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She Iguemt Ifoia gwguss. 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 4k Ilk AMiliy^llfj 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 -5 it IV fir talk ifififliitiisiA. Iwm r * 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. 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