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Show GRANT AS A SPORTSMAN. How His Preiloiitinl Mn.jes,v Got Some Venison in I'enu-s.ylvania. I'enu-s.ylvania. (Correspondence of the X. V. tl'viid'.) Caledonia, Elk County, Va., June 10. The President on his recent fishing fish-ing excursion in this State was the fish angled for. Sir. Russell Errett, who lately held a lucrative place in the internal revenue, re-venue, and later still a more profitable profit-able one in the State Senate, wants to be made collector of the port of Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, and to this end is seeking the removal of the present incumbent of that office, Mr. Comly, wlio was not very active in the canvass lust fall. It occurred to the minds of certain cer-tain patriotic gentlemen that it wats just the proper thing to invito the President to come over into Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania to fish for trout. He came, tiv saw Errett 's strikers nnd Comly 's enemies, lie conquered a few speckled spec-kled specimens of the finny tribe. From Youngwomanstown the party, reinforced by Colonel Noyes and others, moved on up tho Siminui-ahaning Siminui-ahaning lo Driftwood, where they switched off on to the Alleghany Valley Val-ley railroad, now building up' Bennett's Ben-nett's branch, and in care of Colonel Phillips, president of the road, moved up the line as far as Ralph Johnson's, which is twelve miles from Driftwood and the end of the track at present. They were not expert at angling. For the two days they slopped here there was quite an advance m fishermen's fisher-men's .wages. Men were in demand at SS per day. One man fished all day and reported at night with four trout, and went home with $S and a goal appetite for his supper. After satiating their appetites for .trout, their palates became ctchy for venison. veni-son. The president must have a deer at all hazards, so they applied to two of our most successful hunters and were told that it was out of season t kill a deer and a fine of oO would be imposed, which would make venison dear meat. But they said they did not care for the cost the - deer "they must have. As there was no hope of obtaining a deer from the wild haunts of the forest in the time alloted them, our hunters played a game so successfully suc-cessfully on the partv that they left here entirely ignorant of the joke, except ex-cept Philips, who had to be let into tho necret to carry out the arrangement. arrange-ment. Some six miles up the stream was a tame deer, an old buck, so verv poor that the hunters refused to take it until Philips was consulted. The price fixed was $50. Philips said take the deer . and furnished the monev. So the old buck was killed, Vlres-al and taken to Grants headquarters at m' w"crc our hunters received v-u ror tiit-ir hunting exploits, and i resident Gram and attendants lcrt well pleased with their deer at a cost |