FOREST AND STREAM, 
2773 
Maine — Weld, Oct■ 31st.—The protracted -warm 
■weather will make the trapping season late. This is a 
rough, hilly country, just suited for foxes; but a thor¬ 
ough inspection shows little sign, I am told that flock- 
masters have put out poison of late years, the foxes were 
so destructive of lambs. If so, it will account for the 
scarcity. Minks and rats are fairly plenty, but the ground 
for them is thoroughly worked by local trappers. Gun¬ 
ning is poor—partridges, the principal game, being un¬ 
usually scarce this year. The streams are now full of 
trout going up to spawn, showing the effects of total pro¬ 
hibition of fishing the past five year’s—the same expiring, 
if not renewed, Jan. 1st. 1880, ' Warfield. 
New Hampshire— Peterboro', Oct. 25th, —Game, I 
should think, was quite plenty here, including partridges 
and woodcock. The latter, of course, are not very abund¬ 
ant. A party arrived here on Thursday with thirty-six 
partridges, nine woodcock and a hare. I drove twenty- 
two miles into the country, and saw nine partridges on 
the road. Squirrels are very scarce now. B, V. EL 
Deck-Shooting. —New Haven, Conn., Oct. 20th —The 
Branford and New Haven Glass-Ball teams have twice 
during the summer shot matches at glass balls. The 
New Haven team scored more broken balls at both 
matches than the Branford team did, Oct. 11th the New 
Haven Club received a challenge from the Branford Club 
to shoot a match at wild ducks in Branford waters on 
Oct 18th. The New Haven Club accepted. There were 
to be ten men on a side—one New Haven boat and one 
Branford boat, and so on through the line, and only one 
line. They were to have met on Clam Island at 5.30 a.m. 
next morning, but the New Haven team was not able to 
get there until (I A.M., owing to a late breakfast at the 
hotel. The boats did not all get into line until about 8.30 
o’clock, 
There was a very heavy sea running, owing to a south¬ 
east wind, all night, and the sea increased until about 1 
p.ir., when the boats one by one commenced to pull 
up anchor and come in. At about 2 all the boats had left 
the line, several boats had shipped a large quantity of 
water, and preferred the land. Several old seamen were 
seasick, owing to the rough water. Taking into account 
that three or four men were not let loose to pick up 
their dead birds in the last part of the shoot, there were 
219 ducks brought into the dock by the New Haven men 
as follows : — 
C. E. Langden, 1?; Wm. Hansem, 21; T. J. Beers, 17 ; 
R. "Walker, 8 ; Waterhouse and Folsom, 29 ; Howard and 
Merwin, 27 ; J. F. Jorey, 11; A. J. Thompson, 25 ; Henry 
Thompson, 25 ; R. Armstrong, 13 ; W. Fulton, 21. Total, 
219. The New Haven team was very much pleased with 
their trip, and feel under many obligations to the Secre¬ 
tary and Captain of the Branford team. C. 
As we have no account of the Branford team’s score, 
we presume our New Haven friends would have us give 
their competitors the benefit of the doubt, and so we pre¬ 
sume the Branford men came in ahead. 
Massachusetts — Spencer, Oct. loth. — The annual 
hunt and supper of the Sportsmen’s Club occurred 
here to-day. At a very early hour in the morning the 
two parties, chosen respectively by Frank N. Prouty 
and E. M, Bliss, started for ” the woods and fields, 
and “the slaughter of the innocents” was kept 
up till the hour of rendezvous at G. A. R. Hall in 
the evening. The following was the result: 11 
partridges, 1 snipe, 6 bluejays, 12 blackbirds, 1 coon, 2 
rabbits, 19 grey squirrels and 9 red squirrels. A. Putnam 
bagged four partridges, F. N. Prouty a crow, and L. M. 
French a snipe. The following is the soore of counts as 
made by either side: 
p. n. rnoDTY’s side. 
F. N. Prouty. 105 
A. Putnam. 200 
L. M. French. 115 
E. O. Snow.. 75 
E. Wood. 180 
E. W. Bari'. 30 
F. Watson.. . 50 
W. A. Barr. 30 
E. M, mass’ SIDE. 
H. Brewer. 
D, C. Luther. 
E. P. Cutler. 
II. B. Clark. 
Geo. P. Clark,. 
W. E. Burton . . 
Jos. Sikes. 
IV. A. Barr. 
30 
Total. 785 Total 
After the count had been made and the result an¬ 
nounced the members of the club with their families, in 
all about 100 persons, sat down to one of the finest sup¬ 
pers it has been our good fortune to see spread in 
Spencer. 
Spencer, Oct. 24th .—The following officers have been 
chosen by the Sportsman's Club for the ensuing year :— 
President, John Boyden; Vice-President, E. P. Cutler; 
Secretary and Treasurer, A. W. Curtis ; Executive Com¬ 
mittee, James Holmes, H. Brewer, and L. M. French, 
Ten new members have been added to the club. 
New York — Eldred, Oct. 2d. —Deer-hunting com¬ 
menced here last week; three were killed in this 
town and one large bear. Deer are in fair numbers. 
Partridges are in the thickets and swamps, and appear to 
be hard to get at. Some woodcock have appeared within 
the last few days, and rabbifs are plenty. Bradley. 
f HorneUsville, Oct. 20th .—For two months hardly any 
shocking done. The best bag lately was Burt Elliott’s— 
seven woodcock and two ruffed grouse in one afternoon, 
John, 
Railroad Men on a Vacation. —Editor Forest and 
Stream ;—A party of twelve, composed principally of high 
officials of the popular Lehigh Valley Railroad, during the 
recent warm weather spent a week among the Thousand 
Islands of the St. Lawrence for rest and recreation. A 
large and comfortable establishment on one of the islands, 
belonging to two or three of the party, furnished a place 
for rest; a large steam yacht and numerous rowboats of 
the most improved model, piloted and propelled by the 
best fishermen on the river, gave every opportunity to be 
desired m the way of locomotion. Every boat was fully 
equipped with improved fishing tackle, and each sports¬ 
man was provided with a good double-barrelled shot gun 
or Winchester rifle. The table was kept well supplied 
with the best fish in which the river abounds, and wild 
duck, of which there were a few flocks feeding in the 
bays and inlets. Although the ducks were in consider¬ 
able numbers they were very shy, and it was with great 
difficulty that they could be approached. Owing to the 
very smoky condition of the atmosphere decoys seemed 
to fail to draw as well as usual, and the sportsmen de¬ 
pended mostly on long and difficult shots to bring down 
their game. It was here that the long-range shot cart¬ 
ridges recently invented and manufactured by Messrs. H, 
Schleber & Co., of Rochester, N. Y., were almost indis¬ 
pensable, as more than half the birds shot were brought 
down by those cartridges, and at over fifty yards range 
some very remarkable shots having been made, bringing 
down birds at a distance of from seventy-five to one hun- 
dren yards when they were flying at a high rate of speed, 
and many birds were secured that it would be hopeless to 
try for with the ordinary charge. The weather during the 
whole week was almost perfect, only one windy day oc¬ 
curring to interfere with the fishing and shooting. The 
party returned to their labors much invigorated and 
pleased with their sojourn among the “ Thousand Isles.” 
Sportsman. 
Notes from Virginia. —This year lias more fully dem¬ 
onstrated even than usual the futility of counting on 
much sport with the quail before Nov. 1st. The forests 
still wear their summer dress. Scarcely a leaf has begun 
to change color, and the thermometer has been hovering 
between 85 and 90 degrees in the shade for a month. Y'our 
correspondent, a victim to the force of habit, sallied forth 
on the morning of the 15th, with three other guns and 
four dogs, who were capable of doing all that .dogs could 
do; but after trying for six well-known coveys, etc., and 
finding none of them at home, we slunk back, with a 
strong suspicion that we had made fools of ourselves. 
My old pointer was the only one of the party who showed 
any judgment, absolutely refusing to move from heel, 
and gazing on the exertions of liis kennel companions 
with the most sublime contempt. All parties that I heard 
of attempting to Blioot on that day met with the same 
luck. We have had two glass-hall contests that have oc¬ 
casioned some excitement in the sporting circle of the 
county, between teams of six English gentlemen and six 
Virginian ditto. In the first match the latter were the 
victors ; in the second the Britishers turned the tables on 
their opponents, winning after an exciting finish by three 
balls. The matches were shot in the presence of large 
numbers of invited guests, and were a great success in 
every way, being the first contests of the kind ever held 
here. ‘ Ringwood. 
Charlemont, Oct. 21st. 
Ohio — Youngstown, Oct. 10th .—Quail were never more 
plentiful here than they are at present; yet, owing to a 
law passed at the last session of the Legislature, all law- 
abiding sportsmen are debared from shooting quail until 
after November 15th, 1880. In the meantime the pot¬ 
hunters and market shooters will rejoice at the prospect 
of having such an abundant harvest of birds all to them¬ 
selves. R. Burnett, B. Miller and J. Miller bagged twelve 
ruffed grouse and one woodcock in two days' shooting, 
October 11th and 15th. D. Stambaugh and B. Miller suc¬ 
ceeded in bagging eighteen woodcock, one ruffed grouse, 
and six pigeons on October 11th. Rabbits and grey 
squirrels are very scarce. Wild pigeons can be found in 
com fields in the morning when they come to feed ; they 
are very wild and difficult to approach. A few ducks 
made their appearance on the river the other day, and 
were so warmly received by the sportsmen along the 
banks, that they concluded their summer quarters were 
good enough for them and returned to them with all the 
speed possible. Buckeye Boy. 
Indiana — Indianapolis, Oct. 22d .—The promise is good 
for quail shooting. The law has been well observed. 
Squirrels are abundant in the beech and hickory flats. 
J. H. 
Jefferson, Oct. 25th .—Hunting has been very poor. A 
few’partridge bagged. The law on quail has stopped 
the shooting of them, but we expect to have enough bet¬ 
ter a year from this time to pay us for our present loss. 
Shack of all kinds are plenty, and it may call in the 
squirrels. 
Illinois— Maroa, Oct. 20th— On Sept. 29th was or¬ 
ganized the Maroa Shooting Club for the purpose of pro¬ 
tecting game and the encouragement of legitimate shoot¬ 
ing. Officers : E. J. Underhill, Pres.; J. H, Roberts, Sec. 
Michigan— Detroit, Oct. 10th.—A. C. Hobbs, of 
Bridgeport, Conn., passed through this city yesterday on 
liis return home from a week’s shoot at St. Clair Flats. 
He had very good success, averaging about twenty-five 
ducks per day. Some were very fine—more than fine, 
as your correspondent can certify to, as the kind old soul 
sent him a trio of fine ones. A. H. Moore and George 
Fox, of Philadelphia, Penn., and that prince of good 
fellows, Ed, Gillman, of this city, were out fora hunt Oct. 
16th, bagging twenty-seven quail, five woodcock and one 
snipe. 
Tennessee — Savannah, Oct. 16th .—Our shooting sea¬ 
son has opened with plenty of quail; but, owing to the 
unsually hot weather, few have been bagged. The birds 
feed only in the early morning and late afternoon, pass¬ 
ing the rest of the day in the cane and the briar thickets, 
from which it is impossible to shoot them. After the 
frost has killed the weeds, fine sport may be had. 
WILL. 
The Danger of Picking a Cartridge— Port Jervis, 
Oct. 25th .—The infant child of Mrs. N. P. Cady, of this 
village, took to its mother on Sunday morning a cartridge 
and asked to have the copper cap taken off for a top to 
her lead pencil. The mother, taking the child in her lap, 
began picking out the fulminating powder with a pin. 
An explosion followed, and the mother’s fingers were 
blown off, and the three children who stood by her were 
more or less injured, including the one in her lap. All 
are doing well. The fingers of Mrs. Cady’s right hand 
had to be amputated, and pieces of copper were taken 
from the arms and neck of the little ones. 
[From the Kansas City Daily Times, Oct. SWft.J 
“A noticeable feature of this tournament and of other 
State tournaments held in late years, is the unfailing reg¬ 
ularity with which the Parker Gun bears away the em¬ 
blems of success and other prizes, It is known as a hard 
shooting and effective gun. The judgment and private 
opinion of gentlemen shooting to win is surely entitled 
to some consideration, and is pronounced by them in the 
use of the Parker Gun. Tn the inaugural shoot this gun 
won the entire four prizes, and has gained a place in 
every match time far shot, When such is the case the 
entire credit cannot and should not be given to the shoot¬ 
er, and some quality must be ascribed to the gun itself 
that renders its execution more perfect and more deadly,” 
—[Adv. 
THE NEW JE RSEY TO URNAMENT. 
The New Jersey State Sportsmen’s Association’s first an¬ 
nual meeting opened on Monday evening at the rooms of 
the Jersey City Heights Gun Club. The attendance was 
good, and in fact more than could be expected for a first 
meeting. The clubs represented were active and in every 
respect anxious to secure a favorable termination of the 
meeting and tournament. Mr. George B. Eaton, the Pres¬ 
ident, and the Secretary did all in their power for har¬ 
mony, and the meeting passed off most pleasantly. The 
amount of business transacted was purely in relation to 
the necessities of State game protection, and other¬ 
wise relating to the State shoot. The shooting began on 
Tuesday morning with contest No. 1, which was open to 
all amateurs—$5 and the birds ; first prize, §100 ; second, 
§75 ; third, §50 ; fourth, §25. Following is the score — 
FIRST SQUAD. 
Broadway. 1 111110111—9 
Martin ...,H0 ill 0 1 11-8 
Dustmi... 0 111111111—9 
Wilson,, ,,1 11111111 1-10 
J. Brown.. 1 10 0 111111—8 
Edwards.. .0 111.111111— 0 
Cassel_11111111 11—10 
Cannon. ..0 010101111—6 
Clark. ...1111101111-9 
Sewell_ 1 110011011—7 
THIRD SQUAD. 
Templet’n.l 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1-0 
Shaw. 0 11011000 0-4 
Fowler.... 1 11000111 1-7 
Hunter....! 010110111—7 
Selover... .1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 l 1— 9 
Powell . 1 110111111-9 
Hill. 1 101011111—8 
Outwater.. 1 111110111-9 
Hance .. 1011110111—8 
Cadmus ...1111111111—10 
FIFTH SQUAD. 
Campbell. .1 011111111—9 
Waif.11. 1111110 1— 9 
Shunt. 0 011011111-7 
Lewis. 0 10 1011111—7 
Waune ...0 111111111-0 
L’mbe'ts’n.l 1 1 1 I 1 l 1 1 1—10 
Burdette..1110111011—8 
V on Len- 
serke... .1 1 1 1 1 1 .1.1 1 >-10 
SECOND SQUAD. 
Hawes ....00100111 1 1— H 
Townsend .1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1-10 
Robinson..0 101410111—7 
Madison... 1 11111111 1-10 
Smith.1 11111111 1-10 
Burroug’a.l 110111111-0 
Seigler... .0 101011011-8 
A. Hawes..1 11111111 1-10 
Bass.0 011110 111—7 
Caldron ...1101111101—8 
FOURTH SQUAD. 
Beyliss ....111111111 1-10 
Garrison ..HOlOllill- 8 
Walker....1 111111101—9 
Be Witt.. .0 110 111111-8 
Halshizcr.-O 011111110-7 
Carti’Igbt.-l U 01111011— 7 
Wingort. ..1 111111011—9 
Beatty.1 110 111011—8 
Wise.1 11111110 1-9 
GUdersI’ve 111111110 0—8 
SIXTH SQUAD. 
Boling.0 0 110 11110—0 
Frances,1111111111-10 
Collins_1 0 10 110 111—7 
Oaragus... 1 10 11 10 111—8 
Haight... 0 111111111—9 
Orr.1 111011 10 0— 7 
Salmon....1 1 1 1 1 1 1 l 1 1—10 
Colten.0 011111111— 3 
__ „ _ , , , _"Phffadel- 
WTlms.0 111101111—81 phitt” — 1111010 111—8 
Pearson ...llllll 1 011- 9 1 Harvey. ...1111111011-9 
SEVENTH SQUAD. 
Perry.111111111 1—10 I Tyson. .0011110110—8 
Leroy.1 11111111 1—10 I Wood.1 11111110 1-9 
Ties on 10 :— 
20 Yds. 31 yds. I 20 1'ds. 31 Yds. 
Wilson,..Ill 0 —3 Bayllss.110 -2 
Castle.Ill 0 —3 Lambertson.Ill 111—0 
Townsend.1 11 111—6 Von Lengorlte. 0 0 —0 
Madison.Ill 0 —3 Frances.Ill 0 —3 
Smith.....0 —0 Salmon.0 —0 
A. Hawes.t 1 0 —3 1 Perry.Ill 0 —8 
Cadmus.Ill 0 — 3j Leroy,....0 —0 
Messrs. Townsend a,nd 1 .ambertsou divided first money. 
Ties on 9 :— 
28 yds. 31 yds. 
26 yds. 31yds. 
Broadway.1 11 10 0—4 
Dustin—.....Oil —2 
Edwards. .10 — 1 
Clark.ill 11 0-6 
Burroughs.0 10 —1 
Selover.10 1 —3 
Powell.0 1 1 -2 
Outwater.1 11 11 0—5 
Walker.0 1 1 -3 
Pearson won second. 
Tics on 8 
30 yds. 31 yds. 
Martin.. .1 0 —1 
Wingert.Oil 
Wise.Ill 
Campbell. ,10 1 
Walt.Ill 
Warme.0 1 1 
Pearson.Ill 
Haight.1 1 1 
Harvey.11 0 
Woods.10 1 
1 0 
—2 
—4 
—2 
Bro 
28 yds. 41 yds. 
Gildersleeve_1 1 1 10—4 
Burdette .110 -2 
Wilms.110 —2 
Garages.0 — t 
Colton. 11 1 
“ Philadelphia”.! 0 
Hanso . 1 0 
1 1 1-6 
—2 Cartnght... . .1 0 
- 2 | Straut..Ill 
1 1 0—5 Lewis. ...110 
—0 Collins.Ill 
—2 Orr. ...00 0 
31 yds. 
1 1 0^5 
1 1 0—5 
Colvin.1 0 1 -2 
Hill.Ill 0 —3 
Garrison.,10 —1 
De Witt.011 —2 
Beatty..10 -1 
Colton won third. 
Ties on 7 
26 yds. 31 yds. 
Jewell.110 
Robinson.110 
Bass.Ill 
Fowler.0 
Hunter.110 
Hulsliizer .0 —u | 
Bass, Cartright and Collins divided fourth. 
Shoot No. 2.—Open to members of State Association; 
10 single rises, 21 yards. First Prize, an extra fine breech- 
loading shot gun, donated by Parker Bros., Meridan, 
Connecticut; value, §125. Second prize, a split bamboo 
salmon rod, 17 ft. 8 in. long; weight, 32 ozs.; German 
silver mountings, solid reel plate, etc.; donated by Boston 
Split Bamboo Fishing Rod Co., and 2,000 Winchester 
shells, donated by Winchester Repeating Arms Co.; value 
together, §75. Third prize, an extra fine sole leather gun 
case, donated by Thomson & Son’s, sportsmen’s goods, 301 
Broadway, and 4 kegs Hazard powder, donated by Hazard 
Powder Co. : 88 Wall street; value together, §50. 
Fourth prize, thirty cans Dittmar diamond grain powder, 
donated by Dittmar Powder Co., 24 Park Place ; value, 
§25, There were 32 entries :— 
SECOND SQUAD. 
B. Payne..0111111011-8 
C. Leroy.1010101110—6 
Cannon.1110011001- 6 
Huntingdon..0 000110011 — + 
Duston.1111011110-8 
Frances.1111101111— o 
Hughes.0111110 Oil— 7 
Heritage.110 0J1 I 111— a 
_... , i , , n , ,, i , -i V 
FIBST SQUAD. 
Eaton.0011 111100- 6 
W. Payne.11 1 111 0 111— 8 
Wood . ,..,0111011 101— 7 
Talman.101 1111111—9 
Fowler.10010100w - 3 
Cole.0101111101—7 
Walton.1111111001— 8 
Powers.1 101111 110 - 8 
Von Leugerkel 111111101—9 
Anderson.1110010110—8 
THIRD SQUAD. 
Seigler.11 lOllllll— 9 I Burdette.001 HOOw — 3 
Wilms.1111011110—8 Collins.1111111101—9 
Geiger.1111111111—10 Daniels.1111011101—8 
Pearson.lOOlllOOw — 4 I Connoers.0101111011— 7 
Leambertson..0111111111—91 Cadmus.1111110011— S 
Haight.1011111111— 9 | Thomson.1111011101—8 
Geiger winning first prize with ten straight;— 
Ties on 9, for second ; 26 yards 
W. Payne.11 11 0 
Talrnau.11110 
VonLengerke.l 0 
Frances.0 
Ties on 8, for third :— 
26 yds. 31 yds. 
Walton. .0 00 -0 
Powers.Ill 011101 
010 — 8 
Duston., -0 — 0 
Heritage.110 —3 
Ties on 7, for fourth 
26 yds. 
Wood.o 
Cole.Ill 
, i 36 yds. 81 yds. 
— 4 | Selglov.11110 -4 
— 4 | Lambertson. ...llllll 10 —7 
- II Haight.....Ill 111111—9 
- 0 I OolUns.111111110—s 
26 yds. 31 yds. 
Newton..110 —3 
Wilms.110 -s 
Cadmus.111011101 
000 — T 
Thomson.0 —0 
26 yds. 
— 0 Hughes. 
— 31 Conners. 110 
