Sept. 25, 1875. 
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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. 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. 
FILE BINDER. 
Handsome cloth coTered gilt lettered binders, snitable for files of 
the Hod Arm Guk. Price, |1.60. For sale at this office, and sent by 
mail on receipt of price. 
TENNESSEE 
STATE SPORTSMEN’S 
ASSOCIATION. 
THEGREATLONOONJUNTRIAUB/S, 
W. W. GREE>rER begs to inform his namerous clients in the 
United States that he has been very successfal in the above trial, 
having secured the first prize. 
A SILVER CUP, VALUE 40 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 ^y other maker, and is far 
enperior in the three most essential points, viz.: pattern, penetra- 
tion and regularity of shooting. . , 
Messrs. McLaran, Williams & Co., of St. Louis, are now import- 
ing those Double Close-Shooting Guns to order. A full report of 
this great trial will be shortly published- To be had from Messrs. 
McL^en, Williams & Cp. 
W. W. GREEN^ER, 
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 
MlCHIGAltf 
CENTRAL RAILROAD. 
Detroit to Chicago 284 Miles. 
An important link in the 
GREAT THROUGH LTXE OF TRAVEL 
Between the East and West. 
Parties desirina; to visit any part of the West will find this road 
first-class in all respects. 
Connections are made at Chicago with all the W estem Roads. 
HENRY C. WENTWORTH, 
General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Ills. 
We make no charge tor Guns or other ordinary traps for Sports- 
men. Dogs carried at reasonable figures. 
"iCAGl & altI railroad, 
THE ONLY DIRECT RAILROAD from Chigago to 
St. Louis, and Chicago to Kansas City, 
SECOND ANNUAL MEETING AT 
iVlELdlFKIS, 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 Trial. 
Premiums $1,300 Cash, 
And $450 in cups donated by 
Conliti’s Rifle Gallery, 
9aO 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 
yards, from $1 50 to $2 per 100. 
FORWARDED BY MAIL UPOM RECEIVING FRICK. 
Travelers’ Official Railway Guide, 
FOR THE UNITED STATES AND 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 Miscellaneous Informalion relative 
WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS. 
FIRST-CLASS ACCOMMODATIOIIS IX EVERT 
THING. 
SPOSTSlfEy will find splendid shooting on the line of this 
road: prairie chicken, geese, ducks, brant, quail, etc Connects 
direct at Kansas City with the Kmsas Pacific Railroad for the great 
Buffalo and Antelope range of Kansas and Colorado. 
Liberal arrangements for transport of Dogs for Sportsmen. 
JAMES CHARLTON, 
General Passenger Agent, 
Chicago, Ills. 
rriie 
Siportsman’s J£oute. 
Chicago and North-Western Railway. 
ROD AND 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. MAYNARD & CO., 
DEALERS IN SPECIMENS OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
We have jnst received a freeh supply of BIRD SKINS and EGGS, 
as well as other objects of Na'ural History, from Florida and else- 
where. Collectore will do well to send for oar ssin catalogue, and 
make a selection at once, so as o secure tbe best of the lot. 
MOUNTED GAME BIRDS A SPECIALTY. 
WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY FOR SALE. 
PICTUBEB OP GAME BIBDS AND KAMBALS. 
SOMETHING NEW: 
Game Birds and Mammals, mounted medalion-llke, to hang on 
the walls of yonr dining-room or office. 
NEW BIBD TRAP. 
Jnet the thing to catch living birds for the cages or for mounting 
specimens. Price, 75 cents; all ready for nee. 
Send stamp for the New Catalogue. 
Address C. J. MAYNARD & CO.. 
NEWTON5"ILLE, MASS. 
Poultry World. 
A splendid Illustrated 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 POUL'TRY WORLD, 
Hartford, Conn. 
to Railway Improvements and Prog- 
ress as may be nsefnl to the 
Traveling Public. 
Apply at office of Rod aud Guu. 
GEORGLi I FLORIDI 
Parties wanting informa- 
tion about (jeorgia or Flor- 
ida should subscribe for 
at Savannah, Ga. Daily, $10 ; 
2 ; 
the Morning News, published 
Weekly, $2 per annum. Advertisers desiring customers in these 
States shoula use its columns. It is the best paper en the South- 
east. Specimen copies sent on receipt of 5 cents. Address J. H. 
ESTILL, Savannah, Ga. 
DEAD GAME. 
Quail. Woodcock. 
T'W'O COMBAT^IOlSr 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. 
ENGLISH SPORTING GUNPOWDER. 
CURTISS & HARVEY’S 
Diamond Grain. 
Nos. 2, 3. 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. Superior Hifle, Enfield Rifle, and CoY. 
Hawker’s Ducking. W. STIl'T, 61 Cedar street, N. Y., Agent for 
the United States. 
H. N. SHERMAN’S 
H UNTER’S and TRAPPER’S Illustrated Practical 
Guide. Rifle-shooting, guonlDg. making and using trsps, 
snares and nets, baits and baiting, poisons, bird 1 me, preserving, 
etretebing, dressing, tanning and dyeing skins ahd fare, flebing, etc. 
W iih fifty engravings. 20 cts. Taxidermists Manual, 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 bitches at $50. Send pedi- 
gree and description of bitches to DAVID WILKIN- 
SON, Castleton, Vt. 
STUD DOG. — I will receive a few bitebes, 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 be-st setter of any 
class at the show. Send pedigree of bitch, and apply 
for terms to ARNOLD BURGES, Maysville, Ky. 
NEW PATENT BREECH-LOADER, 
Manufactured at BELOIT, WIS. 
Special attention given to making Guns shoot 
CLOSE AND STRONG FOR LONG RANGE. 
All kinds of Guns and Sporting Goode imported direct. 
H. N. S. is so situated that he can furnish EINE GUNS at much 
less price than is usually charged for them. 
Agent for tbe Uittmar Powder. Shells furniebed, properly loaded 
with powder omy, if desired. Brown shells. $3 50; blue, $4; green, 
$4 50 per 100. Sent to any address C. O. D. 
The Goss Rerolvlng Cartridge Holder, 
Cabbies Papeb or Metallic i^hells, either end up, revolves on 
centre slides, weighs but IM pounds, and is only IM inches wide. 
Holders flare at top so as to quickly receive tbe sbells, and, being 
elastic, gtcurely clasp the same. For ease of action and rapid shoot- 
ing it ex ;els an^’thing or the kind invented. Price, C.O.D., $6.50. 
In ordering, give the size of shells and a loose measurement out- 
side of vest. N. S. GOSS, Neosho Falls, Kan. 
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 directions and cover about all of tbe 
country north, north-west aud west of Chicago. With one branch 
it reaches Racine. Kenosha, Milwaukee, and the country north 
thereof; with another line it poshes tbrongh Janesville, Watertown, 
Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, Green Bay, Escanaba, to Nagaunee and 
Marquette; with another line it passes tbrongh Madison, Elroy, and 
for St. Paul and Minneapolis; branching westward from Elroy, it 
runs to and tbrongh Winona, Owatonna, St. Peter, Mankato. New 
Ulm, and stops not nntil Lake Kameeka, Dakota, is reached: an- 
other line starts from Chicago and runs through Elgin and Rockford 
to Freeport, and, via the Illinois Central, reaches Warren, Galena 
and Dubuque, and the country beyond. Still another line runs 
almost due westward, and passes through Dixon, Ster'ing, Fulton, 
Clinton (Iowa), Cedar Rapids, Marshalltown, Grand Junction, Mis- 
sonri Valley Junction, to Council Bluffs and Omaha. This last- 
named is the “ Great Tbans-Conti-vental Route,” and the 
pioneer oierland line for Nerbasba, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, 
•Montana. Nevada, Calieobnia and the Pacific Coast. It rims 
through the Garden of Illinois and Iowa, and Is the best, safest, 
shortest and best ronte t» Omaha, Lincoln, and other points in 
Nebraska, and for Chetenne. Denver, Salt Lake Citt, Vib- 
eiNLA City, Cabson, Saceamkntj, San Francisco and all other 
points west of the « issouri River. 
See, then, what one Company can do. If you want to go to Mil 
wankee. Fond da Lac, Manitowoc. Sheboygan, Janesville, Water 
town. Oshkosh, De Pere, (ireen Bay, Ripon, Madison. Baraboo, 
Ean Claire, Hudson, Stillwater, St. Paul, Mlni'capolie, Dnluth, 
Bre- kenridge, Morehead, Fort Garrv, Winona, Owatonna, New 
Ulm, Frevport, Warren, Plattsville, Galena, Dubuque, Waterloo, 
Fort Dodge. Sioux City, Yanirton, Council Bluffs, Omaha, Lincoln, 
Denver, Salt Lake City, Sa romento, San Francisco, or a hnndred 
other northern, north-western, or western points, this grea line is 
tbe one you should take. The track is of tbe best steel rail, and is 
well ballasted and as free from duet as a road can be made. The 
bridges are strong and durable, and all the appointments are fiist- 
class in every respect. Tbe trains that run over this i-onte are mide 
np of elegant new Pullman Palace Drawing Room and Sleeping 
Coaches, built expressly for this line, luxurious, well- ighted and 
well-ventilated Day Coaches, and pleasant lounging and smoking 
cars— all bnllt by this Company in their own shops. The care are 
all equipped with Ihe celebrated Miller Safety Platform, end patent 
Buffers and ( onplings, Weslinghonse Safely Air Brakes, and every 
other appliance that has been devised for the safety of passenger 
trains. All trains are mn by telegraph. In a word, this GREAT 
LINE has the beet and smoothest track, and the meet elegant and 
cumiortable equipment of any road in the West, and has no com- 
petitor in the country. It is eminently the favorite ronie with tbe 
Chicagoans traveling west, north, or north west, and is acknowl- 
edged by the traveling public to be the proper line for all points m 
Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, No them Michigan, Da- 
kota, Western Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Mon- 
tana, Ids^o, Nevada, California and tbe Pacific Slope. 
TO SPORTSMEN: 
This line presents peculiar advantages. For 
Prairie Cbickens, Ducks, Geese Sc Brant Shooting 
our Iowa Line to-day offers 
More Favorable Points 
than any other road in the country, while for 
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 found unsnrpassed by anytbmg in the West. 
MARTIN HUGHITT, Gen. Snp’t, Chicago. 
W. H. STENNETT, Gen.Pass. Agt., Chicago 
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