New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-04-30
LOUISIANA STATE FAIR-sEvENTH DAY.

sentative of the Sunny SOUTHWARK,
balmy, and pleasant as the air OF the
Antilles. The clouds were just sufficient
to temper the rays Of the sun to the
shorn lambs from the North who could
not stand the full glory of Southern sun.
The flowers of May shot forth as was but
natural after the recent April showers.
The attendance at the Fair, particularly OF
fair ladies who were kept at home the day
before was very good, and these, with
large delegations from the schools and
asyluns of the city. enjoyed themselves
as none but the young and gay and joy.
Gus can do. The mud of the preceding
day was all died up, and the walks were
in admirable condition.
Nevertheless, in consideration Of the
rains of this week, the directors have
concluded to extend the fair two days
longer, or until Tuesday night, May ).
This is but just to those exhibitors who
have been at such large expense in taking
their machinery and other heavy articles
to this State exhibition. Few, who have
| not had their attention drawn to this mat
ter, have an idea of the expenses attending
the exhibition of the various kinds of i'm.
plements and machinery upon this fall
ground-the portable and stationary en-.
gines, the steam pumps, wind mills. drill
ing, planning, boring, and every other i'm
aginable machine; the machines for brick
making, stave and sbingle making
tonguing, growing, dovetailing, tenoning
and morticing-it makes ones head dizzy
to think of them.
The exhibition of horses Of all WORK O.
general utility, aud of rockaway horses,
was excellent in the arena yesterday. The
trottiDg race was postponed, and our ad-
vertising columns will doubtless tell what
is to be witnessed in the racing line for
the closing days of the fair.
Speaking of races, reminds US that we
saw an individual yesterday who looked
like the party who had attended the races
in W hich the premiums were confined to
whisky and he had been made stakehold-
er. On inquiry, it was ascertained he
had been among the wine tasters-tbat is,
he had been invited to join the committee
on awards of premiums for native wines,
spirits and malt liquors, of class eight,
Department A. There was no longer any
wonder, when the long row Of barrels of
beer, porter and ale, the bottles Of spark
ling and still wine, the bounce, brandy
and rye whisky On exhibition is recollect-
ed, to say nothing Of the bitters, and
scbnapps, and kimmel, and tanglefoot gen.
orally is considered. Still, he was "gen-
tleman. scholar, and a judge of good
LIQUOR" so his report OF the committees
testing was doubtless corect-that is, that
fair display Of native wines, or wines
made from native grapes OF the United
States, was made by the American Wine
Company of ST. Louis and Of Kelley's
Island, Ohio, which respectfully took the
diplomas on sparkling and still wines;
that only two competitors for scuppernong
wine grown in the Southern States ap-
peared, and that one of these being very
superior and the other very ioferior, the
committee, who were of our best experts,
had no difficulty at all in determining to
whom to award the prize; that there was
but one competitor in brandy from Ameri-
can grapes, and but two OF gin,
which were both supposed to be
foreign. But further than this-when
the gentleman met the infinite numbers of
bitters, ales, etc., we declined to rely on
his Judgment, or that of any body else.
Doesticks, or Nasty himself, would here
be at fault. The genial and indefatigable
superintendent, Rusha, of this depart
ment, did his part well, fully erasing la
bells, and names ami marks of all sorts
before submitting the samples to the COM
mittee, whose laborious, but pleasant duty
it was to make the awards with impartial
ty. When 1401 and 14O2 took the diplo-
mas for sparkling wines, it was agreeable
to see the rivals acquiesce in the judg-
ment, and so when l4O6 received it for
the still wines, 14l6 for the scuppernong,
1902 for the best gin, etc.
A much more difficult and less agree
able task had some Of the awarding COM
mittees of other classes of articles, as dry
goods of various kinds and the like. These
and various other awarding committees
were busy in the extreme yesterday, fulfill
ing their allotted tasks.
The machinery departments, inside and
outside, were in full blast yesterday, and
will again be to-day. The trial of the
various coal cooking stoves took place yes
terday, and it was observed that the pago-
da of d" Bucks Brilliant" which stove was
awarded the premium in the trial of Thurs
day. was covered all over with blue rib
bons yesterday.
But we wish to speak more particularly
of Louisiana matters in this fair. The
natural riches of the State, as here exhib-
tied, are wonderful. Here is Louisiana
cypress, of which the State has immense
forests, possessing beauty of grain and
polish equal to the finest mahogany, black
walnut, curled maple, palisandre. or other
rare woods of the world. Here is sal!
from Avery Island, Louisiana, in massive
blocks of seven hundred pounds weight