Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-05
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eide paid for supper at ;he rate OF II
head, and so the debt was raised.
The net stock of one mackerel schooner
during the past season was worth S3o, oS7,
and thai of another S34 229. The average
share of The crew was $3.50, and the steward
received for eight months work S1l29.
MAN with complete suit of tanned
deerskin recently drove an ox-cart loaded
with venison into Omaha, Neb. The cart
contained thirty large deer, all Of which the
hunter killed between daylight on Monday
and shutdown on the Friday of the same
week. He hiss been farmer, but proposes
TO make living hereafter as a hunter.
G. G. TIDsBURY, of Ashland, Mass, while
hunting on Saturday, the 23d ultimo, bagged
nine quail at one shot. They were sitting
about twenty-five yards away. The shell
was loaded with four and one-haf drains OF
powder and one and one-quarter ounces of
shot. The most remarkable feature Of this
exploit is the FACT that he killed every bird
IN the flock.
A BEAR that has recently been rowing
around Waldo county, Me-, last week walked
up 10 logger's tent near Pitchers pond,
where Freeman Crockett and Edwin Elan
ders were eating their dinner. The only
good weapon the men had was a revolver.
Several charges were fred into the bear and
an ak was thrown at him. Subsequently
the bear returned but was not captured.
In telling of a hunting experience of Capt.
Harris near.Lake George last month, Glen
Falls, N. Y, correspondent adds: Burr
Phelps, pilot of the Ganouskie, was really
the % an who killed the bear in Lake Georre
| in 1881 by roping him from the deck of tie
steamer, although credit was given to an
other. / was fishing in the lake that day
| and remarked the lateness of the boat; later
Burr told me the facts, which were different
| from the newspaper account. Burr killed
one buck that he says was the largest he
ever saw. Ny younger brother and Burr
! killed deer on Utawanna lake, between
Blue Mountain and Rsquette lakes, in 1880,
by runzing it down with a little steamer"
| FROM official returns from India it ap-
pears that year BY year the average amount
900. The total of human lives lost by beasts
and reptiles during 1881 in British India
was 81 ,427, of which 1850 cases we're due
to the bites Of poisonous serpents. Wild
elephants slew, So; tigers, $50; leopards,
| 239; bears, rs; wolves, 256; hyenas, s, and
''other animals" 1882 These last are TO be
specified in future RETURNS, and they will be
f., found 10 include, no doubt, all sorts of
strange "fere," from bison, rhinoceros and
wild dog, TO the magyar, or alligator of the
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shaped tusks gore many hunter and
: peasant.
I GEORGE A. CHAFEE, of Middletown, Conn.
was hunting squirrels near that town on
/ Tuesday, the 9TH ultimo, when he saw
bushy tail pendant from dark blotch in .
peperidge tree. 1t did not occur to the
hunter that the tail belonged 10 any other
animal than a squirrel, though he wondered
somewhat at the size and color of the brush.
Meanwhile his dog had scented the same OBJ
ject, and began to bay the game in an un-
usually animated manner. Chafee soon saw
that the animal up the tree was very much
like fox. To settle the question, he "drew
/ bead" on the beast, and down came a fox,
sure enough. The fox fought the dogs for a
few moments, but was killed and triumph
antly borne into Middletown. Chafee, al
| though an experienced hunter, says he never
| knew OF a fox being found in a tree before.
The animal, when discovered, was asleep in
an old crows nest.
JARED B. HARDING, a hunter, and his In
dian guide were caught in a snow-storm in
the mountains near Glendive, M. T., few
weeks ago. The men groped their way along
a trail for several miles to find late in the
afternoon that they had mistaken their bear
ing and were, perhaps, further away from
| their cabin than at the start toward il. As
they moved down into a ravine for shelter
they discovered a cave, into the warm depth
of which they crswled. Kindling fire
they began TO broil bits of yepison steak,
the odor OF which enticed grizzly bear TO
the mouth of the cave. That the cave was
the bears den did not appear, for there was
no evidence therein of its previous occu-
pancy, but the grizzly walled in all the
same. The hunters scaled one of the walls
Of the cavern very quickly, obtaining foot
hold on a ledge several feet above the floor.
The grizzly ran around the cave for several
minutes and then ate all the provisions he
| could find. He did not seem to mind the
men until Harding shot him. At the report
he tried to get at his assailant, who fired q
half dozen shots with his repeating rife, the
Indian alternating. The bear left at the
tenth shot, and on the following day was
found Eve or six miles away, where he had
died from loss of blood