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mined on a more energetic plan, of treatment, and after hav¬ 
ing applied local ancesthesia to the parts I carefully excised 
each hite, going down with my scalpel to the bottom of 
each wound, after which fuming nitric acid was applied for 
two days in succession. This treatment was supplemented 
hy the use of fermented poultices made with Indian meal 
and yeast, to encourage the throwing off of the slough. 
In three weeks the wounds had entirely healed and no bad 
effects have thus far resulted; this occurring in 1870. I 
should perhaps mention that this dog bit a number of other 
dogs who were all unmistakingly afflicted with rabies and 
were accordingly killed. Some two months after this case 
the second occurred in the same neighborhood and was 
treated in the same manner and with a like result. The 
third case was one which occurred at Harrisburg, Penn., 
and the patient was not seen until three weeks after the 
reception of the injury. He was treated in the same mo li¬ 
ner and no evil effects manifested themselves, although the 
man’s mental condition was in such 
a state that an attack of brain fever 
supervened, in which he nearly lost 
his life. As corroborative evidence 
in favor of this plan of treatment, I 
may mention that a person bitten at 
the same time as case number three, 
and by the same dog, died two 
months after of hydrophobia, al¬ 
though his wounds had been cauter¬ 
ized with nitrate of silver. This 
heroic plan of treatment which I 
have adopted and which I should 
use under nearly every circum¬ 
stance, I offer for the benefit of 
your readers, believing it to be one 
of the very best. 
Yery truly yours, 
II. C. Y ARROW. 
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Amateur Rifle Club. —Tuesday 
the 7tli was held a meeting of the 
Amateur Rifle Club, Col. Geo. W. 
Wingate, the President, in the 
chair. After calling the meeting 
to order the Chairman remarked, in 
relation to the proposed acceptance 
of the international challenge by 
the Amateur Rifle Club, that he had 
no doubt but the match could be 
carried out, there being no appar¬ 
ent obstacles to it. After reading 
the minutes of the previous even¬ 
ing, Mr. F. P. Fairbanks, the Sec¬ 
retary and Treasurer reported that 
the funds of the club amounted to 
$G00, which he had deposited in 
bank, and that the present member¬ 
ship numbered seventy-eight. Let¬ 
ters of encouragement were read 
from the Messrs. Remington and 
Mr. S. H. Green, Secretary of the 
Sharpe Rifle Company, regarding 
the proposed match with the Irish 
eight, each enclosing $250 to defray 
the expenses of the competition. 
Mr. Richards offered the following 
resolutions, which were adopted:— 
Resolved , That the action of the 
Executive Committee in regard to 
the Irish challenge, meets with the 
approval of the members of this 
Club, and that it is hereby directed 
to accept the same. 
Resolved , That the Secretary be 
directed to convey to Messrs. Rem¬ 
ington and Sharpe the thanks of 
the members for the generous dona¬ 
tions lately made by tlmse firms to¬ 
wards the expenses of the Irish 
match. 
The following, offered by Lieut. Col. Gildersleeve, was 
also adopted:— 
Resolved , That the matter of procuring designs for a badge 
to be worn by such members of the club as are wiffing to 
procure the same, be referred to the Executive Committee 
with power. 
On motion, it was agreed to appoint a committee of 
three, with instructions to provide a suitable building at 
Creedmoor for the use of the club. The election of officers 
was then held, and resulted in the re-election of the present 
board as follows:—President, Geo. W. Wingate; Vice Pre¬ 
sident, Henry A. Gildersleeve; Secretary aud Treasurer, F. 
P. Fairbanks; Executive Committee, Henry Fnkon, ,j. T. 
B. Collins, S. S. Schiermerhorn, A. Alford, and L. Bruce. 
The Chairman stated that a communication had been re¬ 
ceived from the National Rifle Association, announcing 
that the work of preparation of Creedmoor for the coming 
season was being rapidly carried on by twenty men em¬ 
ployed for that purpose. It was decided that the matches 
of the club be held on Saturdays, twice a month, at i 0 
o’clock in the morning or noon, to be shot at a distance of 
800 and 900 yards, two sighting shots and. five scoring shots 
at each distance; also the Executive Committee be author¬ 
ized to provide the badge to constitute the prize. A motion 
was adopted directing the Executive Committee to prepare 
rules for the prevention of carelessness in the use of fire¬ 
arms at the matches, and that no two men be allowed to 
use the same gun at the same match. 
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—Some time ago the Fish Commissioners of Pennsylvania 
purchased from our State Hatching House 100,000 salmon 
trout eggs. They were conveyed from Rochester to the 
Pennsylvania Hatching House, near Marietta, and were suc¬ 
cessfully matured. The young fish were quite recently de¬ 
posited in the Schuykill River, near Morristown. There is 
little doubt but that in time this most useful fish will be 
thoroughly introduced into the larger Pennsylvania rivers. 
LAKE OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA. 
I T is with no small satisfaction that we are enabled this 
week to announce the complete success of our expedi¬ 
tion which was fitted out last December for the explora¬ 
tion of Lake Okeechobee, in Florida, and to present to 
our readers the first map of that mysterious body of water 
ever published! In another part of this journal will be 
found a detailed description of the lake and the journey 
thither, written by our indefatigable commissioner, Fred 
Beverley, as he is pleased to sign himself for the present. 
Some faint idea of the difficulties that have attended his 
explorations may be gathered from the fact that his is the 
only attempt (including several made this winter) that has 
been successful within the last twenty years to reach the 
lake; but these difficulties assume a more horrible and 
tangible realization when it is known that more than twenty 
miles of the journey was accomplished by wading and 
pushing their boat by hand through swamps swarming with 
al/gators, and infested with poisonous snakes and all kinds 
rf creeping, stinging, and flying vermin. Mud, water, and 
heat made, the transit most fatiguing, trailing vines that 
constantly barred their progress had to be cleared away, 
and wnenover they found a bit of terra firma solid enough 
to camp on it was scarcely more than six inches above the 
surrounding mire. 
U ? the lake itself few praises are to be sung. The prac¬ 
tical value of its location and discovery are scarcely a suffi¬ 
cient reward for the pains and expense involved in getting 
to it. Scientifically, our commissioner’s efforts have been 
most satisfactory. Besides taking photographic views of 
all aval 1 able points of interest around the lake, and on the 
journey thither, he has catalogued a list of sixty-two varieties 
of birds found there, a full description of which we shall 
print nex t week, the same being the first ever given. Pro¬ 
fessor Grey, who accompanied our commissioner, has aHo 
a fuT r.st of plants. Five weeks were employed in explor¬ 
ing every inlet and bayou of Okeechobee, so that nothing 
now remains to be discovered or written. Mr. Beverley 
had the excellence of several previous efforts to aid him, as 
well as a most complete outfit of boats and camp stuff 
brought from the north and obtained at the settlements 
nearest the lake, with good guides, tools, instruments, etc. 
He is now among die Indian villages on Okeechobee, and 
hopes to forward us another letter in a fortnight. Our 
latest advices are to March 25th. 
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—The Lockport Shooting Club have arranged for a 
shooting tournament there, commencing Tuesday, April 
21st, and continuing three days. It will consist of trap and 
rifle shooting. Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Canada 
sportsmen will be out on the occasion in full force. 
Game Protective Societies. —We are very much grati¬ 
fied to note the rapid increase of associations all over the 
country for the protection of game. No better evidence 
can be afforded of the wide spread interest that is felt in 
this all important subject. These organizations are the 
first practical results of the direct efforts that are now 
being made to accomplish what has been so long left un¬ 
done through inefficient but well intended legislation. 
Prominent among the most recent organizations are the 
State Sportsmen’s Societies of Maine, Missouri, Ohio, and 
Illinois; the West Jersey Game Protective Society; the 
Sportsmen’s Club of Western Pennsylvania; the Game 
and Inland Protective Society of Nova Scotia; the Georgia 
Sportsmen’s Club; the Massachusetts Anglers Association; 
the Cuvier- Club, of Cincinnati; the Octoraro Club, of 
Pennsylvania, and the Sportsmen’s 
Club, of Manchester, New Hamp¬ 
shire. Many other clubs, numeri¬ 
cally of less importance, have been 
formed in various States and in the 
Provinces, notably the Forest City 
Shooting Club, of Portland, Maine, 
the Bluff City Shooting Club, of 
Memphis, Tennessee, the Forest and 
Stream Club, of Brainard, Minnesota, 
and the Toronto, Canada, Gun Club. 
Besides a Fishery Commission has 
been appointed for Maryland, with 
two efficient officers; and state game 
laws have been established in Colo¬ 
rado, California, Minnesota, and Ne¬ 
vada, where they did not exist before 
except in name. In Ohio the move¬ 
ment for protection has been so ear¬ 
nest that it has taken political shape, 
and the State House has been for 
weeks the hardly contested battle 
ground of factions backed by peti¬ 
tioners 80,000 strong on either side! 
But while the measures now before 
the legislature may be defeated 
through their unreasonableness and 
imperfection, out of the awakened in¬ 
terest has arisen an earnest desire 
for a National Convention whose wis¬ 
dom shall harmonize conflicting in¬ 
terests and so codify existing game 
laws as to make them just, sensible, 
and of practical utility. There is no 
doubt that a National Convention 
will be speedily called. The country 
needs its aid and would profit by its 
action. All isolated efforts merely 
add to the confusion, and while they 
plainly indicate the general mood, 
they but emphasize the necesity for 
combination. 
The following is a list of officers of 
the Game Protective League newly 
organized at Manchester, New Hamp¬ 
shire:—President, John B. Clarke, 
Manchester; Secretary, William W. 
Colburn,Manchester; Treasurer, Fred¬ 
erick Smyth, Manchester; Vice Presi¬ 
dents, Rockingham County—Marcel- 
lusElbridge, Portsmouth; Strafford— 
Luther C. Critchett, Strafford; Belk¬ 
nap—G. Y. Pickering, Laconia; Car- 
roll—William C. Fox, Wolfeborough; 
Hillsboro—Elbridge F. Perkins, Wil¬ 
ton; Merrimack—John M. Hill, Con¬ 
cord; Cheshire—C. LI. Henderson, Keene; Sullivan— Wil¬ 
liam Jarvis, Claremont; Grafton—Burns W. Pattee, Enfield; 
Coos—Nathan R. Perkins, Jerson. 
The officers of the Georgia Sportsmen’s Club are:—Pre¬ 
sident, J. D. Weed; First Yice President, Robert Wayne; 
Second Yice President, M. McLean; Cor. Secretary, W. LI. 
Cormerat; Recording Secretary, George E. Alden; Trea¬ 
surer, J. H. Heyward. 
—The monthly meeting of the New York Society for the 
Protection of game was held on Monday evening, April 
18th, at the house of Wm. C. Barrett, Esq., in 89th street. 
There was a full attendance of members. Much valuable 
information was elicited by a discussion as to the expedi¬ 
ency of prohibiting the spring shooting of woodcock, and 
other migratory birds and fowl. It was shown that the 
birds were full of eggs at this season, and by no means 
always in prime condition. 
Mr. Hallock’s scheme for co-operative legislation was 
taken, up, and pla,ced in the shape of a series of resolutions 
which were referred to a committee. 
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The Reiciie Caravan.— Some time ago we wrote a brief 
account of Mr. Reiche’s establishment in this city, devoted 
to the collecting and disposal of wild beasts, birds, and 
reptiles. Mr. Reiche informs us, that when last heard 
from in Egypt his train of animals were en route from 
Nubia, following the Nile, their objective point being Suez. 
The party have under their charge thirty-one giraffes, seven 
elephants, three double horned rhinoceri, innumberable 
antelopes of new varieties, and a whole flock of ostriches. 
A certain number of the animals will be disposed of on the 
continent, but no doubt some of the finest specimens 
will come to this country. Enterprise in such matters is 
always wonderful, and it is indeed marvellous that an 
American house should command the wild beast market of 
the world. 
