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Michigan Fish and Game Law. 
Mr. E. S. Holices, one of our most intelligent sports- 
man correspondents, sends us the laws of ^Michigan, 
which, as he says justly, all sportsmen in that country 
ought to read and understand. The following is a sy- 
nopsis : 
Elk can be shot in the upper Peninsula from August 
1, and in the lower Peninsula September 15 and Decem- 
ber 15. Wild turkey may be shot in October, Novein- 
ber and December ; woodcock after July 5 ; prairie 
chicken, pinnated grouse, rufled grouse, commonly 
called partridge or pheasant, wood duck, teal or mal- 
lard, or any water-fowl, only from September 1 to Janu- 
ary 1. [The last day for woodcock is vaguely expressed, 
^uail may be killed in October, November and De- 
cember. 
No snaring or trapping of birds permitted, except for 
breeding purposes. 
Swivel or punt guns, and nest robbing prohibited. 
No person shall sell, or expose for sale, any of the 
birds or animals protected. 
Violation of act declared a misdemeanor ; penalty, 
$50, or thirty days’ imprisonment. 
Small birds as enumerated protected. 
Railroads, etc. (see act May, 1875), may not transport 
protected animals in close time ; such prohibition not 
to apply to animals in transitu from other States wherein 
it is lawful to kill. 
Wild pigeon in brooding time protected. 
Jurisdiction given to justices and constables and 
prosecuting attorneys bound to prosecute. 
The Fish laws provide against pollution of streams by 
various articles, from which, curiously enough, chemi- 
cals or factory refuse are omitted, unless the word 
“filth” be taken to include them. 
Size of meshes limited in future nets, without preju- 
dice to vested rights. • 
Spawn of white fish caught must be deposited in 
waters where caught. 
Close season for speckled trout from September 1 un- 
til May 1 ; grayling, from November 1 until June 1. 
Spear or net prohibited. Possession in close time to be 
held pi'ima facie evidence. , 
Permits for scientific purposes may be grafted by 
Superintendents of Fisheries. 
Penalty, from $25 to $100. Board of Supervisors 
may make rules for use of pound or trap nets, etc. 
Moiety of fines to informers. 
Weir dams, fish weirs or weir nets prohibited. 
The use of seines, trap nets, etc., prohibited. This 
reads so ambiguously as to be almost valueless. 
Mr Wilbur F. Parker, the “Parker Gun” manu- 
facturer, is stopping at the Tremont House. He is en 
route for Colorado, where he intends taking a hand at 
shooting and fishing on the plains and in the Rocky 
Mountains the present and the coming month. Mr. 
Parker is one of the most prominent sportsmen in the 
country, and well and favorably known to all who de- 
light in the use of the gun and the rod, or desire the 
protection of our game and fish during their breeding 
season, as the founder of the gentleman’s journal, the 
American tporteman, now the Rod and Gun. Mr. 
Parker, through his untiring exertions, founded the Na- 
tional Sportsmen’s Association, which is to hold its next 
annual convention in this city next summer, and is 
Corresponding Secretary of the same . — The Inter-Ocean. 
The Meriden Agricultural Society send us a pro- 
gramme of their annual fair, including horse trots and 
ca'tle shows. Charles Parker, Pres’t; Levi E. Coe, Sec. 
We mention the matter for old recollection sake, but 
horse matters are out of our line. Why not add a field 
trial and a shoot in all these country fairs? They are 
or ought to be part of rural life. 
- Arkansas Sportsmen’s Club has sent us their con- 
stitution and by-laws. To make the job complete they 
should now resolve themselves into a State Association, 
with power for other clubs to join them, and send Ar- 
kansas delegates to the ;National Sportsmen’s Associa- 
tion, 
The Erie Railroad is the most direct line for those 
who intend visiting the great field trial of dogs at Mem- 
phis in October next, and any one going out with dogs 
will find it to their interest to consult us before secur- 
ing passage by any other route. Nearly all the Eastern 
sportsmen who have gone W est this season for chicken 
shooting have gone by the Erie, Great Western and 
Michigan Central. One evening we “helped” in see- 
ing off fourteen splendid setters in one baggage car, 
and from letters received the dogs were satisfied, and 
the owners will try it again. 
Mr. R. B. Flowers, a New York city banker, and bis 
brother, a prominent citizen and Mayor of Watertown, 
N. T., with a party of friends, left Chicago on Wednes- 
day evening last, for sport on the prairies. The Chi- 
cago and Northwestern Railroad fitted out a special 
train for their use, with Pullman hotel and baggage cars 
complete, and all they have to do is to bring in the 
birds and have them cooked while they run to the next 
field by rail. The first stop to be made is at Boone, in 
Central Iowa, after which they will stop wherever game 
is most plenty, and return when they get ready. It is 
one of the most complete outfits we have heard of, and 
a favorable report of the expedition may be looked for 
some time in October. 
A MAN in the employ of Mr. Crook, of fishing tackle 
fame. No. 50 Fulton street, recently caught three trout 
from Spring Creek, an open public stream between this 
city and Jamaica, L. I., the largest of which weighed 
2i lbs., and the other two 1 lb. each. The largest has 
been prepared for his show'-window by taxidermist 
Scrimgeour. 
Thebe is good rail shooting to be had at Stratford, 
Conn., on the line of the New York and New Haven 
Railroad, and average shots bag from fifty to eighty a 
day without difficulty. Boats with good pushers are 
scarce. 
Capt. Webb, famous for his swim across the English 
Channel, is to be the recipient of a subscription which 
already foots up £5,000. It has been prbposed that he 
should be made a Knight, but there is no precedent for 
such an act of royal approval for an athlete ; that is re- 
served for Aldermen. 
We have received the report of the Manchester 
Dog Show just as we are going to press. It will appear 
White Water Valley Sportsmen’s Club have 
sent us their constitution and by-laws. We also ac- 
knowledge like favor from Otseningo Club of Burling- 
ton — the latter one of the most complete set of rules 
that have come to us. 
, A Syracuse correspondent tells us: “The shooting 
has been very slim lately, but very few woodduck or 
partridge having been killed. In fact, the weather has 
been so very hot that very few have been out for a day’s 
sport. The pigeons have left this section, but the trap- 
pers appear to think that a good many more will be 
caught this season.” 
Mr. Carlos Gove, the gunsmith of Denver, Col., has 
been a Western frontiersman about forty years, and his 
history, if he could be persuaded to put it in print, is 
worth telling. Mr. Gove left his home in New Hamp- 
shire when sixteen years of age, with three shillings in 
his pocket, which he had earned as bounty money for 
shooting crows. He went to Florida and took a hand 
in the Seminole Indian war, got wounded, and was 
transferred to Fort Leavenworth. In 1837 he was in 
Iowa, and says that he saw more buffalo where the city 
of Des Moines now stands than he has ever since seen 
at one time in any other portion of the West. From 
1837 to 1840 he was all over the frontier in the employ 
of the Government, and passed through many of the 
frontiersman’s trials and experiences. From 1840 to 
1840 he was in the Indian department, and his head- 
quarters were on the Missouri River, about seven miles 
below Council Bluffs. At that time the Pottawattomies 
had about four thousand warriors, to-day only twenty- 
next week. 
Our fi^end Wheaton, with Mr. B. W. Jenkins, of 
Baltimore, is in the vicinity of St. James, Minnesota, 
with the justly celebrated dogs Hero and Ranger. They 
must find rare sport shooting over such thoroughbred 
animals. 
Dr. J. O. Scott, of Waupaca, Wis., has recently in- 
vented an appliance to gun locks, which appears to be 
simple and practical. By the introduction of a small 
friction roller into the end of the set spring, with 
a suitable notch to receive it, which is supplied 
with a set screw, the adjustment gives any desired trig- 
ger action, from a hard pull to the finest touch. It can 
be applied to any lock. 
The Rod and Gun Club held its annual meeting at 
Springfield, Mass., and elected the following officers : 
President, E. H. Lathrop ; Vice-President, D. B, Wes- 
son ; Secretary and Treasurer, Robert O. Morris ; Ex- 
ecutive Committee, E. H. Lathrop, D. B. Wesson, Rob- 
ert O. Morris, D. J. Marsh and S. T. Hammond. The 
report of the secretary and treasurer showed that the 
society numbered 58 members, had $300 in the treasury 
and was out of debt. 
The Long Island Poultry Association will have a 
grand poultry, pigeon and dog show at the Skating 
Rink, Brooklyn, first week in December. For particu- 
lars, applications may be made to Mr. Thomas Smith, 
Stoney Brook, L. I. 
A VIGOROUS CLUB is that at Union (Ind.) We take the 
following from the South Bend Union, and hope the ex- 
ample will be followed by other clubs in other places : 
“ At a meeting of the Union Club last week, Henry 
Galloway was expelled for shooting chickens out of sea- 
son. Mr. Galloway was convicted before Justice Palmer 
and fined for the offense. It was an unpleasant duty, 
but one which the Club owed to themselves.” 
Six New Haven gentlemen, among them a nephew 
of Gov. English, have gone on a two months’ hunting 
expedition to the northwestern part of Iowa. They 
take six dogs, and will quarter with a Norwegian family 
in a wild and almost uninhabited region, where teal 
ducks, mallard' ducks, geese, prairie hens, wood pigeons, 
snipe and sandhill cranes are plenty, besides larger 
game. 
Our friend Eaton, of sportsmen’s supplies notoriety, 
wants to go shooting, but cannot find the time. Well, 
George, we know how it is ourselves. So stick to busi- 
ness, and you will be able one day to* say, “ I am off 
to-day, and I don’t care a continental whether school 
keeps or not.” 
five or thirty remain. In the fall of 1846 the Potta- 
wattomies were removed to their new reservations in 
Kansas, and Mr. Gove went to St. Joseph, Mo. — the new 
town started with only fifteen families. There he 
opened a gun store, and stayed until 1854, when he 
moved off to Council Bluffs, and continued the business 
there until 1857. He next bought a farm, with the in- 
tention of taking the world easy, but farming was harder 
than store-keeping, so he gave it up to his eldest son, 
and in 1860 began running freights to Denver with ox 
trains, which he afterward expressed into a mule train. 
He says he has paid $175 for the privilege of riding on the 
top of a coach from Denver to Council Bluffs, and been 
six days on the journey without any rest or sleep except 
what he could get when riding. In 1864 he settled 
down in Denver in the gun business, and now has one 
of the largest stores in the city. 
The London Field furnishes the following: “On Monday. August 
2, a very singular accident occurred to a female African elephant 
that had been a resident in the Zoological Gardens. Regent's Park 
since September. 1865. The yonng lady, whose name is Alice, is 
now in the bloom of elphantine youth and beauty, and, although 
perfectly docile, possesses tha playfulness natural to her age and 
sex, amusing herself by throwing about in pure wantonness her lit- 
ter whilst her sleeping apartment is being cleaned out, consequently 
it has bean found convenient at such times as this operation is per- 
formed to secure her by a chain passed around one fore-leg, jast 
above the foot, after the manner that the Indian species is secured 
in the East. On the morning of Monday she was secured as usual, 
but on the keeper passing out into the inclosure she called out 
loudly, and on his returning it was found that she had tom off the 
end of her trunk, which was then lying on the floor, whilst she was 
waving the bleeding stump in the air in evident pain. The accident 
evidently occurred from her pushing the free end of the trunk be- 
tween the chain and the leg, and then, moving the limb, she must 
have nipped the trunk forcibly. The sudden pain of this sensjtive 
organ doubtless caused her to pull back the leg, still tightening the 
pressure, and a violent effort to release the trnnk tore off the end 
the separation taking place where it was constricted by the chain. 
The separated portion is, or rather was— for now it is much con- 
tracted by the spirit in which it has been placed for preservation- 
one foot in length on one side, by eight inches on the other. The 
tom portion shows the wonderfully intricate muscular stractnre 
surrounding the two tubular prolongations of the nostrils. On 
visi— ing Alice this afternoon, I found her laving the wounded ex- 
tremity of her proboscis in her water-tank, drawing up bucketful 
after bucketful, and syringing herself with as much ease as if the 
organ were intact. On the advent of any visitors she raised her 
trunk in the air, and opened her month to receive buns, etc., in the 
usual manner, and then walked tmmpetiug about in her accustomed 
style. In fact, except that close observation shows the somewhat 
irregular torn extremity, no visitor would suspect that anything un- 
toward had occurred, as she now feeds herself with her proboscis, 
in the usual manner. As much as has been written respecting the 
decease of the female elephant that died a short time since, I may 
state that she did not die of a broken heart for the loss of her keep- 
er, as currently reported, hut of scrofulous disease of the lungs, of 
several years' duration, and her death was accelerated by disease of 
the bones of the leg. W. B. Tioetjixiek. 
A Californian correspondent writes us : “ Game in 
this country is very abundant this season. Quail espe- 
cially are in larger numbers than for five years past. Our 
duck and goose shooting is always first-class; also, 
English snipe. Salmon and trout not to be excelled in 
the world.” 
Constant Reader.— I n your issue of Sept. 4, under the heading, 
“Remarkable Shooting,'’ yon speak of some very fine shots made by 
Messrs. Hamilton and Fam ell in your columns. Will you be kind 
enough to mention the name of the maker and kind of flrearm used 
and also the kind of sights used ? Ans.— Ballard sporting rifle, glob 
and pin-head sights, off-hand shootiag. 
