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A. M. C!. KUSS lit L, 1j .
Kill tor & Proprietor.
Buena Marion Cos., Ga,
FRIDAY MOItNI G, OCTOBER 29th, 1875.
THE STATE FAIR.
Wc did not nttcud the State Fair
ourself. but from all information ob
tainable, we are forced to the conclu
sion that it was comparatively a fail
ure. We mate the admission with
humiliation.
It seem3 strange that a Fair, un
der the protection and patronage of
a State like Georgia, should partake
nt all of failure. Such is the fact,
however, and for every effect there
must be a cause.
We do not know that we can give
a satisfactory solution of this prob
lem. But we can throw out some
suggestions, the value of which our
readers must determine.
The elimination of the turf features
of the Fair has been alleged as the
reason tor the unusually slim attend
ance. This is probably one of the
reasons but not the only one, and the
foundation of this cause lies deeper.
The race course should never have
been admitted as one of its elements.
Then the masses, not having been
accustomed to it as an integral part
of the Fair, would not have expect
ed it and could not have been disap
pointed. Thp Fair would have been
placed on surer foundations at its in
ception, and the mortification ot ad
mitting the commission of an error
would have been avoided. Reforms
are hard to make, and, when of this
character, are temporarily unpopu
lar, but when cnce undertaken they
should not be abandoned. By ano
ther year, the reform will have been
established, and will not affect the
Fair injuriously.
We have thought that probably
the people of Georgia have not been
approached properly on the subject.
The importance and utility of the
Fair have not been made manifest.
As at present considered, it is view
ed only as a pleasure-giving institu
tion, where the planter goes to spend
his surplus funds, without any appa
rent profitable return. Its value and
importance are lost sight of in this
holliday light. Therefore, frugal
men look upon it as a waste of money
and place their influence against it.
Agents, thoroughly informed of its
influence and power for good, and
well acquainted with the people,
should be appointed in every county
of the State, to canvass it and im
press upon the people, by personal
interview, the importance of the sub
ject. The farmers should be induced
to improve stock and products, and
put them on exhibition. Ample ar
rangements should be made to ena
ble the farmers to transport and ex
hibit, them at very little expense, for
the cost has been one of the difficul
ties in the way. The county agent
should labor also to induce the larger
proportion of the populace of the
county to attend, and also provide
and invent ways and means for the
culmination of the object desired.
General appeals to the people are not
often of much force.
The managers of the Fair should
begin to work up the State, in the
manner we propose, early in the year.
It is comparatively easy to induce
merchants, inventors and manufac
turers to exhibit their products and
inventions, for they have a direct per
sonal interest in the matter. But
prevailing upon the masses of the
planters, who have no self interest to
subserve, to do so is a real and for
midable difficulty. This is why we
suggest local agents for each county
and the commencement of their du
ties early in te year.
We believe that if these proposed
steps are taken and proper manage
ment exerted, Georgia’s resources
are amply sufficient and will render
the next State Fair a grand and
maguifieent success, tar surpassing
anything that has heretofore been
achieved.
Communications.
[WRITTEN FOR THE BUENA VISTA ARGUS .]
VISIT TO THE STATE FAIR.
Mr. Editor:
Dear Sir —At your request, we
write this communication, giving you
a narration of our trip to the State
Fair, commencing Oct. 18th, 1875.
It is not our purpose to give a mi
nute detail of the various articles on
exhibition, but will mention such
things as we feel inclined.
The pleasure of our trip to the
Fair was enhanced by the presence
of several ladies from our town.
It was our good fortune to meet
en route the amiable and accomplish
ed Miss A. M., of Taylor county, a
most agreeable accession to our party.
We arrived at Macon Tuesday ev
ening, and stopped at the Lanier
House. Accommodations not so
good as desired —if tough beef, tough
biscuit and cold oysters are a crite
rion to bo governed by. The pro
prietors doubdess did the best they
could for the large crowd, and wc
decided to exercise the same privi
lege for ourselves, and moved our
quarters; and think the change was
a good one. Go to the Stubblefield
House for good accommodations.
Wo met Gen. Joseph Hawley,
Wednesday morning. He is a mem
ber of C mgress from Connecticutt
and President of the Centennial Com
mittee. He presented us five beau
tiful photographs of five of the main
centennial buildings. These build
ings cost from six hundred to sixteen
hundred thousand dollars, each, the
last sum being the cost of the main
building. I’ll give your readers some
idea of the size of this building:
Length, cast and west, 1880 feei;
width, 464 feet; height, 70 feet; and
covers 21 1-2 acres of land.
Met Judge Kelly, M. C., from
Penn. He was ‘’surprised to find
Macon built up so much like a city,”
Gen. Hawley and Judge Keily
made excellent speeches at the Fair
Grounds on Wednesday, to which we
may refer at the proper time.
FAIR GROUNDS.
Upon a personal inspection we be
come satisfied that the articles on
exhibition in the various departments
were not equal in point of variety or
quabty to the Fair of 1873, though
wc saw some of the same articles that
were on exhibition then and knew
them from having seen tiiem be
fore.
In Premium Hall there were but a
very few articles upon exhibition.
Machinery nail was very well filled
with new and improved machinery
Cotton gins, steam cane evaporators,
cotton presses, &c. Just In re per
mit us to say we were on a com
mittee of Judges and inspected a ve
ry diminutive stemi engine built by
a boy 16 years old, it was as perfect
and coinple ein all its parts as any
engine we ever inspected, and work
ed with great perfection and satisfac
tion to the committee. It is unne
cessary to state we gave the young
Fulton a medal, and recommended
his genius in the strongest terms.
It has grown to be a maxim that
ladles always do well whatever they
undertake. Hence, we were not dis
! appointed in finding Floral Hall well
! filled by them. The needle-work was
| beautiful. At least, our lady friends
j said so, ami we took it for granted,
as we are not a judge, and our bet
ter-half was not present. There was
a great variety of diversified handi
work that displayed good taste and
judgment. Children's dresses most
tastily trimmed; hair flowers; wax
flowers, and superbly arranged bo
quets ot naime’s own work. If Sol
omon in all his glory was not array
ed like a lilly of the vaHey, how
would he with all bis regal splendor
compare with the most magnificent
selection of rare flowers arranged by
a lady’s hand into a boquet.
The department of preserves, pick
les and jellies was very poor.
The great improvement made in
the last few years in the art of pho
tography ia indeed, wonderful.
Messes. Smith k Motes, of Atlanta,
aud Pugh & Rlackshcar, of Macon,
did themselves and their craft great
credit.
We looked in vain for the great
variety of farm products heretofore
to be met with at our State Fairs.
Either one of the counties that exhi
bited such a magnificent display of
the productions of the farm at the
Fair of 1873 could have excelled the
entire collection on exhibition this
year. The vast contributions eu
masse of whole counties of previous
years were wanting. "Why so, we
do not know. One ot the reasons,
perhaps, was, that the managers did
not offer sufficient premiums to in
duce the farmers to exert themselves;
or it may be that another and better
reason is, that the severe drouth thijt
was so general throughout the State
cut of! ilie crops to that extent as to
render it impossible to get up any
thing 1 ke a satisfactory display from
the farms.
The display in poultry was good.
Wo saw, for the first time, Hong
Kong geese, pe. lectly white with a
red piece of flesh on the top of their
heads, or in other words, top-knots.
You could have seen ducks of a
yellow hue, with a top-knot, large and
pretty as a duck could be. The mule
rabbits were not wanting, with their
,ong cars some six or eight inches
in leng h hanging by the side of their
head3, nearly twice the size of com
mon hares.
The stock department was conce
ded to be the poorest ever seen at a
State Fair. It is contended by some
that ruling out races kept all the fine
stock in the State away.
VIDI.
[concluded next week.]
Mis Anna Horton, says the Ca
•milla Enterprise, committed sui
cide-one night last week by tak
ing an over dose of morphine.
New Boat. —Col. J. P. Coker
who returned irom a trip to North
and West, informs the Marianna
Courier that he has made all the
necessary arrangements for the
building of a steamboat to ply the
Apalachicola, Flint and Chatta
hoochee rivers, and carry the mail
from Chattahoochee to Apalach
icola. The new craft is about com
ploted and will take her position
in the river by the 20th inst.— Col.
Enq.
Colored cotton thieves are sport
ing with brother freedmen’s cotton
around Bainbridge.
The Bainbridge Democrat is a
good local paper.
Married—Mr. Vm. Edwards
and Miss. Albina Hood, of i?an.
dolph county, on Thurday of last
week.
A little disturbance among the
negroes in a portion of Randolph
county the other day is reported.
It was not of any conseqeunce, and
was fomented by a negro preach
er.
They have been having camp
meeting in Liberty and Tattnall
counties.
This is the way the Brnnwick
Appeal talks; “Whilst almost ev
ery town or city of which we know
anything is lying dormant, our own
little city lias much to congratu
late herself upon. Two oyster can
ning establishments, a grist mill, a
stave manufactory, cotton rolling
through, turpentine still to be loca
ted here, and perhaps a tannery al
so, all new enterprises and devel
oped within a few weeks."''
George Watson, a negro, while
digging a deep well in Monioe
county last week, found the gas op
pressive and asked to he drawn up
When he was within ten feet of
thesurface of the ground he fainted
and fell to the bottom of the well,
breaking his neck.
Commissioner Janes says that
Georgia will need two million bush
els of corn more than she raised
l or this year’s consumption.
The Bainbridge Democrat says:
“We learn that a serious and fatal
difficulty occurred at “Hack” in
this county a few days ago be
tween two freedmen, in which Mi.
lo Donalson struck George Jeffer
son a blow on the back part of his
head with a club, which fractured
his skull and produced death im
mediately. Milo is now being
tried by a committing court.
The Darien Timber Gazette says;
“Under the caption of “An Old Pa
per” the LaGrange Reporter says :
“Col. F. A. Frost has a file of the
Columbus Enquirer about a centu
ry old.” Ifr. W. W. Churchill
of this city has a file of the Darien
Gazette that was published in this
city 1818, and we have a file of
the same paper in this office that
was published in 1819.
An old man in Heard county
died recently after being confined
to his bed 78 days, during which
time he did not cat a teacupful of
food. He complained but little
and up to two or three days before
his death, he could raise up and
put his feet off the bed, although a
mere skeleton.
At the State Fair last Tuesday,
General Gordon, on behalf of the
agricultural society of the city of
Macon and the State of Georgia ex
tended a welcome to the distinish
ed visitors in an eloquent and ap
propriate address to which Sena
tor Bayard, Hon. W. D. Kelly
and Mayor Fox, of Philadelphia,
responded. The attendance has
been large all the week, and the
exhibition is in everyway a suc
cess.—Darien Timber Gazette.
—Joseph Doerflinger, Sr., an
aged and esteemed citizen of ou r
city, died on Tuesday last. lie
had reached his seventieth year.
The Georgia Debt.
A "New York financial paper
having recently stated, on the au
thority of a broker firm in that ci
ty, that the debt of Georgia was
19.600,000, the Georgia papers take
! pains to correct the statement by
explaining that the debt is'only SB,
105,500, as appears from the last
official statement made by the
/State Treasurer. There is a dis
owned debt $8,455,000, which the
knavish governor of the State, Bol
lock, pretended to contract; but
this was proved to be a iraud by a
Legislative committee, aud the
State has never recognized its ob
ligation to pay it. At the time
the Legislature disowned the fraud
ulent debt the proceeding was
strongly denounced in New York
as an act of bad faith ; but the fail
ure of the house of Clews & Cos.,
which took place shortly after
ward, and the general rottenness
of its relations which an investi
gation revealed, have completely
j ustified the step. Clews & Cos.,
were the financial agents of Geor
gia under Bullock—or rather they
were Bullock’s financial agents —
and the Legislative inquiry into
the condition of the State’s finan
ces that followed the overthrow of
the Radical party and the flight of
Bullock, showed strong reasons for
suspecting that the financial agents
had full knowledge of Bullock’s
frauds at the time they were com
mitted. When the assets of Clews
& Cos. were tabulated after their
failures large number of these dis
owned Georgia bonds, for which
the State never a cent of consider
ation, was included in the list.
But these bonds are utterly worih
less; the State of Georgia is under
no moral or legal obligation to pay
them than they are to make good
the private frauds of their runaway
Governor ; and it is say that they
never will pay them. — St. Louis
Bepublecan.
CMP JBfePUf
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DRUGGIST ID GROCER
BUENA VISTA, GA.
drugs medicine
KEROSENE, PATENT MEDICINES,
POTASH, SOAP,
STARCH, COLOGNES,
FANCY SOAP, PAINTS,
OILS, GARDEN SEEDS,
PIPES, CIGARS,
TOBACCO.
STAM AND FANCY GROCERIES,
WINDOW GLASS,
CONFECTIONERIES, BACON,
FLOUR, LARD,
MEAL, CHEESE,
SUGAR, COFFEE,
CRACKERS, SALT, &c., &c.
,1 lit STBCI OF STAPLE DUMMiS,
Hats, Boots, slices, Tinware, Hardware,
Cutlery, Crockery, stationery, and
Notions Generally.
I have removed from my former stand, South of the public square, to
Wiffffln’sOia Stand, West of FnMie Square
where I will be pleased to serve my old friends and as many new ones as
will favor me with their patronage. I have made a change in my business,
discontinuing the sale of some artie’es ad substituting others in their places
—have ordered a line of leading articles of Staple Dr} Goods all ol which
I to ..11 chop. x W . AUSLET.
October 15th, 1875.-ct Buona Vista, Gt
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JEEB aaesasa
Arc bow receiving the largest stock ©S
BOOTS, SHOES.
HATS, US,
that wc have ever brought to our
market. Having bought our Goods at
BOTTOM FICrUTfiBS.
We are prepared to sell as cheap as any first-class House in Columbus or
Amerieus. We invite especial attention lo our Stock of
<& €liOVSX£(€fc
One Yard wide Bleaching at 10 cents, and good calico at 8 cents.
Thankful for past favors, we cordially invite you to examine our stock.
Buena Yista, Oct. Sth, 1875. L©WC & RtlSMlh