Show NEW naw CANNON A washington letter of the to the new york times says the secretary of war has ordered a series of experiments with the new rifle cannon of 0 sylvanus sawyer of fitchburg mass to ie be made under the direction of the ordnance department part ment and the results so far as reported are entirely successful it is the unanimous opinion of the ordnance officers that this new gun stands without a rival at the distance of one mile the body of an ordinary sized tree wu would I 1 d not n ot be missed once in fifty times so exact are its line shola shots mr sawyer super intend intends ir the firing in person and in seventeen shots at a distance of one mile the furthest was not over three feet from the centre such shooting was never known before and these experiments show that a new era in gunnery bas baa dawned upon us the saw sawyer y er cannon has a groove like the rifle which forms a circle in twenty feet the gun now being tested is a small one carrying g only about a six pound ball and has teen been been hired fired over two hundred times without the smallest injury it is the cast of the aiger alger iron of boston now considered the finest gun 9 un metal in the world the ball is shaped like the minie rifle ball and is filled with powder which explodes after striking and entering an ob object act the great discovery of mr sawyer has mn been in in adapting the cannon ball to a grooved gun to effect this chis the iron ball is first tinned and then covered bovere d with a coating of lead about a quarter of an inch thick with leaden ridges on the surface fitting exactly the grooves of the bore the official report on these experiments will place this new cannon just as far above the dahlgreen Dahi dahl green and other guais guns now known to the wa world as the minie kinle rifle is above the old kador mu musket nor do I 1 make this prediction without knowing what I 1 am saying twenty one hogs were recent recently lv bold sold I 1 in n cincinnati averaging in in weight erch etch ind and brought the round sum of 23 the ilie ie avist in the lot weighed ibs 83 the the total weight of the 21 hogs was and vele mele SO 30 months old |