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show a success— which it certainly will be— it will be in great 

 part clue to the untiring exertions of the secretary, Jno. W. 

 Munson, Esq. 



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St. Louis Bench Show. —Mr. Lincoln, Superintendent of 

 the Show, writes as follows: "The Rink, where the show is 

 to be held, is admirably adapted for a bench show, as it is on 

 the ground floor, with good ■ventilation, and ample space out- 

 side for dogs to have a good run. The dogs will all be pro- 

 vided with good, roomy stalls, made from clean-dressed lum- 

 ber. Straw bedding will be used. The members of the as- 

 sociation are all enthusiastic over the show, and, what is 

 better, good, practical workers. Dogs sent by express with- 

 out their owners will receive the best of care and attention, as 

 special attendants will be allotted to them, overlooked by one 

 of the members. A. registry book will be kept, so that dogs 

 sent will be exercised twice during the day and properly fed 

 and watered. The Scott rifle, presented by "Wm Read & 

 Sons, will be given to the 'best couple of fox hounds.' The 

 prize lists and forms of entry are now ready. Entries will 

 ■close on the 5th of February." 



Judges at tub St. Loins Bench Show. — Dr. Davidson 

 will act as judge for pointers and setters, Col. Skinner for 

 hounds and Dr. Twaddell for spaniels, Chesapeake Bay dogs 

 and non-sporting dogs. We shall be glad to distribute the 

 forms of entry, which may be had on application at the office 

 of the Forest and Stbeam and Hod and Gun. Entries will 

 positively close February 5. 



— We beg to acknowledge receipt of the printed list of pre- 

 miums and classification of dogs at the St. Louis Bench Show. 

 There are ninety-two classes for dogs and eighteen divisions 

 for sportsmen's goods. 



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Massachusetts Kennel Club.— This club will hold its 

 first regular bench show at Boston on March 26, 27, 28 and 

 29. Mi". Charles Lincoln will act as superintendent. The 

 following gentlemen will form the Exhibition Committee : 

 Messrs. F. B. Greenough, J. N. Borland, J. F. Curtis, S. W. 

 Rodman, Luther Adams, J. Fottler, Jr., T. S. Sawyer, Jr. 

 The exhibition will take place in the building formerly used 

 as the AquaTial Gardens, Theatre Comique, etc., and latterly 

 by Jordan, Marsh & Co. for their wholesale warehouse and 

 store. It contains four floors, each having as much floor 

 space as Music Hall. One floor will be used for sporting dogs, 

 another for non-sporting dogs, and the third for an exhibition 

 of sporting goods and pictures. Entries will be $2 ; exhibi- 

 tors free. Admission, 50 cents ; season tickets, $2. The 

 . prize list is now being printed in pamphlet form and will be 

 very complete. Many of the prizes will be cups, the rest in 

 gold coin. Very many special prizes have already been of- 

 fered by sportsmen and dealers of the city. Mr. John David- 

 son, of Monroe, Mich., will act as judge of the sporting 

 classes. Arrangements have been made with railway express 

 companies to take dogs at reduced rates. 



FOX HUNTING EN REGLE. 



Richmond, Vb., Jan. 9, 1878.' 

 Editor Forest and Stream: 



What sort of an animal la the "Anniseed Bag," and lias anybody 

 caught one yet ? 



Almost every county down here has fox hunters, horses and hounds, 

 but they always run gray or red foxes, the former in the lower country 

 and the latter in the upper country. Dr. Paul Carrington, of Halifax, 

 caught forty-two in one season— eighteen " straight," and all with his 

 own pack. Drag-hunts and bag-foxe3 are rarely heard of— in fact, the 



only one I know of was when Co). , of Hanover, having some guests 



at hisliouseona Christmas spree, started a little darkey on a mule 

 with a dead fox, and the little " cuss," after following the route mapped 

 out for him, got so numbed with the cold that the old mule took the bit 

 in her teeth and started for home by the shortest way, which was right 

 through Richmond. And then there was a chase sure enough! Here 

 came forty hounds in full cry, and after them twenty riders, the whole 

 concern ruahing down Main street like a lunatic asylum out on a spree, 

 and the people rushing out and yelling all along the way. 



There is a hunting club in Richmond composed of a dozen gentle- 

 men, among whom Col. R. S. A. is a most accomplished sportsman, 

 and though not easy to keep up with in the hunting field, yet one would 

 not desire a more agreeable companion. All the others are good riders, 

 and, what is mora, good fellows. And if the editor of the Forest and 

 Stream will direct any friend who loves real sport to any of the gentle- 

 men whose names are in the enclosed private note they may enjoy a 

 run almost any clear tlay during the season. The expense attending 

 a trip would be but little beyond the ordinary cost of traveling; and 

 though one must not expect to see any fanciful " make-ups," yet he 

 will be certain to see a real fox hunt, and have a chance for the brush. 



P. M. 

 We trust the readers of Forest and Stbeam will all prop- 

 erly comprehend and appreciate the marked compliment ex- 

 tended to them from the Hunting Club of Richmond, through 

 our esteemed correspondent. We do not remember any simi- 

 lar invitation to have been given through any public journal, 

 even in the flush times of twenty and thirty years ago. Vet- 

 eran readers of the Spirit of the Times assuredly will put the 

 proper estimate upon it, and piously invoke the blessings of 

 the good upon the venerable and honored brotherhood who 

 thus extend the right hand of fellowship across the border. 

 As for the present generation, it ought to study from the text- 

 books of old memories and traditions, so as to revive the chiv- 

 alrous intercourse of old-time sportsmen, and wipe the stains 

 and blots of unpleasant war episodes from the escutcheon of 

 the fraternity. The overtures of our Richmond friends seem 

 to foreshadow the approach of a golden era of sport when a 

 man's honorable training and culture in the manly arts will be 

 the best credentials he can offer for admission to the Order of 

 Gentlemen-at-large.— Ed. F. and S.J 



WnELrs.— Jan. 14, 1878.— At Fox Farm, N. J., Mr. Ray- 

 mond's Dido, orange and white, five, by Mr. Geo. Raymond's 

 (late Mr. Theo. Morford's) Bruce. All fine and hearty. 



Belle. — A correspondent is good enough to draw our at- 

 tention to an error in a paragraph of our issue of Jan. 10, 1878, 

 about the sale of Belle, out of Kirby, by Pride of the Border: 

 Capt. Foster sold Belle when a puppy at usual rates ($50, I 

 believe), but after she was grown her owner, Mr. John (J. 

 Higgins, sold her for $500 to a gentleman in Wilmington, 

 Del. 



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Mabquis of Winchester.— Marshall, Tex., Jan. 9.— I 

 claim the name of Marquis of Winchester for my black and 

 tan dog pup, -with white feet and breast, by Gordon out of 

 Flash, pupped Dec. 24, 1877. W. W. Ttjiiner. 



—The late Professor Sedgwick was in the habit of taking his 

 dog from Cambridge to the hills of Cumberland every year, 

 and on each occasion of his visit the dog regularly left him 

 and took a journey of some hundreds of miles over the hills, 

 to see another dog with which he had spent his youth.— From 

 Professor Seelye's Lecture on Evolution. 



Visits.— Dec. 18, 1877.— Mr. C. De Rouge's (Milboum, N. 

 J,) Glen, by Pride of the Border, out of Dimity, to Mr. D. 

 Olcott's pure Laverack Guy Mannering, by Pride of the 

 Border, out of Fairy. Guy Mannering has twice received 

 special prizes, amounting in value to over $400, as best Eng- 

 lish setter born iu the United States. 



Sec. 26, 1877.— Mr. F. M. Campfield's (Morris Plains, K 

 J.) Dimity Second, by Pride of the Border, out of Dimity, to 

 Mr. D. Olcott's pure Laverack Roderick Dhu, by Pride of the 

 Border, out of Fairy. 



Jan. 14, 1878.— Mr. La Montagne's Abbey, by Young 

 Laverack, out of Raymond's Dido, to the Pure Laverack, 

 Pride of the Border. 



Jan. 14, 1878.— Mr. T. F. Anderson's (Newton, 3SF. J.) 

 field spaniel Judy, by Raymond's Badger, out of owner's 

 Topsy, to Mr. Grover's imported field spaniel Sport. 



My bitch Pet has visited Mr. Theo. Morford's Dod, of New- 

 ton, N. J. My bitch Grace has visited Mr. Wm. Conklyn's 

 Dan, of Ocean Grove, Long Branch. 



E. F. MEEcaLtoTT. 



Half-Mourning.— Dog man: "Yes, ma'am. This here 

 dog, ma'am ? Real stock, nary white hair on him. Dirt 

 cheap for you, ma'am. Take him for twenty-five dollars." 

 Young widow : "Oh! the sweet, pretty thing 1 All black, 

 you say, my man ? Well, you must know that my dear, dear 

 husband has been dead these last eight months, and I am think- 

 ing — heigho ! of quiet colors again. Now, couldn't you get 

 me a nice little doggy, with just a little white on him? A 

 kind of half -mourning dog!" 



FISH IN SEASON IN JANUARY. 



SOUTHERN WATERS. 



Pornpano. TraehynoVu tcwrolinus. Grouper, Spin pi Ipu nifaritois. 



Drum (two species). Family Hciat- Trout (black bass), Centroj.rl.-itis 

 nidas. attarius. 



Kingflsh, Menticirrusnebulosua. Striped Bass, or Rockflsh, Roceus 



Li^- k i Lt iinps ocelUUus. liiiealus. 



Shet'|'Slit--Lid .-j.i'chor.v, '■■!<<:: f,;-i,ii!fi:- Tailonish, ivi, )!.,-.,'; ...■-.-. .-,-!: ^..v.'.y. 



cephalus. Black Basss, Microplerus salmoide- : 



Snapper, Luljamis caxus. M. nigricans. 



Fish in Market.— Stock fair and in good demand. Bass 

 20 to 25 cents; smelts, 15; bluefish, 15; salmon, 30; mackerel, 

 15 to 25 ; Southern shad, 75 cents each ; green turtle, 20 ; 

 terrapin $18 per dozen ; halibut, 18 cents ; codfish, 8 to 10 ; 

 blackfish, 15 ; herring, 6 cents ; flounders, 12^ ; eels, 15 to 18; 

 sturgeon, 8 ; lobsters, 8 to 10 ; sheepshead, 25 ; scallops, per 

 gal., $1.50 ; soft clams, per 100, 30 to 60 cents; whitefish, 18; 

 pickerel, 18; pike, 12; ciscoes, 12; hard crabs, $1.00 per 

 100 ; soft crabs, per dozen, $1,00 ; red snappers, 18 cents. 

 Shad, in limited numbers from Florida, do not find rapid sale. 

 Fish^eaters prefer waiting for the North Carolina, which are 

 larger and fatter. 



Movements of the Fishing Fleet. — The shore fleet have 

 not met with a very great catch the past week; but the pros- 

 pect is considered good. The fitting away of several more of 

 the La Have and Bank fleets has given a little impetus to 

 business, and the bankers which have arrived, have brought in 

 good fares of halibut which have been sold to good advant- 

 age. There have been three arrivals, bringing in 131,000 lbs. of 

 halibut. It is reported that the Fortune and Bonne Bay her- 

 ring fisheries have proved a failure and been abandoned. — 

 Cape Ann Advertiser, Jan 11. 



New Hampshire.— Was/iMd, Jan. 16. — Fishing through the 

 ice for pickerel is the sport most in vogue now, and some fine 

 strings have been taken. Webb. 



*f' Maryland. — Cumberland, Jan. 12. — The black-bass fishing 

 of the Potomac has gradually decreased, on account of the 

 numerous dams built for feeding the C. & O. Canal. No 

 suitable fishways are constructed. Before the floods the canal 

 itself afforded better fishing than the river. Hinee. 



Black Bass Fishing in "January. — P. S. Carr, of Fay- 

 etteville, N. T. , caught four black bass at that place one day 

 last week. 



■KBass Fishing. — Cedarville, O., Jan. 10.— We have had 

 most remarkable weather for about two weeks, warm sunny 

 days, the thermometer at 63 and 65 degs. It was so pleasant 

 it was impossible to stay indoors, and not feeling like gun- 

 ning, I got out my fishing rod and tackle, and thought I would 

 take one more fish. I was greeted on all sides with, "Not 

 going a fishing, are you? If I were you I would go out the 

 back way, and not let any one see me," etc. I, myself, had 

 serious misgivings as to my success; but when I came back 

 in a couple of hours with a nice string of bass, 1 had the satis- 

 faction of turning the laugh on them. The bass taken would 

 average about ten inches. Used live minnows. Moon full ; 

 light wind from southeast, etc. I wonder if any of your 



readers have been foolish ( ' ?) enough togobass fishing in mid- 

 winter, or as late as the 21st or December ? I assure you that 

 no one was more surprised at my success than was myself. 



D AT BREAK. 



—The United States Consul at Dundee reports that the total 

 catch of seals in 1877 was 76,000, yielding 1,092 tons, worth, 

 with the skins, £53,944, an increase of nearly £17,000 over 

 the preceding year's catch. Eighty-one black whales and 935 

 white whales were caught, yielding 955 tons of oil and 42i 

 tons of bone, worth together £92,923, an increase of X28.085 

 over 1876. 



Fish from Siberia.— Siberian fish were eaten lately at the 

 dinner of the Bremen Geographical Society. The fish had 

 been packed in ice and forwarded from Tobolsk, and arrived 

 in perfect condition after a journey of 3,060 miles, though 

 eighty-three days on (he road. ' : A moderate amount of energy 

 and proper appliance," says Land and Water, " seems to be 

 all that is necessary to bring our fish fresh to market from 

 any part of the German Ocean and coast of Ireland." 

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FISHING THROUGH THE ICE ON 

 GURLEY LAKE. 



Eaton Rapids, Mich., [Jan. 1,^1878. 

 Editor Forest and Stream : 



Last winter a party, consisting of Elder Phelps, Dr. Case, 

 Ellis E. Shaw, Chas. Dodd and myself, all members of the 

 Eaton Rapids Boat and Gun Club, went into camp at the cele- 

 brated Gurley Lake, eight miles from this place. We ar- 

 ranged our bed by placing a pole on the ground beside one_ of 

 the tents crosswise, and putting in a good lot of straw, which 

 we obtained of a farmer not far away, then we spread on 

 about fifteen or twenty blankets, robes and comfortables. 

 This tent was our sitting and sleeping-room, and was heated 

 by a sheet-iron heater ; the other we used for a dining-room 

 and commissary department. The morning after our arrival 

 we commenced our modus operandi, cutting holes through the 

 ice with an ice chisel and setting lines. We started at the 

 south end of the lake and set north, using live minnows for 

 bait. We had set for half a mile, leaving a line about every 

 ten rods, when I had occasion to go back over the line, not 

 expecting to have a bite so soon. But I was surprised to see 

 one of the floats standing up as straight as a cob. I hastened 

 to the spot and had the satisfaction of landing a fourteen- 

 pound pickerel. Within one hour from that time we had 

 four of the monsters lying side by side on the ice, the first 

 one being the smallest of the lot, the others running as high 

 as sixteen pounds. Some say they were muscalonge, but I 

 am positive that they' are the real lake pike or pickerel 

 (Esox lucius). We caught one on the same lake the year be- 

 fore that weighed over" seventeen pounds. We also took a 

 goodly number of smaller ones, which I shall not stop to 

 describe. I will say right here, for the benefit of those who 

 believe in the wind having anything to do with fish biting, 

 that we stayed on the lake about a week, and had wind from 

 every direction, and no day or time did we have as good luck 

 as we did with the east wind, which is called an ill wind. 

 As far as I am concerned, l don't care which way the wind 

 blows so long as the fish bite good. I once witnessed a large 

 pickerel in the pursuit of its prey; it was on the ice at Port- 

 age Lake, Jackson County, this State. In this instance we 

 had a hook baited with a live sucker that we caught while we 

 were after minnows ; it would weigh about half a pound, 

 making a good-sized mouthful. Seeing the float up 1 at once 

 repaired to the spot, when I found the fish had let go. So 

 I spread down a blanket and laid me down upon the ice to 

 watch proceedings. Presently there came a sort of phosphor- 

 escent light, which filled the Water as far around as I could 

 see, and finally the head of a monstrous pickerel appeared, 

 not over three feet below my face. He stopped and gazed at 

 the sucker, who was showing great signs of fear. After a 

 short space of time he snapped his jaws together, then, with 

 open mouth and eyes glaring and sparkling like balls of fire, 

 he made a grand rush for said sucker, catching him near the 

 tail, scraping off the little scales, which threw out a shining 

 light as tbey descended to the bottom. After holding the little 

 fellow awhile he let him go, and then the fun commenced ; 

 round and round the hole went the little sucker, having 

 about fifteen feet of line to play on, with the pickerel in hot 

 pursuit. Finally, the pickerel, by a bold manoeuvre, changed 

 his course and made a rush straight for the sucker. Catching 

 •him by the head he wrenched him from the line, not having 

 the hook in his mouth, the hook being fastened to the sucker 

 just under the skin near the dorsal fin. He sailed off in tri- 

 umph with his prize. Our week at Gurley Lake soon came 

 to an end, as all weeks do, and we broke camp and came 

 home. Some object to camping out in the winter, but I have 

 made a practice of doing it for years, and have yet to take 

 my first cold by camping, either summer or winter. With 

 good warm clothing, plenty to eat, lots of fire-wood, a good 

 bed, and the fresh and bracing morning air to stir one's blood, 

 who could not enjoy camping in the winter. 



Peter Dennis. 



HINTS ON BASS FISHING. 



n Glens Falls, H. Y„ Jan. 6, 1S7S. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I have read to-day, for the first time, the Forest and Stream of Nov. 

 15, and without reading subsequent papers to see what answer, or an- 

 swers, " Splasher " has drawn forth in regard to " conditions for bass 

 fishing," I will give a few extracts from my note-book, as well as some 

 personal experience in the same connection. Like the crab, I will ad- 

 vance backward : 



August l, isn.— I caught two bass, weighing lbs., 4 oz., and T lbs., 

 11 oz. The smaller one was landed at 5:20 a. m„ and the other at 6:10 a. 

 it.; Hie bait, yellow perch about live inches long. Wind very slight, and 

 in the northeast ; sky cloudless. Although using two rods in the boat, 

 both tlsh were caught on the same rod, whichiweighed Iftjj ozs , single 

 gut, leader, and Kirby hook. 1 do not know the number, but like a No. 

 2 O'Shaughnessy, tied on a single gut. The place, Long Pond, Warren 

 Co , N. Y. When dressed, the stomachs of both fish found perfectly 

 empty. 



July 21.— Fished Round Pond, one-half mile from Long Pond, with a 

 friend, who, at 5 p. ir., caught a bass weighing i lbs. Wind north of 

 east; sky partly cloudy ; bait, small perch— by small I mean from four 

 to six Inches. On the tame day, in Long Pond, two bass wore caught by 

 one person weighing 7>.; lbs. each ; bait said to be gold shiners, but, be- 

 lieved to be small perch— fishermen will mate mistakes. These two. 

 fish were caught in the morning, about S o'clock, by a Mr. S., who was 

 fishing with two hand lines. When he landed one fish, he discovered 

 that his other line was gone. Half an hour later, thinking he saw the 

 wooden reel to which his line was attached dancing oa the water, he- 

 pulled anchor, and rowing to the spot, found he was mistaken. Bnt, 

 while- looking to locate his old position, he did see the piece of wooft 



