Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-10-08
About the stale Fair.
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stations, geldings and mares. I wa
unable to learn the names of the owner
of the entries, but give the result b,
numbers
Stations, trotting-No. one, 3:O4; No
two, 2:25.
Mares-No. one, 2:5l; No, two, 2:53
+ Geldings-No. one, 2:44; No. two, 2:43
Pacing-Gray, 2;38; sorrel, 2:42
black, 2:45.
Money was freelybe on the different
horses, even upon the Committee stand
and aenumber of country gentlemen left
their greenbacks inSthe hands of the In
dianapolis sportsmen. The whole affair
might properly be called first class race,
except that thespectators were accommo-
dated with seats, and were totally in the
dark as to the safest investment of their
betting funds. Yoa will observe that
2:43 was the quickest trotting time made.
Vanderburg county could have borne of
the red ribbon if she had been represent
ed by some Of her best horses.
The Indianapolis papers of Friday
morning called upon the citizens to visit
the Fair. They urged that the Fair was
a "big thing, = financially, for the shop
keepers and hotels, and suggested the
propriety of disgorging some of their
spoils at the entrance gates In res
ponse to these appeals, indianapolis
came up in one solid phalanx, of men,
women and children. The consequence
was that four thousand dollars were ta-
ken at the ticket Office, and the enclosure
was crowded to its fail capacity. Friday
was indeed the gala day of the Fair
The weather was p7opitious one of
those rare October days when not
cloud sobscures the heavens and the sun
seems to shine with unwonted brightness.
A band had been secured for this day,
and it mingled its sweet notes with the
discordant cries of the showmen who on
every hand were heard reciting the won
ders of their respective exhibitions. At
proper distances, auctioneers were sta
toned, who sold at round prices, to the
gaping crowd, their overloaded stocks of
brass jewelry and sheet iron cutlery.
Add to these the thousand times repeat
ed yells of unnumbered policeman to.
!" clear the track, and you have some
faint conception of the Babel through
which your correspondent passed on that
eventful day. 1t is due the Board to
OtatO, aithough +isey,s ,.s,sszss.a stss;.-i
bills that no shows woald be admitted
repeal of this order rescued the Fair
from decided failure IF the aericultur-
al products were .rneagre and the stock
inferior, the visitors had only to step
aside and admire nature as developed in
fve-legged calf Or the happy
family" or study at his leisure the gas
Economical problem Of a China nan swal-
lowing sword, VIII ch, according to all
the laws of measurement, ought to have
gone through him. The crowd was
pleased to be thus hurnbuggel, aud the
showmen were in ecstacies. All the or
dinarg modes Of keeping the entrance
money failed them. The greasy bits OF
brown and green paper accumulated
until an empty candle box would scarcely
contain the currency OF the more popular
exhibitions The young lady who walked
the rope each day of the Fair, was on
hand, and at the advertised time started
on her perilous journey, amid the " Oh!
| dear nne's and 'tDid you ever's OF
her Hoosier sisters of less agility, who
stood upon the ground beneath and
watched with, straining eyes, and gaping
mouths. Your particular friend, Ham,
was there. i asked him if he saw the
young lady perform on the tight rope
Heereplied, "I saw her bat a minute, .
/ gave Ham my hat as reward for his
exeerable pm and left the grounds IN
disgust A e
The Bates House, where I hung up
was crowded %, ogesfeyiag, Captair
HARTwELL was in the Office dispensing tht
hospiralitieso Of the house to his npmer
Gus guests, in his usual graceful manner
I take great pleasure in acknowledging
the kind attention Of Capt Hartwell an
mine host Mr. HQltod. I should fo'
to do my duty as a correspondent Of th
Journal, If did not mention the eaiin
house of -tne Ohio & 1sffississiPpt .'uul
! ton. This noted place Of doubtful r
freshment has figured in the publ
: prints long since. It is barely poss
r Bile that by repeated notices of
the attention of Railroad officials ms
= : be drawn to the character of the mea
? set out at the Junction under the title
y DINNER" 1t is useless to particulari2
Z, as your readers have nearly all stopp
:, there, and know just what it is.
e would be a great improvement II u
le train would run through to Terre Han
IN and give passengers time TO. eat dinT
n n at the station house. e-s1 79ett -5
le On the way down, two men from N
ar souri,, with twelve negroes Of all az
be and shades Of, color, came on board
. train at the Junction. When we reacl
u. n 4 vincennes, Mr. VIM. Miller, an agent
sw the Provost Marshars Department,
Iii rested the men for kidnapping, and t
III III the astonished negroes that they V
ed ed at liberty to skedaddlet which they
without persuasion This was the S
ond lot of negroes which arrived at
AM cennes last week en- route for Kentu,
al Tho fret lot of nine caroa down Fri