The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-06-14
Communications.
Sporting Extraordinary.

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Sporting Extraordinary.
Mr.. EDIroR:-Tho amateur sports.
men Of this vicinity, entertaining ardent
desires to make an ocular demonstra-
ton Of their prowoss and unparalleled
skill In the hunting department, deter
mined to make a foray in a district Of .
country situated on either side Of the
Cincinnati and Marietta Railroad, be-
tween Martinsvillo and Blanchester, and .
known by the appellation of the "Black-
Swamp" They supplied themselves
with firearms of the most approved .
variety, q formidable supply of ammu.
milton, Injuries for the stomach's sake
and consolation Of the nerves under ex-
cess Of muscular exertion and intel
loctual excitement, with the steodfast
determination Of acquitting themselves
in a manner that would throw fancy
back to the days of the heroic Boone,
and the eccentric Crockett. They took /.
the cars at New Vienna, and got off at
Clinton Valley, in the midst Of the
most woo-bogone locality in Clinton,
or any Of the adjacent counties. They
then went into the forest, with all the
pomp and dignity imaginable, evidently
much elatod with their brilliant pros
poets and glorious anticipations. But
it appeared as though all the game had
instinctivoly fed from that solitary re-
gion, as the animals Of the Pontinc
marshes Of Italy abandon that fright
full solitude, during the malarious por-
ton of the year. They perambulated
the dreary forest, amid the thick under
growth and fallen timber-meeting with
very limited success in every species of
, game, with the exception of red headed
wood-peckcrs; they we're very numcr-
Gus, and the brave sportsmon continued
to shower their destructive missiles upon
their beautiful plumagc, till it was no
longer sport-it seemed to closely ap-
; proximatc war of determination.
About o'clock, the brave heroes
met in consultation, and all expressed a
. determination to remain another day,
. except one gentleman who was antago-
q nistic to depletion, either local or gem
q eral, and apprehensivo that the musqui-
toes had already carried the process so
extensively that his corporosity was per-
p ceptibly debilitated, and that the most
4 judicious policy he could resort to,
would be to take the evening train, and
go home. MutaiS Dlutandts, the Jolly
company escorted him to the station,
! and fired a salute, as a triaing token of
the regard and esteem they entertained
r for their worthy companion, who was
10 making a precipitato egress from the
= saturnino forest, firmly convinced that
hunting in the "Black-Swamp" was
poor pay. The remaining four paased
q the night as they best could, after the
fashion of the aborigines, and next
morning when the solar orb began to
f emanate from the Oriental world, they
y shouldered their implements Of war
and commenced a days hunt with re.
10 newed energy and perseverance and
= with better success than on the preced
l. ing day, They fortunately obtained
j. game of various species; and as they
had been pcregrinnting for some time
- and restricted to the antiphlogistic re
lt gimen, they broilod a portion of thei
IS game, and dcvourod it with an insatia
IT BILE appetite. They returned home af
= ter hunt of two days, with scarife,
!" visages, much resembling small poy, o
some other malignant ezanthematou
L eruption, So wan and woo-begono wa
re their appearance, that CONSERVATION 70
D time prevailed among the citizens
f lest some infectious disease was in thoi
le midst, But time brought all matter
G, right, and ultimately convinced tn
Is people that there was nothing the mat
- ter with the patriotic hunters, more tina
,o that they had been cruelty proyed upo
by the mosquitoes. II.
New Vienna, o., June, 1860.