The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-09-12
A Wonderful Marksman.
DIR. cARvER's ASTOUNDING FEATs WITH
ARIFLE.

A New York paper says: Dr.. W. E.
Carver, the man who can put a bullet
through silver quarter while the coin
is flying through e.air. is an enlarged
and revised edition of Buffalo Bill end
Texas Jack. Being fresh from the
broad plains Of the untrammeled West,
he has that delightful air Of unconven-
tiouality to be found only in the land
of the setting sun. A pale-face, to
him, is an object of Of pity. The abor-
igiDal innabitant of the primeXs s,6food :.
aina il d'6 &c can bring sus a9'oat & wasps
wing at forty yards.
Dr.. Carver is, no doubt, the best
short.range marksman in the world.
he gave his second exhibition at Deer
foot Park, and astonished everybody
who saw him. He is an fine a speci-
men of fully y-developed manhood as ever
walked on Manhattan Island. More
than six feet high, every part of his
body is built to correspond. His chest
is 40 deep that it would take powerful
rife TO send bullet through it. His
shoulders are broad and high, and
altogether, he is exactly the man that
ordinary people wouldn'tput themselves
out of the way to pick a quarrel with.
The scene Of the shooting is worthy
of description. A small wooden shed,
with bar in one corner in front Of
this table, on which were four rifles,
several boxes of cartridges, and balf a
dozen score.books. Fifteen or twenty
feet in front of this, again, barreland
man, the man taking the glass balls
out of the barrel and throwing them in
the air, and DR.. Carver breaking them
with the bullets as fast as they appeared.
Somebody was always at work loading
a rife. The marksman could fire them
faster than the leaders could load: And
they were the most remarkable rifles
breech-loaders, of course. When they
were opened ut the end one cartride
was showed in. after another, till il
seemed as if the first one must surely be
somewhere up by the muzzle. .
DR.. Carver's costume has nothing to
do with his craftsmanship, and hi:
shooting is strictly business. HI
seldom misses what he fires at. Mos
of the time was taken up in shooting
glass balls, filled With feathers. The
balls were of the thinest film of glass
slightly tinted, so as to be seen easily il
the air, and, when they broke, tn
, feathers scattered in every direction
The balls were thrown about twent,
feet into the air, and the marksmal
+ was not more than fifteen yards from
them at uay time. It was uoticeabl
r that the shot was invariably fred JUS
as the upward impetus Of the glass bal
a ceased and it was about to begin it
/; sll. This close glass-ball shooting di'
{ not give the idea of remarkable skill
, probably on account of the shor
e distance, even though the averag
was nine bit out Of ten. 1t locke
I much more wonderful whom tn
: assistant threw the glass balls as far a
n he could aud DR.. Carver broke each on
as it few, the distance being not le'
>. thai one hundred yards. Several coiu
I were shot straight through the cense
It as they whirled through the air.
al One Of the most astounding of D
, Carver's feats was his hitting be
a. !. metal ball when it was almost out
d sight mp in thee air. The ball is I
e made that when the bullat strikes
10 rings like small gong. The assista1
a. threw this ball many times as high 4
,e he could throw it, till, sometimes,
ks could hardly be seen, but every tin
b. the marksmsn brought the sound out
it. He also cut in two all the le
20 pencils be could induce the sPeetate
%. to throw into the air, and he fred ST
sh cessfully at large number. of unus
ts, cartridges. When the assistant thr
~. two glass-balls up at the same time
By riaeman, with double'barrel weap