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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Jatstjabt 18, 1881. 



will mention that -we secured several fine old gobblers ■weigh- 

 ing fifteen to eigbteen pounds, and one extra large goose 

 weighing fourteen pounds. We were in a little flat-boat 

 fitted up especially for the trip, which is a pleiisant way of 

 going on a few weeks' hunt. The deer we found plentiful 

 at one lauding only. Turkeys in abundance at several land- 

 ings. Geese and ducks unusually scarce, they being further 

 South. ' T. S. M. 



Tolland CorNTX, Conn., Jan. 4. — The old year closed 

 here with very severe weather for all kinds of game. The 

 snow-storm of last Wednesday covered the feeding grounds 

 of OUT partridge and quail, which were quite plenty. The 

 several light storms since give us eight to ten inches of snow, 

 with no drifts, and therefore no bare spots for the birds to 

 feed upon. The thermometer ranged from zero to ^4 degi ees 

 below for the last three days of January ; and this, with the 

 difficulty of finding feed, will greatly diminish our number, 

 which was good up" to this severe weather, and bid fair for a 

 goodly number wintering. Had this been a favorable winter 

 for our game, shooting in this section next season would 

 have been excellent. Ducks were quite plenty for this local- 

 ity until the seveie weather of last week closed our streams. 

 Kabbita are very plenty. K. R. C. 



A Massaohbsetts Wild Cat. — The New Haven Times 

 tells a story of a man who went out rabbit shooting in the 

 woods and swamps of West Granville, Mass., and came 

 across a 221b. wild cat. He gave the cat both barrels to- 

 gether, loaded heavily with No. 6 .shot, and the charge 

 brought down both game and hunter. Lunny was knocked 

 down by the recoil, and the cat was riddled through the 

 breast, but it did not kill him, and Lunny rushed forward to 

 save what was left of his dog and clubbed the cat to death 

 with the breech of his gun. The dog, a fine hound, weigh- 

 ing twice as much as the cat, is so far disabled that he will 

 never hunt again. And all in a confidential interview of 

 three seconds with a Yankee wild cat ! 



New Jeksey Game. — Morristown, JV. J., Jan. 3. — 1 think 

 J. H. B., of New Bedford, N. J., hits the "Nail " square on 

 the head when he says the game in New Jersey is last dis- 

 appearing. I know some men near Morristown who would 

 as soon shoot a bird out of season as to shoot one in season. 

 A large number of birds are trapped near here, and so long 

 as the birds are trapped and shot out of season how can we 

 expect them to live ? I think if a close period be established 

 for two years we will have fine shooting in it. Yours truly, 



Wm. LlNDSLZT. 



MicmoAN — JSsnexville, Bay Oo., Dec. 37. — I find great 

 pleasure in reading your valuable journal Game not very 

 plenty as yet, but in a few years I think quail and rabbits 

 will be quite numerous. RuHed grouse are quite scarce, and 

 only a few are brought to bag. L. E. E , Jk. 



Bbtjik Rkdivivds. — -Western Massachusettsis excited over 

 the exploit of one of the oldest hunters in the State, who has 

 just shot four bears in the Hoosac Mountains. Bruin has 

 not been seen in that part of the country for many years. 



N. J. F. 



Live Desk Wanted. — ^A correspondent wishes to know 

 where he can purchase a number of deer — both bucks and 

 does. 



Tkb Stont Cekbk, Conn , fox hunters have killed over 

 thirty foxes this winter. 



The AuDtTBON Club of Buffalo are coming to Coney Island 

 next spring forty strong. 



Flobida— J/onJicfiZto. Dec. 31.— QuaU, snipe and ducks 

 abound. 



SHOOTING MATCHES. 



Philadelpbia, Jan. 3.— The followiug score was made by the 

 Philadelphia Jag'd Club on December 30 at pigeons for a gold 

 medal : 



Melzger. . 

 VoeTker. . 



MogH 



Mnencti.. 



Delt; 



irlile 



.110 11111 1— S 



.00101011 0— t 



.10 111 0-4 



.01110110 1—6 



.0 1. 1 1 1 0—4 



,10 110 1—4 



.10 10 110 1-5 



.111110 1 1— T 



,11001110 1—6 



.10 110 110 1—6 



.00001000 1—2 



.0 ft 1 1 1 1—4 



.1 1 1 I 1 1 1— T 



.0 0111110 0—5 



.10 1110 11 0—5 

 .10 10 11110—6 



.11110 111 0— r 



Bnmet. 

 Ma.yer . 

 Halner. . 

 Rady.... 

 Krum... 

 TesRor - 

 Genlnor 

 WUilng . 



The thermometer stood ten degreea below zero durmg the 

 match. 



DCEUQDE, Iowa, Dec. 30.— The last whoot of the year of the 

 JuUen Gun Club took place last Friday, and, notwithstandiug the 

 cold weather, a most enioyable time was had. The match was 

 shot on the Mississippi Eiver, and the boundary lines were marked 

 out on the Ice. We had a large tent erected, in which a good 

 stove was j)ut up and the bottom of tent laid with boards, and at 

 noon a lunch was served of Bandwiches, coffee, pickles, etc., 

 which, it is needless to say, was thoroughly enjoyed. Mr. J. N. 

 Bead won the medal for the second time in succession, and it is 

 now his individual property. Following is the score ; 2f yards, 5 

 birds each : 



s J rox 1 1 • *— 2 J. Haup 1 110 1—4 



y N Ee:id 1 1 1 1 1—5 C. Gregohe o i i o l— .? 



G Warptiam 10 1-2 H. van Vleck 1 110 1-4 



fwiUlams 10 10 1—3 D. E. Lyon. 10111-4 



W G C\« "■ .011' 0—2 W. Christy * 1 1 1—3 



w! Sodgers i oil l— * W. BIsseU. l l l • i— t 



Second match ; medal match ; 15 sfaigles at 21 yards rise ; tame 

 hu-ds: 



8 J cox., ItllllllOllll 0—12 



jls. Bead.... 

 G. Wareham. 

 J. Wffllams.. 

 ■W. Hodgers... 



T. Dolson 



J. Eaup 



C. Gregolre... 

 H. Van vieolc, 



D, E. Lyon.-.. 



W. Blssell 1 moiOlOlllOl 1—11 



F. Siont. 1 1110111101101 1—12 



C.N. Clai-k ., 1 loiliiioilioi 1— IS 



Tie on fourteen— 26 yards. 



J. N. Tteaa 1 1111-5 H. YanVleok 1 l 01 w 



Third match ; 83 entrance, including birds ; 10 single birda at 

 21 yards : 

 S. Cox 1 lOlOllll 1—8 



J. Reed i l i o i i i i i i— 9 



H. Van Vleck 1 i l 1 l l l 1 i 0—9 



W.COX 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1—9 



W.Christy 11110 111—7 



.T. Williams 1 11001101 0— T 



w. Blssell .......1 1110 11111—0 



J. Raup 1 1 1 1 : 1 1 l-s 



T. Dolson ;.,..] 1111111 1—9 



Ties on nine- 9(1 yards. 



Reed 1 1 1— s Dolson. i i i— 3 



Van Vleck l 1 0— 3 BIsseU. Ow 



W. Cox 1 1 1-3 



Second tie— si yards. 



Reed 1 1 1—8 Dolson. ....i 1 0—2 



W. Cox 111—3 



Third tie— 31 yards. 

 Reed 1 1 0—2 Cox 1 1 1—3 



Cox, first money, $11 : second money divided between Raup and 

 8. Cox. 



Fom'th match, 21 yards, $2'entranoe : 



S. Cox , 1 10 11-4 w. Blssell 1 10 1— a 



J. Seed 1 1 1 1 1—6 T. Dolson 1 001 l-S 



H. Van"\aeck 1111 1—5 G. Wareham 1 1 1 l— 4 



W. Cox. 1 111 1—5 C. Clark. 1 11 1 ]— 6 



C. Gregolre 1 1 1-3 J. Llitie 1 1 1 1 1—5 



J. William? 1 1 0—2 Munsell .0 111 i— 4 



.J. Raup 110 1—3 



Tlos on ave— 26 yards. 



lieed 1 1 1—3 Clark w 



van Vleck ...1 1 0-2 Little w 



W. Cox 1 1 1— S 



Second tie. 

 Reed , W.Cox..,.,,, 1 



W. Cox, first money, .?10 ; second money divided between S. Cox 

 and Munsell. 



Tifth match, 10 bkds, 21 yards, f 3 entrance : 

 S.Cox,-- 1 11111110 1—9 



D. 73. Henaersou 1111110011—8 



.T. Raup 1 llioioill— 8 



E. Munsell 1 11111111 1—10 



W.Cox 110 110 0—4 



H. vanAHeck 1 lioil 1011—8 



j.Little 1 111-1111] 1— 10 



Ties On ten- miss and out ; 26 yards. 



Munsell Little 1 



Little first money, S. Cox second. Jui,ie>-. 



Johnson vs. Tojio-v—ParkmUe, L. I., Jan 6.— Fmd, trap and 

 handle match, between Miles Johnson, of Sew Jersey, and Dr. B. 

 Talhot, of Sew York, for a20 a side, at 100 bu-ds each, from a single 

 ground trap, 21 yards rise, 80 yards boundary ; Long Island i-ules : 



Miles Johnson... .0 0110 10*11 11111 lllli lll'i 



11110 01110 11111 11111 11111 11111 11111 



11111 01011 01111 11101 100:1 lOlOt 11111 

 1 1 1 1 0. Total, too ; Mled, 81 ; missed, 19. 



Dr. B. Talhot " 110" -111' 11111 11110 1111 



110 0' 01111 01011 1101' 11111 111*0 11011 

 11011 11110 10111 11111 11111 11111 lolil 

 1 1 ' 1 0. Total, 100 ; killed. 16 ; missed, 24. 



Judge for M. Johnson, Mr. D. Green ; for Dr. Talbot, Dr. W. 

 Wynn. Referee, Mr. J. De Fraine. Time of shoot, 3h. 15m. 



YiscENTOiYN, N. J., Jan. 3.— The Coaxen Glass BaU Club held 

 then- monthly shoot here to-day for silver badge. Card's trap, 

 18 yards rise, lU balls : 



F S Hllliai-d 9 W. S. HllUard 9 



capt. W. D. Uames 8 J.W.Haines _« 



Joe Haines 9 



Ties shot off at 3 balls: 



W.S. HllUard..., Ill 111 «11 111 111-14 



-Joe Haines m 111 110 ill 101—13 



F. S. HllUard 1 11 110 10 withdrew. 



Snow three feet deep on level. SraaLDBiKE. 



PoHT EicHJiosD, Staten Island, Jan. 9.— The HoKday Gim Club 

 of this place was organized Jan. 1, 1881, with the following 

 named officers and members : J. A. Pearce, President ; Gustave 

 Sprenger, Vice-President ; J. H. Butler, Secretary : E. C. Lisk, 

 Treisurer ; B. MuUin, B. Brown, E. Cruser. At the first regular 

 shoot of the chib on Monday, Jan. 3, the foUowing scores were 

 made, glass balls, single trap, 18 yds. 1 



G. Springer iilllllioiool 1—11 



J \. Pearce 1 01011111010010—9 



E. C. Lisk 11111111110 111 1—14 



E Cruser 010010000000 1— B 



J.Butler. 1011010111110 1—10 



The Washiugton Gun Club, of Brooklyn, have leased the Eidge- 

 wood Park for the term of four years for the pm-pose of holding 

 their shoots there, and have also erected a club house on the 

 groimds. The park is to be surrounded by a high board fence and 

 all outside shooting will be strictly prohibited. 



PAi/nn-BA, X'. T., Jan. 4.— A match took place here on the above 

 date between Cannon, of Newark, N. J., and J. A. Oyster, of Camp 

 HUl, Pa., at ten birds shigle at 31 yards rise, and five pairs double 

 bu-ds, 21 yards rise, which resulted aa follows : 31 yai'ds — Cannon, 

 6; Oyster, 6. 21 yards— Cannon, 6 ; Oyster, 7. J. L. K. 



Captain Booabdu.s says that he wUl accept the challenge of Dr. 

 Carver to shoot ICO birds each, 30 yards rise, 5 traps, imder the 

 EngUsh rules, for 82,500 a side. Now that both men are for once 

 agreed on the conditions let them come together, and may the 

 best man win. 



.11111111111011 1—14 

 .11001110110011 1-10 

 .10101111100111 1—11 

 ,10110111111111 0—12 

 .11111111110010 1—12 

 .0 1111011111110 1—12 

 .11111111001001 1—11 

 .11011111111111 1—14 

 .11111101111110 0— IS 



names to us within that time, that they may have a voice in 

 electing the committee. 



Our readers are invited to bring this matter to the atten- 

 tion of others who are interested in the breed but who do not 

 read the Foebst and Stkeam— if there are any such. 



PiTTSBUBGH Doo Show.— The entries for this show, as no- 

 ticed, closed on the 6th inst., and during the few days before 

 the closing of the books Superintendent Lincoln had all ho 

 could attend to. The entries came in far beyond the expec- 

 tation of the promoters of the show, and instead of having 

 one hundred and fifty, as calculated on, about double that 

 number have been booked. Mr. Lincoln, in writing us, states 

 that for number and quality of entries of sporting and non- 

 sporting dogs the show will rank fairly with any show held 

 in the country. The Baltimore Kennal Club has made seven 

 or eight entries, Mr. A. H. Jloore, of Philadelphia, thirty, 

 and many other celebrated kennels will be represented. Mr. 

 Lewis M. Rutherfurd, of this city, has entered Ms famous 

 fox terriers and expects to attend the show. In addition to 

 Major J. M. Taylor, who will judge the sporting classes, we 

 are bappy to state that Dr. L. H. TwaddeU, of West Phila- 

 delphia, has consented to judge the spaniels, hounds, fox- 

 terriers and aU non-sporting dogs. 



New Tobk Show. — Li all probability this show wUl take 

 place on or about the first of May, at Madison Square Garden. 

 It will be impossible to secure the Garden before that date, 

 and by that time the building will have been put ia repair 

 and thoroughly tested. 



LARCENY OF A DOG. 



GoooHLASD, Va., Dec. 38. 



THIS matter has been discussed in several numbers 

 of FoEEST AXD Stkeam. In your issue of Decem- 

 ber 16, page 391, is a communication from "Rifle," 

 in which he substantially concludes that dog stealing 

 is punishable as other larceny by the common law of 

 England. In this, '-Rifle," although apparently a subject of 

 the Queen, is mistaken. It wsis well settled at common law 

 that while on the one hand a dog is such property as that its 

 owner may maintain a civil action for the unlawful conver- 

 sion, destruction, or injury thereof by another person, it is 

 not such property as to be the subject of larcen}^. But by 

 Statute 10, Geo. III., C. 18, very high pecuniary penalties, 

 or a long imprisonment, or whipping in their stead, may be 

 inflicted on such aa steal, or knowingly harbor a stolen dog, 

 or have in their custody the skin of a dog that has lieon 

 stolen. This statute was altered, but nol materially, by an- 

 other passed during the reign of George IV. The" common 

 law distinction in regard to the nature of this subject stiU 

 prevails in this State, with this exception, to wit, that any 

 person who desires so to do can have his dog li.sted for taxa- 

 tion, and upon so doing and paying the tax of one dollar for 

 the first, and fifty cents for each additional dog, such dogs 

 are to be considered as other personal propertj', and the 

 stealing thereof is declared to be peUt larceny, ptmishable as 

 a misdemeanor. Index. 



Study Hop Bitt«r8 Book, i 

 healthy and happy. 



3 the medicine and you will be 1 



THE COCKER CLUB. 



SO far as membership i8 concerned, the Cocker Club is 

 already an assured success. We have received directly 

 and through Mr. Macdougall more than forty names of those 

 who signify their desire to join the club. The list will be 

 kept open for receiving names two weeks longer, or until 

 Jan. 37, when we will close it and call for the votes for the 

 committee of seven who will undertake the formation of the 

 club. 



AU owners and breeders of cockers, and all others who are 

 in any way nterettei 1 the breed, are urged to send their 



A LETTER FROM MR. McKOON. 



Fhaitklin, Del. Co., N. Y., Jan. 10, 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



I have noticed your public refusal to publish my letter, ad- 

 dressed to all breeders and interested ones in the cocker con- 

 iroversy, also your stunning steps and terrible remarks in re- 

 lation to the position taken by myself, as agent for or voice 

 of others or most of our highest esteemed breeders. Al- 

 though I think tbey were directed against me too personally, 

 and had much preferred tostethe whole private letter wiihout 

 change rather than in parts, etc., I will not try to defend 

 myself in the least in relation to I hem or the posi- 

 tion I wished to take in the matter, but let others decide that 

 as may occur to suit themselves. But I hasten to sav that 

 wherever my great zeal and deep interest for my brothers 

 and our favorite breed may have caused me to err in the 

 matter, or ray enthusiasm caused me to see things in a wrong 

 light, 1 wish to make immediately all apologies, and ask as 

 many pardons as seems to be due from one. For knowing 

 as you do my enthusiasm, when any one is liable to err con- 

 scientiously, you will grant the pardons and acecpt the 

 apologies, 1 hope and believe. 



I desire al-o to fay that as matters stand at present I be- 

 lieve it best for all directly interested to join the list for the 

 suegested club. You may therefore add my name to that 

 list. There has been suggested the formation of another 

 Cocker Club, comprising the principal public and private 

 breeders of this strain and those interested and in opposition 

 to the New Vork club, to compete with the New York club. 

 But this step I have heartily discouraged, and with such 

 success that the idea is now dropped I believe. With Fobkst 

 ASD Stkeam to get Ihe club into eatisfactory form for all con- 

 nected, the objections some seem to have will now be removed. 

 Now, as we are oeitainly to have a Cocker Club, one club is 

 enough, and all public and private breeders of this strain 

 should join it, and work with it and not leave it for a few to 

 monopolize to suit their own views, but all work for the 

 good of the breed, and breed to the standard, as near as is 

 consistent with field qualities, health, intelligence and beauty. 

 M. P, MoKooN. 



Dttok'b Winnings.— Dr. William JarWs, of Claremont, N. 

 H., has kindly called our attention to an error wluch appeared 

 in our notice of Wenzel's Chief in a recent issue and we has- 

 ten to make correction. The notice stated that Duck, among 

 other winnings, secured the special for best Irish setter bitch 

 at St. Louis, 1879, when in fact the prize went to Dr. Jarvis' 

 Rose. The following letter from ilr. John Fottler, Jr.. ex- 

 plains how the mistake occurred: 



Boston, Mass., Jan. 10. 

 Editor Forest and Stream : 



Thanks for calling my attention to the error. I di(' not 

 enter Duck in special class for best Irish bitch, St. Louis, 

 1879, and Dr. Jarvis' Rose was the winner in that class. I 



