A WONDERFUL MARKSMAN.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1419, 2 September 1878, Page 3

A WONDERFUL MARKSMAN.

A marvellous marksman has arrived at New York. His name is Dr. Carver, and he is supposed to bo the most wonderful rifle shot in the world. He was carried off when a child by the Dakota Indians, and lived with them sixteen years. At the age of nine he began to shoot birds on the wing with a rifle, and subsequently became bo expert at shooting that the Dakotas regarded him as superhuman. He rarely missed a shot at a bird, even when on horseback, and killed buffaloes and deer shooting from his hip, never raising his rifle to his eye when Bhooting at sitting or standing game. After leaving the Dakotas he shot in matches at San Francisco and elsewhere, and his wonderful exploits "electrified the Pacific coast." One of his most extraordinary feats was breaking all but seYon glass balls out of 2000 with a rifle at ten paces. This feat was performed at Oakland, California. On another occasion he broke fifty successive glass balls while riding a horse at full speed. The horse was a "green animal" from a livery stable, from whose back a gun had never before been fired. Ho prides himself especially upon his fancy shotß. From the hip he claims to be a dead shot at anything stationary within a reasonable distance. A ball being thrown twenty or thirty feet in the air, before it falls ho will fire at it and reload his gun twice, breaking it on the third shot. At from twelve to fifteen yards he will break as many balls as on?. x&n can keep in the air, thrown as high a» possible, reloading at every shot. Ha ahattcrs a ball thrown straight at his head by a man thirty yards distant. He shoots right and left with a man on each side throwing the balls in the air. At the crack of the rifle the balls are tracked. He throws two balls in the air at once, breaking one, loading his riite and shattering the other before it reaches the ground. At Logansport he hit with a rifle ball seventeen successive trade dollars thrown over a treo. He shoots at half dollars and dimes tossed in the air, and knocks the spots out of nickels. Ho declares that he has broken glass balls while ho was mounted and his horse was in tho set of leaping a fence four feet high. I>r. Carver asserts that he can shoot by ssand almost as well as by eight. Ho has appeared on the stage blindfolded, and sent tho ball through a bell rung behind him. He can give no explanation of his skill, but states that "it oonaea natural."