The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1870-10-24

And Mr.. G. D. sidway offers, for same
handsome Side-Saddle.
Mrs. ]. F. O'Sullivan offers premium of
Equestrienne.
sEEDLING APPLES AND PEARS, AND GREEN
HOUSE PLANTS.
Mr.. A. L. Hatch, of Central Nurseries, offers,
for the best variety of Seeding Apples and
Pears, premium of Ten Dollars worth of
Nursery Stock, to be selected by the successful
competitor; and like sum for the largest and
best display of Green House Plants.
BEST CHEESE.
Mr. j. S. Collins, of Rankin county, offers
fine two-year old Durham Heifer for the best
Mississippi made Cheese, from FIVE to ten
pounds in sample.
PLoUHISa MATCH
Mr.. c. Williams, of Pearl River Foundry,
offers Two Horse Plow to the best Ploughman
in Ploughihg Match; and q one-horse Plow
to the second best. Competition without re-
gard to race, color or previous condition.
MISSISSIPPI MADE PLows.
L. F. Montgomery, Esq, of Madison Station,
offers five dollars cash premium for the best
two-hOrse Plow; five dollars for the best
one-horse Plow; and FIVE dollars for the best
Plow and Scraper attached-all wrought
iron or steel, Mississippi made, to be exhib-
tied at State Fair
GENTS SLIPPERS
Mr.. Austin Neely, of Rankin county, offers
a cash premium of Ten Dollars for the best
pair of Gents Slippers embroidered in silk
or cheneille, on black broadclOth or cassi-
mere. By a Mississippi lady.
Mr.. C. Cummings, of Jackson, offers as pre-
MUM for the best pair Gents Slippers, worked
on canvass with worsted, by a Missippi young
lady, pair of Bonze Button Caters, to be
made to fit the lady to whom premium shall be
awarded
PREMIUMS FOR LITTLr REoPLB
A lady of Jackson, authorizes US to an
nounce the following Premiums to be awarded
at State Fair:
Best Penmanship by Boy under IL years Of
age-Gold Collar Button.
Best Pair of Embroidered Slippers. by Girl
under 10 years-Pearl Card Case.
Best Braiding or Embroidery, by Girl under
10 years-Work Box.
Best Dolls Wardrobe, by Girl under years
Gold Thimble
Best Handkerchief, hemmed by girl under six
years-Wax Doll.
BEST COTTON PICKING.
Mr.. J. H. Boyd, of Jackson, offers as Premi-
um Double Barrel Gun, to the white boy
greatest
number of pounds of cotton in any six consec-
utive days in the month Of October, prior to
24th The cotton to be dry when weighed, and
clear of trash In case it should rain on one
more days, after the works, begins, the first
succeeding days mays be selected The cotton
to be weighed, each days picking to be noted
separately, and the aggregate for the six days
certified to by affidavit of party weighing the
cotton. Reports to be sent to Secretary of
Fair, in sealed envelopes, by 24th October
No restriction as to number of hours Of work
in each day. The parent, or other person con-
venient to the picker, may make required afi-
davit.
Mr.. Boyd will also give pair of Boots to
the second-best picker, on conditions as above.
BEST PAIR BERKSHIRE PIGS.
| Archie McGehee offers premium of $40 for
| the best pair Of White Faced Berkshire Pigs,
under one year old
CALICO DRESS MADE ON SEWING MACHINE.
James. D Stewart, offers premium Of SIC
for the best Sewing Machine made Calico
Dress, by lady over sixty years of age.
| MUSCLE AND SNAIL SHELLS.
Prof. H. w. Pierce, at the instance of or
| eminent scientific gentlemen of Philadelphia
offers cash premium of five dollars for the
largest and best collection of Muscle anC
| Snail Shells, from Pearl River and the neigh
| boring Lakes and Ponds, to be exhibited O
| State Fair. Here is q chance for the boys.
LINEN EMBROIDERY.
| Young Gentlemen offers a premium of
Gold Thimble for the best specimen Of En-
broidery on Linen, executed by young lady
| The work to have been executed since the las
| State Fair.
BEST MILcH cow.-$100.O0.
Hon. H. Musgrove and Martin Keary. Esq
each offer twenty-five dollars towards purs
of one hundred dollars for the best Mississippi
raised Mich Cow, on exhibition at the Stat
Fair. Who will make up the other $50?
P. S. Judge VIM. Yerger adds S25, and tn
Fair Association makes up the balance.
ANOTHER HANDSOME PREMIUM
Messrs. Bailey & Co., jewelers., Philadel
!. phia, in q letter to the Secretary OF Fair Asso
citation, say: "As we see you make provis
:, ion for the giving Of Special Premiums, W
beg you will accept from US Silver-Plate
and Cut-Glass LIQUOR FRAME, worth Fift
Dollars, which you may announce as specia
: prize from US, for such object as you may pre-
. fer The object will be hereafter announced
p. s. Premium will be awarded to the bes
EMBROIDERED CHEMIST.
Two jackson friends of the fair sex, offer
premium of Twenty Dollars for the best En-
broidered Chemise by a Mississippi young ID
dy The Fair Association offer Ten Dollar
t for the best Embroidered Chemise made b
| any lady. Should a young lady get the blu
: ribbon for the best on exhibition, the tots
: premium will be Thirty Dollars.
KINDS COUNTY.
The Planters Insurance Company offers
: cash premium of Fifty Dollars, for the Be
Bale Of Cotton, of Kinds county growth. Ba