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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, OCTOBER 16,188*.
The North Carolina Exposition—
A Magnificent Display and i m .
presslve Opening-spirited con-1
test Between the Several coun
ties—I>te»l«i*olBlie«l -Visitors, Etc. |
Your correspondent left the
City” t " “
whirled
Danville
birth?°I *hav« C tfnn m y I admirable display of tobacco, cigars,
things and most nFwHfnn/F ln f? me mih^rals, including asbestos, dried fruit,
indeed I have m/t vLrt another; grain, Indian mica, pottery, 162 varie-
Scetoface^nhSt hEi* Carolinians ties of woods,(th.largest on the grounds)
1Q battl ?> bQ t tt was always canned roods, stuff.?! hir.l* nM i.
Gate &&"*£*»* when
canned goods, stuffe<l birds, egg nests,
wagons and agricultural implements.
has an excel*
led along over the Richmond and hand in L^/ l fi*!^ 8lde by 8lde ' lent display within ita-U.
rUle Railroad, which is in perfect I ,“ d f „ r , a “ d i, w , b the same ancient r warren county,
condition, most ably officered and ad- stated in 5 h ^ rch “M* H - A - Foote, Rnperintendent, makes a
mirably equipped. We reached Raleigh P 8 ™ 11 ? 8 f nd Connecti- fine grain exhibit. There
the next morning after a tedious ride on J!?/ a lke , to 8eek . the things that of wheat weighing 66^
the freight train from Greensboro to that ® a t o ^ ,, eaudpr08 r. n , ty; readyalike ‘‘
are specimens
pounds to the
bushel, and rye50 pounds; also 75 water
to enliven the situation. The proper unT , ? g 8 Moun tain and Bunker pounds. The collection of minsrala is
through train leaves Atlanta at3:40p. L m i for a common constitution Urge and reflect great credit upon the
onrl nwnirraa of A .nn _ ^ I &UQ a CO mill Oil ll&lZ a^AlURt th« Wnfi A « 2 a ...
m. and arrives at Charlotte 4:20 a. m.
The journey was greatly enlivened by
the companionship of an old friend, Mr.
8umner Cunningham, the talented and
popuiar editor and universally beloved
gentleman and Chris'ian.
The limits of this letter will forbid the
relation of many interesting incidents
which happened by the way. and indeed
our notes of the “ North Carolina Expo
sition ” must be divided into two num
bers to meet the inexorable requirements
of time and space.
To begin then in media* res. After a
pleasant greeting from R. B. Rainey,
Esq., the youthful and gentlemanly pro
prietor of the “Yarborough House,”
who is so well and favorably known in
AUanta and Macon, the writer lost no
time in proceeding to the Exposition
Grounds. distant about two miles. They
are reached by a railway train whicn
leaves every thirty minu’eB, and num
berless hacks, carriages and
common flag against the world.
The General gave a curious and elab
orate history of all the fairs and exposi
tions that have ever been held iu an
cient and modern times. Venice has
the honor of instituting the first mutual
association for the purpose of illustrat
ing the industries of a country. This
was done in 1268, during the reign of
the Doge Lorenzo Tiepolo. Then in
1648 an annual fair was established at
MakariefT, a small Russian town, which
was enlarged from year to year, until in
1809 it had attained to vast proportions,
county. An eagle worked in straw upon
a screen by Mrs. Dr. Field, albeit 25
years old, is still quite fresh and beauti
ful and much admired. Among the cu
riosities may be seen the hat of General
Santa Anna, a Mexican battle flag and
cloak, and General Jackson'r flint and
steel brass barrel pistol. Also fine to
bacco, fancy work, etc.
GRANVILLE COUNTY
is represented by Mrs. Sarah A. Elliott,
the author of a cookery book, reeling
invention, and “ Plant Holder for Win
dows,” all of which may be seen. A
embiacing 1,400 shops and 1,800 sheds carpet woven and dyed at home chal-
around the main bazar. This was burnt
but forthwith reconstructed by the Em
peror upon a grander scale than ever.
At present it is the largest fair in the
world, embracing 2,500 shops and con
tinuing from J uly for eight weeka. Here
every variety of goods and products iB
exhibited iu its appropriate department.
As many aB 300,000 persons go up thither
lenges attention, and some flue art speci
mens. Here we find also a fair display
of minerals, cereals, tobacco, grasses
and fruita.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
This county contests with Stokes the
title of “Banner Mineral County” of
North Carolina. The genial manager
Mr. W. A. Graham, takes great delight
whosed rivers artTnl amnrnnn ’ 1 10 tra( * e > ®nd the sales are almost fabu I in showing his treasures. Among these
ancient MakariefT.
Rad we space it would be interesting
to reproduce tbe minute statistics given
of the Philadelphia Centennial. They
are simply wonderful. But we can fol
low him no further. The whole address
was listened to with the profoundest at
tention and its conclusion a fine piece
of humor and sparkling word painting.
President Primrose, in a few well
chosen remarks, then announced
gers at 25 cents apiece.
TUB EXPOSITION GROUNDS
are owned by the State Agricultural So
ciety and occupy an elevated site com
manding a fine view of the country for
miles around. The main structure is a
combination of buildings under one roof
336 feet square, with four open quadran
gular courts, each measuring 100 feet
square. The machinery is run by two
Corliss engines, one made by Mr. Harris
of 50-horse power, and the other of
twice that capacity manufactured by the
Watts-Campbell Company. Mr. Fred
Collins has charge of the former, and
Mr. J. E. Wilkins is engineer of the lat
ter. They work with great power and
almost noiselessly.
On both sides of the long avenues
THE FORMAL OPENING OF TUB KXPOHI-
TION,
and a few minutes later Senator Hawley
himselt set the machinery in motion
and all was life and animation and joy.
We
stretching all around the vastenclosureT I *B roa sb toecoiei county exniDits. ana
the spaces of the several counties are tb ®, n P ay our respects to the machinists
ropose now to take the reader
the chief county exhibits, and
parcelled out and arranged, each railed
in by the occupants and properly letter
ed.
Private exhibits also have their spaces,
oftentimes sandwiched betweeu the
counties and very imposing, while the
courts and an outside covered editice are
devoted to the machinery department.
The State display proper is grouped
together to itself, and is of surpassing
magnitude and excellence. But the hour
of opening has arrived, and the reader
must accompany us to the grand stand.
There at the foot of the amphitheatre of
benches and facing them, a platform had
been erected upon which many of the
principal magnates of the Old North
State, and the orator of the day, Senator
Joseph R. Hawley,were seated. Among
the former could be seen Governor Jar
vis, Senator Vance, Chief Justice Smith,
President Primrose, Judge Merrimon
and other distinguished personages
They had all been escorted thither by
and private displays, and lastly speak of
the mammoth and varied exposition of
the State’s resources collected under her
own auspices.
CHATHAM COUNTY,
under the skillful direction of Superin
tendent R. J. Powell, makes a magnifi
cent display. The visitor is ushered
through a rustic embowered gateway
thatched with heads of wheat and bar
ley, and lined overhead with crimson
pluBh, the pillars being entwined with
sheaves of grain bespangled with gay
flags. Within, the first prominent object
that rivets the eye is a panoramic map
of the county in moss. Here all the
railroad lines, factories, mills, bridges,
churches, villages and streams are plain
ly shown, the intervals being filled in
with a pretty variety of water moss.
The effect is singularly striking and
beautiful. This is the handiwork of
Mrs. J. J. Jackson, who also exhibits
the Confederate, State and battle flags
of North Carolina and a number of
about 1,600 volunteer soldiery who had sketches, among them the residence of
been ordered into camp by the Governor
for the performance of this special duty.
The civic and military cortege was of
E reat length and eminently imposing.
at the soldiers suffered terribly from
the heat, and as many as thirty were
overpowered by it and compelled to fall
out of ranks When all was in readi
ness atd the large audience seated, af
ter a fervent introductory prayer by
Rev. Frank L. Reid, Governor Jarvis
made the opening address. It was a
masterly production which the Governor
read in audible tones, and iound an echo
in the heart of every North Carolinian
He gave a succinct history of the Com
monwealth from the day when Sir Wal
ter Raleigh first landed on its shores
three hundred years ago, to the present
honr, dwelling with graphic touch upon
each incident which had become famous
in history, and concluding by introduc
ing Governor Hawley, the orator of the
occasion, whom he complimen ed in the
most graceful terms lor his courage as a
soldier and ability in the National Con
gress, and as the chosen head of the
great Centennial of 1876 at Philadelphia.
General Hawley, after a pleasing pre
lude, proceeded to read au exhaustive
and deeplv interesting sketch of North
Carolina, his native State, covering the
whole held of its origin, early struggles,
indomitable love of liberty and resist
ance to tyranny, not even forgetting the
late war. Under thia head he a »id: “ 1
have never in my life said aught that
Mrs. Bynum on Haw river. Miss Dixie
Leach also has an admirable painting of
the noted dogs, “Counter" and
“ Brockly.” The practical exhibit of
cotton, corn, wheat, wine, whisky, but
ter, leather, sheeting, preserves, canned
fruits, vegetables, appleB, etc., is very
fine. A curious serpent, fashioned from
the knot of a sumac, which lies in am
bush at a dripping spring, startles the
beholder. Here may be seen, too, a
choice collection of bird eggs, stuffed
birds, ferns and embroidery work.
Chatham furniBbes ail the coal need at
the Exposition.
Next to Chatham comes
FOBS.'TH COUNTY,
which has one of the largest and best
exhibits on tbe ground, under the astute
management of Mr. J. A. Blum. This
is divided into sections A, B, C and D
In section A the Salem Female Academy,
which was established in 1804, shows
the first piece of embroidery ever work
ed at that institution, also specimens of
handsome tapestry, painting and em
broidery wrought during every year of
the existence of tbe seminary.
Section B is the ladies’ department,
where almost every variety of beautiful
needlework may be seen. Also a " love
of a bonnet ” made of tobacco and trim
med with every shade of the weed. A
shuck hat trimmed with native grasses
is much admired. Here we find, toe, a
fine entomological collection
Section C and D are made up of an
$150 00, large sheets of mica, tourmaline
manganese, cyanite. sold ore sulphurets.
copper ore worth $90 per ton, ($30 of
gold and $60 of copper,) sulphur ore and
magnetic iron ore
per cent, of fine iron, which is worked
without any flux and made directly into
hammered i'on without the puddling
process, and a multitude of other sped
mens not taken down.
RANDOLPH COUNTY,
under the direction of Mr. D. Reid
Parker, has 60 varieties of timber, a hog
skin tanned from an animal weighing
903 pounds; leather, shoes, looms, shut
ties, wheels, spokeB, wood work, gold
ore, pottery, fruit, farm products and
tobacco. ;
PITT COUNTY,
in the hands of its live agent, Alfred
Warren, stands in the very front rank at
the Exposition. She has no less than
310 individual exhibits, whose products
almost cover the mineral and vegetable
kingdom. A curious wooden dish with
handles, and wooden cup and saucer,
eggs and gobletB are much admired. 0.
(J. Kirkmans “lettered honey cotrbs,”
also attracted attention, and Black grape
and scuppernong wine 39 years old.
Here maybe seen also 65 specimens of
medicinal herbs, an oyster shell taken
from a marl bed 16 inches long by 7>$
broad, canned fruit, preserves, cypress
shingles, sea shells, an immense rams
horn and many other products impossi
ble to mention.
DAVIDSON COUNTY,
H. Welborn iu charge, makes 40,000
bushels more of wheat than any other
county in the State. Many beautiful
samples of all the cereals are on exhi
bition. A monster pumpkin weighs 93
pounds. Davidson has 30 varieties oi
grapes, and the county abounds in min
eral wealth- The Silver Hill silver mine
is profitably worked to t».e depth of 800
feet. No less than twelve copper mines
are in operation, and fruit drying is also
leading industry. Much fine tobacco
too is grown. There are 75 varieties ol
native woods on exhibition.
HOUEBON COUNTY,
Dr. W. F. Uarllee, manager, has a
ep'endid display of agricultural pro
ducts, naval stores, marls, native woods,
medicinal plants, vegetables, csnneu
and dried fruits, tobacco, etc., on hand.
Her exhibition is eminently practical,
as the following legend prominently set
forth will testily: “ Robeson decorates
with garlands irom her own soil; these
are her jewels.”
HALIFAX COUNTY,
GeorgeM.Newell,superintendent. Here
we find a wonderful exhibit of gray,
green, bine and yellow marls fall of sea
shells and abounding in fertilizing prop
erties. Also water from Shaw’s Ail
Healing and Panacea Springs. It is
almost tasteless, but possesses great
power as a dissolvent of stone in the
bladder. Two graceful pyramids of corn
and cotton adorn the exhibition. But
the object of universal attention ia
section ol tbe smoke stack of tbe Bam
Albermarle, which was destroyed at her
wharf by a Federal torpedo. The stack
is literally riddled with shells and minie
balls
HEW HANOVER COUNTY,
J. M. Forahee, Chairman, and Ortn T
Thomas, Managing Director. This coon
ty, in addition to a fair show of
goods, minerals, cereals, brooms, mat
tresses, roam, a pea not picker, a curi
ous fibre manufactured from pine straw,
the vanilla p.ant dried and baled, (need
lor flavoring tobacco,) flowert, native
woods, etc, has fine portraits of 8enator
Vance and Gen. Bcaiea, from tb\j>encii
of O. Thomas, a promising artist, from
North Carolina by birth, but whose
studio is in New York CUy. Also paint
ings in pastel ot Major ij. M. Bled man
and Major Anderson, besides other
pretty art contributions. A wonderful
vegetable fly trap is also to be teen, and
nnecut of the battle of Fort Fisner,
tbe last of the war.
CATAWBA COUNTY
baa a fine display of cereals, cotton
plaids, yarns, tooaoco, minerals, Indian
relics, iancy work, cauned fruits, etc. J.
B. Toiulmson ia ibe exhibitor.
STOKES COUNTY.
Thia county, uuder the energetic di
rection of Mr. W. E. Turner, can boast
of one hundred varieties of minerals,
and over one hundred mineral springs
within ita borders. Here may be louud
in abumlance, black lead lor pencils,
asbestos, copper, mabgsues**, jasper,
chaicheilony ,hme,coal, garnet,finr proof
clay, etc. A qu It witn 12,300 pieces and
a table cloth woven in 1773 are arnoog
the objects of interest. Also Umbers,
grapes, tobacco ami dried irulta. Mr.
S’. J4. Pepper contributed largely to the
mineral airplay.
VANCE COUNTY
has for ita mauager that veteran Confed
erate, Colonel W. M. Cheek, who shows
luaguiticeut article ol to<>acco, and
manutacluresUie weed on the spot. Hit
eeace is adorned with a rustic cabin with
grains and grapes on one aide, and
snowy cotton on the other, wnile the
walla are composed of Jars of tobacco of
tne finest quality. Ilia minerals, ladies'
needle work, and exhibit of uali»* wines
and whinnies, is very complete. The
Colonel is a regular trump.
JOIINHTON COi NT Y.
Mr. B. W. llatcher, the superintend
ent, shows uo teas than sixty varieties
of native medicinal herbs, 58 specimens
of timber, tobacco, wine, brauuy and
whiskey ol home production, butler, to
bacco, iruit, sirups and canned goods,
and excellent brick, burnt aud uuburnt.
Here the writer must pause, that we
may go to press, aud leave bt» exposi
tion notes to he concluded in tbe next
issue of the Boutuxrn Would. He will
then speak at length of the various ex
hibits, aud the beautiful city of Raleigh
aud herenterpriaiug merchants. Suffice,
w, the N<
it to snv now, the North Carolina Fair
is a proud success, and will be witnessed
r thousands ol delighted visitors,
toss who go thither will be warmly
welcomed and generously entertain.d
by mine worthy host, Rainey, of the
Yarborough House, who is ably assisted
in the office by L. T. Brown, R. T. Bur
ton and A. J. Cooke. They can accom
modate 600 guests. No more at present.
H. U. J.
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Dillon Brothers, of Normal, 111., deal
in imported Norman horses. Those
wishing No. 1 horses will consult them.
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DeLoach’s turbine water wheel is the
popular wheel in the United Buttes.
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