Sept. 11, 1875. 
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H Childs 
L Smith 
W E Hawk. Its 
P H Keene 
S Whitleleey .. 
J Brogden 
J Cnlver 
L Sargent 
W Wallice 
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1 SOO 
1 20(1 
I 500 
I 201) 
) .500 
) 200 
I 500 
12 0 
I 600 
I 200 
I 500 
12.10 
I 500 
I 200 
1 500 
I 200 
)■ 500 
3 4 3 2 
3 0 0 0 
3 3 4 2 
0 2 4 5 
3 3 4 4 
0 0 0 2 
4 5 3 4 
3 5 3 4 
4 0 4 4 
0 0 2 2 
0 2 0 2 
2 0 2 4 
3 2 4 3 
4 3 0 2 
0 4 3 3 
0 0 3 0 
3 3 3 4 
0 0 0 4 
Total, 20!) yards, 167; Total, 500 yards, 96—263. 
4—16 
0- 3-19 
0—12 
3- 14-26 
4— 18 
4_ (i— 24 
4—20 
2— 17—37 
3- 16 
0- 4—19 
3- 7 
0— 8-15 
2- 14 
4— 13—27 
2-12 
0- 3—15 
4-17 
3- 7—24 
/ 
MII.TTAUY TEAM. 
D Ross 
J Mil 
F Waplee 
G Le Barnes 
Wm N Mix 
W Leavenworth 
H Jones 
A L Dayton 
G P. Tyler 
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M E ( 'ook 
G B.Hekus 
Z Beach 
J 200 
5 
4 
4 
4 
{ 500 
4 
4 
4 
5 
1 200 
4 
4 
4 
3 
■( 5< 0 
4 
4 
3 
3 
1 200 
4 
U 
3 
4 
I 500 
2 
0 
4 
3 
1 200 
0 
0 
4 
4 
') .5a) 
0 
0 
2 
0 
(200 
4 
3 
3 
4 
i 50) 
0 
4 
0 
0 
1 2a) 
4 
3 
3 
4 
1 500 
0 
4 
0 
0 
)200 
5 
4 
4 
4 
) 5 0 
0 
2 
0 
5 
1 too 
4 
3 
3 
5 
1 500 
a 
3 
0 
3 
1 200 
I sa) 
3 
0 
2 
0 
1 200 
1 510 
2 
0 
3 
2 
(.20 
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3 
0 
3 
2 
1 200 
fSoO 
a 
4 
4 
4 
Total. 200 yards, 182; Totil, 500 yards, 93-275. 
4-21 
4-21—42 
3— 18 
2—16—34 
4- 15 
2-11—26 
4— 12 
2— 4-16 
3- 17 
5— 9 
3-17 
5— 9-26 
3- 20 
4— 11—81 
3-18 
3- 11-29 
4— 9 
— 9 
3—11 
—11 
3-11 
^1 
3-18 
—18 
The Military Team beating the citizens twelve points, 
without the four last men shooting at the 500 yard tar- 
get. Lieut. Ross made a remarkably good score, and 
if he had been shooting with a Sharps or Remington 
would have had a good show for a clean run of bull’s- 
eyes. The citizens used the military rifles for the first 
time, and did remarkably well. Mr. Keene took the 
Fulton position, and made the best score in that team. 
This kind of practice is new, and if encouraged 
throughout the country, some good marksmen will be 
brought out. 
Ontario Rifle Association. 
Toronto, Ont., Sept. 4, 1875. 
The annual prize meeting of the Ontario Rifle Asso- 
ciation was concluded Saturday, 4th inst. The attend- 
ance was slim, though the prizes were numerous. The 
rifles used were muzzle-loaders, chiefly Metford, and a 
Rigby or two. 
Match No. 1, for all comers — First prize $25, Sergeant 
Lewis, score .37. Second prize $20, Private Cotton, 
score 30. Third prize $10, Lieutenant Pierson, score 
30. These scores out of a possible 40. 
Match No. 2, for affiliated associations, aggregate 
.score— First prize $25, Sergeant Spiers, score 30. Sec- 
ond prize, $15, Sergeant Mitchell, score 35. Third 
prize, $10, Major White, score 34. 
Match No. 3, battalion and company battalion — First 
prize, $75, Fir.st Foot Guards, Ottawa, score 400. Sec- 
ond prize $.50, Thirteenth battalion, Hamilton, score 
445. Third prize $25, Queen’s Own Rifles, Toronto, 
.score 433. Company’s first prize $50, Guards, Ottawa, 
score 233. Second prize $40, First Royals, Toronto, 
score 231. Third prize $30, Thirteenth battalion, Ham- 
ilton, score 225. 
Match No. 4, Sir Peter Tait’s Cup, for teams — Gov- 
ernor-General’s Foot Gu.ards, score 283, beating eight 
other teams. 
Match No. 5, the district match — First prize, silver 
cup, value $200, with $100 in money; won by No. 4 
District Team, representing East Kingston, Ont. 
Match No. 6, for Nursery Stakes — First prize $15, 
with cup. Major White, score 26. Second prize $10, 
Captain Bailey, score 26. Third prize $5, Captain 
Thomas, score 26. These scores were out of a pos- 
sible 30. 
Match No. 7, for cavalry — No competitors. 
Match No. 8, for small bores at 900 yards, out of a 
possible score of 60— First prize $30, G. Murison, score 
54. Second prize $25, W. Cruett, score 53. Third 
prize $20, G. Desher, score 53. 
At 1,000 yards, out of a possible score of 30 — First 
prize $30, Major Gibson, score 24. Second prize $20, 
Captain Mason, score 22. Third prize 15, Captain Gib- 
son, .score 21. 
Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 1.— Bluff City Shooting Club 
match for medal. Five double rises, 18 yards rise, 100 
boundary, wild birds. 
D Bryson 11 01 11 11 11 — 9 
PBrvson 11 11 11 H 10-9 
Specht 10 11 11 11 10-8 
■Wheatley 10 10 dr - 2 
Saandere 11 11 11 01 10— 8 
Lelaod 11 10 11 11 11— 9 
Merriii-an 10 11 11 11 II — 9 
Nicholson 11 10 11 11 11—9 
Cockerell 10 11 11 10 dr — 6 
Ties shot off at 21 yards rise, 3 double rises: 
D Bryson 11 11 10—5 .Meniman 11 11 01—5 
PB.yson 10 10 dr — 2 Nicholson 11 11 11—6 
Lel.nd 11 11 11— 6 
Second tie, 21 yards. 
Leland 11 10 11— 5 Nicholson 11 11 11— 6 
Nicholson the winner. 
RIFLE NOTES. 
Saturday, Sept. 11. — Turf, Field and Farm badge. 
“ “ 18. — Luther badge. 
Jackson, Mich., has its rifle club. G. H. Wolcott, Pres. 
Buffalo is taking steps to establish a rifle range in 
that city. 
The Georgia State Fair, at Macon, in October, will 
have its rifle match. 
The International American-Canadian match will 
come off on the 25th inst. at Creedmoor. 
A SHOOT is in jirogress, as we go to press, for selec- 
tion of team to shoot with Canadians Sept. 25. 
Monroe, Mich., has organized a rifle club. Prest., T. 
H. Hubbard; Sec., Vincent Kindler; Treas., H. A. Co- 
nant. 
Mr. Trageser, of short-range rifle fame, has a 
meerschaum cigar-holder, made by Poliak, of 27 John 
street. It represents Mr. Fulton in position for a thou- 
sand yards range. The likeness is excellent and the 
modeling perfect. 
The New Haven Rifle Association, a private organ- 
ization recently formed in that city, has got a very fine 
range within twenty minutes’ ride of the centre of the 
city, and has everything arranged so that members or 
their friends can take an hour’s practice whenever they 
feel disposed. 
The Canadian rifle-matches opened at Ottawa, Sept. 
7. Weather very favorable. In the all comers matches 
there are 134 entries, being nineteen more than last 
year. Ontario has the largest representation. Mani- 
toba, Prince Edward Island and British Columbia are 
the only provinces not repre.sected. 
The London Timee, in a leading article commenting 
on the reception in New York of the American Rifle 
Team on their return home, gives them high praise for 
their bearing and achievements during their European 
trip. It thinks their visit here and the consequent 
rivalries will be beneficial in many senses. 
Major Henry Fulton being a member of Progressive 
L.odge of Freemasons In Williamsburg, all the lodges of 
the Order in the Eastern District joined in tendering 
him a reception and banquet, which took place in the 
banqueting hall of DeWitt Clinton Commandery. Dr, 
Charles R. Doane, Master of the Progressive Lodge, 
presided. The affair passed off with great iclat. 
The international rifle-matches of England, America, 
Switzerland and Belgium have at last roused France 
The French Sockte du Tir, or shooting club, which 
meets in the house of the Club dee Officiere, in the Rue 
de Bellechasse, at Paris, is now organizing shooting- 
matches for France. One great source of the inefficiency 
of the vast but hasty levies made by France after Sedan 
in the late terrible war was the absolute ignorance of 
the use of firearms which prevailed to an incredible 
extent among the new recruits. 
Titesdat next, the 14th, the Team will visit Pough- 
keepsie. In the afternoon there will be some shooting 
at the new range near the city, while the evening 
will be occupied with a dinner at the Opera House. 
From Poughkeepsie the Team will proceed to Utica on 
invitation of the Society of the Army of the Cumber- 
land to be present at their reunion. Here the Team 
will be presented to General Grant, and end their round 
of speech-making and glorification over the Dollymount 
victory . 
RIFLE CLUBS. 
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The Regulations at Creedmoor are the most compre- 
hensive, and include many provisions which would be 
superfluous for private clubs. They provide for the 
management of the range and the regulation of shooting 
by an executive officer. 
RIFLES. 
Tlie rifles allowed to be used in the competitions are 
— 1st. Military rifles; 2d. Any rifle; and must comply 
with the following conditions, viz. : 
1. Military Rifle, of bona fide pattern, minimum 
pull of trigger six pounds, sights strictly in accordance 
with regulation pattern. Filing any of the sights, or 
using them in any other way than as originally intended, 
is prohibited, except that the sliding bar of the rear sight 
may be inverted, and a single line drawn to mark the 
centre. Sights may be blackened, but not whitened or 
colored. Any pad or shoe for the heel of the butt is 
disallowed. 2. Any Rifle, maximum weight ten pounds, 
minimum pull of trigger three pounds, sights of any de- 
scription, except telescope, magnifying and such front 
aperture sights as solid discs or bushes pierced in the cen- 
tre, which cover the target so as to conceal the danger 
signal when displayed. 3. Competitors shall submit 
their rifles and ammunition for inspection whenever re- 
quired. 4. No hair triggers will be allowed. 5. No 
fixed artificial rests will be allowed. 6. In competi- 
tions restrict d to breech-loading rifles, such rifles must 
be loaded from the breech only. 
AXMUNITION. 
1. For the regular National Guard competitions, am- 
munition will be furnished by the State, and issued to 
competitors on the ground. 2. In all other competi- 
tions, unless otherwise specified, any ammunition may 
be used, and must be provided by the competitors. 3. 
Cartridges may be purchased at the office of the Super- 
intendent on the Range Grounds. 
TARGETS. 
The targets are divided into three classes, and shall 
be of the following sizes: 
1. Third Class, to be used at all distances up to and 
including 300 yards. Target, 4x6 feet; bull’s eye, cir- 
cular, 8 in. in diameter; centre, circular, 26 in. in diam- 
eter; inner, circular, 46 in. in diameter; outer, square 4 
ft. 46 ft. 
2. Second Class, to be used at all distances over 300 
to and including 600 yards. Target, 6x6 ft.; bull’s eye, 
cireu ar, 22 in. in diameter; centre, circular, 28 in.' in 
diameter; inner, circular, 54 in. in diameter; outer, cir- 
cular, 70 in. in diameter. 
3. Fir.st Class, to be used at all distances over 600 
yards. Target, 6x12 ft. ; bull’s eye, circular, 36 in. in 
'diameter; centre, circular, 54 in. in diameter; inner, 
square, 6x6 ft. ; outer, square, 6x12 ft. 
MARKING, SCORING AND SIGNALING. 
1. Bull’s eye counts 5; signal, white circular disc. 
Centre counts 4; signal, red disc. Inner counts 3; sig- 
nal, white and blackdi.se. Onier counts 2; signal, black 
disc. Ricochet counts R; signal, red flag waved twice 
right and left in front of the target. Ricochet hits will 
be marked out after the flag signal. 
2. When a shot strikes the angle iron upon which the 
target stands, the marker will open the trap, and raise 
and lower his flag three times in front of the target. 
3. When a shot strikes any part of a second-class tar- 
get outside of the boundary of the “outer,” he will 
open the trap, so as to display the trap danger signal 
(red square (lisc), and clo.sing it again without marking 
out the hit. 
4. Any objection to the scoring of a shot as signaled, 
or to one not signaled, must be made before another shot 
is fired. 
5. Any' alteration of a scoring ticket must be witness- 
ed by an officer in charge of the firing point, and en- 
dorsed with his initials. 
The rest of the rules regulate the place, position of 
shooter, the prices for shooting, entries for matches, ties, 
judges, etc. 

A CASK of careless shootiog occurred in Syracuse on Saturday 
affernoon last, which came near proving fatal. Mr. Matthias Knod- 
del was driving di.wn the street with a load of grain, when he re- 
ceived a charge of shot in his head, neck and shoulders from a shot- 
gun fin d by a man named Charles Koern. The shot was fired by 
Kiiern at a cat, which had been killing chickei s, and the charge 
missed the cat atid took effect on Mr. Knoddel and the horse he 
was driving. Ilis wounds are severe but not dangerous. 
Prof. W. D. Gonsino writes to the Bath (Me.) Times in regard to 
the shell heaps at Damariscota. He reckons that, within an area of 
100 rods in length and 80 in width, there are piled 100,000.000 bushels 
of oyster-shells. And all that refuse thrown down by human eaters. 
One dome-shaped hillock is nearly one hundred fe t in h ighf. He 
thinks the multitude of eaters may not have been great, but that the 
hillocks tell of time rather than number. Within the memory of 
man the oyster has not lived in this river. Stone gonges, arrow 
heads, bone needles, pottery and copper knives are the only human 
relics found among the shells. No geological event of any moment 
has occurred since the formation of the heaps. The Wicasset Oracle 
says it is rumored that a human skeleton has been recently picked 
up in the shell heaps. 
A RAPT belonging to Mr. Weaver, of Marietta, was passing down 
the Susquehanna River, jnst at theCone-«ago Falls, above Collira 
Station, when it was beset by a school of black bass, i.nmbering 
probably 200, all of which leaped ont of the water a' d on to the raft. 
The raftsmen tr.ed to secure the fi.sh, and succeeded in getting about 
iwenty-onc of them, whii h weighed in the average from tlirte-qiiar 
ters to two and a-half pounds. 
In the summer of 1770, the Connecticut Valley, from Northfield 
Mass., to Lancaster, N. H., was visited by a species of army worm, 
which devoured most of the standing crops, and reduced the people 
nearly to starvation. 
The French Government has determined to keep, for the 
next five years, 5,000 pairs of carrier pigeons for breeding 
pu-poses, for service in war times. Each fortress is to have a mili- 
tary pigeon hou-e, and each pigeon-house will contain 1,000 birds. 
Two general siaiions are to be esialilished, at each of which 6U,0!.'0 
pigeons will be kept. For years the German fortresses of Me z and 
Strasbourg have been connected with other Gsrman forts by a sys- 
tem of carrier pigeons. 
