and long range matches. Prizes to the amount 



of $350 will be offered, and the prospect is good for a fine 



shoot The regular yearly rifle tournament at Conlin's 



gallery, No 930 Broadway, commenced on Tuesday even- 

 ing. All riflemen are invited to participate. . . .The range 

 at Creedmoor will be open to the National Guard the pres- 

 ent month without charge Major Leech has been voted 



a new badge as an honorary director of the National Rifle 

 Association The number of entries at the late fall meet- 

 ing of the National Rifle Association excee led those of all 



former meetings A "running deer" prize, of the value 



of $50, will hereafter be offered at Creedmoor. 



lew §juhlicntwn8. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



— We have just received from the author, Wm. H, Gib- 

 eon, "The Complete American Trapper, or the Tricks of Trapping." 

 It is a book which has long been needed, seems singularly good, and will 

 merit a more extended notice hereafter. 



♦•♦ ■ 



MAGAZINES. 



In the October issue of the Galaxy Mr. Gideon Welles 

 contributes another installment of hie political, or rather historical 

 notes, referring, in the present, to Mr. Lincoln's nomination and elec- 

 tion. Mr. Welies's official position as Secretary of the Navy under 

 Mr. Lincoln enables him to speak wiih authority upon many points of 

 great interest bearing upon a momentous epoch in our national history. 

 As a companion picture we have a continuation of the lamented Custer's 

 "War Memories," embracing a portion of the movement* of the Army 

 of the Potomac while under McClelian. Mr. Wm. Black's serial story 

 "Madcap Violet," is continued and the heroine makes a most unaccount- 

 able move. Mr. Frederick Whitiaker's article on "The Kindergarten," 

 is one of the most valuable of the number, embracing as it does a sketch 

 of this popular mode of education for children. The other papers are 

 up to the usual high standard of the Galaxy. 



AppJetori's Journal contains an unusual amount of valua- 

 ble and estertaining reading matter. Mr. Julian Hawthorne, whose 

 popularity just now is being vigorously assailed, contributes another of 

 his interesting papers on "Out of London." "A day at Dutch Flat," by 

 A. F. Webster, gives a capital idea of California hydraulic mining. A 

 new setial with the remaikable tittle "As He comes up the Stair," by 

 the author of "Comiu' thro' the Rye," is commenced and the other 

 serials, "Avice Gray," is concluded, and Mr Pawn's V Fallen Fortunes" 

 reaches the seventeenth chapter. The illustrated article is "Old Time 

 France," by Geo. M. Towle, in which is depicted thefoliies and luxuries 

 of the court of Louis XIV. There are a number of other interesting 

 papers by well-known writers. 



The Atlantic for October opens with a con- 

 tinuation of Gen. O. O. Howard's description of the bat- 

 tles about Atlanta previous to its capture, detailing the 

 first fight with Hood after he had succeeded Gen. Joe John- 

 ston in command of the Confederate forces. What struck us most 

 forcibly in reading this paper was the singular chances of life which had 

 placed these rften who were, as we might say, echool boys together, in 

 such antagonism, and the conference of Union Generals to discuss their 

 former West Point companion, and upon the knowledge of nis character 

 there, basing their \ievvs as to his supposed tactics in battle. In "The 

 Thort-dale Telegraphs" au anonymous writer gives us a very pretty but 

 highly improbable story of the adventures of a pair of romantic tele- 

 graph operators. Mr. Charles Dudley Warner tells us of the "Neigh- 

 borhoods of Jerusalem" in which we see more of Moslem squalor than 

 enthusiastic travelers like Mr. Prime are apt to show us. "George 

 Sand" is dissected and discussed by Mr. Thos. Sergeant Perry, and Mr. 

 Dickens through the medium of "Oliver Twist" is served on the same 

 platter by Mr. Edwin P. Whipple. Mr. John Fiske, Assistant Librarian 

 at Harvard, in a very interesting piper, shows us the detail of. labor 

 in a great library; the careful cataloguing of the books and the neces- 

 sity of thorough work. There are a number of other interesting papers 

 and a continuation of Mr. Heury Jarvis, Jr.'s serial, "The Amer- 

 ican." 



In Scribnefs for October we g ive the place of honor 



to Mr. Wilkinson's very interesting and capitally illustrated article on 

 "Salmon rishing," a full review of which appeared, editorially, in our 

 la-t issue. There are so many excellent papjrs in this issue of Scribner' , 8 

 that it is hard to discriminate. From title page to finis the contents are 

 readable. The tone of all is lively and cheerful. "That Lasso' Low- 

 rie's." the first of ihe serial tales, grows in interest as it proceeds, and 

 the same may be said of Mr. Hale's "Philip Nolan's Friends," m which 

 we look anxiously for a denouement. Mr. George E. Waring, Jr., the 

 "farmer" who recently took sucn a cl arming "vacation abroad" con- 

 tinues his trip in a Mosel row-boat under the title of "The Bride of the 

 Khine " The illustrations to this article are capial. The other con- 

 tributors are writers well known in connection with the literature of the 

 day, such as Mary Mapes Dodge, Donald G. Mitchell, and Richard 

 Henry Stoddard; but our supply of adj ctives is exhausted, and we can 

 only commend the whole table of contents as well selected. 



There is lots of fun as well as instruction for the young 

 folks in Messrs. Scribner's other popular monthly, St. Nicholas. As 

 usual the table of contents occupies nearly an entire page, and, to use a 

 bull, we recognize mauv new names among the contributors, as well as 

 some more familiar. Mr. Noah Brooks's story, "The Boy Emigrants," 

 is concluded, and we see the boys whom we have followed through so 

 many adven - ures at la-t homeward bound with their hard-earned for- 

 tunes. Iu December we are promised a story by Mr. Trowbridge, the 

 popular author of "The Young Surveyor," lately concluded, St. Nich- 

 olas is profusely illustrated with well executed engravings. 



* 



Jfio Notice Taken of Anonymous Communications. 



S. F. T., New York.-- Please give us your address, and we will answer 

 your question by mail. 



G. A F.. Canandaigua —What is the close season for salmon tront in 

 New York? In 18(4 it was Oct. 1st to Mar. 1st. Has it been changed 

 since that date? Ans. The law remains unchanged. 



C. M. S., Kockford, 111.— The bird whose feathers you send was the 

 cedar or cherry-bird (Ampelis cedrorum), which is not uncommon in all 

 the northern States. 



Breech Loader. Ponghkeepsie.— Please inform me if, where, and 

 on what terms I can hire a No. 8 breech-loader for a fortnight's use? 

 Ans. You can hire guhs from H. C. Squires, gun dealer. No 1 Court- 

 landt street. The terms will depend upon the value of the gun. 



E. C M., New York —Will you please inform me through yon paper 

 where there is good hunting around New York, say within three hours 

 ride, and what kind, and also inform me if there is any shooting worth 

 going for in Fairview, N. J., and what kind? When game laws expire? 

 Ans. See advertisement of E. S. W in our paper, or address A. J. 

 Huyler, Tenafly, N J. In N J. about the only game you can shoot be- 

 fore November 1st is woodcock. 



H. C. M., Jefferson City, Mo.— Will yon please tell me how many 

 kinds of wild ducks can be kept as our domestic ducks; and if there is 

 any convienenr way in whicu they can be taken alive without injuring 

 tnem for keeping as ornamental fowl?? Ans. We have heard of. ttie 



mallard, the wood duck, the green-winged teal, the muecovy, and, we 

 believe, the widgeon, being kept, but cannot now refer to records. We 

 know no better way to capture them than by netting. We should be 

 glad to hear of your success. 



E. W., Brooklyn.— What sort of shooting may be expected in the 

 vicinity of Denver, Col., as I intend going there shortly and would like 

 to know how to prepare myself? Also what - *libre rifle is adapted to 

 deer shooting? Ans. You will find in Colorado wild turkey, elk, deer, 

 antelope, bear and mountain sheep. The close season for prairie chick- 

 ens commences November 1st, but yon will find some ducks and geese. 

 Take a 44 calibre rifle. 



Scud, New Brunswick.— 1. Will you please give me the address of ft 

 reliable dealer in spaniels in Chicago, 111.? 2. Also the proper dose of 

 areca nut? I have the areca nu£ but do not know the proper dose. Ans. 



1. John H. Whitman has a good strain of water spaniels. 2. For a full" 

 grown dog, setter size, give 20 grains of the powdered nut at a dose, 

 every two hours, and four hours after giving the third dose, give one 

 ounce castor oil. 



John, Hornellsville, N. Y.— A mushroom was found here that measur- 

 ed 7£ inches across the top and weighed over nine ounces. Wa3 it not a 

 large one? and do they grow as large? i should litce to know the the best 

 way to cook them? Ans. An extraordinary mushroom, surely, but about 

 Omaha they grow to the size of the crown of a hat. Such a mushroom 

 might be aimplj peeled and broiled with seasoning, or peeled, put into 

 a skillet with little water and plenty of butter (or cream), a single clove 

 of garlic (or a slice of onion), salt and pepper, and stewed and poured 

 out over toast. 



E. H. G., Brooklyn.— -Please inform me the best plan for keeping a 

 body of salt water in an aquarium, say five or six gallons, in af esh con- 

 dition for the best health of its finny occupants for a length of time be- 

 fore being changed. Please stnte witn plan the length of time? Ans. 

 In an issue of July 6th will be found full di ection for a salt water 

 aquarium. The water is kept pure by plants, such as the common sea 

 lettuce and others, which supply the requisite oxygen. When properly 

 cared for the water will remain pure for all time, it only being necessary 

 occasionally to put in a small quantity of fresh water to supply the loss . 

 by evaporation. 



W. A. W.. Providence, E. I,— Can you give me any information in 

 regard to making greenheart trout rods. What is greenheart wool, 

 where does it come from,and in making rods of it is it used tor the whole 

 rod, or for only certain parts? Can you give me any information as to 

 where I could get some, and what would be the probable cost? Ans. 

 Greenheart is a wood found principally in Surinam, but usua ly import- 

 ed into this country via Liverpool. It is used to manufacture all the 

 joints of a rod. You can procure it in the rough through any of the 

 city fishing tackle dealers advertising in our paper. We do not know 

 the cost. 



J. McG., Humboldt, Pa.— I want your advice in regard to the proper 

 treatment for my dog Dash. Last season I could hardly restrain him, 

 when after game, but now he cannot be induced to range by any means 

 that I have tried. He goes on a miserable jog trot, a few feet ahead of 

 the gun, without showing a desire to hunt. He had the mange very 

 badly but is well enough now, seemingly. His pediaree is lost but I 

 think he is not more than five or six years old and is by Horace Smitu's 

 Dash, out of JohD H. Po veil's Lou? Ans. A. dog five or six years old ia 

 just in his prime and should do good work, but perhaps yoirs is older 

 than you think, or has been pampered with food aud become too fat to 

 work. If the latter is the case the only way is to run the fat off by com- 

 pelling him to follow when you drive out, and give him less food. 



Cliff, 3altlmore.— 1. A friend of mine has a very valuable fox hound 

 about nine years old; some nine or ten months since he noticed a soie 

 upon one of his ears and supposing that he had cut it with briars, ap- 

 plied the usual remedies, with no results. Since that time the sore has 

 continued to grow larger, or rather to eat farther in, as it has now eaten 

 a hole large enough to place a silver half dollar in without touching the 

 sides. The dog appears to be in good condition and runs we 1. Can 

 anything be done for it, for if it continues he will soon have no ear left. 



2. I have a Better 19 months old. Is it too old to dock part of his tail? 

 Ans. 1. Disolve 20 erains of bine vitriol in 2 oz. water; apply the eola- 

 tion twice a day for two days, after which, anoint the part with simple 

 cerate until healed. If the dot: shakes his bead and ears, as most doga 

 Ao, under such circumstance*, you must make a canker cip for him. 

 "Dinks Mayhew and Hutchinson," page 423 2. If a setter's tail re- 

 quires docking to improve his appearance, it can be done at any age, hut 

 it should be done by one having skill m such matters, else the dog may 

 be diefigured instead of being improved in appearance. 



G. C, Highland, Ulster Co., N Y.— Will you please tell me: 1. Are 

 the names "pilot" and "copperhead" different names for the same ser- 

 pent, or are there two species of reptiles known by these names? 3. 

 How many species of adder are to be found in this locality? 3 Is the 

 Labrador jumping mouse found in this State, and by what characteristics 

 can it be recognized? Ans. 1. The "pilot" we understand to be the 

 Alleghany black snake (Coluber allighaniensis) ; the "copperhead" is the 

 Agkisto odon contortnx,— a very difl> rent snake. Whether those names 

 apply as given above in your region you must determine for yourself. 2. 

 We do not know of any serpent properly called an adder occurring in 

 your district, unless It might be he water adder (Nerodia niger) 3. It 

 is. It's systematic name is Jaculus hudtordus; it is about 2$ inches 

 long, with the tail often twice that length,. usually having at the tips a 

 pencil of long hairs. The body is dark-brown above, yellowish-brown 

 on the sides, and white, or at times iusty-white, on the under surface; 

 the fore-legs are small, but the hmd- legs are very long and muscular, 

 by which it is able to make prodigious leips— 8 or 10 feet. Itiislibt 

 very prolific and no where numerous, but is spread over the northern 

 United States generally. 



E. K., Ottawa.— I have a clumber spaniel that had the disiemper this 

 fall. I followed Dr. Webb's treatment, and the dog seems well now. 

 save that his muscles are constantly twitching and jerking. How shall 

 I treat him? Ans. Your dog probably has chorea, or St. Vitus's dance, 

 a nervous disorder proceeding sometimes from constitutional causes, but 

 more frequently from some, perhaps long-forgotten, blow on 'he head 

 or spinal column; it appears in several forms, local, general, constant, 

 or intermittent, and exhibits itself in many ways, a-s an involuntary 

 jerking or twitching of the limbs and muscles, or a sadden loss of pow- 

 er and temporary paralysis when making extra exertion; if. is seldom re- 

 ally cured, for though the symptoms maybe ameliorated, a slight de- 

 rangement of the digestive organs, or other falling off from health, will 

 almost invariably cause a return of the complaint. The proper treat- 

 ment is to regulate the bowels, and this will be done readily and effectu- 

 ally by the hepatic balls, though we doubt if a severe case of chorea is 

 often cured. Tne food must be of a nourishing and easily digestible 

 nature, and the tonic balls must be persevered with for one month. If 

 no improvement is manifest one of the following pills may be given 

 twice a day as a last resource, care being taken that tbey are not left 

 about, as they contain a powerful poison: Strychuife, gr. j.; Quinise di- 

 sulph; pulv. acacias, aa gr. xii.; ext. hyoscyami, gr. xlviij; feni sulph, 

 gr. xxiv.; make into 21 pills. Exercise and fresh air are very et sen tial 

 for the successful treatment of this complaint 



Distinguished and Merged Honor.— The norod Kccheeter firm, 

 W. S. Kimball & Co., carried off the very highest honors at the Centen- 

 nial on their cis-play of mabutacturtd lot ^cci f— Yanitj lair tn ckii s.% 

 Peerless chewing tobacco and cigarettes. While all worthy exhibitors 

 received the uniform bronze medal, Kimball & Co. received in tdoUion 

 the Diploma of Honor and what is j cfcnovhcged the 1 igtttt p col of 

 merit, the Judges' Special Bepurf, an honor it w ieci ive. No f.oid mi dais 

 are given at the Centennial, else this film woula 1 a\e ►ecnitd it in tltir 

 department. These three honors, theielore — the Giai.d Mtdal ii Meiii, 

 the Diploma of Honor, and the Judges' ?p< cial Kept it, added to tliil? 

 honors at Vienna, are a iccorcl £fj \"~ v^ozd &'. j , ; 



