The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-08-27
THE AGRICULTURAL FAIR.

The State Agricultural Society has
published the rules and regulations for
the approaching exhibition, to &c Their
with the list of officers, premiums, and
Judges. 1t makes pamphlet OF TWEEN
ty-eight pages, and is important to all
exhibitors and competitors for premiums;
and, indeed, interesting to any one
who intends to use his influence in be-
half of the important enterprise. We
should be happy to give the list in our
columns, but their length Will not per-
nit it. Any one can get a copy OF the
pamphlet who will apply by letter or
in person to the secretary and treasurer
Mr.. e. g. Leigh, of this city,
The exhibition " i'll be held on the
spacious Fair Grounds OF the Society
on the I'd, 3D., 4th, and 9Th days of No
vember. The time is not far off. Ex-
hibitors should be making preparation.
A grand meetiag is expe cted. 1t will
be the first since the war. The farm
ers look forward to the reunion of their
community after the lapse of so many
years with the deepest interest. A
great deal of good is expected from
their meeting ard the exhibition of inn
proved. implements and the products OF
industry, with such. changes and new
facilities as time has introduced.
The horticultural and Pathological
Society of this city will combine with
the State Society, and greatly contri-
buteIto promote the success OF the meet
ing. N tn stan di ng the long
drought, they will make show that
will be an honor to the State.
The list of premiums are very liberal
considering the hardness of the times,
and include every department of IN
| dustry, household art, and stock-rais-
ing.
We appeal to Virginians in all quar-
ters of the State to contribute in every
way in their power to make this fall
meeting worthy of the State--one that
Will contribute in the largest degree 80
promote the physical good of Virginia
and inspire with new life the energies
spirit of her people. Dispatch.
sF From the following, which we
take from the Washington Express, it
to be very fast place:
Three elopements in one nj 9 h
just think Of it. Madame Chicago,
look to yodr laurels! The Fouth Ward
of this city wears the belt in that res
pect. Last night clerk IN one of our
Government offices went to his board
ing-house, not a thousand miles from
Fifth street, expecting to find his slip
pers and dressing-gown to be nicely
spread out on the easy chair by the
beautiful yet somewhat Eighty partner
of his bosom-and what did he find
An empty room and nary'a dressing
gown or slipper. The landlady told
him that his darling had gone out with
gay LotharIo who wears long beard
and macassar-oiled locks, and that she
had left note for him. Frantically he
seized it. One sentence expressed all.
"Alas, have found a congenial soul
Farewell, my duck, ever of thou" He
tainted, and sucl was the intensity OF
feeling expressed in his countenance
that thea; rical manager who happen :
ed to be called in has engaged him to
play Hamlet at $1,000 (gold) per night
during the coming S: ason.
In other sections of the above ward.
two Opponents occurred during the
past three days--one, fair wife of fifty
with hoary- headed old coon of sixty;
another, golden-haired widow oil
twenty-five with somebody else's hus-
band,