FOREST AND STREAM 
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'a WEEKLY JOURNAL. 
Dbvotrd to Field and Aquatic Stout*, Ppacuic al Natural Bistort, 
Fish Culture, the Protection or mthrmt 
AtTD THE Inculcation in Men and W omen op a healthy interest 
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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, .JUNE ‘24, 1875. 
To Correspondents. 
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Secretaries of Clubs and Associations arc urged to favor us with brief 
note* of their movements and transactions, as it is the aim of this paper 
to become a medium of useful and reliable information between gentle- 
men sportsmen from one end of the country to the other ; and they will 
find our columns a desirable medium for advertising announcements. 
The Publishers of Forest and Stream aim to merit and secure the 
patronage and countenance of that portion of the community whose re- 
fined intelligence enables them to properly appreciate and enjoy all that 
1 s beautiful in Nature. It will pander to no depraved tastes, nor pervert 
the legitimate sports of land and water to those base uses which always 
tend to make them unpopular with the virtuous and good. No advertise- 
ment or business notice of an immoral character will be received on any 
terms ; and nothing will he admitted to my department of the paper that 
may not be read with propriety in the home circle. 
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Advertisements should be sent in by Saturday of each week, if possible. 
CHARLES II ALLOCK. Editor. 
WILLIAM C. HARRIS, Bnsines* Manager 
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COM- 
ING WEEK. 
Thursday. Jime 24th.— Trotting, Paterson, N. J.; Beacon Park, Bos 
tou, Watertown, N. Y. Regattas, Schooner Match. Scavvanhaka Yacht 
Club; Toms River Yacht Club; New Jersey Yacht flub. Sculling 
match between Baiubrldge and Smith, and Yates and Curtis, Harlem 
River. Bench Show of Dogs, Mlneola, L. I Base Ball. Athletic vs. New 
Haven, at Dover, Del.; Qulckslcp vs. Active, at Reading, Penn.; Atlan- 
tic vs. Live Oak, at Lynn, Mass 
Friday, June 25tU — Tretling, Beacon Park, Boston; Watertown, N. 
Y. Rifle, Scottish-Amerlcan vs. Irlsh-American Club at Crcedmoor. 
Base Ball, Atlantic vs. Grafton, Worcester, Mass.; Doerr vs. Qnlckstep, 
Wilmington, Del. 
Saturday, June 26th.— 1 Trolling, Denver, Col, Rifle, California Team 
against Co. D. Twelfth Regiment Team, at Crecdmoor. llurlem Associ- 
ation Regatta, Harlem River. Base Ball, Philadelphia vs. Chicago, at 
Chicago; Boston vs. Athletic, at Philadelphia; New Haven vs. Amateur, 
at Trenton, N. J.; Hoboken va. Keystone, at Hoboken; ALuntlc vs. 
Taunton, at Tannton, Mas*. 
Monday. June 28th.— Rifle. Contest for Forest and Stream badge at 
Coolin'*, 908 Broadway. Base Ball, Athletic vs. Boston, at Philadelphia. 
New Haven vs Philadelphia, at Cincinnati. 
Tuesday. June 29 th — International Rifle Match, at Dollymonnt. near 
Dublin. Regalias, Nassau Boat Club, N. Y.; Little Bayside, L. I. Trot- 
ting, Myrtle Park. Boston. 
Wednesday. June 30lb — Trotline, Mystic Park, Boston; Kalamazoo, 
Mich.; St. Paul, MiDn Base Ball, Hoboken vs. Nampless, Hoboken. 
Scientific Exploration of Florida.— Our Florida 
commissioner, whose researches in Florida have been sub- 
milled to our readers through a series of twelve interesting 
papers, very earnestly urges the importance of a scientific 
investigation of that region. He says:— 
"It appears to me that it is the province of the Smithso- 
nian Institution to examine the archtelogical remains in the 
United Slates. The ancient canals and numberless large 
mounds on the southwest coast are, in my opinion, worthy 
of being carefully examined and described. The expense 
would he trifling, and the result important to science. The 
Instititution is in a position to command assistance from 
the Navy Department. If my suggestion was carried out 
you might send a representative along who could collect 
some data that would interest the readers of Forest and 
Stream." 
We may add that this subject has been pressed upon the 
attention of our scientists by several of our correspondents, 
one of whom, "L. W- L.,’’ has volunteered a contribution 
of $25 toward the investigations desired. 
— Messrs. Hull & Son have forwarded to us a gold plated 
"climax combined” creaser, loader, cap-expeller, and shell- 
extractor, which they desire should he given as additional 
piemium for either pointer or seller classes at the Mineola 
dog show. We have examined Ibis beautiful prize, and 
can congratulate the winner of it upon his good fortune. 
The advertisement of Messrs. Hall & Son will bo found 
under its proper head in our column*. 
THE INTERNATIONAL MATCH. 
T T is very pleasant to read of the cordial reception granted 
to our American riflemen in Dubliu, not only by (hose 
who were reccutly our guests here, but by the Irish people 
generally. The clamor of those who would fain have 
made political capital out of the event has been drowned 
in the general jubilee, and there is every prospect of the 
visit terminating, if uot in victory, at least with nothing to 
disturb the harmony and feeling of good fellowship which 
now prevails. Before our paper shall have gone to press 
again, viz., on Tuesday next, the great match will have 
been decided, and the cables have fliushed us the signal of 
victory or defeat. Considering the small iigures by which 
the match of September last was won, indicating the slight 
disparity in skill between the men, and also the unusual 
conditions of climate, much more trying to our men tliau 
our September days could have been to their competitors, 
it would be unwise to look for an easy victory, if one is at 
all within the scope of probability. But let the result be 
as it may, the effect of the visit upon the minds of the bet- 
ter classes of Ihe Irish people, or indeed of the Britisn 
generally, will be to lead towards better feeling, and an 
addition to the somewhat limited knowledge of our coun- 
try and people which almost universally prevails. 
Among the diversions provided in Dublin for t! e enter- 
tainment of the Americans has beeu a grand assault of 
arms by the garrison troops of Dublin, and a special the- 
atrical performance, when Miss Genevieve Ward, also an 
American, played Medea for their edification. On Sunday 
last on the invitation of the Lord Mayor, they attended 
divine service at. St Patrick’s (Protestant) cathedral, where 
they were treated by Canon Keeper to a sermon eulogistic 
of monarchy and the Established Church; a proceeding 
which appears to have been commented upon in Dubliu as 
au example of very questionable taste. We fancy, how- 
ever, that Colonel Gildersleeve and his companions are too 
good aud true republicans to be at all affected or even au- 
noyed at any such eulogy of institutions the principles of 
which may be opposed to our own, certaiuly not enough so 
as to affect their aim on the eveutful day. 
The bridges at Cloutarf having been repaired, Ihe match 
will be shot at Dollymount, as at first proposed. We give 
herewith, below, a description of this celebrated old bat- 
tle ground, which will possess especial interest in view of 
its beiDg the scene of such another important, if more 
peacefufevcnl, than those which occurred in its earlier his- 
tory, when tradition 6ays that the Irish there met with two 
defeats. 
A correspondent of Ihe Ueruld describes the "Bull,” 
opposite Dollymount, the range on which the match is to 
be shot: — 
"The whole line of coast, he says, and Ihe Buil itself is 
a memorable place in Irish history as being the scene of the 
great bailie fought by Brian Boroimlic on Good Friday, 
1014, which put an end to the Danish power in the island. 
The ’distance from Ihe Dublin Post oflice is but two and a 
half miles and the communication by rail. The Bull is di- 
vided along its entire length into two strips of nearly equul 
dimensions. The northern side is a level patch, rising 
gradually from the water's edge, or rather out of the sloo, 
to an elevation at its highest point of about twenty-five feet 
above high water mark. 
The southern side of the Bull is mainly composed of a 
series of rolling sand hills, the highest of which is raised 
scarcely more Ilian fifteen or twenty feet above the level 
of the northern plateau. A narrow fringe of while strand 
runs all along Ibis southern side. The northern plateau is 
covered with a short coarse grass, mixed with moss and in 
some places patches of lichens appear. Rough as the ber-< 
bage is it appears to be relished by the small herds of cattle 
that usually tenant the Bull. Among the sand hills there 
is scarcely any vegetation, even the slender reeds which are 
usually found in such situations seeming to find a difficuby 
in obtaining "root hold” amidst the shifty soil. For all 
that, those sand hills are, in one way at least, a boon. 
From the position of the Bull it will be seen that seaward 
it is quite unprotected and is exposed to the east and south- 
east winds which prevail in Dublin Bay and its neighbor- 
hood. Those winds would quite rake the plateau but for 
the interposition of the sand hills, which shelter it all along 
its southeast edge and break at least the violence of the 
blast, although they are not high enough to quite ward it 
off. 
From this it will be seen that the Bull is a natural rifle 
ground. It is a piece of natural waste land, unavailable 
tor tillage of any ordinary purposes of husbandry, lying 
quite close to the metropolis aud yet sufficiently removed 
from the main laud to render the wildest shooting of the 
most inexperienced member of the “awkward squad” per 
feclly innocuous. Among the laps ot the sand hills (with 
one exception, to be presently referred to) no spaces suffi- 
ciently open for even short ranges cau be found. The 
short sward gives excellent foothold for those who stand, 
and is a carpet spread by nature for those who prefer to lie 
while firing. 
A walk of about three quarters of a mile brings us to an 
oblong yard, fenced all round with a high 6tone wall, in 
which there is a residence for a herdsman (outgo, "herd”), 
to cure for the cattle which may happen to be grazing on 
the Bull. This yard may be said to rest upon the saud, 
hills and is well screeued by them from the easterly winds, 
the invariable companions of the loug spring of Dublin and 
its neighborhood. This spot may be considered to be the 
main point in connection with the range. A little in 
don arrangement of 1874, a surrounding space called th 0 
"centre ” which is again surrounded by an "inner,” all the 
rest being out. The targets are alternately for long and 
short ranges the bullscyc for the long range being three 
feet in diameter, that for the short range being only two 
feet Between each pair of targets stands a mantlet or scor- 
imr hut of wood, covered with sheet iron, properly equipped 
with thick plate glass windows, slots, Ac. About ten yards 
in front of target No. 4 there is also a mantlet or sentry box 
of iron, in which the score marker can, sit and note the 
The match, however, is to he shot at the old form of tar- 
gets with square bullseye. — E d. 
—The Irish Rifle Team was selected according to the 
following scores:— James Wilson, score 782; Fulton, 700, 
McKenna, 759; J. B. Hamilton, 748; J . K. Milner, 743; J. 
Pollock, 738; Young, 736; John Rigby, 729; Waterhouse, 
727; Edmund Johnson, 715; Walkinton, 711, and Hon. Mi. 
Plunkett, a member of Parliament, 705. 
—A despatch from Dublin gives a report of the first 
practice in which the American team have engaged. This 
was a match for the Dublin Rifle Club’s Loug Range Chal- 
lenge Cup. The following are the best scores made:— 
Irishmen —Rigby, 135; Hamilton, 132; J. Rigby, 125; 
Poliak, 121; Milner, 113; Johnston, 110. . 
Americans— Fulton, 131; Bodiue, 129; Dakin, 127; Gil- 
dersleeve, 123; Coleman, 112; Bruce, 117. 
The total score of the Irishmen was 745; of the Ameri- 
cans, 739. Mr. Rigby won the match. The weather dur- 
ing the day was hazy and rainy, and the shooting of the 
Americans, when considered as a first practice at a new 
range, and in a new climate, must be looked upon as very 
fair. Their reception has been of the warmest and most 
hospitable description. 
—Before leaving for Ireland Col. Gildersleeve, of the 
American Team, forwarded to Mr. James Esdaile, of Mon- 
treal, Vice President of the rifle club there, a beautiful 
Sharps rifle, accompanied by the following letter; 
New York, June 14th, 181 s 
Dear Esdaile: I often think of Ihe very pleasant lime -I had while at 
Montreal last Summer, and a* often as I do 1 inwardly thank you for I hi 
n cry marked kindness you extended to my associates and myself 
have long intended to write to you, hut being very busy have neglected 
to do so ^ I have a ••Shariis" rifle of the same character 1 used at your 
meeting, which I beg you lo accept from me. We °<r “>■ >{*[ 
City or Chester, and propose to do our best at Dublin. I shall hi 
pleased to hear from you there. Please present my very kiud regards lo 
Mr. and Mrs. Eiduiie. And believe me very W“»7«g^ OTMli „ VE . 
Another very interesting rifle match is that which is to 
be shot on Saturday next at Creedtnoor and the Alameda 
range, near San Francisco, simultaneously, between teams 
from Co. D, Twelfth Regiment N. G. S. N. X .. and Co. E, 
First Regiment California National Guard. Colonel Win- 
gate will act as referee for the Californians, and Mr. Kel- 
logg, late of our National Guard, will perform the same 
office for the New Y’orkers. 
front of this is the 80U yards range, alongside is the 900 
yards range, while the 1,000 yards and 1,100 yards lie a 
little in the rear. 
A little in front and lo the left of the "Herd’s Yards,” 
800 yards away, directly in front of us, we see the targets. 
There are four of them, numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, from the 
northern shore toward the sand hills. Each is composed of 
six strong upright slabs of iron bolted on to a strong wood- 
en frame. Each target is twelve feet long by six feet high. 
T ucy Iuiyc a round bullseye, wid according 10 VUe Wimble- 
Pinnated Grouse Eggs.— We received this week from 
Richard Valentine, Esq., of Janesville, Wisconsin, a con- 
signment of fresh eggs of the pinnated grouse, obtained in 
Iowa, which we have transhipped according to directions 
to Mr. R. J. L. Price, Bala, Wales, in cure of Wm. Cross, 
51 Aldhall street, Liverpool, England. It will be remem- 
bered that Mr. Valentine assisted last year in two experi- 
ments to introduce our prairie fowl into England by hatch- 
ing the eggs there, hoping that the birds would be more 
easily acclimated, if thus made native and to the manner 
born, than if parent birds were imported to lay their eggs 
and incubate there. One of these experiments was pro- 
moted by H. It. II. Prince of Wales, with the result of 
three birds hatched out of the lot, one only surviving, 
which at last accounts was strong and doing well. This 
method of Introduction was encouraged and urged by Mr. 
J^kson Gillbanks, u devoted naturalist of the north of 
England, whose efforts in this direction are conspicuous 
and praiseworthy. This gentleman 1ms a mode of packing 
eggs for transportation, which we have adopted in the 
present instance, and we therefore hope for belter results 
than those of last year. A recent letter from Mr. Gill- 
banks to the editor of this journal says:— 
"My letter [published last year in Forest and Stream] 
giving suggestions how to pack eggs so us to preserve their 
vilalily, was much quoted in English papers, and was trans- 
lated on the continent. It was highly praised by poultry 
fanciers, and I hope has given a fresh impetus to the busi- 
ness, which should not die out. I wish I had asked you 
at the time to print a lot of slips and distribute them to 
hunters, trappers &c., and those likely lo gather eggs. Mr. 
Valentine, 1 hope has seen it, and will act on it.” 
— Severe earthquakes shook up the States of Ohio aud 
Indiana last week, doing considerable damage. W alls were 
cracked and chimneys fell. 
— There is a corner in canary bird seed, and the price 
has advanced from $4 50 to $12 per bushel. 
— Caterpillars are ravaging the woods of Maine and leav- 
ing no green tiling. They are cousins germain to the 
Western grasshoppers. • 
—Ten casks aid one case of furs valued at about $19i* 
000, were exported to England from Halifux, Nova Scotia, 
last week. 
— Pigeons have been plenty in Minnesota and northern 
Wisconsin this Spring — large roosts being in ordor. 
— A Minnesota Correspondent says that Blue Earth 
county paid out iu about one week, $28,000 dollars for 
captured grasshoppers at ten cents per quart. 
— Seven wolves wore seen to float over on an ice cake 
from Cape Breton to Newfoundland recently. They were 
pursued, but escaped into the woods. 
