SIZt •ij.i’ XAKGET iEi.’!’ WlliE oY b EeEX HIGH. SCaEE 12 INCH XO XHE EOOX. 
* “ Army and JVary JourruU" Official Report, dated Oct. 3, 1874. 
the near as they can be decided: First, tliat tliere is no perceptible difference in accuracy between breech-loaders and ninzzle-loaders, l)iit tliat if anytliing 
uer are the best, as they are certainly the quickest; second, that in our clear climate we may look for even belter shooting in the future; third, that 
THE REMINGTON RIFLE Statitl.s ahead of all Others for Accuracy. 
the same* t ™*^''*’*”'**™' The Remington rifles in the match scored tliirteeu points ahead of the same number of muzzle-loaders, and twenty-two points ahead of the Sharps’ breech-loaders in 
i,F^*l®.^'**'“.™.‘dn)nalMatch, six muzzle-loaders, three Remington, and three other breech-loaders weie used. Capt. Fulton, Col. Bodinc, and L. L. Heiiburn used the three Remingtons, 
uil oinciul report, see Army atid Nacy Journal, Oct. 3, 1874. Fulton’s score 171 out highest score ever made. 
MILITARY MATCH RIFLES, just out. Price or $55, with Vernier and Wind-gauge Sights; aUo Pocket Vernier Guages for sighting military riJles, S;>.50. 
Send for Treatise on Rifle Shooting (free; to RESMliy'G-TO]^ & SOM'S, 
Manufacturers of RREECH-LOAEING GUNS, RIFLES, FISTOLS, AMMUNITION, ETC. 
P. 0. Box:i994. 
283 BROADWAY, N- Y Armory, Ilion N Y 
CHICAGO OFFICE 2:j7 State St. 
WASHINGTON OFFUiE 521 Seventh St. 
PITTSBURG OFFICE 10 Sixth St. 
Sportsmens emporium 
AND 
Base Ball Bepot,. 
FISHING AND GUN TACKLE. 
BREECH-LOADING AMMUNITION. 
Fishing Rods made and repaired to order. Cartridges loaded to 
order— accuracy warranted. 
ENGLISH VELVETEEN, CORD AND DUCK. 
Imported expressly for Shooting and Fishing Suits. 
GEO. B. ELLARD, 
1441^ Walnut ST. (below Fourth), 
Old Red-Stocking Headquarters. CINCINNATI. O. 
FISHING, HUNTING AND 
Pleasure Excursions 
TO THE FA.MOUS 
ROCKY M0l.\TAIIN RESORTS of COLOR.tOO. 
SEASON OF 1875. 
Commencing Apri' 1, 187.5. and during the summer season, 
THE ST. LOUIS, KANSAS CITY AND NORTHERN RAILWAY, 
Will sell first-class tickels from St. Louis to Denver, and return for 
$05. Parties of ten, or more, wishing to visit CALIFORNIA 
During the season, can secure Round Trip Tickets to San Francisco 
at E.xcursion Itates, on applicaiiori to E. R. MOFFATT, Ticket 
Agent, No. 113 North Fourth Street, St. Louis, or C. K. LORD, Gen- 
eral Passenger and Ticket Agent, St. Louis. 
FOR GUIDES AND CIRcUL.-^RS containing full information of 
the famous resorts in Colorado and the Rocky Mountains, call on 
or address eithei of the following Travelling Agents of this Line : 
George D. Teller, Buffalo, New York; Jno. F. McCartliy. Cincin- 
nati, Ohio; F. A, Palmer, Indianapolis, Ind.; E. R. Motfatt, Ticket 
Agent, No. lit North Fourih Stree:, or J. J. Banich, Ticket Agent. 
Biddle Street Depot, St. Louis, Mo. 
TICKE l'S via this line arc on sale at all principal • ticket offices 
East of the Mississippi River, and at Company’s Ticket Office, No. 
113 North Fourth Street, and Biddle Street Depot, St. Louis. 
W. R. ARTHUR, C. K. LORD, 
Gen’l Sup’t., St. Louis. Gen’l Pass. & Ticket Agt., St. Louis. 
BEISIVBB, COL. 
A full assortment of various kinds of 
GUNS, RIFLES, PISTOLS, AM^IUNITION, SPORTING RODS, 
FISHING TACKLE, CUTLERY, ETC. 
Colt’s, Smith & Wesson’s, and other cartridge revolvers. Sharps, 
M'esson’s, Winchester and Maynard rifles. Breech-loading, double 
and single guns. Ely’s shells, wads, caps, powder, shot, etc. In- 
dian heads, ornaments and curiosities, at lowest market prices' 
JOHM P. LOWER, 
SPORTSMEN’S DEPOT, 381 BLAKE ST., 
MIGEIOAM 
Tlie 
Central Railroad. 
Sportsman’s ilKoute, 
Detroit to Chicago 284 Miles 
An imifortant link in the 
G-reat Through Iiine of Travfl 
between the East and West. 
Parties desiring to visit any part of the West will find this road 
first-class in all respects. 
Connections are made at Chicago with all the Western Roads. 
HJCNKV C. WZINTWOKTH, 
General Pusmnger Agt., Chicago, III. 
We make no charge for Gnus, or other ordinary traps for Sports 
men. Dogs carried at reasonable figures. 
Chicago & Alton Railroad. 
THE ONLY DIRECT RAILROAD from Chicago to 
St. Louis, anti Chicago to Kansas City 
"W'itliOTJLt of Oa.a's- 
First-class acconiniodatiuns in everything 
SPOliTSMEN will find splendid shooting on the line of this 
road; prairie chicken, geese, ducks, brant, quail, etc. Coumete 
dir ect at Kansas City with the Kansas Pacific Railroad for the great 
Buffalo and Antelope range of Kansas arid Colorado. 
Liberal (mringe'^nie fits for transport of Doos for sportmien. 
.f Ajurs r FAPi.TOK. f>oD. J asp. Agt.. Oiicago HI. 
Thomas Sparks, 
Shot &L BarLead 
Isd! airLULfaot,uir er , 
[Established, 18081 
Office, No. 121 Walnut treet , 
Chicago and North-Western Railway. 
This great corporation now owns and operates over two thousand 
miles of road, radiating lioni Ch cago like tht fingers in a man's 
hand, its lines reach in all directions and cover aoout all of the 
country north, north-west and west of Chicago. With one branch 
it reaches Racine, Kenosha. Milwaukee, and the country north 
thereof; with another hnc it pushes through Janesville, atertown, 
0.*-hkosh, Fond du Lac, Green Bay, Escunaba, to N gaunee and 
Marquette, with another line it passes through Madison, Elioy, and 
• for St. Paul and Minneapolis; branching westward Irom Elroy, it 
runs to and through Winona, Owatonua, St. Peter, Mankato, New 
Ulm, and stops not until Lake Kameska, Dakota, is reached; an- 
other line starts from Chicago and runs through Elgin and Rockford 
to Freeport, and, via the Illinois ('entral. reaches Warren, Galena 
and Dubuque, and the country beyond. St II another line runs al- 
most due westward, and passes through Dixon, Sterling, Fulton, 
Clinton, (Iowa,) (i)edar Rapids. Marshafltovi n, Giand Junction. Mis. 
souri Valley Junction, to Council Blnfifs and Omaha. This last 
named is the ‘*Gkeat Tkans Continental Route.” and the 
pioneer overland line for Kkbkaska, Colokaoo, Utah, Idaho, 
Montana, Nevada, California, and ihe Pacific Coaht. li runs 
through the Garden of Illinois and Iowa, and is the beet, safest, 
shortest and best route to Oniahti, Lincoln, and other points in 
Nebraska, and for Cheyenne, Denver, .Salt Lake City, Vir- 
ginia City, Carson, Sacramento, San Francisco and all other 
points west of the Missouri river. 
See, then, what one company can do. Tf you w ant to go to M 
waukee, Fond du Lac, Manitowoc, Sheboygan. Janesville. Wai. 
town, Oshkosh, De Pere, Green Bay, Ripon, Madison, Barab 
Eau Claire, Hudson, Stillwater, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, 
Breckeniidge, Jlorehead, Fort Garry, Winona, Owatoni.a, New 
Ulm, Freeport, Warren, Plailsville, Galena. Dubuque, Waterloo, 
Fort Dodge, Sioux City, Yankton, Council Blufis, Omaha. Lincoln, 
Denver. Bolt Lake City, Siacreniento, San Francisco, or a hundred 
other northern, rorHi-wesierp, or wei^teiTi points, this great line is 
the one you should take. Tlie track is of the best steel rail, and is 
well ballasted and ns free froRi dust as, a load can be made. The bridges 
are >trong and durable, and all the apixiintmenls aw first-class in 
every respect. The trains that rup over this route are made up of 
elegant new Pnllnian Palace Drawing Room and Sleeping Couches. 
hi/llt eajjresvly joi' this /Me, luxiirions, well-lighted and well venti- 
lated Day Coaches, and pleasant lounging and iqnoking care— ajl 
built oy (bis cajnpany in their own shops. The cars are ail equipped 
with the celebrated Safety platform, and patent Butters and 
couplings, Wesiingho.iise S.afety Ajir Brakes, and every other appli- 
ance that has been devised fop the safety of i assenger trains. All 
trains are run by telej^raph. In a wopd this GREAT LINE has the 
best and smoothest track, and the most elegant and c( mfortgble 
equipment of any road in the West, arid has no oopipeTitor ip ilie 
country’. It is eminently the favorite route with the Chicagoans 
travelling west, north, or north-west, and is aek^owfedg* d by the 
travelling public to be the popular line for all points ip Noriherp 
Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Northern Mjchiga^L Dakota, West- 
ern Iowa, Nelirnska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Jdaho, 
Nevada, California, and the Pacific Blope, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
TO SPOliTSMTN: 
S. W. GOODRIDGE^ 
GRAFTON, WINDHAM, CO., VERMONT. 
Keep.s constantly on liaml 45 full supply of Ashing rods. 
MY SHAD ROD, 10 feet long, made expressly for 
sliad Ay Ashing, and approved by Mr. Thomas 
Ghalmer-s. Price if! 8,00 
MY TROUT PLY RODS, 3 j-ints 10.00 
BLACK BASS BODS, most approved patiern,. . 8. 00 
All are hand-made, and of the best material, silver 
plated mountings, and metal covered dowalg. 
All kinds of Ane bait rods on hand, or made to order. 
All orders promptly attended to. 
Tills line presents peculiar advantages. For 
Pru iric Ducks, Geese uucl Brant SIioqIji^, 
our Iowa IJue lo-day offers 
jM o V e T a r arable 1* o i n t it 
than any other jcoad in the cotuitry, while 
I>eer and Bear Hunting; and for Brook Trout. I^ake Sol* 
luoii. Pike, Piekere! and Bass Fisliing 
a hundred points on the Northern and North-\ve>-tun limsofthi 
company will be found unsurpassed by any thing in the West. 
MARTIN HUGHITT, Gen. Sup’t., Chicago. 
W« H« STENNETT, Gen. Pass. Agt., Chicago. 
