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I.ocal and Personal. For other locals see the 9th page. Mr. Burt Cook was thought to be better yerterday. Mr. John C. Cook, of Columbus, was in the city Sunday. Hon. H. C. Cameron, ot Colum¬ bus, was here on important legal business Tuesday. * The tariff comparison page should he preserved. The balance of tne list will be given next week. Consult the list of awards of the county fair, and if you have not re¬ ceived wlut was awarded you, call on the treasurer and he will pay it. An excellent, remedy. Laxador is superior as a cathartic to any other in all cases in which a purgative is employed. At all druggists. 25c. The best ref%>im in domestic life is without doubt the introduction of I)r. Bull’s Baby Syrup. Where it is known no more laudanum is given to the babies. Mr. Bradford Johnston, of Catau la district has a coffee mill that has been in constant use for 52 years. It was bought by his grandmother, was afterwards used by his mother and then by himself. This is a good rec ord for a coffee mill. Harris county never had a more estimable citizen than Dr. W. W Bruce. His return to his home at Kingsboro, After a sojourn of two years in the queen city, gladdens the hearts of a host of his old friends. Such men are ths salt of the earth. The Journal has had Fair on the brain for several weeks. Our readers cannot conceive how hard we have worked, but now that the agony is over the Journal will receive our best care and will resume its former position as the best country weekly in Georgia. Gid Ledsinger, the agent of the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York is in the city this week. This is a good opportunity for our good citizens to take a policy in ihc faithful old Mutual—that is the oldest, largest and strongest company in the United States, and by many millions the largest financial institution in the world—the assets amounting to over $120,000,000. The Mutual has certainly shown her fidelity to the south, there being no discrimination made between hm policy holders here and in the North. It will be remembered also that two years ago she sent to the earth¬ quake sufferers at <Charleston $10,000 —I hat only a short time ago she bought $ 1,900,000 of the Georgia state bonds and last week sent $2,000 to the yellow fever sufferers at Jack¬ sonville, Fla. This is the company in which to Insure your lives. OUR FIRST FAIR. It was a success. Everybody says so, and what ev erybody says is so, must be so. The attendance was not as large as it ought to have been, for every man, woman and child, white, black and colored, ought to have been here and seen the sights. But enough were here for the gate money to l )a y the expenses, and that was all anybody expected. The original stock is intact. It will be used in getting the $1000 blue ribbon at the Columbus Exposition, and the people w ill be asked to aug¬ ment it so as to make assurance doub ly sure. But. we digress. The first Harris county fair is the subject now in hand, and if some one will hold us while we holler, we will come back to it in a minute. The department of farm products was grand. It was full and the ar¬ ticles displayed were unmatchable. Every other department was repre¬ sented and in all the articles were meritorious. “It took six years to bring Decatur county up to the point Harris lias reached the first year,” commented Judge Allen. “On to Columbus and victory,” shouted director Kimbrough when he took it all in. “I never saw the State Fair have a better agricultural display,” remarked director Mobley. “Harris county is the best county in the world and I have said so all the while.” “I have been to Macon, Atlanta, Louisville and Cincinnati expositions and I have never seen a county dis¬ play at either that equaled ours here to-day,” commented director Booker. “By jings, Harris county, she’s a rouser when you get her started,” bubbled director Cline. “Did you see them six big stalks of cotton from Mountain Hill?” Judge Hudson, Tom McGehee and Boh Fort all felt too good to say any¬ thing. They were literally too full for utterance. And it deserved all the praise it got. But the nexl one is going to heat it. Just wait and see if it doesn’t. The judges passed upon the arti¬ cles in the several departments Fri¬ day, and below we give the list of awards. Next week we will give a list of articles deserving special men¬ tion, which is crowded out this week. HORSES AND MULES For best stallion—R. S. Simpson $2.00. For best colt, three years old and under four, S. A. Harris, $2. For best colt, two year old and un ler three, E. T. Miller $2. For best colt, one year old, Toombs Mobley, $2. For best colt under one year old John J M. Hudson $2. For best .brood mare, Golden Armstrong, $2. For best single harness horse, S. A. Harris, $2. tor best mule colt, Jimmie Ram sey, $2. Best pair Georgia raised horses, J. B. Mobley, $3. CATTLE AND SWINE. For best bull, 3 years old or over, T. H. Kimbrough, $3. T. P. Hutchinson for best pair of blooded pigs, 8 months old, $2. If. S. Pitts, for best polaml china sow. $. 100. T. H. Kimbrough, for best bull calf, $r. J. L. Lovelace, for best heifer one year old and under two, $1. R. B. Mobley, best red Jersyboar, $1. Red Jersy sow, $1. J. M. Kimbrough, best grade bull, $2. J. M. Parker, best grade cow, $2. E. W. Champion best bull, $2. POULTRY AND BEES. J. F. C. Williams, best display of pigeons, $2. S. L. Baldwin, best pair game chickens, $ 1 . J. II. Mobley, best pair Brown Leghorns, $r. J. F. C. Williams best display of honey, $1. Miss. Minnie Hudson, best pair Plymouth rocks, $r. FIELD CROPS. J. W. Cline, best six stalks of cot¬ ton, 50 cents. * G. G. Davis, best bushel of biead corn, 50 cents. J. H Booker, best syrup, 50 cents. J. M. Mathews, best bushel sweet potatoes, 50 cents. R. L. Leath, best gallon cider vin¬ egar, 50 cents. Z. P. Adams, biggest pumpkin, 50 cents. R. L. Leath, largest sweet pota¬ toes, 50 cents. T. P. Hutchinson, best bushel stock corn, 50 cents. Best bushel red rust proof oats, 50 cents. \V. R. Hobbs, best sample stalks of broom corn, 50 cents. Sam O’Neal, best six stalks corn, 50 cents. James Whatley, best bushel red wheat, 50 cents. W. P. Bridges, best bushel rye, 50 cents; best bushel oats, 50 cents; best pair country hams 50 cents. T. P. Hutchinson, best bale short staple cotton, $5. J. A. McCants, best bushel field peas, 50 cents. T. II. Kimbrough, best peck of ground peas, 50 cents. Miss Jennie Winfree, best sample domestic sugar, 50 cents. \X. A. Martin, best collection field peas,not less than four varieties $ 3 . 00 ; best six stalks prolific corn, 50 cents; best bushel early corn, field variety, 50 cents; best box hard soap, 5 lbs., home made, 50 cents; best box bar soap, 5 lbs., 50 cents; best bale pea vine hay, 1 00; best bale beggar lice hay, 1 00; best bale corn forage 1 00; best bale peanut hay, 1 00; best sam¬ ple stalks sorghum cane, 50 cents. R. E. Fort, best bale native grass hay, Si; best bushel white meal, 50 cents; best bushel field peas for for¬ age, 50 cents. J. H. Mobley, best bushel rutabaga turnips, 50 cents. Mrs. T. H. Kimbrough, for best two pounds country butter, 50 cents. Wallace Askew, best dozen stalks sugar cane, 50 cents. HORTICULTURE, ORCHARD, &C. E. B. O’Neal, best half dozen table beets, 25 cents; best display of vege¬ tables, $3. Mrs. John Toler, best new table vegetables, 25 cents. Jimmie Lowe, best egg plant, cents. Mrs. I. P. Cheney, best 6 squashes, 25 cents. Mrs. J. R. Livingston, bestsmylax, 50 cents; best begonia, 50 cents. Mrs. Dan MeCullohs, best basket of cut flowers, 50 cents. FINE ARTS. Miss Kate Hutchinson, best oil painting, $1. Miss Ruth Allen, best portrait painting $1. Miss Ozemma Long, best drawing, Miss Annie May Moldey, best crayon drawing, 1 00. J. L. Dennis, best historical engra¬ ving, $ 1 . J. M. Askew, best cabinet minerals, Britain Williams, best cabinet curi¬ osities, $ 1 . Miss Lucy Kimbrough, best cabi¬ net insects, $ 1 . Miss Dusky Burton, best display of paintings, &e., $3 ; second best, Miss Lula Mobley, $2. FARM IMPLEMENTS. Vardeman & Surles, best plow stock, $ 1 . Janies Lovelace, best pair hand made brogans, 50 cents; best sole leather, 50 cents; best 2 calf skins, 50 cents. F. J. Howard, best plow bridle, 50 cents; best harness, $2 and diploma. Mrs. F. Hill, best shuck foot mat, 50 cents. Louis Pitts, best broom, 50 cents. AY. R. Hobbs, best hames, 50 cents. children’s work. Miss Ouida Kimbrough, best quilt, 50 cents. Aliss Tommie Kimbrough, best coL ton crocheted toilet mat, 50 cents; best edge and insertion, 50 cents.