FOREST AND STREAM. 

To-day, August 21st, 1s held the annual meeting of the 
Calendonians at Myrtle avenue park, Brooklyn. There are 
no sports more truly athletic, or caleulated to test and mani- 
fest the latent nerve power and muscle, than these ancient 
Scottish games, which always attract large crowds of spee- 
tators. The athletes sometimes exhibit wonderful feats of 
Strength and agility, and we expect to receive a startling 
record from the field in the matter of putting the stone, 
throwing the hammer and tossing the caber. . The hercu- 
lean performances of the great champion, Downie, are 
almost beyond belief. 
The pastor of a certain Congregational Church in Pater- 
son, New Jersey, is about%to be dismissed, a morning paper 
States. He is thus described :—‘‘He is a talented but erratic 
young man, a devotee of tobacco, a favorite with the girls, 
a singer in a quartet, and an active member of a base ball 
nine. He also writes poetry and plays chess. The old- 
fashioned members of the church are now looking for an 
old man who has had the! smallpox, and who is too stiff to 
make the distance between the bases.” 
Saturday, the 16th, was a gala day for the base ball play- 
ers. A sharp contest for the championship took place at 
Athletic and Washington 
clubs, which the former won by a score of 14 to 0. The 
fielding on both sides was excellent, but the effective pitch- 
Philadelphia between the 
have settled the Indian question, if the latest news from 
the fronticr is any indication of the peaceful inclinations of 
these poetical Lo’s ! These noor fellows are roaming about 
attacking unprotected settlements, stealing horses, ete;, 
and never missing a chance to take a scalp. One of their 
nice little bands has been making some fun in the vicinity 
of Fort McKavett. Lieutenant Wheeler, of the Second 
Cavalry, with forty men, went after the inhuman murderers 
of Mrs. Richards and Miss Hall, tn the Wind River Valley, ° 
some few weeks since, but missed their trail, it having been 
washed away by the rains. This detachment,. however, in 
the opinion of Colonel Brockett, of the Second Cavalry, 
was altogether too small, and would have undoubtedly been 
overpowered had they fallen in with the Indians, who were 
reported a good force. 
the Second has had severe scouting service, and the force 
in the vicinity of Fort Stambaugh, W. T., and other posts 
on the frontier should be largely increased if the Govern- 
Our little 
detachments in the Indian country have extended lines to 
protect, and, restrained as they are by the peace policy of 
ment ever expects to check Indian depredations. 
the Government, stand a small chance against the Indians, 
General Crook has somewhat settled the Indian business 
in Arizona, but not by a peace policy, and General “Phil” 
and General Sherman think it about time these savages 
This detachment (company B) of 
adit and the Drama. 
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LACK Crook on Monday, August 18, was offered to the 
Patrons of Niblos’, and was greeted of course with a 
crowded house. Some years ago, when this “spectacle” 
was first presented, it was a matter of great speculation, 
even among the most hardened playgoers, whether it could 
maintain itself ; we doubt if the managers at first were alto- 
gether at ease on the subject. Dating from the day in New 
York city when Greenough’s chanting cherubs, singing 
“Gloria in Hxeelsis,” were, in deference to the public taste, 
exhibited with their loins girded with modest gauze, to the 
day the Black Crook appeared, there certainly has been a 
change, and no one can say that our old times “village 
modesty” has not been entirely worked out by the ‘‘whirli- 
gigs” of time. 
This is ‘‘the fourth revival,” if we mistake not. The first 
era was so long that managers, actors, ballet girls and the 
machinery were actually worn out with the repetition ; but 
there was an audience to the last night, and the story is, 
that weeks after the withdrawal there were occasionally 
found hidden away among the dark recesses of the play-- 
house ‘‘old patrons,” who had gone to sleep after the fash- 
ion of Rip Van Winkle, praying only to be awakened when 
the Black Crook again strutted upon the stage. 

were either kept on the Government reservations and made 
to do something for a living, or the troops allowed to wipe 
afew of them out. It strikes us this peace policy should 
have ceased with the Modoc war, but as long as the Indian 
agents send cases of breech-loading Sharps marked ‘‘hard- 
ware,” to the number of 2,000 ata time, as Government 
annuity, we must expect these murders, robberies, etc., on 
the part of the Indians. What chance, let us ask, has the 
poor settler with his muzzle-loader, purchased with his own 
means, against the improved weapon of the savage pur- 
-chased by the Government ? 
Assistant Quartermaster General Ingalls, who left his 
quarters in the department of the East, New York city, a 
few weeks since, and proceeded to Europe, has reached 
Vienna, the city of the exposition. He is on Government 
commission (not per cent.), and will look after the warlike 
interests of the United States at the exposition, etc., etc., 
as one of a board appointed for that purpose. The Gen- 
ing and batting of the Athletics won them the game. 
On the same day there was a base-ball match at the Capi- 
toline Grounds, Brooklyn, between representatives of the 
chess clubs of that city and this. The game was played 
with remarkable skill for amateurs. Several distinguished 
chess players participated. 
On the same day an exciting contest took place at Chicago 
between the Boston and Philadelphia clubs, in which the 
Bostons were victorious by a score of 11 to8. Over 3,000 
persons witnessed the game, 
In the game between the Mutuals, of New York, and the 
Atlantics, of Brooklyn, played at the Union grounds, Brook- 
lyn, on Saturday, the New Yorkers won by a score of 12 
to 4. 
Also, the same day, there was a wrestling match at New - 
Haven between Homer Lane, of New York, and William 
L, Kennedy, of New Haven, for $500 a side. First and third 












Now, the text of the play, from an intellectual stand- 
point, is the most thoroughly bad that is possible. The 
author, or rather compiler, had no other objects in view 
than with unmeaning words to kill time enough to allow 
the scene-shifters to do their heavy work. And go little 
ingenuity is displayed that the veriest tyro in dramatic 
tricks isnot deceived. As one of the curiosities of tLe 
play, in this connection, it is to be recorded that the author 
of this bosh received more money for the copyright than 
was ever before paid to any dramatic writer, for one play, 
from the days of Shakespeare down to the present time. 
Nay, more ; this celebrated literary production provided 
the author not only with a splendid country-seat and 
grounds to match, but has left money enough still due to 
his heirs to make a famous case before our Probate Court ! 
The original conception of the play has never been essen- 
tially improved upon. The regular patrons would not 
patiently submit to any radical change ; in fact, they have 






fall for Kennedy, and the victory. 
There was a foot race on Saturday at Providence, R. I. 
The contests were all for short distances, one of 500 yards, 
one of 150, and the others 100 yards. 
First race.—Henry Crandall, of Queen City, Mo., and J. 
A. Stratton, of Fall River, Mass.. 200 yards, 
side. Crandall winner by twelve feet. ‘Time 214 seconds. 
Second race.—John Smith, of Providence, and John Mc- 
Mann, of Pawtucket; 150 yards, $100 a side. Smith win- 
ner by two feet. 
Third race.-—W. A. Kendrick, Mt. Sterling, Ill., and John 
Won by 
Allison, of Providence, 100 yards, $250 a side. 
Allison by two feet in ten seconds. 
MMlilitary Hews. 


i is nevertheless a fact, say what you will, that promo- 
tions in the army are few and far between, particularly in 
. peace times. Occasionally, it is true, some good man enters 
the army and after long service, or some act of gallantry 
on the frontier, obtains a strap if he passes the required 
examination ; but the promotion of enlisted men is rather 
an exception than a rule, not only in our army but all ar- 
mies. But few, fortunately, enter the service with the 
idea of rising to a commission, the majority enlisting . for 
the mere sake of a livelihood, others for an adventure, and 
others again, we regret to say, as a means of covering 
crime or of flight from civil justice. The army draws to 
itself some of the worst classes, we are free to say—merr 
whose ambition never reaches the grade of a commissioned 
officer. The positions of second lieutenants, to some extent, 
are filled from civil life, and when such vacancies exist, 
after the assignment of the West Point graduates, sometimes 
twenty applications are made for each vacancy. These 
vacancies are generally filled by the sons of officers, intel- 
ligent department clerks, etc., the number from the ranks 
of the army being invariably in the minority instead of the 
majority, as it should be, if encouragement for faithful 
performance of duty is to be the rule in the army. Re- 
cently the President selected some forty names from a list 
of about 400 applicants for appointments as second lieuten- 
ants in the regular army, and the majority of these were 
selected as above stated. Yet in this little batch there were 
some promotions from the ranks, and even a Modoc volun- 
teer (a private) was recommended for a commission. These 
promotions are well worthy of publication, we therefore 
append them, as follows :—Commissary Sergeant William 
Allen, at Camp Apache, A. T.; Frank 8, Hinkle, sergeant 
of company A, Fifth Infantry ; James L. Murray, an en- 
listed man of the army; William C. Roundy, sergeant of 
the Twenty-first Infantry; John Sheldon, sergeant-major 
of the Second Infantry; Sergeant Theo. Smith, of the sig- 
nal corps; Fred. Theiss, sergeant of M company, Seventh 
Cavalry, and last, but not least, in these ‘hot spells,” James 
C. Winters, a Modoc volunteer, This list shows that less 
than one-quarter only of these promotions are made from 
the ranks. This ought not to be so, still the inferior char- 
acter of the men generally enlisted has much to do with 
this. ms 
The subjugation of the ‘Peace Commission” Modocs, 
_ after a somewhat protracted campaign, does not seem to 
for $500 a 
eral, we presume, will, on his return, write a book and tell 
us all he saw new in the death-dealing line, or any other. 
First Lieutenant John W. Chickering, of the 
been deducted from his pay by the Government. 
‘First Lieutenant James H. Bradley, of the Seventh In- 
fantry, is going “‘beyond the sea” when he gets a chance. 
He has permission to be absent for two-thirds of a year. 
Assistant Surgeon Peter J. A. Charey has left Texas to 
locate in New York for awhile. 
Lieutenant General Philip H. Sheridan, U.S.A., is still 
It is said more 
bachelors are congregated in the Eighteenth Infantry, sta- 
tioned in the South department, than any other portion of 
single. Heis a regular “no surrender.” 
the army. Why is this ? 
The First Artillery, now in the South, but so long estab- 
lished at Fort Hamilton and the adjacent forts of New 
York harbor, report has it, don’t like the change now ‘‘so 
pretty well.” The change in the winter was pleasingly ac- 
ceptable, but this hot weather—well, we ‘cannot always 
sometimes tell,” you know. 
General Custer, of the Seventh Cavalry, has deserted a 
“Life on the Plains,” and at last accounts, with a squadron 
of his command, was “pushing things” at the mouth of 
Glendine’s Creek as a part of the Yellowstone expedition. 
He and his command were then looking for Josephine, who 
was expected to paddle along, pretty soon, 
General Gibbons, commanding the Seventh Infantry, has 
been relieved as general superintendent of the recruiting 
service. Major J. P. Roy, Sixth infantry, is temporarily in 
charge. 


HUNGARIAN RACES. 
—_+-_—_—. 
HE Rakos course is some five miles or so from the cen- 
tre of the city, on a broad oasis-bordered flat. Horses, 
riders, and trainers were many of them English. There was 
the grand stand, the saddling place, and the ring, but they 
were different from the English institutions of the same 
names. There is no betting in one sense, but there is a 
sort of public sweepstakes in which everybody puts down 
so much on the horse he thinks is likely to win. If he 
chooses an outsider, the chances are that there will be few 
with whom he will have to divide his winnings ; if he 
chooses a “‘hot” favorite, he cannot expect much more 
than his stake to be returned. The races were much like 
other races except one for farmers’ horses. It was ridden 
by Hungarian farmers without saddles, and in their natural 
costume. A huge nightshirt flows down to the feet, and is 
sewed up to make a loose pair of trousers. A sleeveless 
waistcoat is stuck on, and the long white arms of the shirt 
fly loose, a foot or so broad, at the wrist. The head is 
covered with something like a tea-cosy, or a smoking-cap, 
with a feather stuck in it, and the dress is complete. The 
horses were light-looking, but active and business-like, and 
the riders rode as keenly as if the race was for life. "Two 
of them could not get their restive animals off till the others 
had run nearly half the course, but they insisted on running 
it out .as faithfully as if they had a ghost of a chance of 
winning. Over every incident of the race the excitement of 
the crowd was as great as it could have been at home, and 
the ‘‘road out” was as dusty and as full of perilous chances 
to carriage or rider.—Macmillan’s Magazine. 
oe Oo 
—A French firm is manufacuring paper with considerable 
success from the residue of hops, 
Sixth In- 
fantry, ‘“‘subsisted” just $51 21 too much a few months ago 
from Second Lieutenant W. B. Wetmore, of the same regi- 
ment, and now he has got to pay for it, as that amount has 
insisted upon having all the glowing faults retained, noth- 
ing in their imaginations or dreamy reminiscences equal- 
ling their first love. 
The popular decision of the professed moralist is, that 
the charm of the Black Crook issues from the lowest incen- 
tive that can excite admiration on the stage, viz :—the dis- 
play of semi-nude humanity. We have endeavored to ana- 
lyze this judgment, and are forced to a better conclusion, 
and relieved of the otherwise wretched, degraded notion 
that many good people, and thousands of simple people, 
are induced to be spectators from such depraved mo- 
tives. The fact is, the semi-nude element is so thoroughly 
involved, and a necessary part of the spectacle as a whole, 
that it excites comparatively little especial notice, and 
where it is prominent it is often a source of regret to the 
majority of the spectators that so much that is for the mo- 
ment attractive to the eye should be marred by any indeli- 
cate display. 
It is most unfortunate that the theater has ceased to be a 
place where nature is imitated in the higher dévelopments 
of human thought and action. We believe the stage, 
judged by the success of the Black Crook, has reached a 
lower degradation than is afforded in any precedent history, 
The genius of the actor, the intellectual power of the 
author, are now entirely subordinated to scenic effects, and 
humanity is only thrust in merely to fill up necessary open- 
ings, just as mud is used to stop the chinks between the logs 
of a frontiersman’s hut ; the humanity and the mud rank- 
ing as equally important things merely to fill up gaps. 
The Black Crook is therefore a legitimate feature of the 
times. The manager, by its design, is relieved of paying 
for dramatic talent. Their company is ‘purposely organ- 
ized of the lowest intellectual calibre. If there was a scin- 
tillation of true genius, one flash of naturalness in any of 
its members, the unhappy victim would be discharged, as 
interfering with the intended effect of the tinsel and the 
striking glare of the calcium lights. The design consid- 
ered, merely to produce a spectacle, the managers have done 
well. Inits worst estate the Black Crook, in its language 
at least, conveys no bad morals. Herzog and Greppo do not 
ask us to spmpathize with the moralities and afflictions of 
the heroines of the ‘“‘society play,” and we don’t remember 
any incident in the extraordinary drama where innocence 
and virtue are designedly made the only victims of dire 
misfortune and popular condemnation. 
We doubt if the drawing of Rogamay, the French cari- 
caturist, will be appreciated, or if the audience will accept 
kindly, however well they are executed, the series of pic- 
tures which are introduced in place of the transformation 
scene. ‘The pictures are realistic, open to criticism, or 
within the reach of a majority of the audience to like or 
dislike, but the charms of that “heaven” to which the 
lovers of the Black Crook have for years been finally trans- 
lated was a fit ending of unsurpassed splendor that sent 
home the majority of the entranced spectators under the 
impression that a penny ‘‘wheel” had been ignited and 
allowed to whirl its fire and rainbow tints within their con- 
fused and throbbing brains. 
—Loch Leven trout are very celebrated all over England 
and Scotland, and are worth two shillings a pound. The latest 
dodge is to substitute sea trout for them worth ten pence 
a pound, and disappointed anglers buy them at full figures, 
