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Pistol Shouting. — Uapt. John Travis, the celebrate i and renowned pisad-shot, is now in the city, and is fitting up a gallery here. We congratulate our triends and the admirers of huir-triggers, on the opportunity that will bo afforded them to learn to I i hit the ••IlulPs-eye” at will, (.’apt Travis is the hero of 1-7 matches; and it will I doubtless bo remembered by many of ourjreaders, that he is the man who, in INVI.j• 1 accomplished, on a wager of $1000, the des- 1perate and uuparalleled feat of shooting an | orange only two inches in diameter, without any intervening object, off a muu’i head at the distance of3b feet; tho man standing with his face toward Travis. JHin IV (is-borne was the man who supported the or-| ange on his head; and the scene of the match was Tiger Island, Parish of St. Mary’s, Louisiana. Of course, there is no use in recurring again to his last match with Mr. Edwin Paul, in which, as usual, he came 1 otf victorious — lAiuisvillr Journal.
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Oroville Daily Butte Record
Oroville, California, US
Mon, Mar 01, 1858
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