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Bowling, and Springbok will meet again. Distance two 
miles. The third race is the Nursery stakes, a dash of a 
mile for two-year olds. The fourth race is the Manhattan 
Handicap for all ages, a mile and a quarter. The fifth 
race isa selling race for a purse of $500—a dash of a 
mile and three-quarters, On the same day a match be- 
tween Mr. L. Lorrillard’s four-year old filly Girl of the Pe- 
riod, and Mr. Peet's four-year old filly Ophelia; half-mile 
heats. In the Nursery stakes, Mr. Belmont has wagered 
that Steel Eyes will beat Mr. Morris’ filly Regardless, one 
or other to be placed. 
Pornt BrEnZzE PARK, PHILADELPHIA, September 25th.— 
The first race was for a purse of $500, mile heats, best three 
in five, in harness. There were three entries, all of whom 
came to the post. W.H. Dobb’s Snowball won the three 
last heats. Time, 2:334, 2:34, 2:35. 
The second race was for a purse of $2,000, mile heats, 
best three in five, in harness. Goldsmith Maid and Judge 
Fullerton enteged.. After an exciting race between these 
well-known horses, Goldsmith Maid won. Time, 2:22, 
2:224, 2:234. 
—The Prospect Park races were attended on September 
25th by a large number of people. The track was in excel- 
lent condition. Five horses started for the first race, which 
was for a purse of $1,250. Morrel won in 2:283. The driver 
of Morrel was enthusiastically cheered for his splendid 
driving. The second trot was for 2:29 horses, and fora 
purse of $1,750. Five horses started. Bruno won the race 
in three straight heats. Time, 2:28. 2:25, 2:26. 
—The owner of Judge Fullerton has issued a challenge to 
the world, stating that he will trot his horse against any 
horse, mare or gelding in the world, mile heats, best three 
in five, in harness, over Fleetwood Park Course, for ten 
thousand dollars a side, half forfeit. Race to be trotted 
between the 10th and 20th days of October. 
—Chas Reticker, who has just accomplished the feat of 
riding fifty miles in two and a half hours, offers to ride 
fifty miles in a shorter time than any two men—one to ride 
twenty-five miles and the other the same distance. He 
proposes also to accomplish one hundred miles in a shorter 
time than any three men—one to ride thirty-three miles, 
the second thirty-three, and the third thirty-four miles—all 
parties to use horses which have no record; the matches to 
be ridden over the Greenland Racing Course, near Louis- 
ville. 
—A veterinary surgeon of Philadelphia says that tight 
reining isa common cause of the disease known as ‘‘roar- 
ing” in the horse, by mechanically obstructing free perspir- 
ation, especially affecting horses driven in pairs or in double 
harness. In the heavy draught or team horse, he says, the 
practice is cruel, and the surgeon has been trying for years 
to induce drivers and owners of horses to discontinue the 
use of the check rein. 
ENDURANCE OF Horsrs.—Some curious and inieresting 
experiments were made some years ago at Alfort, the 
French veterinary school, to ascertain the endurance of 
horses.’ It appears that a horse will live on water alone 
twenty-five days ; seventeen days without eating and drink- 
ing; only five days if fed and unwatered ; ten days if fed 
and insufficiently watered. A horse kept without water for 
three days drank one hundred and four pounds of water in 
three minutes. A horse taken immediately after feeding, 
and kept in active motion, completely digested his feed in 
three hours. When kept perfectly quiet in his stable, 
digestion had just commenced in three hours. 
The Police Commissioners of Jersey City have recently 
purchased horses for the mounted service. The one which 
Officer Glenny of the Third Precinct rides is ravenously 
fond of tobacco, which he chews like an old veteran. 
When shown a paper of tobacco, he manifests as much 
anxiety to obtain it as a hungry horse does to obtain his 
feed of oats. Unlike an ordinary tobacco chewer, he does 
not expectorate promiscuously, and when he has extracted 
the strength of the weed he quietly swallows the quid. 

—The will of the Rev. Abijah P. Cummings, editor of the 
New York Observer, was before Surrogate Coffin in White 
Plains. There was a stir in the court-room when the inven- 
tory of his estate was read. The reverend gentleman had 
speculated in worthless stocks. Among them were 100 
shares in the United States Leather Manufacturing Com- 
pany, 320 shares Valley Coal Company of Wilkesbarre, 500 
shares Mamakating Mining Company, 300 shares Broadtop 
Coal and Iron Company, 100 shares Knickerbocker Anthra- 
cite Coal Company, 76 American Eyelet Company, 500 New 
York Mohamea Mining and Discovery Company, 300 shares 
Atlantic and Great Western.Petroleum Company, and other 
worthless paper. There was a deposit of $27,000 in the 
Union Trust Company. 
—Mr. J. M. Bailey, the Danbury News man, advises his 
sporting friends to read the ForEst AND STREAM. ‘‘ Then,” 
he says, when they array themselves against the blood- 
thirsty pumpkin seed and the ferocious robin, the agricultu- 
ral community will not have to adjourn to their wells.” 

—last Monday the Athletics secured a victory over their 
city rivals, the Philadelphia White Stockings, by a score of 
7 to 6, after seven previous unsuccessful attempts. 
—In the contest between the Nassau and Concord Base- 
Ball Clubs, at Prospect Park, on Saturday, the former won 
by a score of 18 to 7. 
—Up to September 30th the number of legal games played 
in the championship arena, the Brooklyn Hagle says, was 
134, of which the 
AthiovtiostS.. Frame en sols won 21 and lost 18. 
At lantics- Nc eaeperrees seats won 12 and lost 29. 
BPRltinnorey KSLA Gon de RLS won 23 and lost 15. 
BostOnh. << -' «., oot ores tee) won 28 and lost 11. 
WUT TUT AL sss, <2 'v5,< «6 slecie Soe won 17 and lost 23. 
Philadelphia si23.7 Ions ie ¢ ....won 30 and lost 12. 
Weaghingtonjs4 a7 ait Soir won 3 and lost 26. 
There are no less than five first-class matches on for to. 
day, October 2d. 

Alilitary Zlews. 
INCE January, 1872, the United States Army has lost 
two major-generals, namely, Major-General Halleck, 
who died January 9th, 1872, and Major-General George G. 
Meade, who died November 6th, 1872. 
—Brig-General Silas Casey, U.S. A., retired, the author of 
““Casey’s Tactics,” for so many years in use in the army, 
is a hale old resident of Brooklyn, New York. The author 
of the present tactics of the army, General Emory Upton, 
Lieutenant Colonel of the First Artillery, is Commandant 
of the Cadets at the Military Academy, and instructor of 
artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics at that post. It is 
he who first teaches the new military idea how to shoot, 
and who drives into the noddles of the young plebes that 
“right forward, fours right” does not mean ‘‘right for- 
ward, fours left,” &c. 
—Brevet Brigadier-General H. L. Abbot and Brevet Col. 
Thomas L. Casey, of the U. 8. Engineers, are in France, 
looking after the interests of their own peculiar service, 
and noting how much better we do some things at home, 
and how much inferior we are in others. At one time we 
imagined France and other nations could teach us consid- 
erable, but a few years of war in our own country devel- 
oped more of the sciences and arts of war than perhaps 
ever before heard of. France, now that she has lost so 
much of a bombastic confidence in her own strength, will 
profit largely by the lesson. The talent is not dead, and 
the people have the will. Germany is to-day undoubtedly 
the strongest and most progressive warlike nation of the 
world. 
—Second Lieutenant M. Frank Gallagher, of the Second 
Infantry, who in May last, brutally shot and killed a dis- 
charged soldier, at Spartanburg, §. C., and who afterwards 
was tried on the charge of ‘‘conduct unbecoming an offi- 
cer and gentleman,” has suffered the mild punishment of 
being cashiered the service, which sentence has been ap- 
proved by the War Department. This, probably, is about 
all the army could do in the matter, and the civil authori- 
ties willnow be compelled to take up the case, and see 
that the murderer is properly punished. It is per- 
haps well here to state, en passant, that the treatment of 
the enlisted men of the army is not always such as to se- 
cure the necessary respect desired. Officers are too fre- 
quently overbearing and tyrannical towards their men, who 
often obey only through fear, instead of performing their 
duty with the pride of asoldier. A man, because he en- 
lists, is not necessarily a slave, nor does the Government 
expect him to perform menial labor or any other duty but 
what is naturally expected of a soldier. Therefore, when 
an officer compels a man through fear of punishment to ex- 
ecute a task which in any way demeans the uniform he 
wears asa United States soldier, this man soon loses all 
respect forthe army and its government, and at the first 
chance deserts. The army contains, it is true, many hard 
characters among its enlisted men, but officers will find 
that an appeal to a man’s self-respect goes a great way in 
the majority of instances; and in the €nd will secure far 
better discipline than the tyrannical process so much in 
vogue in both services: 
—Many of the engineer corps stationed at Willet’s Point, 
N Y., earn considerable money for their services as mark- 
ers at the National Association Range at Creedmoor, L. I. 
A certain number of reliable men are daily granted passes, 
and those who stroll to the range a few miles distant gener- 
ally make it pay. The Association price of markers per day, 
is two dollars. Recently, however, the men have charged 
three dollars per day to all outside organizations requiring 
their services, and there is scarcely a day but that a dozen 
markers are employed, and very frequently more than this 
number. In ordinary marking for parties practicing foi 
a few honrs, the men get two dollars. The duties ot 
a marker are yery simple and by no means _ labori- 
ous and with ordinary care no wise dangerous. Now and 
then, however, one is slightly exposed by the splutter of 
lead on the targets; which is sometimes the fault of the fir- 
ing party, and then again the sheer carelessness of the 
markers themselves in not giving sufficient time for the dan- 
ger signal (red flag) to attract attention at the firing point be- 
fore leaving their post. Some of these markers are vete- 
rans, and in times past have become so used to tk e buzzing 
of bullets they have become careless and don’t seem to mind 
them, ‘‘ worth a cent.” There is nothing, you know, like 
being used to these matters. We understand it is the in- 
tention of the Rifle Association to employ regular troops 
altogether on the occasion of its regular prize meeting, com- 
mencing October 8th, for markers, scores, &c. They will 
require about fifty men for three or four days, and propose 
to pay two dollars a day for their services. 
—Major Gen. McDowell was at the reception given to 
Wilkie Collins at the Lotos Club rooms, New York city, 
September 27th. 
—Brevet Major Maubken, the dashing adjutant of the 
Eighth Cavalry, so long stationed in New York city, is 
now wasting his chances for his country’s good at the post 
of New Mexico. 
—Many years since, or in the good old times when the 
chapeaux, the stocks, ruffles, knee breeches, &c., were worn 
as portions of the full dress of our officers, a small party of 
officers attached to a harbor post in New York, started in 
full uniform in a Government yawl across the East river to 
attend an evening reception to which they had been in- 
vited in the metropolis. The officer in command of this 
post, and who was one of the party invited, was a soldier 
of the old school, one having the most peculiar notions of 
the dignity of his position and the nicety of his dress. 

Just asthe boat reached midway of the stream, a sailing 
vessel under full headway was discovered bearing for the 
boat, and the chances were that they would surely be run 
down. 
sung out for the men to ‘‘ give way witha will,” which 
they did, but only just in time to pass under the bows of 
the vessel. 
ing the boat was lost, eagerly reached up and caught the 
bowsprit chain of the vessel, and as he did so, the yawl 
passed from under him, and left him dangling on the bow 
of the vessel, his elegant knee breeches submerged in the 
briny waters. 
was extremely ludicrous, and after being rescued rather 
put a damper onthe anticipated enjoyments of the recep- 
tion, as well as for years being the joke of his fellow of- 
ficers. 
The commanding officer in the stern of the yawl 
In passing, however, the commandant, think- 
His position as he hung—high but not dry— 
—Captain Richard Comba, Seventh Infantry, recently sen- 
tence to be cashiered for neglect of duty etc., by recom- 
mendation of the Court and the reviewing officers, General 
Terry, on account of previous good character, had his sen- 
tence commuted by the President to suspension from rank 
and command for the period of six months and the for- 
feiture of all pay during that period with the exception of 
$50 per month. Fortunately in this case previous good 
character saves an officer from utter disgrace. 
—Major David Faggert, Paymaster, U.S. A. resigned Sep- 
tember 11th. 
Camp Haulpai, Arizona Territory, has been discon- 

tinued. 
—Companies H. andK. First Cavalry have left Fort Walla 
Walla, Washington Territory, for Camp Harney, Oregon; 
Company B Fifteenth Infantry, Fort Craig, New Mexico, for 
Tabrosa, New Mexico; Company B, Twenty-third Infantry, 
Camp Date Creek for Fort Whipple, Arizona Territory, 
and Company K. Twenty-fourth Infantry, Fort Duncan, 
for Ringgold, Barracks, Texas. 
—Captain J. J. Yan Horn of the Highth Infantry has been 
granted a five months’ leave, to take effect on the return of 
the Yellowstone expedition. 
—Colonel W. H. Wood, of the Eleventh Infantry, com- 
manding at Fort Richardson, Texas, reports that on the 
morning of the 18th inst., three citizens were attacked by 
Indians, at Little Salt Creek, a branch of KechiCreek, and 
two of them, Mr. Howell H. Walker, aged fifty years, and 
his son Henry, aged thirteen years, were killed. The other, 
Mr. Mortimer Shreeves, made his escape and reached Fort 
Richardson at five P. M., having been compelled to travel 
some twenty miles in a circuitous route to avoid the In- 
dians, although the distance in a direct line is about nine 
miles. Captain Thomas Little, of the Tenth Cavalry, with 
allthe available officers and men of his company (L), was at 
once ordered out in pursuit, with instructions to investi- 
gate this affair, and ascertain the names of the persons 
killed, and send their bodies to the fort, as it was under- 
stood they were residents of Jacksboro, and should the 
trail of the Indians be found, make a vigorous and deter- 
mined effort to overtake and punish them, sparing neither 
men nor horses to accomplish that object. The 
bodies of Walker and his son were found horribly mu- 
tilated. The Indians took away tlie old man’s gun, car- 
tridges, and shoes andthe boy’s hat. Captain Little found 
the trail at daybreak on the 14th, andstarted at once in pur 
suit. Mr. Shreeves says he counted twenty-seven Indians 
as they were approaching to make the attack. 

—A correspondent of the Commercial Advertiser, writing 
of the Lake George region, says :— 
‘“The mountains about this portion of the lake are in- 
fested by rattlesnakes, whose dens are the crevices in the 
rocks where they can remain during the winter below the 
reach of frost. During the summer they are out and 
around on the hills, but upon the approach of cold nights 
they return to their habitations, and are to be found about 
this season of the year near their homes. Frequently they 
are seen swimming across the water, and a good old gentle- 
man, a deacon, I am told, on Lake Champlain, saw a num- 
ber thus swimming, and getting into a boat, rowed out and 
killed no less than twenty-nine, the largest number ever 
killed by any one in this locality at one time. I know the 
story does not sound fishy, but rather snaky; still I had it 
front a man who was personally acquainted with the dea- 
con, I forget his name, and have since seen the statement 
in print in oneof the locals. Just beyond Sabbath Day 
Point lives aman named Davis, a celebrated rattlesnake 
caicher, whose reputation has reached every place for miles 
around, and who is rightly esteemed the second of the 
natural curiosities about the Lake. Davis is one of the 
old settlers, and knows every den‘and the number of 
snakes inhabiting it in the vicinity. He catches the snakes 
by putting a notched stick over them just below their heads, 
which renders them powerless, and then he extracts their 
fangs. He catches the snakes whenever anybody wants 
them, but generally has a quantity on hand in a box at his 
house. He furnishes them, dead or alive, as may be de- 
sired, for the small sum of a dollar apiece. Those who 
want to try their hand at bringing up these pets, and 
mothers who want rattles for their children, had better in- 
vest. Davis sometimes goes out to catch snakes in his bare- 
feet, and has been bitten several times, but he counteracts 
the effects of the poison by eating what is known as ‘rat- 
tlesnake weed,’ and applying it externally. This is a sure 
cure, and while perhaps less to the liking of some than the 
‘whiskey cure,’ is nevertheless more certain; its effect is 
very similar to that of tobacco upon the system, and the 
leaves have by no means a pleasant taste. ‘There are some 
people, however, in our worthy metropolis who are so 
saturated with alcohol all the time that they could with im- 
punity expose themselves to the fangs of the rattlesnake, 
and should they be bitten the only result probably would 
be the death of the snake. 
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—In what tone does a ghost speak? In a tombs-tone. 
