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The buildings cover 15 acres.
The live stock exhibit will eclipse
anything the world ever saw. Lon¬
don’s Royal Stock Show led anything
of the kind previously made, but
Louisville f • > Southern 0 ,1 Kxposition f Will mi
S
hereafter head the list of stock ex -
Dibits.
One million dollars worth of
ses will stand in line, no less than an
eighth of a mile in length. It is a
sight worth many miles of travel to
see.
'The fire-works will be in charge of
James Paine, of London, with whom
at great expense, an arrangement has
been made to produce in Louisville
pyrotechnic displays fully equal to
those given at the royal exhibitions
in Europe, and at Coney Island where
hundreds of thousands witnessed them
nightly. The grandeur of Paine’s
exhibitions cannot be described.
They must be seen to be apprecia¬
ted. Each evening’s exhibition is
closed with some splendid scene,
like the bombardment’of Alexandria,
Battle of Yorktown. Pyramids of
Egypt, etc.
There is to be a great competitive
Military Drill, and other features of
no less merit.
The Exposition will open August
16, close October 25, and railroad
tickets from all points to Louisville
and return may be had for one fare.
Our Next Senator.
The primary election in Uposon
county resulted in the selection of
Col. J. Y. Allen, as the choice of that
county for Senator, by a vote of 458,
as against 211 for his competitor,
I)r. Drake.
Col. Allen will therefore receive
the nomination and will be elected
our next Senator. T he vote he re¬
ceived at home was highly compli¬
mentary, and he will fill the office
with much credit, we have no doubt.
ID will have many warm supporters
in Harris county.
Insure Against Fire.
Mobley Brothers are agents for the
Hopie Insurance Company of New York,
one of the strongest companies in the
United States. They will give low rates
on dwellings, barno, gin-houses, stores,
lurnitnre, «feo., and solicit your patronage
Job Printing:.
The neatest and the bes-t is done
at this office-
THE HAMALTOX .JOVBAAL.
MOTHER.
[Edward A. Oldham in The Current.;
No other name sounds half so sweet t<» rue
As Whose this beloved simple old mention Anglo-Saxon word,
stir's some silen
chord
Within my heart, ^ ________ n ............. -*• i«e.
Metlimas thy dear and radiant face J a
When I, a bal>e, mv fledgling /ancy soared
witk “' a uttle world wrfietv tight w*.
poured ,
From out thine eyes—so full of sanctity.
Wh *a prattling babyhood had passed away,
Thy Through lender care led my untutored manhood steps
narrow ways till
looms apace,
And then my buoyant bark in unknown
depths while thou thy
Sets out alone, steps
retrace
Back unto Him who lives in endless day.
THE LAST GASP.
The Colonel Who Didn’t Keeog;nIto«
tien. Lee’s Authority.
[Washington National Tribune.!
Gen. Sheridan tells a very interesting
story about the last campaign against
Lee, : nd the incidents of the surrender.
It will be reraembf r-*d that lie headed off
Lee at Appomattos court house, and
captured eleven trCns of supplies which
were waiting for Ifm there. When Lee
found out that 1 e iiad no stores or
ammunition tor hit army, and that his
retreat was cut off*, lie sent a flag of
truce, wdnch Custer received and con
ducted to Sheridan. The two armies
laid on their arms waiting for Grant,
who was on his way to the iront.
In the meantime Sheridan and some
of his staff started to ride over toward
Appomattox court house, when they
were fired upon by a regiment of rebel?
half concealed among some underbrush,
The general and his party waved their
hats toward the place where the shot*
came from, and made all sorts of deni
onstrations to silence the unexpected
and mysterious attack, but to no pur
pose. Finally, the eont('derate officer
who brought the flag and Maj. Allen, of
Sheridan’s staff, rode over to see what
the matter was.
They found a South Carolina regi
ment, whose colonel, in a grandiloquent
tone, informed tlieui that the war wasn't
over, and that lie and his regiment did
not recognize th«> authority of Gen. Lee
to make terms for peace. “.Be Gawd,
sir,” exclaimed this gallant Johnny,
.. South Carolinians never surrender!’
The two officers rode back to Gen.
Sheridan, who, with his party, had re¬
tired under cover, and reported called to him
(lie situation. The general Cus¬
ter and told him there was one regimen*,
over in the brush which hadn't got
enough of it, and it would be well for
him to go over there and “snuff it out."
Custer ordered his bugler to sound “for¬
ward,” and at the head of a regiment
dashed across the interval which lay
between the two armies, which were
drawn up in long lines afid stood at rest.
It was a beautiful Sunday morning—a
perfect spring day—and the sight of that
regiment, with Custer's long, tawny hair
as their banner, dashing at lull gallop
across the fields, evoked a cheer from
both armies.
Meantime Sheridan had reached the
court-house, where he met Gen. Gordon,
recently senator from Georgia, and Gen.
Wilcox, who had l>een his classim a «‘it
Wes t r Point, but whom be had not y,
lor many years. THlcox lias since been
si doorkeeper of the United States senate.
While this party was sitting on the;
steps of the court, house, chatting fa-'
miliarly over the situation, heavy inus
ketry was heard in the distance. Gor
don looked up in anxiety and alarm
asked one of his aides to ride over in
that direction and find out what it
meant. “Never you mind, general,
said Sheridan. “It’s all right. I know
what it means. Custer is over there
having some fun with a South Carol! •
nian who never surrenders.” Gordonf
insisted upon sending the officer to
tile fight, but before he got there
doughty colonel had presented
with a very much battered sword.
was the last gasp of the army of north¬
ern Virginia.
They Carried tlie News to Dallas.
[Ben: Perley Poore.] -2
Governor Fairfield, of Maine, on his
return from Philadelphia, on June 1,
1344 , as the chairman of a committee of
the national Democratic convention, to
j n f orm Mr. Dallas of his nomination as
V ; C( > president, gave an amusing accoun
0 f Gie scene. The committee reach/
Philadelphia- about 3 o’clock in t
nioruing, and were piloted to I
Dallas' house by his friend, Sena*
Robert J. Walker, who was one of t.
!llim ber. Loud knocks at the doc
brought Mr. Dallas to his chamber win
dow, and recognizing Mr. Walker lie
feared that his daughter, who was in
Washington, was ill, and he hastened
own-stairs, half dressed and bare
footed, to hear from him, when, to his
iter amazement, in walked sixty or
uore gentlemen, two by two, with the
tread ,ering of las s ddiers front passing parlor him though by, and J j
( . n as to
;ii:l k e him a captive. Mr. Dallas, theirj noli
i mv ing the slighe&t conception of the!
object, stood thunder-struck at
scene. Mr. Walker led him into the
a* k parlor. “Mv dear Walker,” said
i,., ? j n amazement, “what is the matter?’’
'-Wait one moment, if you please, Dal -
, ;Sj wait one moment if you please.?”
qj, ( . folding doors were then thrown
open and the whole congregation stepped
forward and gave three'deaf ailing Mr/ cheers
f or *'p 0 lk and Dallas!’’ Dallas
stood parlyzed. Mr. Walker Fairfield, enjoyed liis
discomfiture. Governor o
Maine, then stepped forward, and ip th<
name of the delegation announced lii
nomination.
How Humorists Are Made,
[Louisville Courier-Journal.]
American humorists come by accident.
Mr. Quad, of Detroit, suddenly became
a humorist on being blown up from a
steamboat. Genie Field, the Chicago
humorist, began his career after falling
out of a three-story window. There are
several promising young men now writ
mg for the press, who. if someone would
hit them with a hard-wood club, might
develop into humorists of the first rank.
The Instructive Carman.
[Boston Globe.]
Lady passenger (frant ically)—This ca?
goes to the Old Colony deppo, doesn’t it?
Conductor (stolidly)—Deppo? Deppo?
Old Colony deppo? Oh, yes. Yes; this
car goes to the Old Colony station. \Y<i
prefer to say station here in Boston.