Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-23

SOME SHooTING.-A wonderful story of
shooting comes from the West and while
they were at it there were lot of feats
that might have been recorded to make the
yarn even more sensational than 1t is.
Secretary Schurz was the spectator, and
Otto, a l5-year old son OF the Hez Perces
chief, the marksman. His repertoire in
Guided the following The first shot-A s.
cent piece is placed at the top of the head
of figure OF man, the head being COW
cred. Otto takes his position 20 PAGES
from the object with a rife without a sight,
Is then blndfolded, gives a somersault,
fires and hits the Scent piece, from his
point of location. The second shot-He
cuts the strings which sustains the figure.
The third shot-Three swinging glass balls
suspended from frame, counterpassing
and repassing themselves ne fires,
and with one ball from rife breaks the
three balls, and the same ball upon it's
course strikes still another. a steel ball,
which IS attached to the frame, caronls at
an angle of IS degrees and strikes a small
target in a contrary direction, ringing a
bell which is contained within The
fourth shot-His instructor stands before
him at distance of 20 PAGES, where there
behind the instructors head shoulders
and back His firing is now done past
either side of the instructor into the frame,
or at option between the instructors legs
or over his head, and breaks any of the
balls behind that any of the spectators
may select The fifth shot-A target is
placed 6 feet behind the instructors
back. Otto takes 20 PAGES to the
front OF the Instructor, directly oppo-
site him, and fires, caroming on the
steel balls attached to the frame work, at
the desire of the spectators, in any direc-
ton, striking the target with unerring GER
tainty each time. The sixth shot-Lays
his rife upon the ground six feet in front
OF where he stands; at the word ready"
glass ball Is thrown into the air. He
gives a somersault, snatches his weapon,
fires, and breaks the bail before it reaches
the ground. The seventh shot-Takes his
rife In his right hand, throws the ball in
the air with his left, and with the greatest
rapidity breaks them. The eighth shot
Seated upon his horse, and while at full
gsllop, glass balls are thrown from every
direction toward him. These he demolishes
with unerring aim and lightning-like
promptitude with his trusty weapon
STAGHoUEDs The Scotch staghound,
as ordinarily trained, follows the deer by
view alone, and would therefore be of no
use IN hunting IN this country except on
the plains, where the quarry can be kept
in sight. They would, moreover, be too
fast for ordinary deer driving, in which it
is essential that the hound shall keep close
to the deer, or that the latter shall be very
much frightened. Stonhenge, it is true,
considers that the staghound or rough grey
hound, for we presume that it is of this
animal that our correspondent writes,
possesses nose enough to follow
even cold track These dogs
have been extensively used in both deer
and antelope hunting in the West, but
have not proved SO useful in this sport as
have the smooth grayhounds, which have
more speed, though perhaps not SO much
strength. The old English staghound was
essentially larger foxhound, in respect to
his head, and had the body like a blood
hound, but somewhat lighter. The En-
glish staghounds of the present day are
merely larger and lighter draft of the
ordinary foxhound.
RUNNING AT Boston, MAss-September
7th, at the Amphitheater Athletic Grounds,
ten-mile race for the challenge cup repre-
senting the amateur championship of New
England. This cup must be won three
times consecutively before becoming the
personal property of the winner, and G. f.
Peppeard, Boston A. c., had two victories
to his credit H. w. Carnes, Brookline
A. c., Som Is A. L. Estabrooke, Union
A. c., In I'm 81 c. F. Peppeard, Boston
A. c., stopped on tenth mile, E. Mahoney,
Union Gymnasium, on third mile, and j.
l.. Orr, Wakefield, Mass, at one mile
Peppeard and Carnes made fine race for
eight miles, with each man alternately
leading, but the holder of the cup was
trained too fine, and could not stay the
whole distance.
RED RUST IN Guns" Sarcule," writ
ing to the London Field from Megador,
where he has been wild-fowling good
deal and where the salt air has played
havoc with his gun. says that the follow
ing mixture he has found more efficacious
than anything he has yet used, not except
ing vaseline jelly-which is SO much
thought of here as a preventive to rust and
a capital lubricator "a quantity of olive
oil, quarter Of its bulk of camphor, and
few shavings of lead" And the mixture
he recommends in the mostsglowing terms,
even saying that the recipe is like boon
and blessing to man" We give it place,
as the time is fast approaching when those
of our sportsmen who fancy duck shooting
will have their hands full in keeping their
arms in any way freed from rust.
A PISTOL ATTAcHMENT.-Ac correspond
emit of the Forest and Stream says Did it
ever occur to You that in shooting pistol