The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-13
THE STATE F A | r
CT SIN ID Il Y.
WARDING THE PRIZE
Charleston Shows Wel1-The Racing
A Melancholy Accident-The Winding
Up Ball.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE NEws.l

Inc weather all Qdy WAS DIISHI dHu CledI, anu dI
least five thousand persons were present.
At l O'Clock, the premiums were awarded Dy
General Johnson Hagood, the president Of the
State Agricultural and Mechanical Society.
The following premiums were awarded to ex-
hibitors from Charleston:
To G. ". Williams & Co., honorable mention
for jar OF dissolved bone. Bradley's raw bone
fertilizer, exhibited by the same firm, was highly
commended.
The committee declined to award any pre-
miums for fertilizers.
A premium was awarded to C. Graveley for a
cotton gin and patent ploughs.
premium was awarded J. E. Adger Co. for
| the Watt plough and for sewing machine.
The submerged pump, exhibited by Jennings,
Thomlinson Co., was recommended to planters
and others.
To Robert Chisolm, for jar OF olives grown in
South Carolina, was awarded premium of s5.
To Geo. E. Pingree, for Ellerbee's transplanter,
premium OF SIS.
Toll. 7. Peake, General Superintendent South
Carolina Railroad, gold medal for o new combi-
nation steel and iron rail.
To Miss Mary Frost, for over-socks, silver
medal. =
To Miss Susan B. Hayne for an infants worsted
skirt, silver medal, and for worsted tidy, FIVE
dollars.
Tow. G. whilden Co., premiums were award
ed for gold-headed canes and for silver-wsre.
Tow Bell Smith was awarded gold medal
for model Of q furnace for expanding and re-
moving railroad tires
To walker, Evans Cogswell, for the best
writing paper, gold medal; and for the best
book binding, five dollars.
Tow. s. Henerey, silver medal and premiums
for Henerey's improved cotton gin, for Dotter-
er's seed planter, and for vertical and underrun-
ner corn mills.
The Committee on Cotton, consisting Of Messrs
W. G. Hinton and J. T. Dill, Of Charleston, and
]. NJ Blakeley, Of Columbia, awarded the prize
offered by the Charleston Chamber Of Commerce,
to ]. NJ. Crawford, OF Columbia. The prize is
very handsome silver pitcher, and is given for
the best ten bales Of cotton. The other contest
ants for the prize we r. o'Neale, OF Columbia,
B. Il. Rice, Of Union, and R. E. Ellison.
After the premiums had all been awarded, there
was scrub-racing and horse;iumping matches.
Willie Guignard, OF Columbia, was injured by the
falling Of his horse while jumping. His injuries
are very serious and it is feared that he will not
recover.
After the Fair had closed, sales were made, at
good prices, of a large part of the stock which
had been exhibited. number Of miscellaneous
articles were also sold.
There was no tournament to-day. Appropriate
costumes were lacking, and there was no dispo-
slton TO mar the uniform brilliancy Of the Fair
by partial success at the close. The festivities
end tonight with ball at the Columbia Hotel.
Alarce number OF visitors to the Fair left Co.
lumbla tongnt nomeWaru pouHu'
Notes Of the Fair.
Among the specimens Of manufactures are sew
eral rolls Of leather-kp, calf, sole and harness.
exhibited by Colonel Thomas, OF Columbia. This
leather Is tanned here and looks, and doubtless
is, as fine as the best bought in the Baltimore
market The entire material is Of native growth
except the dressing Oil. The exhibitor claims that
he can manufacture this leather at more reason
able rates here than 1t can be bought in the
North. Labor is cheaper, fuel is cheaper, mate
rials are from our own woods and hills, and can
be gathered at less expense. The old channels OF
trade, however, are sometimes hard to turn.
KAoLIN.
There is on exhibition by Dr. Morse, OF Green
vile, specimen Of Northern kaolin iue or chin
ney pipe, to be run between the timbers OF franz
e. buildings, thus saving the expense OF chiTneys
Of brick, as is usual The lue is four by twelve
inches, and costs in the North about 25 cents
foot, while transportation and breaGage run the
cost up to thirty or more Mr.. Morse claims that
he can manufacture a terra Gotta nue OF same
use durability and safety, at his factory in Green
vile, at cost OF about 20 cents foot. Feldspar
and fine clays abound in Greenville. Earthen-
ware is also on exhibition, Identical in quality
with Northern wares and can be sold here for less
money
A COMBINATION RAIL.
The new rail invented by Mr.. II. T. Peake, the
General Superintendent OF the South Carolina
Railroad, which takes the gold medal, combines
all the advantages Of the steel and the iron rail- As
is well known steel rail is too brittle to bear the
pounding OF heavy trains running at high speed.
The iron rail is not hard enough and wears out
RAPIDLY. And the stecl-faced rail- on account OF
the UNEQUAL expansion and contraction OF face
and body soon becomes unserviceable, the face
peelng OF. The Peake rail has all the softness
and toughness OF the iron and all the hardness OF
the steel. 1t is made in two parts. The lower
part or the bed, is made OF iron and is spiked to
the ties in the usual way. Into this bed
fits cap Of steel which is secured by
bolts passing through the bed. This cap or head
is hard enough to bear the heaviest travel, while
the elasticity Of the bed makes breakage virtually
impossible. Nor is there any loss OF spikes IN
changing the head Of the rail- The bed will scarce
ly wear at all, and, when the ties are good, the
bolts are unscrewed, new head is slipped in the
bed, the bolts are made fast, and spikes bed anu
ties are not IN any way disturbed. Mr.. Peake has
already applied for patent for what promises 10
be very useful invention.
PORTABLE FURNACE.
The portable furnace for shrinking and remov-
inp tires. patented by Mr. W. Bell Smith, is val