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FOREST AND STREAM. 



OTTERHOUND. 



Head 25 Back 10 



Neck 5 Loins 11) 



J-egs 10 Hind-quarters 15 



Feet 5 Stern 5 



Shoulders 10 Coat 5 



BOUGH TERRIER (Idstone). 



Head 15 Feet 5 



Neck 10 Loins 15 



Shoulders , 10 Color 10 



Chest ; 10 Tail 10 



Legs 5 Symmetry 10 



BLACK AND TAN TEKBIER. 



Color 15 Chest 5 



Coat 5 Shoulders 5 



Markings 20 Feet and legs 5 



Head ., 25 Loins 5 



Eye 5 Tail 5 



Neck 5 



YORKSHIRE BLUE TAN SILKX COATED TEREIEB. 



Good blue without tan 25 Ears 10 



Good tan 25 Symmetry (like the Scotch 



Length of coat 15 terrier) 15 



Silkyness 10 



SKYE TEBBIEB. 



Length of coat 15 Ears 10 



Texture 10 Length of body II) 



Color 20 Carriage of tail 10 



Head 10 Symmetry 15 



DANDIE DINMONT TEBBIEB, 



Head 15 Top-knot 



Ears 10 Symmetry 



Eyes 5 Feet and legs... 



Color 20 Carriage of tail. 



Coat 15 



BULL TEBBIEB. 



Head 25 Feet 5 



Neck 5 Legs..... 5 



Ears 5 Coat 5 



Chest 10 Color 5 



Shoulders 10 Symmetry 10 



Eoine , 10 Tail....." 5 



BULL DOG. 



25 Chest 5 



5 Body 5 



5 Stern 5 



5 Legs 10 



5 Feet 5 



5 Coat. 



10 



10 

 10 



Skull 



Stop 



Ears 



Eyes 



Face 



Chop 



Nostrils 5 Color'.'.'..".'.'.'..'.".'.'.....'.' 5 



Neck ; 5 



THE CHARLESTON (S. C.) BENCH 



SHOW. 



Charleston, Dec. 1G, 1877. 

 Editor Forest and Stream: 



Our poultry and dog exhibition closed yesterday, anil be- 

 low I give you a list of the dogs exhibited and those to whom 

 prizes were awarded. The exhibition of dogs was not as 

 large as we had hoped, but the collection was remarkably fine, 

 especially of setters and deerhounds. The imported Gordon 

 setter, Brown, entered and owned by our Governor, is a re- 

 markably handsome dog and well deserved the prize. The 

 deerhound, Jeff Davis, entered by Maj. J. C.Miaott, is a 

 superb specimen of a hound, aud the finest I have ever seen. 

 He is one of the fastest dog3 in lower Carolina, and is the 

 same dog that won the " prize collar " for pulling down the 

 stag at the stag-chase we had here a short time since. The 

 bitch Belle, entered by Maj. A. B. Rhett, is a perfect beauty, 

 and is also a very fast thing : 



J,™™ «P Setters— Judges-Col T Taylor, J J? Losene, E 

 Wehs, WO HiiiBon, Dr J L Ancrum. The entries were a. fol- 

 lows : Setter Dogp, F O S Lucas, Charleston ; W C Finl^r, 

 Columbia; A M Hume, Charleston ; W F Brittaiu, Athens, Ga ; 

 W«« Oh ! aiD ; Al ^ e, S- e G *i Gove ™° r Hampton. Columbia; M 

 Hfttg, Charleston ; E H Sparkman and G A Douglass, OharJ.Won 

 better Bitches-TS Ingles by, Summerville ; J O Minott, Summer- 

 vuie;(imp) L W Bicaise, Charleston; (Gordon) D W Amorv 

 Charleston. Betriever Dogs— J H Holmes, Charleston • J B John- 

 son Charleston. Pointer Dogs-T L Bissell, Charleston • Mr 

 Gunby Charleston; (Eng) Mrs Fleming, Charleston; (imp pup) 



SwVw^'^W"^'**** **#* P G'WcharUon; 

 (.Lug) MHaig, Charleston. Pointer BUches-B Boylston, Char- 



«5SH$r°T B lb r. 6S ' Cha, ' leston ; J C H Clauasen Charleston ; 

 (imp) W M Jones, Charleston ; (Eug) W Eobb, Gharfeeton. 

 TwI^S Doc ;S-J''d>'es 7 Biof F B Holmes, GA J A Yates, J 

 Henry Happoldt, Maj J C Minott and Robert Ellison, of VVina- 

 boro. The entries were as follows : Bloodhound and toastiir E 

 li Uoche, Charleston ; deerhound bitch, John C Minott, Summer- 

 ville; deerhound dog, John C Minott, Summerville pair fox- 

 hounds, Col T Taylor, Columbia; greyhound, C A 1L1I, Charles- 

 ton ; deerhound, B McGinnis, Charleston ; three foxhound.-. A B 

 Bhett, Chaileston ; deerhound, John C Minntt Summerville 

 ™°- T % E l HoGS-Judgea-Col J B E Sloan, Maj A Vanderhorst 

 Maj T B Hayne, W B Mure, G W Wragg. The entries were as 

 follows : Russian boar hound. Andrew Monet t, Charleston • Rus- 

 sian hoar pup, Andrew Mulfett, Charleston ; Irish st ag pup', M M 

 Jones, Charleston ; Skye terriers- ffm Gregg Jt CI ar , -m- 



EST*. S.lf h^S^S? *!, eSt0n ; buUd0 - J aWHlIms, Charles- 

 ton; bull bitch, M C O'Neill, Charleston; bull bitch, P McGinnis 

 Charleston ; pair coaoh dogs, Br W M Fitch, Charleston; pair 

 coach pups Br WM Fitcb, Charleston ; Newfoundland Do«a-J 

 H Uorton, Charleston; L D de Saussure, Charleston ; John E 



Stri.iv™ r" T 8 ^ D 'r? 6 ^, aadla ^ V UP ' J H 1Iorton . Charleston '; 

 Ho ml 'nf " } l Rolmm > Charleston ; spitz dog, George L 

 Holmes, Charleston ; pair black and tans. W S Defray, Charles- 

 ton ; bull and mastiff bitch, W S DeHav, Charleston ' 



imoorST i 7l mp ° rted d0 l S rank ' Dr " fl B Horlbeok, diploma j 

 imported bitch, no name, R Boylston, diploma. 



Hamntnn 8 7 T P ° rt6d £° rdo1 ! 8 " etlo »' do B , Broun, Governor Wade 



HT°nb P i°T ; llaUV f Mfct f Wtcb ' m - T S I"«M>i diploma 



ml - AmerielT Kll8 » lftn V°* r h0UDd - Kex, Mr A MoUett, dipln- 



Foyle, Mr O A Hill ^ ulplonia ' P ; sported greyhound, 



ma^a^X?Sn?ae? 0& M^- ffi^' TiJ 



ploma; black and tan terrier bitch, -- w S DeHav i lt'J a 



St. Lotus Dog Show. — The gentlemen in charge of this 

 great canine event are working with a will. Enthusiastic them- 

 selves.they have apparently endowed others with the same feel- 

 ing. The prizes of a special character are coming in rapidly. 

 Among them we may mention a Greener gun, presented by the 

 Simmons Hardware Company, and F. O. de Luze, agent for 

 Spratt's patent, London, gives a handsome silver cup valued 

 at $25 gold, for the best native English setter dog, open class. 

 The appointment of Mr. Lincoln as superintendent is an ex 

 cellent choice. It would be an admirable thing if the breed- 

 ers—those owning leading dogs— would gather at St. Louis, 

 and pit champion against champim. Here would he the 

 chance to determine who owned the champion dog of America, 

 We might suggest to Messrs. Raymond, Burges, Smith, Fos- 

 ter, Morford, Nesbitt ; to Messrs. Stoddard, Jarvis, and own- 

 ers of various and special breeds to exhibit their cracks. Mr. 

 John Davison will he present at St. Louis and act as one of 

 the judges. We hear of quite a number of toy aud fancy 

 dogs to be sent from New York and Philadelphia to St. Louis. 

 Just as soon as possible we will give full information as to 

 the proposed reduction of rates on the railroad. We are 

 only too glad to give this St. Louis exhibition, knowing the 

 high standing of the gentlemen who are to manage it, our ful- 

 lest support. We are quite satisfied that, as far as the officers 

 have to do with this bench show, it will be loyally and honor- 

 ably conducted. 



THE MASSACHUSETTS KENNEL CLUE. 



Boston, Dec. 17, 1877. 

 Editor Forest and Stream : 



The Massachusetts Kennel Club was organized Dec. 6, 1877," 

 and the following gem.lcrnen elected to office : Walter Cowing, 

 President; Ellerton Door, Vice-President ; John Fottler, Jr., 

 A 7 ice-President ; Timothy T. Sawyer, Treasurer, and Dr. 

 Edw. Poster, Secretary. We are indebted to James P. Cur- 

 tis, Edw. E. Hard3 r , Dr. Wilson Borland, Sainl. Rodman, 

 Sarhl. Hammond, Dr. Francis B. Greenough, Luther Adams, 

 Chas. E. Puller and several prominent New Bedford sports- 

 men, together with the officers, for the interest they have dis- 

 played in organizing this club. The first meeting after organ- 

 izing adjourned until Friday afternoon, Dec. 21st, when 

 the question of a bench show will come up for action. That 

 the club will give one is au assurance, aud probably in close 

 proximity with the Westminster exhibition, as many of the 

 best Western dogs will then be East, and it is hoped that 

 some of the English breeders, who may be in the country at 

 tint time, will be present with exhibits. The great difficulty 

 will be to procure a building suited to this purpose, a3 the 

 Tabernacle, which is well-adapted to it, is consecrated to re- 

 ligoua uses, and it will be hard to find another building of 

 sufficient size. As matters progress you may expect to heat 

 full particulars from HpB, 

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Tiik Westminster Kknnel Cluu.— The Westminster Ken- 

 nel Club last Saturday filed their articles of incorporation in 

 the County Clerk's office. It is stated that the objects of the 

 society are to collect, own, hire, sell, exhibit, board and train 

 dogs ; to build and establish kennels necessary for such pur- 

 poses ; to study and improve the breed of dogs, and to pro- 

 vide a club house where members may meet for lawful Sport- 

 ing purposes. The incorporators are: Le Grand B. Cannon, 

 Alexander 6. Webb, C. de Bris Wagstaff, William M. Tiles- 

 ton, Henry W. Webb, William A. Morgan, William Seward 

 Webb, George de Forrest Grant and Frederick K. Barnard. 



Dandie Dinmonts.— A correspondent writes us : "Dandie 

 Dinmonts are rare even in England. In this country good 

 dogs are very scarce. Col. George Post, of Basking Ridge, 

 N. J., is said to have as good dog3 of this rare breed as there 

 are anywhere, having them from English kennels, where they 

 are bred purely and are used for field purposes, such as badger 

 drawing, otter hunting (a most trying ordeal for the gatnest 

 dogs), and the general pursuit of varmints." 



A Pluokt Pox.— Our German contemporary, the Deutche 

 Jogdzeilung, tells of a brave reynard, and the narrator is the 

 Baroness Von Recum: — "Walking on my grounds near the 

 Argenthaler Forest, accompanied by my three greyhounds,- 1 

 had not gone far before I discerned in a piece of uncultivated 

 land a fox. I called the dogs, who immediately sprang at the 

 fox. Imagine my surprise when reynard stood his ground 

 and got the better of the dogs. The skirmish took about two 

 minutes, but the fox, refusing to show fight, after a while 

 broke, and the dogs went after him, though eventually rey- 

 nard made his escape. 



" Wno nxs Fotsd this Bob-Tailed Dog? — We must call 

 upon you again for a Black Dog, between a Greyhound and a 

 Spaniel, no white about him, only a streak in his Breast, aud 

 Tayl a little bobbed. It is His Majesties own Dog, and 

 doubtless was stolen, for the Dog was not born nor bred in 

 England, and would never forsake his Master. Whosoever 

 finds him may acquaint any at Whitehall, for the dog was 

 better known at Court than those who stole him. Will they 

 never leave robbing his majesty ? Must he not keep a clog ? 

 This dog's place (though better than some imagine; is the only 

 place which nobody offers to beg." 



Come, look for this dog, for he is a king's dog, and belongs 

 to bis Majesty, King Charles of England, and he went astray 

 in June, A. D., 1660. Alack ! That dog, no matter how 

 much Charles can offer us, will never turn up ! Still, this ad- 

 vertisement is worth looking at and remembering, for it wag 

 the very first of the " List aod Found." Advertising agents 

 ought to cut it out ; it might bring them luck. 



Dog astd Fox Cross.— A correspondent writes to the Live 

 Slock Journal and Fancier's Gazette: " In answer to your 

 correspondent's inquiry, 1 beg to state that there is no diffi- 

 culty in obtaining the dog and fox cross. It was a tame dog 



fox which warded my terrier bitch ; but I have seen no les3 

 than three colley bitches throw pups that were undoubtedly 

 half fox. Now, these cases must have occurred in the hills. 

 Your correspondent is surely, aware that when animals are in 1 

 season they are not at all particular, but I would strongly ad- 

 vise him not to have anything to do with such a cross, or they 

 may play him as bad a 'plisky' as they did me." 



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—Mr. E. ¥.. Hardy's dog pup Ranger, which took first 

 prize in native English setter pups at Philadelphia, lias been 

 sold to Mr. John Sartori, of Philadelphia. 



Visits.— Nov. 3, 1877.— Mr. J. C. Higgins, Delaware City, 

 pureLaverack setter bitch Petrel, to Mr. O. H. Raymond's 

 pure Laverack setter, Pride of the' Border, at Fox Farm, 

 Morris Plains, N. J. 



Dec. 1, 1877-— Mr. C. H. Raymond's, Fox Farm, Morris 

 Plains, K J., pureLaverack setter bitch Fairy, to Mr. J. C. 

 Biggins', Delaware City, Del, field trial setter Lincoln (Dan— 

 Lill II.). 



Dec. 4— The pure Laverack setter, Fairy II., the property 

 of Mr. W. H. Gumbes, Oaks Station, Montgomery Co., Pa.', 

 visited the pure Laverack stud dog Pride of the Border, 

 owned by Mr. C. H. Raymond, of Pox Farm, Morris Plains, 

 N.J. 



SPLIT BAMBOO RODS. 



To our customers and the public :— In reply to the damag- 

 ing reports which have been circulated respecting the quality of 

 our split bamboo rods, by "dealers" who are unable to com- 

 pete with us at our reduced prices, we have issued a circular 

 which -we shall be pleased to mail to any address, proving the . 

 falsity of their assertions. 



CONROY, BlSSETT & MALLESON, 



Manufacturers, 65 Fulton Street, N. T. 



h» and Stiver 



FISH IN SEASON IN DECEMBER. 



.^lack Bass, Mieropterua aalnwides; Yellow Perch, Perca /lave/wens. 



M. nigricans. Hea Bass, Ucicenops ocellatus. 



Pike or Pickerel, Esox hicius. White Perch, Morune amerieana. 



Fish in Market.— At Mr. Blackford's this week a smelt 

 of extraordinary size was exhibited. It measured 12} inches ! 

 in length, weighed half a pound, and was caught in Lake 

 Champlain. The bluefishing of the Virginia coast has been 

 disastrous this winter, and a good many thousands of dollars 

 have been sunk. The fish are in plenty some fifteen or twenty 

 miles out at sea, where they find food in abundance, but will 

 not approach the coast. The loss of this" fish to New York is 

 quite an item, since it is from the fall supply of the bluelish ! 

 that the stock in the refrigerators is supplied. Our quotations 

 are: Bass. 20 to 25 cents: smelts, 20; bluefish, 15; salmon, 

 frozen, 30; mackerel, 15 to 25 ; Southern shad, $1.50; white 

 perch, 15 cents ; Spanish mackerel, 35 ; green turtle, 18 ; 

 terrapin, $18; frost fish, 8 cents ; halibut, 18; haddock, 8; 

 codfish, 8 ; blackfish, 15 ; herring, 6 ; flounders, 12} ; eels, : 

 18 ; lobsters, 10 ; sheepshead, 25 ; scollops, per gallon, $1.1 

 soft clams, per 100, 30 to 60 cents; whitefish, 18 ; pickerel, 1 

 15 ; sunfish, 10 ; perch, 10 ; salmon trout, 18 ; black bass, 18; I 

 hard crabs, per 100, $3 ; soft crabs, per dozen, $1. 



Fisniso Movements.— There have been 14 arrivals of the I 

 fleet the past week— S from the Banks, 5 from Georges and 1 

 from the South, mackereling. The receipts have, been 182 - 

 000 lbs. halibut, -10,000 lbs. codfish, and 100 bbls. of mack- 

 erel. The continued presence oE the schools of fish ju3t off 

 the Cape, and the continued good weather seems providenti.il, 

 as the oldest among the fishermen cannot recollect of such an- 

 other instance, at this season, when the fish have proved so 

 large, so near in shore and so plentiful. — Cape Arm Advertiser 

 Dee. 14. 



Wisconsin— Menasha, Dec. 16.— 1 enclose clipping from 

 Ashland Press, account of killing moose on line of Wisconsin 

 Central Railroad. Another has since been killed in samg 

 Vicinity. Skin of first weighed sixty pounds. Fall shooting 

 here not very good. Ducks unusually shy. Deer plenty' 

 thirty miles to the West : 



Joseph Hasper, the Butternut bear hunter, has appeared in 

 a new role. On Friday last Mr. Edward Bums discovered a 

 moose just outside the door yard of the Butternut Hotel, and 

 as Mr. Moose disappeared before Ed. could get his gun, he 

 informed Mr. Harper, who immediately put himself on the 

 trail and made moose meat of the unfortunate visitor, after 

 following him about four miles. It was a female critter, aud 

 dressed over 750 pounds. Mr. Hart, our informant, says he 

 should judge that she stood near seven feet high. 



[This is an event in sporting annals worth chronicling It 

 is quite likely that Wisconsin affords even better sport of this 

 kind than Maine. The range of the moose is from Cape 

 Breton to Washington Territory.— En. F. and S.] 



Some Rkt.ics of Ancient Sport.— We have received 

 precious diminutive midge flies from Dr. T. Garlick, ot 

 which we shall ever preserve aud cherish by reason of their 

 associations. The venerable doctor, although afflicted aud 

 obliged to write reclining on a lounge, retains all his early en- 

 thusiasm for sport, as a reference to the following lines will 

 determine: 



Bedford, Ohio. 

 Charles Hallock: Dear Scr— T inclose two Irish midge fliee, 

 one of which has the credit of having landed a trout of two pounds and 

 0. half, less one ounce, by my Indian guide, George Puekquash, who 

 Uvea at the Sault Ste. Marie, the best bark-cinoeman and ay fl«her I 

 ever saw. The trout mentioned above was caugiit iu Garden River, 

 some eight or ten miles below the Sault Ste. Marie. George had on hia 

 casting line two ofthese little midge flies, and a larger one, the end 



