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\hot (§tm and j§ifle. 
presided since the battle of Agincourt, where a favorite 
bitch saved the life of her master, but in later times the 
breed has been crossed. Possibly, as “Idstone” suggested, 
the mastiff has resuscitated by crossing the gigantic boar- 
hound with the bull dog, the latter of which is very much 
of the same nature as the mastiff, though the brindle color, 
which has always been a bull dog color, has now given 
way to the fawn and black points. The St. Bernard class 
was a very good one, and nearly all of them more or less 
traced back to the Macdona importations. They are 
divided into two classes, the smooth and the rough; perhaps 
there is no dog about which there are more opinions, and 
the question whether they should have close claws or not 
has excited many a fierce controversy in the columns of 
the Field. They are very powerful animals, but utterly 
incapable of carrying home rescued travellers on their 
backs, which we see them represented as doing in pictures. 
Their chief use I take it, is to track them in the snow and 
find them by their wonderful power of scent, which is 
equal to the bloodhounds, or should be. The prize for 
champion pointers went to Mr. L. Price’s “Bang,” a dog 
who has proved his excellence in the fiefd as well as on the 
bench. This shows that good looks do sometimes go with 
good work. Mr. Whitehouse, of Ipsley Court, Warwick, 
has the most celebrated strain of pointers in the world, but 
he was nftt so successful this time as of yore, though he 
took several prizes. Mr. Laverack took the champion 
prize for setters with his old “ Blue Dash,” who is now 
thirteen years old, and his “Blue Prince” was second in 
the open class. In fact, little as I like them, I must own the 
Laveracks were everywhere victorious, as Mr. Llewellin’s 
took several prizes with them, and so did Mr. F. R. 
Hemming, the owner of “Peasant Boy,” who ran for the 
Waterloo Cup this year. In retrievers the curly coated 
class prizes fell to Mr. J. W. Morris, and for wavy coated 
dogs the second prize fell to “ Mentor,” an Idstone retriever 
bred by the Rev. Thomas Pearce. The Harrier class was 
well filled, but the Fox hounds were absent, as the pres¬ 
ence of hydrophobia and dumb madness prevented the 
owners from sending them. A telegraph board being on 
the Terrace, the awards were soon made known to the 
public. The pleasant part of a dog show is that it serves as 
a meeting place for men of sporting taste. There is a sort 
of freemasonry amongst fanciers, and they are all * ‘ hail 
fellows, well met.” You don’t need much formal intro¬ 
duction if you are at all known for any particular specialty. 
A gentleman comes up to you and says, “I beg your 
pardon, but are you Mr. so and so, the owner of ‘Bang’ ”? 
You modestly answer, “Yes,” and he asks your opinion 
about his kennel, listens to you like a junior barrister to a 
Queen’s Counsel, and very likely ends by introducing you 
to his wife, and offering you a week’s shooting on his moor. 
The horse show at the Agricultural Hall was a novel at¬ 
traction all last week; but as most doggy men are not par¬ 
ticularly horsey, it did not interfere much with the Crystal 
Palace. Among the judges of horse flesh were the Marquis 
of Waterford, Sir George Wombwell, Bart., Lord Shan¬ 
non, Colonel Luttrell and Colonel Ashley Maud, C. B. On 
Wednesday the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke 
of Edinburgh and other persons of distinction occupied 
tho Royal Box, and they were both competitors and prize 
winners. The day for thoroughbred stallions was with¬ 
drawn, as the risk incurred by owners is too great to allow 
the presence of valuable sons of Stockwell, Blair Athol or 
Marsyas. About four hundred animals were judged, but 
Mr. J. Chaworth Musters, a popular master of hounds, 
was absent, as he had met with an accident a few days 
previously. 
The prize of £60 for weight carrying hunters was taken 
by Palmerston by “Ali Pasha,” “Iron King” being second. 
I liked the look of the winner immensely, as, though he 
has plenty of size, you don’t see it till you are close up to 
him, from the excellent proportion of his limbs. He is 
very good tempered, too, and as good a horse to ride to 
hounds as a man of large proportions could wish to 
find. The class of hunters, without restriction to weight¬ 
carrying powers, was a good one, and there were plenty of 
covert-hack and roadsters, but most of them priced tre¬ 
mendously high. The park hacks excited much admira¬ 
tion by their beautiful condition and high action. I noticed 
a splendid stepper, bred in Egypt, and ridden by a lady. 
He was named the “Beau,” and was quite my “beau 
ideal” of a lady’s park hack. His mane and tail were of 
course luxuriant, and his rich bay color, with black points, 
neat Arabian blood-like head, and general stamp of qual¬ 
ity, made" him well, worthJthe £350 asked |for him by his 
owner. Mr. H. Frisby won the prize for the best tandem 
with his matchless “Empress” and “Eclipse.” They were 
well handled, too, stepping up to their chins and doing, I 
should say, some fourteen miles an hour. Sir D. Salo¬ 
mons exhibited three horses driven together, tandem fash¬ 
ion, and they were quite a feature in the show, as the man 
on the box turned them round a post as easily as if he had 
but one horse, and cut figures of eight in the most inno¬ 
cent manner; but of course much depended on having a 
well-broken leader. There was but one four-in-hand, and 
that belonged to Sir Talbot Constable. He also won the 
prize for phaeton horses under 15.2 with park action. The 
Duke of Edinburgh won the £10 prize for foreign horses for 
his iron grey Arab stallion “Livadia.” A horse called “Sul¬ 
tan” was also exhibited in this class, who was fourteen 
years old, and had carried his master, Colonel Bray, eight 
hundred miles in the Abyssinian campaign. Yiscount 
Valentia, the Vice-President of the Polo Club, and Yiscount 
Cole judged the polo ponies, and gave first prize to “Cock- 
ern,” belonging to the Hon. T. 3 W. Fitzwilliam, who is so 
well known as a breeder of fox terriers, and awarded 
prizes to that class of dogs at the Crystal Palace. 
The leaping I did not see, but the Field said it would be 
a burlesque. At any rate it is generally instituted more to 
give amusement to the spectators than to really test the 
capabilities of the hunters. Next week the Eton and Win¬ 
chester cricket match comes off, shortly to be followed, by 
the Eton and Harrow match at “Lord’s.” There is also 
the Oxford and Cambridge .match, which is almost equal to. 
it for the 29th. Mr. W. G. Grace playing in the Gloucester 
eleven did not make one of his usual big scores, as he was 
first caught out for six and then next innings, stumped for 
thirty-five. He is generally supposed to be as good as an 
ordinary eleven, and is seldom got out for anything under 
three figures. 
Underhand slows are getting quite fashionable, and there 
is nearly always a bowler of this description attached to an 
eleven. This year is the centenary of cricket, and it is pro¬ 
posed to hold a dinner of some sort to celebrate the anni 
versary of the day when Sir Horace Mann first framed the 
laws and rules of cricket at the Star and Garter in Pall 
Mall. 
Treat, who ran very decently in the Derby, is first favor¬ 
ite in the grand prize of Paris, and Saltarelle, the winner of 
the Prix du Jockey Club at Chantelly, will do her best to 
beat him. Apropos of this horse, it is the rule that when 
the Prix du Jockey Club is won by a mare, that the young 
lady who vends bouquets shall bear the riders’ colors for a 
twelve month after the race, and then the fair “Isabella,” 
whose fair figure is so familiar to the eyes of French race¬ 
course habitues, saw the yellow and black barred jacket 
pass the post first, her exclamation was, “ Oh, mon Dieu! 
must I look like a wasp for the whole year? ” 
Idstone, Junior. 
Faversham , England , June 19 th, 1874. 
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Portland, Me., June 29, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Some time since you published the particulars of a brutal 
outrage in Connecticut, where two valuable and highly 
bred setter dogs were wantonly shot by a person calling 
himself a man. You gave at the time your personal con¬ 
demnation of the act in strong terms that I believe met the 
approval of every reader of your paper as fully as they did 
mine. 
I wish to relate to you a similar outrage here, in the hope 
that you will publish it, and think that by placing the often 
recurring brutalities of this nature before the public you 
will in time bring about some remedy. A gentleman of 
this city owned two excellent dogs, each of a pure and val¬ 
uable breed, and to each of which himself and family were 
strongly attached. One was a Newfoundland, the other a 
Gordon setter, (whose father was a prize dog at the Crystal 
Palace Exhibition in London some two years ago, and was 
poisoned by some unknown scamp last spring); last week 
the setter came home badly wounded, a rifle ball had cut 
off the tip of his ear and passed through his right shoulder, 
probably crippling him for life, even if he lives, which is 
still uncertain. 
It seems that the two dogs had strayed away from home 
—a thing unusual with them—and were seen in a pasture 
in the neighboring town, some two or three miles away; 
afterwards two dead goslings were discovered in the same 
pasture. The owner of the goslings upon hearing of it 
loaded his rifle and “went gunning” for the dogs; he finally 
found them over a mile away, on another man’s property, 
and deliberately slaughtered the Newfoundland dog, then 
loaded up again and shot the setter, as he came back to 
look for his play mate, wounding him as described. The 
owner of the dogs offered a reward “for the detection of 
the scoundrel” who shot them, and soon got information 
that led to detection; he obtained a warrant for his arrest 
for “malicious mischief,” placed it in the hands of an 
officer and went out himself to find the right man—he 
found him—the man confessed and was apparently proud 
of his butchery; the owner’s patience gave way and he 
thrashed the fellow souudly. The shooter was soon after 
arrested and was brought before our Municipal Court, put, 
mark the result, he was discharged , the court saying there 
was not “probable cause” to hold him for trial because there 
was no proof he killed the dog willfully and maliciously , and 
that he was justified under our statute which says that a 
man “may lawfully kill a dog” * * “found worrying, 
wounding or killing any domestic animals,” etc.; in other 
words, that if a dog is suspected of “killing a domestic 
animal,” he may be shot at any time, or any where there¬ 
after. 
The verdict of the community is, that if owners of valu¬ 
able dogs have no other protection for their rights, they 
are justified in taking the law into their own hands also, 
and punishing those who destroy their property. 
Have owners of valuable dogs no rights that cowardly scoun¬ 
drels are bound to respectt 
Yours, Portland. 
P. S.—I understand that the recipient of the thrashing 
has brought suit for heavy damages against the giver. If 
there is law for such brutes as this dog-shooter, shall there, 
be none for the dogs? 
—The absence of our Kennel Editor for a month past 
will account for our apparent neglect in answering the 
queries of correspondents interested in the Dog. Next 
week we shall be able to attend to their favors, we trust. 
A Simple Disinfectant. —Roasted coffee, says the Ho¬ 
moeopathic World, is one of the most powerful means not 
only of rendering animal and vegetable effluvia innocuous, 
but of actually destroying them. In proof of this, the 
statement is made that a room in which meat, in an ad¬ 
vanced degree of decomposition, had been kept for some 
time, was instantly deprived of all smell on an open coffee 
roaster being earned*,through, it containing one pound of 
newly roasted coffee; and in another room the effluvium 
occasioned by the clearing out of a cesspool, so that sul¬ 
phurated hydrogen and ammonia could be clearly detected, 
was entirely removed within half a minute by the employ¬ 
ment of three ounces of fresh coffee. The best mode'is to 
dry the raw bean, pound it in a mortar, and then roast the 
powder on a moderately heated iron plate until it assumes 
a dark brown hue; it is in this state ready for use. 
GAME IN SEASON FOR JULY. 
Woodcock, philohela minor. Squirrels.. 
Details of pigeon shooting and scores of rife matches , and other interest 
ing matter , should be mailed so as to reach this office on Tuesday numiinn 
in each week. J 
—Woodcocks are just making their appearance in the 
markets. Pretty fellows with their delicate rosy brown 
plumage and long bills, and tucked up legs, suggestive of the 
first cock shooting, and of $1.25 a pair. The woodcocks 
are coming in from Norwich, Connecticut, and from Fulton 
County in this State, and the first batch from Illinois 
arrived on Tuesday. Seventy-five cents for a pair 
of woodcocks Is to give them away; (one dollar is 
about a normal figure.) It is a mighty skeerce bird anyhow. 
A great many people pretend to know where they are, but 
the experts won’t tell. Some few woodcocks you may find 
on Ihe line of the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad 
and they are scattering on Long Island. Alas! for the days 
of our boyhood, when we shot off the porch of our father’s 
house at Lemon Hill (the park was Pratt’s garden then) the 
last of the Philadelphia woodcock. Those were times 
when the hand was steady, and the eye was clear, and our 
best gun was a plain single barrel, but a good one. How 
many years ago it was we do not like to tell; but once 
taking a boat from Newcastle, Delaware, and crossing over 
to the Jersey shore, with our own hand , and the single 
barrel, and without a dog, in an hour we flushed sixteen 
woodcocks, and shot twelve of them. We have never done 
that since and never expect to do so any more. Every¬ 
body tells us woodcocks are scarce so far, though those 
that are taken are sound, plump, and fully matured. 
—Woodcocks are in fair abundance in Passaic County, 
near the line of Bergen, but the cover is so thick as to 
amount almost to a prohibition. Mr. Shepard, a friend re¬ 
siding in the neighborhood, baggecL five on Monday, and 
missed ever so many. 
—Frank Good’s fishing and hunting inoccasius, adver¬ 
tised in our paper, are rapidly finding their way to the 
notice and use of sportsmen who read our columns, and 
receive after every trial unqualified approval. 
—The Gun Club, of Chicago, had a day’s shooting at 
Tom Stagg’s grounds at Lake Yiew, near Chicago, on July 
2d. which proved to be quite an enjoyable affair. The 
arrangements included a trial of skill in shooting at ten 
single birds and five pairs, under the regular rules of the 
club. The principal prize being an elegant gold medal and 
purses of $25, $15 and $10. The medal is to be held for a 
year against all club competitors, subject to a challenge 
with thirty days’ notice. Mr. J. H. Turrell was appointed 
referee, and R. Clark as scorer. The first match was be¬ 
tween Messrs. Brice and Edwards at five single birds. In 
the trial Edwards won by 9 to 8. The Messrs. Hamilton 
and Wilcox had a similar contest, the former winning by 8 
to 7, after which Messrs. French, Ballou and Phillips tried 
their hands, the result being the success of the former, the 
score being 6, 5 and 3 respectively. 
In the shooting at ten single birds in H. and T. traps, 21 
yards rise and 80 yards boundary, the score stood as fol¬ 
lows: 
H and T traps, 21 yards rise, 80118 yards rise, 100 yards boundary, 
boundary, 10 single birds. | 5 pair. 
Name. 
Kit'd. 
Str'ght. 
Name. 
Total. 
U7 1 
Str. 
junur 
T'l 
Turrell. 
. 10 
10 
Turrill. 
. 7 
4 
17 
Brice. 
. 9 
8 
Brice. 
9 
18 
Stagg. 
. 10 
10 
Stagg. 
9 
4 
17 
13 
Abbey. 
. ’9 
5 
Abbey. 
. 4 
1 
Hamilton. 
. 7 
3 
Hamilton...... 
. 9 
8 
16 
Wilcox. 
. 8 
7 
Wilcox. 
. 8 
8 
16 
Gillespie. 
. 8 
5 
Gillespie. 
. 5 
1 
13 
Taplin. 
. 6 
3 
Taplin. 
. 3 
1 
9 
Martin. 
. 5 
3 
Martin.. 
. 6 
3 
11 
Hiland. 
. 8 
2 
Heiland. 
. 1 
1 
4 
Kenney.. 
. 8 
4 
Kenney.. 
. 7 
5 
15 
Ballou . 
. 9 
9 
Ballou . 
. 5 
2 
14 
Ennis . 
. 4 
1 
Ennis . 
. 3 
1 
7 
French . 
4 
French. 
4 
14 
Sallitt . 
. 5 
3 
Sollitt . 
. 5 
4 
10 
Sfc.v.y;.. 
. 7 
. 7 
3 
3 
jQuigg .: 
'Phillips . 
. 5 
3 
4 
12 
14 
Edwards . 
. 9 
7 
1 Edwards . 
. 9 
5 
18 
Hawkins . 
1 
| Hawkins ____ 
. 8 
5 
13 
Waller. 
. 4 
3 
1 Waller . 
. 4 
2 
8 
The final result was the success of H. Z. Edwards in win¬ 
ning the gold medal. Messrs. Turrill and Stagg dividing 
second money, and Hamilton third, and French the fourth 
purse. 
—The great pigeon shooting tournament at Detroit, 
Michigan, commenced on Tuesday, and will continue 
through this week until Friday evening. Cash prizes to 
the value of $1,000 are being shot for. We shall print a 
full report in our next. 
—At Dexter Park, Chicago, on the 26th of June the Ken- 
nicott Club shot a handicap pigeon match for two club 
prizes—a gold medal valued at $150, and a buck’s head of 
gold, fashioned as a watch charm, costing about $50. The 
former is an emblem of superiority in the clhb, and can be 
challenged for every three months; the latter becomes the 
property of the person making the second best score in the 
match at which it was won. Conditions, ten single rises 
per man from iffunge traps. The champion one-armed 
shot ot the world, Hon. Solomon P. Hopkins, of the Gen¬ 
eral Assembly, killed nine straight birds in fine style. Abe 
Kleinman, shooting from thirty-one yards, and Tom Wil- 
martli, shooting from twenty-six yards, tied for the medal 
on ten birds each, and there were seven nines for the 
watch-charm. The tie between Kleinman and Wilmarth 
was shot off immediately at five single rises, and from 36 
and 31 yards respectively. Wilmarth won, killing five to 
Kleinman’s three. 
The successful competitor in ties for the second prize 
was J. J. Kleinman, whose record is not marred by a single 
cipher, and who gave as fine an exhibition of single and 
double bird shooting as was ever witnessed in this city.— 
Chicago Post. 
