Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-15

e'uS 10 JOul correspondence, ana
bade farewell to the Messrs. Price,
Trice, Watkins and other valued
friends, gentlemen all, and sailed
homeward on the Hard Cash Ia love
of a craft, gallantly oficered), filled
with kinder thoughts, refreshed in
person and mind from communion
with nature and her noblemen.
Returned, the endearments of home
We'd with the pleasures of the camp,
and next year some of our LADY,
loves will accompany us. The
absence of some choice spirits.
members of the club, enchained by
business, was our only regret.
While steaming homeward down
White river, we arrived at daylight,
Monday, at Indian Bay, Ark,
September "A, when Captain Postal
and brother, themselves keen king
fishers, aroused us for thirty min
utes' fishing, and in that time kind
ly given US, twenty-seven fine trout
and perch, from one to three pounds
each, were trolled at the same
time the negro roustabouts :"
hooked in deep water from the
boat thirty-three channel cats.
Should any true amateur sportsman
desire to give deer, fish, or grouse
the very (Milt) Harry, let him
write "postal" " and take a little
" hard cash." and he will be delight
ed with the "prices "and the sport.
The game bag of the.club on cam
paign of 1876 counted out 1881
head, all told, the disparity this
year in grouse 1--WE killed more
DEER arises from the drowning
rains of last spring and the great
slaughter of the birds during
the unparalleled two weeks of frozen
snow by men and boys for sport
and market, the starving birds cov-
erlng fences, barns and trees seek
ing food; one firm alone at Mount
Adams shipped 25OO pinnated
grouse to market, slain from a rest.
The very grass and flowers of the
pralrles yield opulent revenues to
the Arkansians in herds of fat cat
tie that are never fed, in myriad
tons Of hay and hundred weights
of butter, and at every farm house
is an apiary, furnishing honey for
use and sale. / noticed twelve
mammoth boxes of honey on the
Hard Cash, billed for New York; |
another heavy shipment to Cincin
natl. "Milk and honey" are the
cheapest things in Arkansas. The
nomenclature of the prairies is pc
culiar; "slashes" are miry mains;
ISLANDS" are not surrounded by
water but is timber oncircled by
"burns" are expanses Of
new short grass, formerly burned
over to produce succulent pastur-
age; "motts" are dots of timber,
guiding the traveller; branches" are
grazing farms. Winding mp the
aunt, we will long remember stand
ng, six of us, from 6 am. to 2 p.m
a sound or shot, on the
wrong runway for deer, while five
luarries were driven through the
light stand in Cross Timbers, from
Big Island to Lost Island, and
most golden opportunity lost, also
he day, save to the deer-oriyers.
Who had royal sport and success:
wo guns would have commanded
he runway and had constant firing
N deer at short range; we only
NEW "some one had blundered;h
,ut know the stands for 1878 where
hots are sure We might have
,een Standing there yet had not
tuido chanced to step into u
bunch" Of quails, and instanter
ave them a wire buckshot
light and left, calling down on
lis head the maranatha of the
ilent, lotos eating, expectant
tanders and calling up the {
stonished drivers who thought we
'ere elsewhere. On grouse the
bots were usually from twenty to |
orty yards rise, but in one case Mr..
wagon drove over one, J
nhurt till then, having been a
marked down, the wheel killing it,
ovealed by its fluttering. Again |
rouse was caught by the dogs on c
rising from point in matted grass. Il