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THE JEITEMffI 4®. NEWS & FARMER
Vol. 1.
THE
Jefferson News & Farmer
B Y
HARRISON & ROBERTS:
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FOR THE
Farm, Garden, and Fireside*
3?mblish.ed
Every Friday Morning
AT
LOUISVILLE, GA
TERMS $2 50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
1 year.
6 months,
3 months.
4 weeks.
1 week.
SQUARES
1 . SI.OO $3.26 $7.50 $12.00 $30.00
a 1.75 5.00 12.00 18.00 30.00
3 2.00 7.00 16.00 2800 40.00
4 3.50 9.00 26.00 36.00 60.00
5 i 4.00 12.00 28.00 40.00 60.00
4col I 6.00 15.00 34.00 50.00 75.00
4 coll 10.00 25.00 60.00 80.00 120.00
lcolj 20.00 50.00 80.00 120.00 160.00
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
Ordinary's.— Citations lor letters
ot ad joinistration,guardianship, &c. $ 3 00
Homestead notice 2 00
Applicatioutor dism’n from adm’n.. 500
Applicationfor dism'n ofguard’n.... 350
Application for leave to sell Land.... 500
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.... 300
Sales of Land, per square of ten lines 500
Bale of personal per sq., ten days.... 150
Sheriff’s —Each levy of ten lines,.... 250
Mortgage sales of ten lines or less.. 500
Tax Collector’s sales, (2 months.... 500
Clerk's —Foreclosure of mortgage and
other monthly’s, per square.... .... 100
Estray notices,thirty days 3 00
Sales of Land, by Administrators, Execu
tors or Guardians, are required, by law to
be held on the first Tuesday in the month,
between the hours of ten in the forenoon
and three in the afternoon, at the Court
house in the county in which the property
j s situated.
Notice ot these sales must be published 40
days previous to the day of sale;
Notice for the sale of personal property
must ne published 10 days previous to sale
day.
Notice to debtors and creditors, 40 day
Notice that application will be made of
the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land,
4 weeks.
Citations for letters of Administration,
Guardianship, &c., must be published 30
days—for dismission from Administration,
nontlily six months, for dismission from guar
dianship, 40 days.
Rules for foreclosure of Mortgages must
be published monthly for four months —for
establishing lost papers, for the full
three months —for compelling titles from Ex
ecutors or Administrators, where bond has
keen given by the deceased, the full space
of three months.
Application for Homestead to be published
twice in the space of ten consecutive days.
LOUISVILLE CARDS.
J a. GAIN J. H. FOLHILL
CAIN S POLHILL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
LOUISVILLE, GA.
May 5,1871. 1 ly.
T. F. HARLOW
■ Jl
W-atoli Maker
—AND—
IHEFAIRER,
Louisville, Cta.
Special ATTENTION GIVEN to reno
vating and repairing WATCHES, CLOCKS,
JEWELRY, SEWING MACHINES &c., &c.
Also Agent for the best Sewing Machine
that is made-
May 5,1871. 1 lyr:
"DR. I. fi. POWELL,
LOUISVILLE, GA.
Thankful for the patronage
enjoyed heretofore, takes this method of con
tinuing the offer of his professional services to
patrons and fiiends.
May 5,1871. 1 lyr;
"W. H. F-A.Y,
LOUISVILLE, GA.
St A- D, D Xi HI
—AND-
Harness Mak’er.
ALSO ,
•ROOTS cto SHOES
ado to order All work warranted and sat
igfaction guaranted both as to work and pn ce
Give me a call. lfi
May 5,1871. 16m ’ .
MED 1° AL.
DR J. R. SMITH late of SandersvilleGa.,
bffers his Professional services to the
citizens of Louisville, and Jefferson county.
An experience of nearly forty years in the
profession, should entitle him to Public Con
fidence. Special attention paid to Obstetrics
and the diseases of women and children. 0‘"
gee at Mrs. Doctor Millers.
Louisville June 80,1871. Btf.
New Advertisements.
Dissolution
—OF—
The Copartnership heretofore ex
isting between the undersigned, un
der the firm name of
SAMUEL M. LEDERER & CO.
is this day dissolved by mutual con
sent.
Messrs ISAAC M. FRANK and
FUSTAVE ECKSTEIN are alone
authorized to settle the affairs ot the
late firm, collect all moneys due,
and sign in liquidation.
SAM’L >f. LEDERER,
I. M. FRANK,
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN
Savannah, July 18ih, 1871.
Copartnership Notice.
The undersigned have this day
associated themselves together as
Partners for the transaction of a
General
DRY GOODS
business in the City of Savannah,
under the firm name of
FRANK & ECKSTEIN,
AT 131 BROUGHTON ST.,
where they will continue to carry an
extensive stock o£
© T A IP IL ®
AND
1 k it
m
BBT BOOBS
AND
i e t i o a s.
Possessing facilities to purchase
Goods
in the
Northern
Markets
on the very best terms, will contin
ue to offer such
as will make it the interest of
BUYERS
to deal with us.
Thanking you for the kind favors
bestowed on the late firm, we re
spectfully solicit your patronage in
future. Also an early examination
of our slock and prices.
Yours respeclfully,
FRANK & ECKSTEIN,
131 Broughton St.
Parties desiring to send orders for
Goods or Samples of Dry Goods will
find them promptly attended to by
addressing
P. O. BOX 33,
Savannah, Ga,
August 18, ly. n
Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga., Friday, October 18, 1871.
R. J. Davant, Jr. W. D. Waplis J. Myers.
Davant, Waples & CO.,
FACTORS
—AND
COJOIISSIONf MERCHANTS,
DAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.
August 15, 4m. m
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Are re pcctfully solicited for the erection of a
MONUMENT
TO TIIE
Confederate Dead of Georgia,
And those Soldiers from other Confederate
States who were killed or died in this State.
THE MONUMENT TO COST $50,000.
The Corner Stono it is proposed shall be
laid on the 4th of July, or so soon thereafter as
the receipts will permit.
For every Five Dollars subscribed, there wil
be given a certificate of Life, Membership t
the Monumental Association. This certificate
will entitle the owner thereof to an equal iuler
est in the following property, to bo distributed
as soon as requisite number of shares are sold,
to-wit:
First. Nine Hundred and One
Acres of Land in Lincoln
county, Georgia, on which are
the well-known Magruder
Gold and Copper Mines, val
ued at —......... ....$150,000
And to Seventeen Hundred and Forty-Four
Shares in Ono Hundred Thousand Dollars of
United States Currency; to-wit:
1 share of SIO,OOO SIO,OOO
1 •• 5,000. 5,000
2 » 2,500 5,000
]0 “ 2,000 20.000
10 “ 1,000 10,000
20 “ 500 10,000
100 « 100 10,000
200 11 50 10,000
400 “ 25 10,000
1000 10 10,00
SIOO,OOO
The value of the separate interest to which
the holdor of each Certificate will be entitled,
will be determined by the Commissioners, who
will announce to the public the manner, the
time and place of distribution.
The following gentlemen have consented to
act as Commissioners, and will either by a
Committee from their own body, or by Specia
Trustees, appointod by themselves, receive and
take proper charge of the money for the Mon
ument, as well as the Real Estato and the U.
S. Currency offered as inducements for sub
scription, and will determine upon tho plan for
the Monument, the inserption thereon, the site
therefor, select an orator for tho occasion, and
regulate the ceremonies to be observed when
he comer-stone.is laid to-wit:
Generals L. McLaws, A. R. Wright, M. A.
Stovall, W. M. Gardner, Goode Bryan, Colo
onols C. Snead, Wm. P. Crawford, Majors
Jos. B. Cumming, George T. Jackson, Joseph
Ganahl, I. P. Girardey, Hon. K. H. May, Adam
Johnston, Jonathan M. Miller, W, H. Good
rich, J, D. Butt, Henry Moore, Dr. W. E. Dear-
D q-j,e Agents in the respective counties will
retain the money received for tiie sale oi
Tickets until the subscription Books are clos
ed In order that tho several amounts may
be retfirned to the Shareholders, in caso the
number of subscriptions will not warrant any
further Drocedure the Agents will report to
this office weekiy, tho result of their sales.
When a sufficient number of the shares are
sold, the Agents will receive notice. They
will then forward to this office the amounts
McLAWSj Gen. Ag’ts.
. No. 3 Old P. O. Range, Mclntosh sts.
Augusta, Ga
W. C D. ROBERTS Agent at Sparta, Ga.
L. W. HUNT &. CO., Agents Miiledgeville
Georgia.
r p * n May, 2, 1871. Cm.
illisccllancMis.
On Wakefulness.
The primary cause of wakefulness
is an increase in the quantity of blood
circulating in the brain ; hence, any
condition or cause capable of induc
ing this state of the cerebral circu
lation may give rise to it. As these
causes are more or less under the
control of the individual, it is impor
tant they should be generally known.
1. Excessive and long-continued
intellectual action, or powerful men
tal emotions.
2. Those positions of the body
which tend to impede the flow of
blood from the brain, and at the same
time, do not obstruct its passage to
the brain. Many physicians have
noticed the connection existing be
tween bodily position and wakeful
ness. It is evident that the recum
bent position is more conducive to a
state of congestion of the brain than
the erect or semi-erect. Dr. Forbes
Winslow, Dr. Hammond, and sever
al other physicians have noticed an
increase in the number and intensi
ty of hallucinations of insane pa
tients, or persons suffering from de
lirium tremens, as soon as they as
sume ihe recumbent position. These
patients have been found to sleep
quietly for some time in an arm
chair, but to be annoyed by halluci
nations as soon as they lie down.
3. Certain substances used as
medicine or food. The chief agents
of this class are alcohol, tea—espec
ally strong green tea—cofTee, opi
um in small doses is often especially
potent in inducing wakefulness. A
single dose of half a grain has been
known to keep a patient awake for
three consecutive nights. All the
so-called narcotics, in small doses,
induce wakefulness rather than
sleep.
4. To the above Dr. Hammond
adds a fourth exciting cause of in
somnia, namely, functional derange
ments ot certain organs of die body,
whereby an increase in the amount
of blood in the brain is produced.
As, however, such cases as these are
beyond die control of the sufferer,
we need not discuss them here. In
all those eases of wakefulness de
pendent upon severe and long con
tinuous mental exertion—and these
are the cases to which we especially
wish to draw the attention of our
readers—all means of relief will be
utterly useless until the patient con
sents to give his brain entire relaxa
tion for a time. Whenever it is pos
sible, a course of travel through a
romantic country, or a visit to the
seaside, should he regarded ns im
peralive. An early dinner, follow
ed by a hearty supper of plain and
nutritious dishes, is preferable to a
heavy, late dinner; and a glass or
two of good wine at both meals, or
a glass of good whisky or brandy
and water after supper, may often
be taken with advantage. The val
ue of physical exercise—and espe
cially riding—in the open air, can
scarcely he over estimated, and
should be carried on to the point of
incipient fatigue. A shower-bath in
the morning, arid a warm bath be
fore retiring to rest, are useful aux
iliaries; a somewhat high and not
too soft a pillow should be used;
and, if the feet are very cold, a hot
water bottle should be placed at the
foot ot the bed. If the preceding
means—all or most of which the pa
tient can try for himself—fail, re
course should be had at once to pro
fessional advice. If we had been
asked a couple of years ago what
was the most potent agent in the
treatment of wakefulness, we should
have answered, without hesitation,
bromideof potassium. There is now
reason to believe, from the research
es ot Dr. Clouston, that a combina
tion of this salt with tincture of In
dian hemp, in the proportion of half
a drachm of the salt to a drachm of
the tincture, is more potent in allay
ing nervous excitement in cases of
insanity, and probably generally,
than the bromide alone, even in a
far larger dose. The most power
ful and irresistible of all sleep pro
moters is, however, the new remedy
known as hydrate of chloral, and
which, it is stated, has been prescrib
ed successfully, and without a sin
gle accident, in more than 100,000
cases in this country. — Once a Week.
The bright spots of a man’s life
are few enough without blotting any
out; and since, for a moment of
mirth, we have on hour of sadness,
it’we re a sorry policy to diminish
die few rays that illume our cheq
uered existence. Life is an April
day—sunshine.and showers. The
heart, like the earth, would cease to
yield good fruit, were it not some
times watered with the tears of sen
sibility ; and the fruit would be
worthless but for the sunshine of
smiles.— Age.
Grapes arc so plenty in lowa that
they sell for three cents a bushel.
A Romance in a Gypsy Camp. —
About a week ago, m the South
part of Bloomington, Ohio, in the
timber, were camped two wagon
loads of gypsies, about sixteen in
number. Among them, says a local
paper, was a beautiful gill neatly at
tired in gypsy costume, with black
flowing tresses. Our information is
from her mother, and it can be re
lied upon as being coriect. The
party lived in Zanesville, Ohio, and
a young man ot that place had be
come enamored of this young girl,
and sought her hand in marriage,
which the mother objected to, and
in company with this parly was
traveling io the Far West for the
purpose of getting away trom this
young man. Be had received the
sympathy of her step father, whom
the mother refused to live with. The
story is that the young girl is an
heiress and the young man is in
rather poor circumstances, and
hence the objection. The young
man and his associate made their
appearance at the company ground
at Bloomington, and sought to force
the girl to accompany him.
Tiie mother interfered and a war
of words ensued. A proposition
was made that tl the mother would
agree in writing that when the lover
had acquired some means lie should
have the prize, he would not give her
further trouble. This she refused
to agree to. The girl was inclined
to go, but her parent would not al
low her to do so. The young man
drew a knife and the mother a pistol,
and were about to engage in mor
tal combat, when the daughter
sprang between them. The pistol
was snapped twice, but failed to go
ofL The lover and step-lather lett
immediately, and nothing more of
interest transpired at that time. The
mother said they had recently tried
to get her child away, and that she
would shoot them the next time with
out saying a word.
How a Hackman was Too Much
fora Boston Clergymen. —liev. Mr.
F , of Boston, who had ac
cepted an invitation to preach on a.
certain Sunday last winter, was de
layed until the last moment, and
did not arrive in the town until late
in the morning of the day on which
he was to preach. The Saturday
Evening Gazelle says :
“He hastened to the clerk of the
hotel and requested him to procure
a carriage for him, which was com
plied with, and he was soon driven
to the church, and got there with
scarcely a moment to spare. He
stepped Irom the conveyance, and
hastened up the aisle, when, to his
gteat surprise, he lieatd a suppress
ed littering arid a buzz of astonish
ment lor which he could not account,
until, chancing to hear a so >tslep
behind him, he turn :d and beheld
the cause. The coachman, muffled
to the chin, with a fur cap on his
bead, a whip under his arm, and a
pair of cavalry hoots on his feet,
had followed him into the church.
Rev. Mr’ F , was about loatl
dress him, when Jehu exclaimed :
‘Ye ain’t paid me. 1 want my fare.’
The worthy minister, greatly mor
tified, tried to explain to him that he
had requested the hotel clerk to set
tle with him. ‘O, yes,’ returned the
hackman, ‘I dessay. That won’t
wash. Cash on delivery is my
terms. I don’t know you. I druv
a feller with a while necktie down
to the cars last week, and he give
me the slip and 1 ain’t seen him
since, and that lime I made up my
mind that there warn’l no virtue in
white neckties ; so cash up.’ It was
growing very embarrassing, when
Hon. Richard Warren, a prominent
member of the congregation, who
was well acquainted with Mr. F.
hastened forward and settled the
bill, whereupon Joint retreated
chuckling, and muttering to himself,
“Too much for white neckties that
time !”
Drinking in Europe. —‘Travel
ler’ writes: “I have been now some
six weeks in Austria, a country much
further North than New England.
Wine—about as strong as the Bur
gundy and claret used in the United
States—is cheaper here than whisky
in America. Evetybody drinks it.
But even in gardens and such places,
I have not seen more than two or
three intoxicated people. And at
the hotels and elsewhere, where I
have met persons of the higher class
es, I notice* that most drink their
wine mixed with water, and that
those who drink it pure rarely ex
ceed a glass or two ; in short, tha* is
nowhere the fashion to use it in ex
cess.
"Has there ever been a heavier
accusation brought against our peo
ple than the assertion that Ameri
cans have so little self-control that
their only safeguard against drinking
is total abstinence ?”
H. I. K. is booked for one of tho
grand entres in Atlanta on Monday,
Scarcity of Women. —A lonely
j pioneer writes as follows from La
Coma, Wyoming:
*i sincerely wish that many hun
dreds of old maids and widows who
cannot get husbands at home would
come out here, where they could
speedily get a choice of good, hon
est, hard working men, who could
make them comfortable and inde
pendent. There are, I reaily think,
five men here for one woman.”
Edit oilal Correspondencs.
Pli.aski House, Savannah, Ga.,
October 4tb, 1871.
To-day is a rainy day. “It i-- dark
and sad and dreary” without, so I will
not bo able to go in quest cf horns from
this dear old city to-day, 1 will endeavor
to regale our readers with tbopast—not
the long gone and mouldering past, b ;•
the recent past, yet fresh in memory
dear.
Ye: terday, through the courtesy of
Major Huff, I was shown through the
Grounds o( the coming State Fair which j
which is to be held ;.t Macon one week,
beginning with Monday, October Slid. |
The huge advert:.- moot appearing in J
to-day’s paper is indeed no blow. To
rue who has visited the grounds and
witnessed the. ic.-gnificent preparations
’or the coming Exposition, the adver-
tisement seems rather to fall short o!
what really may be expected.
The coming Fair at Macon will be at
tar superior to over crowded ill-managed
concern of two years ago as I'ght to
darkness. Mr. Huff, is a man that knows
what will please the people, and with a
liberal hand .has provided for the great
occasion. If any person visiting the
present Fair is not satisfied, Mayor Huff,
agrees to refund his expenses, and will
go halves with him. The terraced banks
of the liver for tho convenience ot tiro
speciaiors during the regatta, suppasses
anything wo have seen North or South.
Central Park not excepted.
Wo append below a description of the
grounds and buildings, copied from one
of the local papers. With the omission
of the beautiful river scenery, and the
new cottage being now in progress of
completion, especially for tho use of news
paper correspondents, we believe the
sketch is pretty nearly complete. We
are in earnest when wo advise every one
of our readers to go to Macon, and il
they should find any body that don’t
read our papers, (which of course is
doubtful,) they ought to carry them too.
The Fair is bound to he one of the graud
ost ever witnessrd
The Grand Entrance,
Presents a facade of one hundred feet,
striking in conception, and bold in out
line. The design is irregular, with the
principal or "carriage gate,” in the cen
tre twenty feet wide, Hanked on each
side by lofty towers, lising to a height
of sixty feet, and terminating in a cur
ved roof. A massive semicirelcd arch
connects these towers together over the
entrance, handsomely decorated with
panels, cornices, biackets, spandrels, Ac.,
while from the appex of the arch, rises a
beautiful flag-staff. The small gates for
the use of “pedestrians,” are seven feet
wide, placed one on either side of the
•‘carriage gate,’’ and at tho base of the
towels, through which an arch-way is
formed. Adjoining these are two largo
offices, each sixteen by twenty-four leet,
and a series of smaller ones fjr ticket
offices, &e. The design of the towers
is square, and the elevation of each side,
are alike, through the lower section. The
lower sections are crowned with a pro
acting cornice, supported on heavy
brackets, while at tlm base of the lower
sectiou, large brackets seem to net as a
kind of flying buttress, against the pi
lasters upon the corners, terminating in
brackets again at the top, and finally
crowned with a cornice. In a panel
over the carriage gate at the top, will
be the date, IS7I, and just beneath it,
“Central City Park,” while in a panel
on the towers over each small gate, arc
tho mottos, Science, Art, and immedi
ately in the centre over the entrance Ag
riculture.
These central towers, standing like
“giant sentinels” over the entrance to
tho “elysian groves,” give increased
dignity to the design, and so diversi
fies its outline, that when viewed no far
distant, as to take tho whole of the figure
in the eye at one coup d'anl, presents a
picture rare and faultless, and a struc
ture both “grand" and appropria’C.
The first building upon the light after
entering, is tho
Machinery Ilall,
Which is a single story building, 210
feet lon«, and 50 loot wide, erected upon
a solid foundation of brick, and substan
tially constructed throughout. It b
well lighted by glass windows, and am
ply provided with doors of largo dimen
sions. Tho building is covered in the
perpendicular style, having projecting
cornices and ornamented gables, which
givo it a really fine appcaianoe; though
of less pretension than some ofitsneigh
bors. A lino if shafting will extend the
wholo length, with all nectssary pulleys
and engines to drive il, ready for the use
of the, exhili ors.
The next building is tho
Dining Unit,
Also a single stoiy building 150 foot
long, and 50 feet wide, and 18 feet high.
This structure is also intended for a
Dancing Hall,
And has a smoothly dressed floor, and
a clear story. Splendid preparations
for light and ventillations are made, and
an elcva’ed gallery for tho orchostfa.
The external covering is iu the per-
Ho. 24.
pcndicular sty •, ao-l the cornices .. f the
eaves and -rallies, quite ornate. All tlie
j doers and windows will he protected on
the exterior, ! y hanging ho ds and can
! "P*es. adding, not only to the comfort,
j hut to the architectural bounty. Coin
i inodioiis kitchens will he built adjoin-,
i hig, and all tilings necessary for a Grand
!Di iing, or Banquet Ha’.!. Near one
j end, is erected a -Ladies Cottage” con
i' tainitig two looms each 14x18 Sect, with
: Ilall between, and a commodious toilet
jor boudoir. It is built in the pointed
| style- having ornamented gables, ter
! minating in linials and tracery. A ve
| rauda extending across the front, com-.
' i h tes the description, and a more cosy
i etreat can scarcely he imagined, as it
; seems to nestle down beneath the braeli
csof the Sturdy oaks that surround it.
Pas-ing on, and discovciing a little
to tlu- il..ht, we come upon the- Sa
loon. A building 35x65 feet, sranding
I out conspicuously, yet beautiful in its
u .me, iiii!e ornate in its construction,
and much autuired. Litre the others, it
is covered in the pcrpcudieular style,
overhanging hoods over doors
~nd windows, and ornamented gables,
nn.i the whole artistiyally painted in
parti colors.
\Yc now come to the “Floral Hall,’
a bailoing quite irregular in its plan,
with a dimension over all, of 18S feet
by 72 feet, two and tin i- stories high.
The principal facade is 101 feet, and is
sufficiently modest fur a private dwelling,
yet bold and striking in outline Forty
b-ur feet in the centre, projects twelve
met, and (j double story portico extends
across it. This central building is threa
stories high, and the upper story is light
ed from the roof, and designed (or a
picture gallery. On each rear corner is
erected pavillions 24 feet square pr»jec
ing ten feet each way biy-md the main
buiiJing, and carried up three stories
high having flat roofs, accessible by easy
stairs, and protected by high balhistrade.
The rear facade facing the race track is
188 feet, 140 feet of which, is a veran
da nine feet wide in each story, affor
ding most excellent accommodations for
promenade, and to witness the races,
from which point, every foot, of the track
can lie soon. Four flights of si airs con
ducts to the second story, b .iug wide
and easy. An open corridor extends
through each floor, protected by railing,
etc. The outside covering is in the
perpendicular style, joints buttoned, tho
balconies and cornices biacketed. This
building occupies a cential position up
on the ground, and from its balconies,
verandas and pavillions, can ho seen ev
ery object of interest.
The "Main Hall'’
Is a building 250x40 feet, two and
three stories high, with a four-foot bal
cony extending around the entire build
ing at each story, affording a most de
lightful promenade, and raro 1 mdscape
views. This building is covered like
those before described, and is very taste
fully decorated with cornices by tracery,
balcony-hangings, and moulded bolts.
An open corridor extends through the
centre building, which is three stories
high. Wide and commodious stairways
are provided in every .part, and the
means of ingress and egress afe quite
ample.
Directly in front of the right wing of
the “Alain Ilall,” is the counterpart of
the
Ladies’ Cottage,
Being tho “Head Quarters” of the
President and Executive Committe, and
like that, it is built in die pointed style,
and handsomely decorated rooms. It
contains three rooms each 10x18 feet,
a wash-room and hall.
The Music Pavi/lioti
Occupying a central position between
the “Main Hall" aud the “Floral Hall,”
is a hexagon in design, sufficiently large
to accommodate from forty to fifty per
formers. The floor is elevated seven
feet above the ground, and with a clear
story abovo of 1(1 feet. The roof has a
projeciton of three feet, supported by
brackets disposed at the angles, aud or
uaiuoutcd with sawed tracery.
The roof curves upward, supporting
a dome ten feet in diameter, crowned
with a lantern aud golden harp seven
feet high. From tho floor to the ground
is a heavy moulded base, having three
feet projection,steps leading to the plat
form, and railing all around, completes
this temple of Appolo, and it is believ
ed tho most beautiful in the South.
The “Graud Stand, or Amphithea
tre,” is 300 feet long by 35 feet l.ide
two stories high, very substantially built
and will accommodate about 6000 peo
ple. It will be fully provided with set
tees, aud specially arranged for comfort
and safety. The foundations are of
brick masonry, very heavy ; the roof
covered with shingles, and cornices up
on the front of an elaborate pattern.
This will afford ample opportunity for
all to see every inch of
The Rare Track,
which, in the opinion of all men of
judgment in such mattors, is conceded
to be the finest track they ever saw. It
is exactly one mile having been carefully
surveyed and measured, i3 a dead level,
and has been covered with a carefully
mixed compound of clay aud gravel.
The width is sixty feet. The “straights”
are each over a quarter, the turns jn6t
right, In fact it does a turfman good to
look at it. The fences arc substantially
put up and neatly paiuted. The quar
ters are marked by posts so that accu
rate time koepers cau give tho time a
each quarter.
The Stables
are ample, commodious, and built on tlie
most approved plan, every convenience
for the health and comfort’of the horses
being provided. In this department
also, the tinfmeu are loud in their praises
and give it as their opinion that the
track and its accommodations cannot
br exceeded "in the United States, aod
they are really enthusiastic ou the subi
ject.