Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-14
TALES OF A TRAVELLER.

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A Tough Season ON Pennsylvania Venisou-
Sample Of shnmokin LyinE-Lumberme
Afraid Of Fire-A MALL Carrying Dog
The Latest Good Oae on Beaver.
rFRoM STAFF coRREsPoNDEST.I
CHAMoKIN, PA, February 18-It is next to
impossible to get venison at hotels or res
taurants in the mountain towns Of Central and
Northern Pennsylvania. That may seem
strange when it is remembered that the Alle-
ghenies afford what limited hunting grounds
are left in this State. Every winter there are
more or less deer shot. sportsmen scour the
woods in all directions. The mild
winter is blamed for the small
amount Of game taken this year. Still there
were some successful hunts in Indiana, Clear
field, Blair, Center and Potter counties. New
ertheless caterers are unable to buy the meat.
One hotel proprietor at Bellefonte told me he
had placed an order with a man last November
for buck, but it had never been filled. The
reason Of this is that one firm at Tyrone has a
standing order to ship all the deer 1t can get
to the Wand erbilts, Goulds and Astors, of New
York What those families do not get goes to
Delmonico's and high-class club at Philadel-
phia. This Tyrone house has professional
hunters in different parts of the mountains, and
pretty well controls the sport
CHAMoKIN has some liars, too. II was
member of Company K, Forty-sixth Regi-
ment," said one of them to an admiring circle
of war veterans, yesterday. "On picket duty
one night the rebel outposts were so close that
a voice in tho darkness addressed me like this:
"'Hol Yank! Can you fellows shootr
"shoot," replied. ''Well, Johnny, just
reckon we can, some. Can your"
"Well, I should say sor' came the voice.
"why down in Mississippi. where come from,
we set up baby bumble-bee on thistle and
knock her of every time at 800 yards"
"Oh, that's nothing to the way we handle our
weapons up at Shamokin. Why. belonged to
a company of militia up there 100 men strong.
We used to 20 up on the coal dirt bank [nearly
500 feet highl form single line, start can
rolling down hill while the whole line, one at
a time, took shot at it. When the can
reached the bottom it was rule that if more
than one hole appeared. or anyone missed, he
was expelled from the company. There was
never an expulsion from our ranksP'
When the pickets advanced next morning
they discovered the remains of the Mississip-
plan in the bushes. A post mortem showed he
died of paralysis.
IF we don't have that four weeks Of frigid
weather, a new danger threatens the suffer-
ing lumbermen. It Is that Of forest fires in the
summer. They are not concerned about the
trees. It is the logs already felled and lying in
the woods awaiting snow for sliding that they
are apprehensive about. As showed in
dispatch from Williamsport the 300, 600 feet
of timber blockaded in the woods at the pres
ent time is worth millions of dollars. That, of
course, took into account the price the Will
transport firms would receive for it when sold.
But aside from that, thousands have already
been paid woodcutters for their labor upon
these logs. The longer these logs lay there the
dryer they will get Their very presence in the
forests increases the danger of fire, and with
several extensive confagrations raging stimuli
there would be terrible destruction
of this property. That is why the owners are
30 anxious to get it down to the creeks and
rivers before warm weather. But the snow
fakes still refuse to fly.
Sc
A SHORT distance below Driftwood on the
low grade division of the Allegheny Val
ley Railroad, saw a wonderful dog perform q
feat. The morning express east
ward from Du Bois was whirling across high
v1aduct. The conductor called me out on the
rear platform of the last car. He held in
his hands a roll Of papers and letters-the
United States mail made up at the nearest post
office for q small settlement OF in one Of Elk
county's glades Just as the last truck left the
bridge he threw the roll overheard and almost
1t the same second OF time we dashed by big
bulldog The brute had leaped
INTO the air before we had reached him. and
before he saw the packet drop, evidently calcu-
ating the distance and time, and hoping to
latch the papers in his mouth. But binding
NOW storm was prevailing. Both dog and con-
iuctor had miscalculated the distance and the
papers rolled down the embankment Whirl-
ng quickly ronnd and round Jack" soon
taught sight of them, and, rolling down hill,
;oo, had them in his teeth just as they touched
he waters of Sinnemahoing.
He gets the mail from this train everyday"
aid the conductor, usually catching it on a
,ound, and carries it two miles to the settle.
nent. Last June when the flood had washed
lown all the bridges across the stream, he
wan the waters every day. His master is an
Invalid, and that's the way Jack takes him
eading matter And he's bull dog. too."
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GOVERNOR BEAVER is known by every Pitts
burg boy in the National Guard to be a
yery strict disciplinarian in military etiquette
md the drill. Austin Curtin, of the Governors
lat1ve town, told this war "reminiscences about
lin last night to some of the delegates at the
j. A. H. encampment: While Lieutenant
Colonel of the Forty-hfth Regiment, Beaver
vas one day sitting in front of his tent, when a
soldier with ill-itting uniform
:ame along, stopped and inquired:
''Vere ish der doctor2"
us that the way to address your superior on
,er, sir2" roared Colonel Beaver.
The German stared at his superior oficer in
blank amazement, but said never a word.
Here sir; take this chair. You be the
Colonel, and will teach you how to address an
,ficer."
''Vas, me der boss of der regimentF"
Eyes; take this chair and will show you
low to act"
The soldier sat down in front of the tent
Colonel Beaver walked of few PAGES, turned
Lbout, returned to position in front Of the
,ficer pro tempore, squared himself around,
made military salute and inquired:
Colonel, can you inform me where can find |
he surgeon of the regiment?"
The soldier arose, and looking seriously and |
traight at Beaver, replied:
I'D if know where he isr'
L T. SToFIEL.