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Pennsylvania — Johnstown, May 30. — Quite a number of 
trout and jack-salmon of good weight caught here. Icb. 
Tennessee —Nashville, May 29.— The season for squirrel 
shooting is now open, and game very abundant. A friend of 
mine residing three miles from the city bagged eighteen one 
day last week in about two hours. J. D. H. 
Columbia, May 85.— Recently Mr. Joe Dew and Joseph 
Bailey, fishing at Arnold’s Dam, Rutherford Creek, caught 
several’ salmon or Jack, weighing about half a pound each. 
These are the first we have heard of being caught iu Ruther- 
ford. Vai. 
Nashville, June 1.— A great many drum and buffalo are 
being caught in the Cumberland River. On Saturday 1 saw a 
catfish which measured over four feet in length. Minnows 
are used exclusively for fishing for game fish in our waters, 
and there is no difficulty in procuring them, but the great 
trouble is to preserve them alive and transport them from 
place to place. It invariably happens that the fishing grounds 
arc some distance from where the minnows are taken, and no 
means has yet been devised by which the tiny fish can be kept 
alive. J. D. H. 
We have found this to he a very satisfactory method for 
transporting minnows : In a large bucket, holding, say four 
gallons, place a smaller vessel which will have plenty of play 
and is thoroughly perforated. Keep ice constantly on the top 
of the inner bucket and move the bucket up and down to 
aerate the water. If the inside bucket has an oval bottom 
the motion of the wagon or boat will keep it in motion. 
Florida. — Lake Orandin, via Putnam tllall, Putnam Co, 
— Editor Forest and Stream arid Bod and Oun : This section 
of Florida is one of the most delightful fishing and hunting 
grounds under the sun. It abounds with numerous lakes of 
beautiful, clear water, filled with fish, fowl and flesh of nearly 
every aquatic variety. Wild ducks, geese, crane, and many 
other water fowls, the names of which I do not know, almost 
cover the water in winter, and many wild ducks and other 
fowls remain here the year round. Fish, trout, salmon, jack, 
bass, bream, perch, and many others too numerous to mention, 
are in great abundance in all of the lakes. The other day 1 
c night a bass that weighed 8 pounds net dressed ready for 
the pot, and a jack that weighed 0 pounds net. Many bass 
have been caught which weighed as high as 13 and 14 pounds 
net. Wild turkeys, deer, squirrels, rabbits or hares, qnails, 
etc., are very numerous. The climate is perfectly delightful, 
thermometer rarely ever gets up into the nineties during the 
hottest period of summer, and only once in a great while does it 
got down to a frost basis during our coldest winters. If any of 
your very many intelligent readers wish to know more as to 
game, fish, fowl or flesh, or soil and other productions, I will 
cheerfully answer if they ■will enclose stamps for return post- 
age. AmosL. Griffith. 
W 18 OON 8 IN— Ashland, May 26. — Trouling is now excellent 
at Fish Creek, Whittlesey's Creek, Trout Brook, Brunsweller 
and Marengo. One gentleman brought to basket ninety fine 
trout in one day's fishing on Fish Creek, and the following 
day caught one hundred in the same stream. Still finer sport 
is anticipated when the larger trout, now at the headwaters of 
the stream, turn their course downward to the bay. In June 
the trout of this section rise readily to the fly, but are most 
frequently taken by resident sportsmen nnd anglers with small 
minnows and with angle-worms. Excellent sport is antici- 
pated at “The Rocks," about ten miles from Ashland, ucross 
Chequamegan Bay, during June. For bass fishing there is in 
all probability no finer resort in Wisconsin than that near 
Chippewa, where lies a beautiful lake abounding with black 
bass of the finest game qualities. This wooa-embowered 
lakelet was discovered only last autumn, and has as yet re- 
ceived no name. Eying, as it does, only two miles from the 
railroad, with a fine trout stream upon each side, it is a most 
desirable spot for the angler. The fishing at Butternut Lake 
is still as delightful as formerly, and several large muscalonge 
have been taken there dining the present month (May). The 
fishing here is considered best during Juue. Then the musca- 
longe bite more readily, and larger fish are taken than at any 
other season of the year. Butternut Lake is probably the 
finest in all our Northern States for this species of fishing, and 
larger fish ( muscalouge) are taken here than at any other resort 
in Wisconsin. He who desires a taste of wildlife, and superb 
trout-fishing should visit the Nepigon, easily reached from Ash- 
land, and the unexcelled trouling of that far-famed stream 
would repay the tourist tenfold. W. W. 
California Salmon.— The salmon arrivals from Canada 
show an unusually early season, and from the Pacific Slope 
comes the same report. The salmon in the McCloud and 
Sacramento rivers have already passed up to the spawning 
grounds at the headwaters, in the middle part of May, giving 
the fishermen the slip, and completely putting at fault the 
wisest prognostications of the Sal. jDoctores by appearing a 
month ahead of time. 
Canada — MilUown, St. Stephen, May 29. — The salmon fish- 
ing at Grand Lake Stream is very good. One lady caught 
twenty in a day. They run much larger thau usual ; some 
four and five pounders are taken, and fishermen kill a large 
number every day. G. A. B. 
~The Salmon Season. — Advices from the salmon rivers 
show that the season this year is at least three weeks earlier 
than thnt of last year. The water is generally low. Those 
who contemplate a salmon campaign should be early in the 
field this year. Do not make a mistake by going too late. 
Kill Youk Fisn as Soon ab Caught.— Our recent sugges- 
tion has met with general approval. The numerous re- 
sponses it has elicited indicate that anglers are both sensible 
and humane. The innate goodness which is in them is 
easily evolved by proper advice and direction, and all that is 
needed is, to put them in the way they should go, and they 
will go it. There is no doubt that both the flavor and quality 
of the flesh of fish is improved and preserved by killing the 
fish at once instead of permitting them to linger. We sug- 
gested as the most expeditious methods, that the angler should 
tap his fish on the head with a stick, or insert the bladeofa knife 
to the cervical column back of the head. If fishing from a 
boat, the most convenient way is to knock the bead against the 
gunwale or thwart. J. S. M., of Newark, advises to cut the 
throat; to sever the part where the gills join the belly. The 
fish will thereby not only die quickly, but bleed, leaving the 
flesh perfectly white, and “ enabling it to keep much 
longer thau when the blood is allowed to remain and settle all 
through the flesh." There is common sense in this. R. T. 
M. says he has always practiced killing his fish. His habit is 
to carry a little heavy cudgel in his pocket for the purpose- 
“ Rap them on the nose, or just over the eyes.” By wrapping 
each fish separately in a dock or hellebore leaf, as soon as 
taken from the water, their beautiful colors and shape are pre. 
served. He says, moreover : 
“ If I am off for a two orthree days' tripl find it advisable to 
dress the fish as soon as 'convenient. This may be very 
neatly done by pulling open one of the gill covers, slipping 
the blade of a knife uuder the gills, and carrying it forward ; 
severing them with one cut at their ventral attachment. The 
gills should be then seized with the fingers and torn loose, and 
with them will be removed almost the entire viscera. If 
your fish lose their color somewhat, as they probably will 
if kept two or three days, lay them between two damp towels 
on reaching home, and after a couple of hours they will be 
found much more distinctly colored.” 
A Pleasant Endorsement. — Bro. George Dawson, of the 
Albany Journal, has seen fit to print a portion of a private 
letter of ours, which possibly coutaiuing some observations 
instructive, or otherwise worthy of interest, we may be par- 
doned for reproducing lu our columns. We quote from his 
paper of May 22 : 
What an Expert TmNirs and Says About the Habits of 
Fish, and-so-foiith. — Charles Hallock, editor of Forest and 
Stream, has written more, and more wisely, on Fish and Fish- 
ing than any of his ^mtemporaries. Here is a pleasant specimen 
of his graceful style when discoursing upon his favorite theme : 
New York, May 18, 1878. 
Dear Mr. D. : I took your last sketch into my garden this 
morning after finishing my breakfast, aud have just now (7 :45) 
finished it. I perceive that you are a close student, and that you 
will soon be able to tell the old salmon Ushers more than they ever 1 
knew. It does seem strange that most men become so dazed the 
moment they contemplate the subjoets of fish and fishing ! They 
seem bewildered by the glare of the multiplied lights which 
fill the chamber of their investigations. Men do not consider, ex- 
amine, analyze, compare, reason, or adopt any of the common 
mental processes which they employ in considering other subjects 
with which they oftener come in contact. There arc analogies all 
through nature, and I never could uuflerstand why there should 
not be some variations aud peculiarities in the same variety of fish 
ns there are iu the same family of beasts or human beings, in re- 
spect to manner, complexion, shape, habit, etc. I would as soon 
puzzle my brain to discover why active fish do certain things as to 
explain why Deacon So-and-So blows his nose with a snort, while 
the Elder quietly sops his. A fellow in the market the other day 
was perplexed with the discolorations on the bodies of trout. I 
told him the vendor had depreciated their value by not properly 
bestowing them in his wagon or basket. In an hour or two the color 
would bo uniform, but the brighter hue would fade down to the 
pole, and not the paler up to the brightness. 
I do not marvel why trout do not uninterruptedly feed; nor why 
they change their location ; or why they prefer some kind of food to 
others; or why they vary lu appearance. If the mystified student 
will apply these queries to his fellow men, he will wonder why he 
considered them worthy of attention. The great point is to dis- 
cover the causes which make the fish do certain 1 thing at certain 
times. Well, as to food : it is easy to trace the cause of surfeit or 
change of diet, by careful observation of the weather, whether i t 
has been warm or cold, bright or rainy, a long drought or a deluge ; 
and you must apply to these observations a positive knowledge of 
certain branches of botany and entomology. Rough, unlettered 
men have this knowledge in a crude state, but it serves them just 
as well as crude petroleum does the manufacturer who uses its 
light in refining the more merchantable article for others. The 
food question ns to fishes depends os much on meteorology as the 
questions gf famine or abundance do. in respect to men. 
When wo have found out the habits of creatures, we have only 
to study what artifices to use to engage a damsel, humbug a green 
horn, or entice a fish. You may lose all three, after fastening to 
them, by bungling in the manipulation. 
As to salmon, the study is as much a higher branch as the differ- 
ential calculus grades above vulgar fractions ; but what we learn 
in the primary trout stream will serve us well in the normal school. 
I have ceased to consider the journeys of salmon to fresh water 
as anything worth mention. One-third of our edible fish go to the 
deep sea for rest and procreation— the other two-thirds are in- 
shore fishes, and are, to a certain extent, anadromous, shifting 
their locations in spawning time and following the movements of 
the great variety of things they feed on. As to variety, a trout, 
you know, will chase anything which has life and moves, just as a 
kitten plays with anything in motion. A eat will amuse itself with 
a hornet and a trout will swallow a snake. I have told anglers that 
fish chose a trailing fly from the natural instinct of chasing, far 
more frequently than from a desire to eat it. A great many of the 
predacious creatures gorge themselves on what has already been 
caught instead of on what they catch. In other words, it is a 
mistake to suppose that they eat only what they have chased and 
captured. 
Now, tell me if you have ever seen a kitten which was always in 
a playfulmood ? The vagaries of cats, dogs and game fish can be 
compared with profit to the student. 
Yours, fraternally, C. H. 
— A 6almon was caught in Scotland with eighty yards of 
tapeworm, three-sixteenths of an inch in breadth, in the 
pyloric portion of the gut. 
Writ in Gore.— There was received at this office last 
Sa turday a most warlike postal card hearing date of May 30. 
Post mark blotted out in gore. From a legible word here and 
there among the intersecting lines we infer that the writer has 
been waging a most sanguinary war upon the big and little 
fishes of LoDg Island. His hand — 01 at least his pen — was 
dyed in blood. The missive makes us crawl. Aha ! 
PuAMAiis.--For the luxury of a cool sleep in warm weather 
we particularly recommend the pijamah . Many of our friends 
who have reveled in jrijamahs and slippers, and sipped bitter 
beer and smoked cheroots in the East, may find the vestments 
at Messrs. Simmons & Bon, Oak Hall, Bostou, all same Can- 
ton. The Messrs. Simmons also manufacture the celebrated 
Boston Shooting suits. As to cut, finish and convenience 
they have no equal.— [Sec advertisement. 
Rational §aatim fs. 
Yale College Athletics. — In the spring athletic games 
of the Yale Athletic Association, at New Haven, May 29, the 
following were the winners among a large number of con- 
testants: The 100-yards dash, F. W. Brown, iu 10$s.; high 
leap, O. D. Thompson, 5ft. 2in.; throwing the baseball, W. 
F. Hutchinson, 343ft. 8in.; the tug of war by the freshmen 
class, defeating the classes of '79 and '80 ; Jhe senior race dash 
over 440 yards, T. E. Mower, 69s.; hammer throwing, O. D. 
Thompson, 71ft. Sin. ; quarter-mile run, Herman Livingston, 
54js. ; hurdle race, 8 hurdles, distance 120 yards, W. C. 
Camp. O. H. Briggs won the mile walk in 8m. 30s. 
Adelphi Athletic Club.— The second annual games of 
the Adelphi Athletic Club, of Brooklyn, at the Capitoline 
Grounds, last Thursday, wore well contested and resulted as 
follows : One hundred yards race— A. S. Hooper. Throwing 
hammer— E. Flynt, 67ft. 7iu. Stauding long jump— E. Hili- 
yer, 8ft. 8in. Hitch and kick— H. Stokum, 7ft. lin. Pole 
vaulting— A- Hooper, 7ft. 6in. Four hundred and forty 
yards run — Stokum. Putting shot — Stokum, 28ft. Sin. 
Standing jump— Hooper, 4ft. Sin. Two hundred and twenty 
yards race — Hooper. Running high jump— Hooper, 4ft. lOin. 
Half-mile race— Stokum. Professional running high jump 
handicap— W. Laird, 9ft. 4in. Running long jump— Hiilyer, 
15ft. 9in.- Mile walk, J. L. Ramsay, 8m. 2s. 
Manhattan Athletic Club. — The games at the club 
grounds, this city, last Monday, resulted as follows : 
Two hundred and twenty yunls ruu— II P Pike and It Grelg ran a 
dead heat lu 2Ss. Second trial won by Grelg In 2S‘in. 
Two hundred and twenty yurd9 for school boys— Fifteen entries— H 
J Wilson won InSlJls. 
Handicap 100 yards— Twenty-five contestants— J W Murray won In 
lo,ys. 
Handicap three miles wulk— Twelve contestants— E B Wall, A A C, 
handicapped lm. 40s., lu 85 m. Cs. 
Handicap half-mile run— Eleven starters— Won by N Rowland, 
Yonkers Lyceum, with 10 yards start, in 2m. Ss. 
Lacrosse.— The Toronto Lacrosse Club met the Shamrock 
Lacrosse Club, of Montreal, in a match for the championship 
last Friday. The teams were made up as follows : 
Toronto Club — J. Hughes, goal ; Ross Mackenzie, point ; 
W. O. Ross, coverpoint ; H. C. Ross and J. In ness, defence 
field ; C. H. Nelson, C. E. Robinson, T. Mitchell, fielders ; 8. 
Hughes, W. T. Arthurs, home field ; It. H. Mitchell, H. E. 
Suckling, home ; J. Massey, field captain. 
Shamrock Club— Murphy, goal; Hoobin, point ; C. McGuire, 
Hyland, defence field ; Morton, Butler, Giroux, J. McHugh, 
fielders; C. McHugh, Farmer, home field; Lynch, Brennan, 
home; McKeown, field captain. 
The score made was : I’orontos, 8 ; Shamrocks, 2. This 
gives the championship to the Toronto boys. They have 
work before them to keep it, however, as challenges have al- 
ready been received from the Shamrocks and the Montreals. 
The Australian Cricketers. — The Australian cricketers 
who have gone to England to try their skill with England’s 
players, made their debut in a game with the Nottingham 
eleven. Owing to bad weather the game lasted three days and 
resulted in the success of the English eleven by an inning and 
14 runs. The Australians scored only 63 runs in their flr9t 
inning and 7G in their second, of which Midwinter, Garrett 
and C. Bannerman only scored double figures, aud the last- 
named only in the second inning. The Noltinglianis scored 
153 runs in their first inning, of which Mr. J. Selby con- 
tributed 66. 
Cricket.— A match of cricket at Prospect Park, May 29, 
between the Polytechnic Institute Base Ball Club and the 
Manhattan Cricket Club, resulted in the following score ; 
POLYTECHNIC. 
Cltamberlaln, b Scott 4 
Buckley, runout 2 
M Black, b Scott 2 
Catnmeyer, runout 0 
It Phauncey, not out 13 
McKee, c Makln, b Jackson 0 
Voorliees. ran out 1 
Bunce, cMaklu, b Scott 1 
R Bropliy, b Scott 0 
O Ilatrls, run out 0 
Jenkins, runout 0 
Bird, b Scott 0 
James, b Scott 0 
Ely, b Scott 0 
Lawler, c Tilley, b Scott 10 
Barwen, b Scott 4 
Miles, b Jackson 0 
Chadwick, c Love, b Jackson ... 0 
Byes, 5; wlde,l 0 
Total 43 
MANHATTAN. 
W C Scott, c Ely, b Lawler 0 
Tilley, b Lawler 19 
Tucker, 0 Black, b Lawler 4 
Ames, c Harris, b Lawler 8 
Makln, b Cha nberlam 0 
Rogan, c Buckley, Lawler 9 
Love, c Cummeyer, b Lawler. ... 0 
Jackson, b Chamberlain 12 
G P Scott, c Buckley, b Cham- 
berlain 0 
McKenzie, not out l 
Gowdy, b Lawler a 
Byes, 6; wldes, 10; no balls, 2... 14 
Total 
G3 
SCORE AT FALL OF WIOKKTS. 
Polytechnic. 
3 
e 
9 
11 
11 li 14 
17 
17 
18 
18 
19 
19 
19 
39 40 43 
—43 
Manhattan. 
8 
13 
20 
21 
89 89 00 
00 
03 
03-03 
Umpires— Messrs. Chadwick and White. 
Polo.— Wednesdays and Saturdays have been set apart by 
the governors of the Westchester Polo Club for play at Jerome 
Park. 
Sanguinary Base Ball. — The Patersons and Passaics had 
a high time of it the other day. The fun began when thq 
pitcher put in a red hot curve ball which took the batter in 
the back of the neck— the bawl coming out of his mouth. The 
batter thereupon pitched his hat at the catcher’s head and a 
pitched battle ensued. The whole field was instantaneously 
transformed into a scene of carnage — converted by a bat war 
into an nbbatoir, which is French for slaughter-house. Bata 
aud brick-bats flew in every direction ; balls were hurled in 
and eye-balls hurled out ; the “fair foul” of American Free- 
dom screeched and the umpire got his back up ; or, as the 
Englishman would say, “ got ’is ’ump ’igher," because there 
was an appeal from his decision. Thereupon a peeler ap- 
peared and put out the whole crowd, who all made a home 
run and left the field, which was consequently a left-field, the 
Patersons having the wor9t of it because the others held the 
bats. 
TnB Ciroum-Ambulator— Kingston, Out., May 31. — Hen- 
derson, Uie pedestrian, who started on May 1, at Toronto, to 
walk 25,000 miles in two years, arrived here to-day, having 
completed his 1,010th mile. 
—Juan Gonzales, a Mexican of Fort Concho, Texas, will 
throw a lasso 225 feet in length as accurately as a marksman 
could shoot with a rifle. 
