Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-17

The Wife of the Late HoratIo Ross
 Formerly Q New Haven Lady-A
 Sister of she Late Mrs. R. Is Inger.
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 From a recent issue of the New York Her aid the following is taken:
 HoRATIo ROSS.
 A Commercial Cable dispatch announces the world and probably the most remarkable sportsman He was not only a great hunter himself. but was also the father of great rifle shots. Hercules Colin for their prowess with the rife. and the name of Edward Ross has of late years almost eclpsed that prize, but alone holds st the gold and silver med. als of the National Rifle association Hercules pion shot of india for three uccesswe Sears while in 1863 MT. Ross and his three formed four of match for the Elcho shield. But stranger still, the expert of the rife is not merely confined to the gree to some of the ladies Mrs Horatio Ross, nee Miss Macrae, has in her day been splendid shot with her rifle, and Mrs. Colin Ross is scarcely less
 As was to be expected, Mir. Ross became a leader of Musketry at Hythe, and seeking instruction from General Hay in the art Of military r1ne snoo ing. These two crack shots passed many an after. together 'the shingle in friendly contest at the h target and many tae M t6 s yards distance.
 Ross astonished the world as steeplechase rider on his famous horse Clinker, against Captain Doug steeplechase riding. as now practised, may be said to date from that event, being the first steeple
 In former days, when dueling was in vogue, MT. Ross accounted the best pistol shot in Europe, others that he never had serious quarrel. But as proof of his dexterity he killed twenty swal pigeon shot he was not a whit less Noticeable. At the Red House, in a match with Lord Macdonald. s se 2af R 5 he cut 05 G club cuo scoring 76 out of his 80 birds at 30 yards rxuiI ho orr,ar lu nrn hU TIT rivalled skill and dexterity with the fewling-piece, the rifle and the pistol that MT: Ross will be remem steeplechase rider has already been referred to; but 1t remains to add that he likewise in his day aset an sng walked from the River Dee to Inverness, distance stopping; and again, after laborious contest in shooting partridges with Colonel Anson in Norfolk, when the latter retired from sheer exhaustion MT. Ross fresh that he challenged any of the by- standers to walk to London a distance of seventy miles.
 Mir. Ross lived in Wyvis Lodge, a mountain in the Highlands of Scotland: The walls teem with etc. The sideboard in the dining room groans un- der the weight of the numberless prizes won by his Wimbledon cup, only competed for by winners; the Association cup and the Duke of Cambridge's cup. ing ats at 5oo 1000 aud i1oo yards fifteen shots at each range each day, he-then in his sixty sixth of the kingdom and added thereby the Cambridge cup to his collection
 For a snorC time ne Sat III farliaIleub. ine spur was not to his taste. He proved himself much more effective representative of his country the guest of Austrias greatest magnates, Prince Ester hay and Prince Lichtenstein.
 The Mrs. Ross referred to in the above obituary cable may be remembered by some of our older inhabitants as Justine Macrae, who passed many of her early years in New Haven when her mother, the sister of the late Mrs. R. G. Ingersoll, resided here. She is cousin of Mrs. John J. Astor, Mrs. Judge Peabody and General Schuyler Hamilton, of New York