The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-15
HUNTERS ANDrARNERs.

desire 10 have them. This means business.
and il pcrseyerod in. success for CROWN <
cities.
HUNTERS AND FARMERS.
Bnt the weather has been 81 charming
that persons have almost pinned for the coun-
trv. and have turaed their thought, to fields
and woods rs naturally as they have spent
their days promenadng the streets Il
shopping for Christmas. From many
Of our exchanges we learn tnHl
IA every town the holiday fever
so infectious. is rapidly spreading, and as
the country folk come into the towns they
! ten ola variety OF timely happenings. The
hunting season il i'm lllll swing. and the ro-
ports Of guns are echoed in Tidewater, Pied
mont and Valley counties. while reports of
luck at shooting are equally omnipre~ent
/ Look az some Of the remarks 10y cnntrmpo'
rarieS gathered al random
'MeS.rs. j. I. Ruckcrand Thomas II. Card
well. Of Campbell. hayea wcii-trained pack
of hounds. fifteen i'm number. They ha,,
already caught the present season. sine,
| August. forty-hNe gray foxes ana seven
reds. making hfty-tWo in all. ON last llle-
/ day morning the citizens OF kustnurg h3o
the rare treat Of Witnessing - fox chase
/ Re, nard passed through the village Will
/ the dog. of the gentlemen named above just
! behind him. Two foxes were caught neat
/ Rusthurg ON that day and TWO the previous
/ Monday. The woods around Ru-thurg seem
| 10 about I'm 'pOssums. and nightly may Dol
heard the inspiring sound of the hunter
| horn and the yelpng Of hounds, and idl
| 'pOssum has become mo- rare dish.
This is from Fredericksburg: "Messrs. &
| b. Beyer. ". n. RYAN and II. Mar-ch, oil
/ Philadelphia. have for several DAYS past
| been on a hunting expedition IN this Nicinh
| ty. They succeeded in baeging quite q
/ large number of birds. which they express
ed home. Pop said he could do nothing or
account Of the son. who. being so large. nl.
ways got i'm front OF him, thus getting the
! first shot. They all expressed themselves
as having delightful time. which We have
no doubt they did, Come again. boys
Here is dog story from the Piedmont
I yirginan: Dog stories are on iair road
10 rival those told by fishermen. The latest
candidate for popular recognition Is that
| Fred. stencil was out shooting ihi
other day. when he shot his dog
/ For moment he WAS too much olerrom,
| 10 see what he had done. and before he bad
recovered himself the animal. black lc-
/ trieyer. had come ui4i0 him. bringing in DTS
mouth his own tail. which bad been shol
/ clean or"
But. alas. the sporting instinct is some
! times merged i'm a love for lucrc, and ini-
accounts for the following: Two men
/ boarded "A train at this place with over q
| hundred partridges. several pheasants. two
wild turkeys. and numerous rabbits. 10 D,
needless ~ say they were Iot hunters. and
our sportsman should iOlk ont for them oi
Others of their class during the remainef of
1 the hunting season.
Records Of accidental sbootingl are al-
most as abundant as records Ol sport. lNf
as one paper sighs. "Many bird hunter,
and few. geI.v flr. birds are brought home w
These many bird hunters, though "snoM
birds have put In their appearance afe
somewhat hampered 10y reading, Two Tres
pass notices In this weeks issue. lou had
| bettorwad them before going bird hunting
and then. turning % the advertising coi-
umns. seeing this.
NOTICE All parties are hereby warned
not 10 hunt. shoot or range 0n nay land. The
penaltv 0f the law will he enforced against
/ all such trespa-,er-. u. ". Jones. II. Petty.
-. r. FITZGERALD. Rive. 4. shelton. j. J..
| Taylor
II used 90 Doe that a board placed in the
corner OF "a field Was enough t0 scare on "a
small troop OF armed men, hut thatirOop BIAS
increased in direct proportion 90 the de-
crease of game. ana 10 is not an inircIueni
occurrence for two or three men t0 lay claim
to the same bird or squirrel. Hence On.
olliging owner OF fields, 90 save the would
be hunter, unnecessary expense and trouble
i'm reaching the hunting ground and po,,i-
bic personal difficulty about the ownership
Of game, kindly inserts such AN advertise
ment hy himself on forms syndicate io
distribute the expense OF %. clever device.
HAVE YOUR FORTUNE TOLD.
What would balmy air. yomal brpcICs.
and clear skies. 40 Tins season amount io, u
those happy-go-ucky, long pedIgroed. ro-
wing inGi} idual-. the glp-ic-, did not make
their appearance somewhere and enhance
the landscape DIS adding "a van cor two.
rethored horses. children SrraVlng about
the ground. and smoke curling lalily from
beneath the pot az pOrIdge And here
they are IN Louisa, for the Advance says :
" 4 camp of gypsies Is near town. Among
the party is one who is the ideal gypsy
maiden made famous in st0ricd song and
romantic fancy. MANY OF our people now
have their future looking all blooming and
CAV and enter life with new rest, and are
only twenty-five cents ont oi pocket
ROADS AND THE MARKETS.
These indepoudent goniuse- have pretty
GOOD notion OF What "A GOOD. road D.. and
they complain OF impcdiments % travel in
some parts Of the commonwealth. mus
they voice the sentiments Of many farmers
who are anxi0u, about getting their goods
% market. and who eagerly read hint, Ike
this: The road oyersccrs ought 90 take
advantage OF these pretty days and puf our
roads in good ORDER for the winter Good
road, would Dee the second best thing 90 "a
railroad in our comfy
What the goods are is shown by notices
Of successful h0g-killng. though this mild
weather is rather hard on fresh pork Thus
Mr.. ". Thompson. who live. back of
Mt. Calvary. last week slaughtered five tat
hogs that weighed Ms follows: 81, iii. i3.
81 and il3 pounds. respectively. This Is
I'm aggregate OF 2.iW pounds. and an aver
age Of 1885, pounds. The porkcra were
twentf-tWO months old. This takes The
cake 80 far as hcarf from
Al Manassas the Gazette notes that "a
dock of three hundred and scNcnty-ise
turkeys was driven through this place on
Thursday for the Washington market
When nothing else j. occupying Do, aiten-
ton. the farmer F. supervising his corn
shocking, though short crops have de-
tracted much from the characteristic
ics Of that festive work which
were known before tire War. While az the
railroad station looking after his slain