Sept. 11, 1875. 
365 
SETTERS. 
I have for sale another litter of Setter Pups from my 
celebrated bitch “ Sue,” by Mosher’s thoroughbred 
do^ “Frank.” “Sue” is out of Warwick’s “Flora,” 
by Charles Aurand’s celebrated dog “ Colonel,” of 
Clyde, N. Y.. one of the best dogs in the State. 
“Frank” was bred by Mr. H. L. Wilkinson, of West- 
field, Mass., and besides being very staunch, and pos- 
sessing a wonderful nose, is one of the handsomest dogs 
that ever pointed game. Color of the pups, lemon and 
white, and black and white. Price $25 each. 
E. E. Phelps, 
Box 1166, Auburn, N. Y. 
POLLAK’S 
.WA>TF.\CTORY OF 
MEERSCHAUM 
AND 
AMBER GOODS. 
Wholesale and Retail. 
27 JOHN STREET, 
4 Doors West of Nasean St. 
Repairiug in all its branches. Pipes, etc., boiled by the new process. 
TENNESSEE 
STATE SPORTSMEN’S 
ASSOCIATION. 
■ SECOND ANNUAL MEETING AT 
TEISTlSr. 
OCTOBER 25th, 26th and 27lh, TRAP SHOOTING. 
Prize $3,500 Cash. 
OCTOBER 26th and 27th, Bench Show of Field Dogs. 
Premiums $500 in Cups. 
OCTOBER 28th, 29th and 30th, Field Trial. 
Premiums $1,300 Cash, 
And $450 in cups donated by Bod aiid Gun, Turf, Field 
and Farm and Forest and Stream. 
Programmes, with full details, will be furnished to 
all applicants. W. A. WHEATLEY, Sec., 
Memphis, Tenn. 
C. J. MAYN.LRD & CO., 
DEALERS IN SPECIMENS OP NATURAL HISTORY. 
We have jnat received a fresh supply of BIRD SKINS and EGOS, 
as well as other objects of Na’ural Histoiy, from Florida and else- 
where. Collectors will do well to send for onr s-in catalogue, and 
make a selection at once, so as o secure the beet of the lot. 
MOUNTED GAME BIRDS A SPECIALTY. 
WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY FOR SALE. 
PICTCBES or SAME BIRDS AND MA.MMALS. 
SOMETHING NEW: 
Game Birds and Mammals, mounted medalion-like, to hang on 
the walls of yonr dining-room or office. 
NEW BIRD TRAP. 
•Inst the thing to catch living birds for the cages or for mounting 
specimens. Pnee. 75 cents: all ready for nee. 
Send stamp for the New Catalogue. 
Address C. J. MAYNARD & CO., 
NEWTONVILLE, MASS. 
Poultry World. 
A splendid Illustrated Monthly, devoted entirely to Poultry. $I 25 
a year. Two or more volumes furnished at $1.00 each. The third 
volume commences January, 1874. Address POULTRY WORLD, 
Hartford, Conn. 
H UNTER’S and TRAPPER’S Iliustrated Practical 
Guide. Rifle shooting, gunning, maaing and nsing traps, 
snares and nets, baits and baitinv, poisons, bird 1 me, pre^-erving, 
stretching, dressing, tanning and dyeing skins ahd furs. Ashing, etc. 
W ith fifty engravings. 20 cts. Taxidermists Manual, 50c. Dog 
Training, 25c. Of book-sellers or by mail. JESSE H ANEY <fc CO., 
119 Nassau St., N. Y. 
PLUNKET. 
The celebrated Irish setter PLUNKET, formerly 
owned by R. P. Llewellyn, will be allowed to serve a 
limited number of approved bitches at $50. Send pedi- 
gree and description of bitches to DAVID WILKIN- 
SON, Castleton, Vt. 
STUD DOG. — I will receive a few bitches, of ap- 
proved pedigree, to be lined by my imported Irish prize 
winner, Rufus. Rufus is a deep rich red, without white, 
very handsome, and of first-ciass pedigree. He won 
first at Burslem, third at Dublin, and second, at Nant- 
wich in 1874, and at Paris, Ky. La.st .lune won first in 
his class, and champion cup as the best setter of any 
class at the show. Send pedigree of bitch, find apply 
for terms to ARNOLD BURGES, Maysville, Ky. 
IHEGeEATLfliOJ[GUNTRlAL,lB/5, 
W W. GREENER bege to inform his numerous clients in the 
United States that he has been very successful iu the above trial, 
having secured the first prize, 
A SILVER CUP, VALUE 40 GCiyEAS 
(claes 2 for 12 bore); also winner in class 1 for 8 and 10 bores, and 
rlasa 10 for 20 bore. He has won in all the clas es for improved 
boriuE, which is on a different plan to any other maker, and is far 
superior in the three most essential points, viz.: pattern, penetra- 
tlon and regularity of shooting. 
Messrs. McLaran, Williams & Co., of St. Louis, are now import- 
ing tho-e Double Close-Shooting t^uns to order. A full report of 
this great trial will be shortly published. To be had from Messrs. 
McLaren, Williams & Co. 
W. W. GREENER, 
Champion Gun Maker, 
St. Mary’s Works, 
Birmingham. England. 
REGULATION TARGETS 
For Wimbledon and Creedmoor practice ; also targets 
for RING MEASUREMENT, reduced on paper, so as 
to be used at 25 or 50 yards distance in practice shoot- 
ing. Can be obtained at 
Conlin’s Rifle Gallery, 
9aO BROADWAY, N. Y. 
No amateur can afford to be without them, as be can 
keep every target and mark his improvement. 
Prices. — Any target for 25 yards, $1 per 100 ; for 50 
yards, from $1 50 to $2 per 100. 
FORWARDED BY MAIL UPON RECEIVING PRICE. 
Travelers’ Ofi&cial Railway Guide, 
FOR THE UNITED STATES .4.ND CANADA, 
Containing Railway Time Schedules, Connections and Distances; 
Ocean and Inland Steam Navigation Routes; Maps of Prin- 
cipal Lines, and Lists of General Officers, together 
with such Miscellaneons Information relative 
to Railway Improvements and Prog- 
ress as may be nsefnl to the 
Traveling Public. 
GEOaiiLl I FLORIDA 
Parties wanting informa- 
tion about Georgia or Flor- 
ida should subscribe for 
the Morning News, published at Savannah, Ga. SIO ; 
M'eekly, $2 per annum. Advertisers desiring customers in these 
States shoula use its columns. It is the best paper in the South- 
east. Specimen copies sent on receipt of 5 cents. Address J. H. 
ESTILL, Savannah. Ga. 
DBAD GAME. 
Quail. 
Woodcock. 
TWO COAIFA-ISriO^r PICTURES, 
Life-Size Beautiful Chromos. 
Price $5 per Pair. 
Carefully packed and sent to any address on receipt of money. 
ROBERT NEWELL & CO., 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
ExXGLISH SPORTING GUNPOWDER. 
CURTISS & HARVEY’S 
Diamond Grain. 
Nos. 2. 3. -4, 5. 6, 7 and 8. Superior Kifle, Eodeld Rifle, and Col 
Hawker’s Ducking. W. STIiT, 61 Cedar street, N. Y., Agent for 
the United States. 
VANITY FAIR. 
It is shaved from the best Nat- 
ural Leaf, for Meerschaum and 
Cigarettes. Does not make the 
tomnie sore. Liberal sample on receipt of monev. HL^hest Award, 
Vienna, 1873. Send for Circular. WM. KIMBALL Sc CO., 
Peerless Tobacco Works. Rochester, N. Y. 
GRAND BENCH SHOW FOR DOCS. 
Heid in connection with the New England and New 
Hampshire State Fair, under the auspices of the New 
Hampshire Fi.sh and Game Lea^e at Manchester, N. 
H., Sept. 7, 8, 9 and 10, 1875. For premium list and 
furthei particulars address 
GEORGE W. RIDDLE, Treasurer, 
Manchester, N. H. 
The Goss Revolving Cartridge Holder, 
CARRIK9 Paper or .Metallic 'hells, either end np, revolves on 
centre ali’les weighs but pounds, and is only 1>^ inches wide. 
Holders flare at top ’bu as to quickly receive the shells, and, being 
eliietic, ieciirely elasp the *>ame. For easHof action and rap d shoot- 
ing U ex :els anything of the kind invented. Price, C.O.D., 16.50. 
In ordering, give the size of shells and a loose measurement out- 
side of vest N. 8. GObb, Neosho Falls, Eak. 
MIGHlGAltf 
CENTRAL RAILROAD. 
Detroit to Chicago 284 Miles. 
An important link in the 
GREAT THROUGH LINE OF TRAVEL 
Between the East and West. 
I’arties desiring to visit any part of the West will find this road 
Qrst-clasa in all respects. 
Connections are made at Chicago with all the Western Roads. 
HENRY C. WENTWORTH, 
General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Uls. 
We make no charge for Guns or other ordinary traps for Sports- 
men. Dogs carried at reasonable figures. 
CHICAGO & ALTOH RAILROAD. 
THE ONLY DIRECT RAILROAD from Chigago to 
St. Louis, and Chicago to Kansas City, 
WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS. 
FIRST-CLASS ACCOMMODATIONS IN EVERT 
THING. 
SPOSTSifEX will find splendid shooting on the line o' this 
road: priirie chicken, geese, dneks, brant, qaail, etc Connects 
direct at Kansas City with the K msas Pacific Railroad for the great 
Buffalo and Antelope range of Kansa- and Colorado. 
Liberal arrangements fm- transport of Dogs for Sportsmen. 
JAMES CHARLTON, 
General Pasaenger agent. 
Chicago, Ills. 
The 
Siportsman’s Route. 
Chicago and North-Western Railway. 
This great corporation now owns and operates over two thousand 
miles of road, radiating from Chicago like the fingers in a man’s 
hand: its lines reach in all drectione and cover about all of the 
country norih, north west and west of Chicago. With one branch 
it reaches Racine, Kenosha, Milwaukee, and the country north 
thereof: with another line it pashes through Janesville. Watertoivn, 
Oshkosh, Fond da Lac, Green Bay, Escanaba, to Nagannee and 
Marquette; with another line it passes ihrongb Madison. Elroy, and 
for St. Paul and Minneapolis; branching westward from Elroy, it 
runs to and through Winona, Owatonna, 8t. Peter, Mankato, New 
Ulm. and stops not nntil Lake Kameska, Dakota, is reached: an- 
other line starts from Chicago and runs Ihrongb Elgin and Rockford 
to Freeport, an.l, via the Illinois Central, reaches Warren. Galena 
an I Dubuque, and the country beyond. Still another line runs 
almost due westward, and passes through Dixon, Stcr'ing. Fnlton, 
Clinton (Iowa), Cedar Rapids, Marshalltown, Grand Jnnciion, Mls- 
sonri Valley Junction, to Conncil Bluffs and Omaha. This last- 
named is the “ Great Tbans-Costinental Route,” and the 
pioneer (nerland line for Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, 
.Montana. Nev.da, California and the Pacific Coast. It runs 
through the Garden of Illinois and Iowa, and is- the best, safest, 
shortest and best route to Omaha, Lincoln, and other points In 
NEBRASKA, and for Cheyenne, Denver, Salt Lake Citt, Viiv- 
9ISIA City, Carson, Sacbamrntj, San Francisco and all other 
points west of the w issouri River. 
See, then, what one Company can do. If yon want to go to Mil 
waukee. Fond du Lac, Manitowoc, Sheboygan, JanesvilV Water! 
town, Oshkosh, De Pere, Green Bay, Rlpon, Madison. Baraboo, 
Eau Claire, Hndson, Stillwater, St. Panl, Minreapolls, Dulnth. 
Brenkeiiridge, Morehead, Fort Garry, Winona, Owatonna, New 
Ulm, Freeport, Warren, Plattsville, Galena, Dubnque, Waterloo, 
Fort Dodge. Sioux City, YanKton, Conncil Klnffs, Omaha, Lincoln. 
Denver. Salt Lake City, Sa rsmento, San Francisco, or a bandred 
other northern, north-western, or western point., this grea line is 
the one you should take. The track is of tne best steel rail, and is 
well ballasted and as free from dust as a road can be made. The 
bridges are strong and durable, and all the appointments are first- 
class in every respect. The trains that run over this rente are mide 
up of elegant new Pullman Palace Drawing Room and Sleeping 
Coaches, built expressly for this line, luxnnous, well- ighted and 
well-ventilated Day Coaches, and pleasant lounging and smoking 
cars— all hnill by this Company in their own shop-. The cars are 
all equipped with ihe celebrated Miller Safety Platform, and patent 
Buffers md > ouplings, Weslinghouse Safely Air Brakes, and every 
other appliance that has been devised for the safety of passenger 
trains. All trains are run by telegraph. In a word, this GREAT 
LINE ba.s the best and smoothest track, and the most elegant and 
comiortable equipment of any road in the West, and baa no com- 
petitor in the country. It is eminently the favorite ronte with tbe 
Chicagoans traveling west, north, or north west, and is acknowl- 
edged by tbe traveling public to be the proper line for all points In 
Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, No them Michigan, Da- 
kota, Western Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Mon- 
tana, Idaho, Nevada, California and the Pacific Slope. 
TO SPORTSMEN: 
This line presents peculiar advantages. For 
Prairie Cblckeno, Ducks, Geese Sc Brant Shooting 
OUT Iowa Line to-day offers 
More Favorable Points 
than any other road in the country, while for 
Deer and Bear Hunting, and for Brook Troat, Lake 
Salmon, Pike, Pickerel and Bass Fishing 
a hundred points on the Northern and North-western lines of this 
Company will be fonnd nnsurpassed by anything in the West. 
MARTIN HUGHITT, Gen. Sup’t, Chicago. 
W. H. SX£NN£TT, Geo.Pass. Agt, Cbicago 
