The Portland daily press., 1869-09-21
ADDITIONAL PREMIUMS.

Miscelldneous.-The special Committee ap-
pointed to examine Miscellaneous articles on
exhibition on the Fair grounds, and in the
City and Fluent Halls, found to their dismay
no less than 328 entries, the whole forming a
very interesting feature of the exhibition
There being no premiums offered by the Soce-
ty for this class of goods, the committee were
authorized to award gratuities, which they
have done in the following cases. Diplomas
10 j. S. Hobbs, of West Falmouth, Maine, for
a brick machine; Howe Scale Co., for Scales
Foster Brothers, York, for Bone Meal and
Phosphates; j. w. Stockv ell, Portland, Me-,
for Cement Drain Pipe; E. Wilder, South
bingham, Mass, for patent Harness and Sad
die; G. p. Morris Portland for barrel; w.
j. Ross, Worcester, Mass, model roof; Hart
ford Sorghum Co., Bellows Falls, VT, for sap
regulator; Theo. johnson, Portland, mantle
piece; Hewitt Chandler, New Gloucester, for
hair and wire sieves; ii. Baker, Portland. for
Taylor's patent saw grinder; G. Pearce & Co.,
for plumbing goods; E. Morgans Sons, New
York, for SapOlis polish; G. c. Tolmau, Port
land, for stoves; @. @. Tolman, one furnace;
Portland Business College, for specimens of
penmanship; Portland Star Match Co., for
Star matches; Norcross and Woodbury., Au-
gusta, for hot air furnaces; o. III. Bowler,
Charlestown, Mass, for combined radiator and
oven; J. f. Merrill, Portland, for arctic refrig-
orators; ID. Morrison, Portland, paper cutter;
Thomas G.. Loriug, case of hair restorer; Geo.
w. II. Brooks, Portland for bread and pastry;
Atkins, Daniels & Co., for prepared Goldfish;
w. III. Thorne, Westbrook, bookh0lders; Ex-
celsor Glass Cutter Co., for samples of glass
cutters; Essex Britannia Co., for lot OF silver
plated ware Hartford Superphospbate Co.,
for lot of superphosphate; w. E. Thompson &
Co.. for furnace; Gadlac & Gilmore, East Ma
chias, for model of jib furer; Mrs. L. w.
Tuck, Boston, for one case OF abdominal sup
porters; Cocheco Loom Pickers Manufactur-
ing Co., for one card of loom pickers; James
Bradford, Portland; for coopers and carpen-
ters' plains Winslow, Doton & Co., saw
grinder; Perkins & Gerrish, Portland, for pa
tent egg carrier; Hardy Machine Co, Bidde-
ford, model card and grinder; J. FL. Dyer,
Portland, model of vessel; A. L. White, Port
land, machnists' tools; Daniel Shaw, Stan
dish, Me-, for keys; Benz. Illsley, Portland, for
burial caskets; Beuj. Illsey, metallic burial
case; j. b. Shapleigh, Shapleigh, Me-, sam
Piles slate stone; Ridgway & Thornhill, Port
land, case of files; Crossman & Co. case of
druggists fancy articles A. N. Noyes & Son,
for Bassetts refrigerators; Edward s. Griffin of
Portland for figure head for ship; l.. +. Pin
gree, Portland, model for steering apparatus;
l.. f. Pingree, for model of windlass and cap
stan; Kniffn Moving Machine Co. for moni-
tor carriage fork; VIM. Fl. III. Frye, Fryeburg,
for model sulky harrow; II. Fairbanks, Bos-
ton for fountain syringe; 5. & w. Allen, Yer
gennes, VT, for Scotch shepherd dogs and
pups.
The Committee award Silver Medals to w.
D. Drake, Providence, r.. l., for improved AK
lie and pitman box; w. l.. Bradley, Boston,
for artificial fertilizers; Hartford Sorghum Co.
Bellows Falls VT, for sugar evaporator;
Sampson Scale Co, for platform scale; West,
brook Britannia Co., for britannia and plated
ware; Loring, Short & Harmon, Portland,
Agents for Southworth Manufacturing Co. of
West Springfield, Mass, and East Hartford
Manufacturing Co., of Burnside Conn, for
display of writing paper; Lowell q Brett,
Boston, specimens of engraving; e. s. Cotton,
Boston, patent resrgerators; Portland Kero-
sene Oil Co., for exhibition OF parafine, cop
peras and oil; F. w. Hobson for model ship:
The committee recommt nd gold medals to
Thomas Richardson of Boston, for Robbins'
Patent Wooden Pavement, and the Lamb
knitting machine company for best knitting
machine, aud silver medals to Hillman B. AL
len, of Boston, for angular rasps; Portland
Glass Co., for best display Of glass ware; Per-
kins, Stearns s. Co., Boston, for Calitorpia
stamped goods; James r. Clark, Bath, Me.
for the Hinkley knitting machine.
The Committee recommend gold medal to
the Salem Lead Co., for best diplay of pure
white lead.
The Committee desire to make honorable
mention of patent blind fastener, en-
tered by N. L. Hatch of Cape Elizabeth, Me-,
a model of a brick machine, by j. L. Hobbs of
West Falmouth Me; SNOWFALL horseshoe, by
S. Waterhouse & G. F. McKenny, of West
Sons, New York. OF the display of hermeti-
cally sealed goods made by the Portland
packing Co., OF Stencil works by e. Fairfield,
Portland; fish barrel entered by A. r.
Brown, Pembroke, Me-; cork fender for ves-
sells by Gustavus Shanning of Portland; a row
lock by Perkins & Gerrish, Portland; clothes
dryer by tue same; a portable driller, by the
Hardy Machine Co; of silver plated ware and
French clocks, by Gerrish & Pearson of Port
land a combination hod and sitter, by b. +.
Brown, Portland; writing desk by r. NJ
Bickford; an artificial leg, by l.. f. Pingree OF
Portland; of Douglass Aquarium, entered by
Parker and Gannett of Boston; model of rail-
road track, by James Potter of Portland; an
improved hammer, by I. s. Coffin of Harring-
ton, Me-; q compound elastic bed, by Jeremiah
Fiske, of Augusta. Me-: an improved slate cut
ter, by A. H. Norton Bangor Me- hose coup.
ling by r. S. Cooper, Portland; "a patent churn
and butter worker by r.. b. Nevens, Lowell.
Mass; model of a spring bed bottom and ofa
snow plow, by the same parties OF an
yoke by VIM. Cooper OF Paris, Me-; pair of
oa.s by Dexter Andrew of Bangor; patent
pen9,lum ehurn, by Tim f. Hutchinson of
Gorha-, N. III.
line pre,iums on essays and carriages have
not yet beenannounced. Ft