Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-10-07
Baltimore the Champion City ON Coon
Hunting-NeW Use for Roman Can.

dies.
From the Baltimore American, Sept. Is.
It is said that there has been for some
time very lively rivalry between the
sporting men of Hartford county and
those of Baltimore. The issue at last
conferred on the question as to which
could kill the greatest number of coons
in two nights, and to determine this q
grand match was made up, and came off
last week, closing on Saturday with a
brilliant victory for the Baltimoreans.
Scarf and his friends, of Hartford county,
by main strength and perseverance,
killed fifteen coons and were greatly
elated. They considered it sure thing
that Hartford county would be the VIC
tor. They even chaffed the Baltimore
ans, and volunteered advice to give it
up. This woke up George Jones and
Duckett, two of the most untiring
sportsmen of the present age, and they
determined to resort to strategy,
Duckett selected the night for the hunt,
and the locality Middle River Neck.
Jones got a pyrotechnist to manufac
tulre great lot of rockets and Roman
candles of unusual size. These were
taken along, and when the dogs freed
any kind of game Jones would climb up
as far as he could and let off his fire.
works. The coons could not stand this,
and at once tumbled to the ground,
where they were quickly dispatched by
the dogs. Middle River Neck was in
a blaze every little while the whole of
Friday night, and the people living
thereabouts were greatly alarmed
at the number and apparent close
ness of the falling stars, and won
dered if the world was coming to an
end. Nh. Jones says they killed twenty
seven coons, and that it was the great
est sport he ever had in his life, and
that Hartford county gives it up that
Baltimore is ahead in coon hunting.
A Romance of the Orange Groves.
The New Orleans Times tells very
interesting but pathetic story of the
life of an orange planter named Land
man. Thirty years ago he came into
possession, as squatter, of the Island
of Cheniere on the Gulf Coast. He was
at that time very young and full of
enterprise. By hard labor, year after
year, he succeeded in raising one of the
largest and finest orange orchards in
Louisiana, although he worked alone
for years. After time he married and
took his wife to the island, and for
years they enjoyed one of the happiest
of homes. Children were born to them
and their work was remunerative, so
that they laid mp a. handsome sum.
Then sickness came, and, one by one,
the family died until the father was left
alone again. Brooding upon his
troubles, he fancied that the spirits of
the dead were about him, and soon be-
came an ardent believer in Spiritualisnl.
At this point some greedy land specu-
lators discovered that he had no valid
title to his land, and set about in the
courts to dispossess the old man of his
island home. He would not retain
counsel, but relied upon the spirits to
help him manage his case. Of course
there could be but one issue to the case.
There was practically no defense at all.
His spirit friends did not help him. He
lost his home where he had lived for
thirty years, and where his wife and
children were buried. When the Judge
announced his finding and decree, the
poor old man arose in court and his sole
reply was "Please your Honor, there
is no redress for me in earthly courts !;
[ therefore appeal my cause to the
higher courts of the third Heaven. )"
This is an appeal which cannot and will
not be laid aside. His compensation
will come.