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ana anu himself an enthusiastic sportsman. Charles II
'o; ai'SWe. OF the New York Sportsman's Club, was
| appointed President, and an adjourned convention
OF all Interested in the matter was appointrd 10 he
| hc'u at hioahy, In January next. to present the
views oi the convention to the Legislature A cor
| respondent OF the journal Of Commerce saws.
lhe convention recommends that OuaiI is only
20 oe Shot between the middle of October and .tIio
10th OF January. Woodcock is to he sbot cron, tbo
hrSt Monday in July until the close of the fall sea-
son. Partridge from September Ist 10 Tau,o,-
| 10Th. WOod-duck from first Monday in A,,,,,rt -
January lst. Trouting is to commence on The lst
March and to end on the 18th of September, The
shooting OF Snipe is to be left to the discretion of
all, and no prohibitory law is to he passed
"Duck-shooting is not to be controlled bv law
,hey are birds of passage and should be free to ALL
law was lately passed in New Jersey, forbiddinr
duck-shootng at any time before the 18th of OctG
Der. 1t was law universally condemned nv tho
fowers of Barnegat Bay this season. The bIar
and gray Duck and the Teal afford the best snort
from the middle Of September to the 18th of Octo
per, and as the greater number of them leave that
bay on their migration to the South before the 18th
OF october, OF course the best sport is lost TO the
fowler" w VIZ
a State Convention of Sportsmcn has been
formed, and will hereafter meet annually commcn-
eng their sessions in lSG0, at Syracuse.
-, a ESMAGKADLE SrArEmENr.-Professor O. NJ.
Mitchell delivered, Tuesday night. in Philadelphia,
one OF his splendid astronomical lectures The r,I-
lowing statement of a remarkable fact is given in a
report OF the lecture:
It httu not long since met, in the city of ST
LOUIS, a man OF great scientific attainments who,
Tor forty years, had been engaged in Euypt in de-
clphernG the hicrOglyphics of the ancipnts This
gentleman had stated to him that he had lately un
raVeIled the inscriptions upon the colin of a mum
my now in the London Museum and that in which
by the aid OF previous observation he had discov
cred the key to all the astronomical knowledge Of
the Egyptians. The zodiac. with the exact nnsi-
ton OF the planets, was dclineated on this collin
and the date to which they pointed was the autumn
nal equinox IN the year 1922 before Christ or
nearly thirty-siX hundred years 400. Professor
Mitchell employed his assistants TO ascertain tbe n
act positions of the heavenly bodies belonging to our
solar system on the equinox of that wear Il722 b
C.) and sent him a correct diagram of them with.
out having communicated his object in doing So
In compliance with this the calculations were made
and to his astonishment on comparinr the resuIt
with the statements of his scientific friend already
referred to, 1t found that on the 7th of OcfG-
per- li22 b. g., the moon and planets had occupied
the exact points in the heavens marked unon the
collin in the London Museum.
The WOMAN IN THE BONNER FoaGEnY.-Thc cor
respondent Of the Springfield Republican gives the
following details Of the Bonner fdrgerv:
81 suppose you have read in the ne spapers OF
the arrest of Leach and Bishop, charged with the
forgery on Bonner Of the Lrdgcr. But it has not
been told in any newspapers Just how that forgery
came about. Not long ago a woman came to the
Le"3er Once, and said she wished to subscribe for
ten copies of the Lcigcr, for friend, Miss -.
of North Orange, y. j., who had not time to call
and had, therefore, commissioned her to attend to
the matter. In payment she offered hity-dolIar
bank bill and asked for bank check for change
instead of money r., means ,f tl, ,l,ory ,i,-l
tainrd Mr. Bonpnr's si,rr,tnrn s,d tL, ,,a,, r H.
bank with which bn ma IN occn,,,,t I ,IE
II tIo r,r,,,r,, g. H. -. ~ 20, '''' ''''"'-
ted On its discovery tI,. ,y,,,,,,,. ,vI, st-d C
Ine Tnn, ,c4ecE was remembered, i9t on sending to
North Orange, no Miss was found, though the
postmaster was running about to lind her tn nav
I 49, "i ,ne h''''htht "' L''1''T Wmrh mad
pI In, I,,- R,It,
Lnr b',sh",I ,itL y " a. 1t;," ,uG was nr'PhE
| ranso IN r - :, w, w. '''u'1 Wv Ky I ,' "'''.'
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thi - ii' i I 5I N,,l "' i'uI to"r'
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NAVAL NrrLnGrxCE.-DespatcIps from Commo
dorc Tatnan dated at Woo Sane Aur 81 have
been received at the Navy Dcportmcnt N,
Ward who returned to the powhafan on the I7th
0f August having EXCHANGED the ratiicatiors nf
the treaty. reports that he received very kind
treatment from the Chinese The younr man
Iadd. who had been made pri.onel. af the PaiLo.
and who had represented himself ~ an American
but who afterwards acknnv Ird,red +, Mr. Ward
that he was a British subject, was nevertheless, in
compliment to Mr.. Ward released and delivered
@Her % y Dy 'hat gentleman To the British commanded
"e C'i,>ESPIl was To De i''' ~ NIE'n@ha"' Wh'''
'"r ,>tnn"'H;e tH Pt"Gst''' u" Japan.
At Naga>aAl collision had taken place between
thH captain an" crew OF an American merchant
man ana tle japanese, IN winch lives were lost.
lhe Germantown was ON the spot 90 render assist
ancr. From Nagasaki, Com. THtna was 10 pro
cetd 10 Jeudo whore hr would make aTraug. .Ilcnts
LOT tue ranSp" iatl"n oi the japanese amb1S adors
| 10 the United states. The tummUdurc's despatch
! expresses doubt whether the Japanese Govern
htmt t, "eS'fes 10 SEND them.
me treaty has not yet arrived.
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or, ,r Tl W. ~; y, =" '"'orhF' AND Loss
u,binL ,r;,.l ~ WI '''' S"F'' roster
CbarInston ,,, IN coII;i ",I '',''""E ron
lhr schooner Goo . GiJhy , I; pt,,'St "l;n
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