Sept. 18, 1875. 
381 
SETTERS. 
I have for sale another litter of Setter Pups from my 
celebrated bitch "Sue,” by Mosher’s thoroughbred 
dog “Frank.” “ Sue ” is out of Warwick s Flora, 
by Charles Aurand’s celebrated dog “ Colonel,” of 
Clyde N T.. 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. 
FILE BINDER. 
Handsome cloth covered gilt lettered binders, snitable for flies of 
the Bod aitd Qdk. Price, |1.B0. For sale at this office, and sent by 
mail on receipt of price. 
TENNESSEE 
STATE SPORTSMEN’S 
ASSOCIATION. 
THE GREAILOIIDOJ^GUIITBKIL, 18/5, 
W. W. GREENER begs to inform his numerous clients in the 
United States that he has been very successfal in the above trial, 
having secured the first prize, 
A SILVER CUP, VALUE m GUINEAS 
(class 2 for 12 bore); also winner in class 1 for 8 and 10 bores, and 
class 10 for 20 bore. He has won in all the clas es for Unproved 
boring, which is on a different plan to My other maker, and is far 
superior in the three most essential points, viz. . pattern, penetra- 
tion and regularity of shooting. , , . . 
Messrs. McLaran, Williams & Co., of St. Louis, we now import- 
ing those Double Close-Shooting Guns to order. A full report or 
this great trial will be shortly published. To be had from Messrs. 
McLaren, Williams & Co. 
W. W. GfiREENER, 
Champion Gun Maker, 
St. Mary's Works, 
Birmingham, England. 
nilCHIGAIV 
CENTRAL RAILROAD. 
SECOND ANNUAL MEETING AT 
TElSTlSr. 
OCTOBER 25th, 26th and 27th, 
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 Tr ial. 
Premiums $1,300 Cash, 
And $450 in cups donated by 
ROD AND GUN, 
Turf, Field and Farm and Foreet and Stream. 
Programmes, with full details, will be furnished to 
all applicants. W. A. WHEATLEY, Sec., 
Memphis, Tenn. 
Detroit to Chicago 284 Miles. 
An important link in the 
GREAT THROUGH LINE OF TRAVEL 
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 Weatem Roads. 
HENRY C. WENTWORTH, 
General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Ills. 
We make no charge for Guns or other ordinary traps tor Sports- 
[ men. Doge* carried at reasonable figures. 
REaULATION TARGETS 
For Wimbledon and Creedmoor practice ; also targets I 
for RING MEASURE3IENT. reduced on paper, so as 
to be used at 25 or 50 yards distance in practice shoot- 1 
ing. Can be obtained at 
Conlin’s Rifle Gallery, 
930 BROADWAY. N. Y. 
No amateur can afford to be without them, as he can 
keep every target and mark his improvement. 
Prices. — Any target for 25 yards, $1 per 100 ; for 50 1 
yards, from $1 50 to $2 per 100. 
FORWARDED BY MAIL UPON RECEIVING PRICE. 
THE ONLY DIRECT RAILROAD from Chigago to 
St. Louis, and Chicago to Kansas City, 
WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS. 
FIRST-CLASS ACCOMMODATIONS IN EVERY 
THING. 
Travelers’ Official Hallway Guide, 
FOR THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, ' 
Containing Railway Time Schednles, Connections and Distances ; 
Ocean and Inland Steam Navigation Rentes ; Maps of Prin- 
cipal Lines, and Lists of General Officers, together 
with each Miscellaneons Information relative 
to Railway improvements and Prog- 
ress as may be nsefnl to the 
Traveling Public. 
Apply at office of Rod and Gun. 
GEORUll I FLORIDA 
C. J. MAYNARD & CO., 
DEALERS IN SPECIMENS OF NATURAL BISTORT. 
We have jnst received a fresh supply of BIRD SKINS and EGGS, 
as well as other objects of Na'ural mstory, from Florida and else- 
where. Collectors will do well to send for our sain catalogae, and 
make a selection at once, so as i o secure the best of the lot. 
MOUNTED GAME BIRDS A SPECIALTY. 
WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY FOR SALE. 
ricTURBS op eaicE Brans and mammals. 
SOMETHING NEW: 
Game Birds and Mammals, mounted medallon-Iike, to hang on 
the walls of your dining-room or office. 
VEw Bran trap. 
Jnst the thing to catch living 
Price. 75 cents; 
vine birds for the cages or for mounting 
specimens. Price. 75 cents; all ready for use. 
Send stamp for the New Catalogue. 
Address C. J. MA VNARD A C O.. 
NEWTON\TLLE, MASS 
Poultry World. 
A splendid Illusirated Monthly, devoted entirely to Poultry. |1 25 
a year. Two or more volumes furnished at $1.00 each. The third 
volume commences January, 1874. Address POULTRY WORLD, 
Hartford, Conn. 
Parties wanting informa- 
tion about Georgia or Flor- 
ida should subscribe for 
the Morning News, published^ at Savannah, Ga. Daily., $10 ; 
Weekly., $2 per annum. Advertisers desiring customers m these 
States should 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. 
DEAD CAME. 
Quail. Woodcock. 
. TWO COMB-A-NION PICTURES, 
Life-Size Beautiful Chromes. 
Price $5 per Pair. 
Carefully packed and sent to any address on receipt of money. 
ROBERT NEWELL & CO., 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
H UNTER’S and TBAPPER’S Ilinstrated Practical 
Guide. Rifle-shootlug, gUDning, malting and nsing traps, 
snares and nets, baits and baiting, poisons, bird-1 me, preserving 
stretching, dressing, tanning and dyeing skins ahd fars, fishing, etc! 
With fifty engravings. *0 cts. Taxidermists Mannal, 50c. Dog 
Training, 25c. Of book-sellers or by mail. JESSE HANEY & 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 hitches 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-class pedigree. He won 
first at Burslem, third at Dublin, and second, at Nant- 
wich in 1874, and at Paris, Ky. Last June won first in 
his class, and champion cup as the best setter of any 
class at the show. Sendjpedigree of bitch, and apply 
for terms to ARNOLD BURGES, Maysville, Ky. 
ENGLISH SPORTING GUNPOWDER. 
CURTISS & HARVEY’S 
Diamond G-rain. 
Noe. 2, 3. 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. Snperior Rifle, Enfield Rifle, and Col. 
Hawker’s Ducking. W. STITT, 61 Cedar etreet, N. Y., Agent for 
the United States. 
VANITY FAIR. 
It is shaved from the best Nat- 
nral Leaf, for Meerschaum and 
Cigarettes. Does not make the 
tongue sore. Liberal sample on receipt of monev. Highest Award, 
Vienna, 1873. Send for Circular. WIV. S. KIITIBAL,U dc CO., 
Pebrless Tobacco Works. Roebeater, N. Y. 
SPORTSMEN will find splendid shooting on the line of this 
road; prairie chicken, geese, dneks, brant, quail, etc Connects 
direct at Kansas City with the Kansas Pacific Railroad for the great 
Buffalo and Antelope range of Kansas and Colorado. 
Liberal arrangements for transport of Dogs for Sportsmen. 
JAJIES CHARLTON, 
General Passenger Agent, 
Chicago, nis. 
rriie 
S^portsman’s SLoute. 
Chicago aud North-Western Railway, 
This great corporation now owns and operates over two thousand 
I miles of road, radiating from Chicago like the fingers in a man’s 
1 hand: its lines reach in all directions and cover abont all of the 
country norih, north-west and west of Chicago. With one branch 
it reaches TRacine, Kenosha, Milwaukee, and the country north 
thereof; with another line it pashes throagh Janesville, Watertown, 
Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, Green Bay, Escanaba, to Nagannee and 
Marquette; with another line it passes Ihrongh Madison, Elroy, and 
I for St. Paul and Minneapolis; branching westward from Elroy, it 
runs to and through Winona, Owatonna, St. Peter, Mankato. New 
I Ulm, and stops not nntil Lake Kameska, Dakota, is reached ; an- 
other line starts from Chicago and runs through Elgin and Rockford 
to Freeport, anil, via the Illinois Central, reaches Warren. Galena 
and Dnbaque, and the conntry beyond. Still another line runs 
almost due westward, and passes throagh Dixon, Sterling. Fnlton, 
Clinton (Iowa), Cedar Rapids, Marshalltown, Grand Jonction, Mis- 
souri Valley Junction, to Conncil Bluffs and Omaha. This last- 
named is the “ Great Trans-Continentai, Route,” and the 
pioneer overland line tor Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, 
Montana, Nev.da, Calitornia and the Pacific Coast. It runs 
through the Garden of lUiuois and Iowa, and is the best, safest, 
shortest and best route to Omaha, Lincoln, and other points in 
Nebraska, and for Cheyenne, Denteb, Salt Lake City, Vu»- 
siNiA City, Cabson, Sacramento, San Francisco and all other 
points west of the Missouri River. 
See, then, what one Company can do. If you want to go to Mil 
waukec. Fond du Lac, Manitowoc. Sheboygan, Janesville, Water! 
town, Oshkosh, De Perc, Green Bay, Rlpon, Madison. Baraboo* 
Ean Claire. Hudson, Stillwater, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Dulnth, 
Breckenridge, Morehead, Fort Garry, Winona, Owatonna, New 
Ulm, Freeport, Warren, Plattsville, Galena, Dabuque. Waterloo, 
Fort Dodge, Sionx City, Yanirton, Conncil Bluffs, Omaha, Lincoln, 
Denver, Salt Lake City, Sacramento, San Francisco, or a hundred 
other northern, north-western, or western points, this grea' line is 
■ ■ of the beet steel rail, and is 
the one you should take. 
111 ! 
GRAND BENCH SHOW FOR DOCS. 
Held in connection with the New England and New 
Hampshire State Fair, under the auspices of the New 
Hampshire Fish and Game Leajrae at Manchester, N 
H., Sept. 7, 8, 9 and 10, 1875. For premium list and 
furthei particulars address 
GEORGE \V. RIDDLE, Treasurer, 
Manchester, N. H. 
The Goss Revolving Cartridge Holder, 
Carries Paper or Metallic Shells, either end up, revolves on 
centre slides, weighs but ta ponnds, and is only inches wide. 
Holders flare at top so as to quickly receive the shells, and, being 
elastic, securely clasp the same. For ease of action and rapid shoot- 
ing it excels anything of the kind invented. Price, C.O.D., |6.30. 
In ordering, give the slxe of shells and a loose measurement out- 
side of vest. N. 8. GOSS, Neosho Falls, Kan. 
The track 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 route are made 
np of elegant new Pallman Palace Drawing Room and Sleeping 
Coaches, built expressly for this Ivne, luxnnoue, well-ughted and 
I well-ventilated Day Coaches, and, pleasant lounging and smoking 
cars— all built by this Company In their own shop*. The cars are 
I all equipped with the celebrated Miller Safety Platform, and patent 
Buffers and Couplings, Westinghonse Safety Air Brakes, and every 
other appliance that has been devised for the safety of passenger 
trains. All traies are run by telegraph. In a word, this GREAT 
LINE has the best and smoothest track, and the meet elegant and 
comlortable equipment of any road in the West, and has no com- 
' pelitor in the country. It is eminently the favorite route with the 
Chicagoans traveling west, north, or north west, and is acknowl- 
edged by the traveliug public to be the proper line for all points m 
Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, No-them Michisran, Da- 
kota, Western Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Mon- 
tana, luabo, Nevada, Cahfornia and the Pacific Slope. 
TO SPORTSMEN: 
This line presents peculiar advantages. For 
I Prairie Chickens, Ducks, Geese Sc Brant Shooting; 
onr Iowa Line to-day offers 
More Favorable Points 
than any other road in the conntry, while tor 
Deer and Bear Hunting, and for Brook Trout, Lake 
Salmon, Pike, Pickerel and Bass Fishing 
a hundred points on the Northern and North-western lines of this 
Company will be fonnd unsurpassed by anything in the West. 
ITIARTIN HUGHITT, Gen. Snp’t, Chicago. 
W. H. STENNKTT, Gen.Pass. Agt., Chicago 
