The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-11-18
Correspondence of the CharsessdI NeuS.
THE FAIa--REsULTs, MATERIAL AND
MORAL.

Columbia, November l3s
TIE State Agricultural and Mechanical Fair is
over, and well over.
In its material results, this Fair is important.
In NH the departments of productive industry, a
stimulus has been given that has only just begun
to produce results-although the results thus far
are in themselves highly creditable to all parties
concerned.
An. enumeration of the articles presented would
be unnecessary but few figures, as examples,
may be given to indicate. the scale of the affair.
Of horses and mules there were 81 entered OF
cattle AZ head; Of swine, l6; of goats, 8; sheep,
I, and of poultry about 100.
Other departments we're represented in some
what the same ratio; and these figures may serve
to compare the Fair with others in other places.
There were some things in themselves significant
Of progress. new bse-gum, or palace, was en-
tered by DR.. Turnipseed, of Richland County.
This has been registered in Washington for pa-
tent. The novelty consists in an arrangement to
prevent worms. South Carolina made clock was
on exhibition by R, Brandt, Of Chester. W. G. EN-
bleton, of Columbia, exhibited specimens OF his
own engraving. C. 7. Mason, of Sumter, entered
an electric fan for kerosene lamps. Mrs. NJ. A.
Holmes, of Columbia, entered specimen of okra
hemp. Major NJ. R. Clarke, of Richland, model
of movable fence. Mrs. E. Finley, of Richland,
some Irish potato starch. There was on e1hibi.
ton Photograph picture taken By new process
discovered by Mr.. Richard, Of Columbia. Il. G.
Shiver, of this city, exhibited specimens Of the
ramie fabric both rnspun and in. cloth. Of this
ramie, Colonel Joel Foster, Of Spartanburg, says
he caa. make more money with it al three cents Q
pound, than he can with cotton ut twenty; ond
that the price Of ratnie Is ten cents. Yhat Is TO
sew. he can make more than three times as much
by raising ramie as he can by raising cotton. Ra-
me is good deal like FAX, in the mode of prepar-
ring it. Mr.. R. Clarke (already once mentioned
had at the Fair specimen ofmanufactured hopey,
which he claims he can manufacture at ten cents q
pound, while real bee-made hQAey sells at near
twenty.
These are but specimens but they indicate
day of endeayor and of new pursuits.
J. Wash Watts, of Laurens, took nineteen prizes
the largest number taken by one man-mostly
for stock.
In its moral results the Fair has been an abun.
dant success. Reconstruction of the most vitality
important kind has been effected. SouthC Carolina
has met again-the first time since the war-and
out of these three days of intercourse have grown
new hopes. new resolves, new plans, and new i'm
petus; and definite idea has grown up, in the
minds and hearts Of our people that hos no, equal
in their history since the war. This Fair han
made history for State The era 10 auspicious,
and the future will mark and remember itt.;
The least successful feature of tho Fair was the
extemporized equestrian exercisesr:Hhinh CON
sumed several hours of the afternoon Of the last
day These were protracssd by preIi4AAry eyo'
lutions that well-nigh exhausted thepstfeAee OF q
very indulgent and large concourse Of people. The
riding was good in general; but the :feats under
taken were evidently beyond the skill Of the horses
entered They knocked down the bars ten ti1es
as often as they cleared them. After oil it was
not very easy to see what it was all about-what
agricultural end was subserved by these exercises
The crowd became larger from first to last, each
day improving on the preceding. The figures
were, as we'll as one could determine from gen
eral calculation, about these: First day, 2500;
second day, $500, and thiSd day, 5000.
CoRsAIR.