Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-06
ARKANSAS.
The Great State Falr---The Exhibitors and
Their Exhlbitions---Who and What
They Are.
Industry of the "0Id Folks at Home"--Brags
The Result of a coRfiagratIOn.

From an Occasional Correspondent
LITTLE Rock, ARK, Oct. 3, ISL
This is the first day Of the Arkansas
State Fair, and with all the blow there
was ana has been made of this
GREAT EVENT
for the last three months in all the
newspapers of the State and the out
side world "to boot" tits another
one of those singular failures-fail-
ure in everything, except a passable
display Of fancy stock, mostly owned
and controlled by the carpet-bag gen.
try of the State government, who,
upon every occasion of this kind, take
a special delight to show off their fine
teams to the admiring gaze of the
fieeced taxpayer, as much as to say
to the latter, "See what nice establish
ments we sport out of the offices you
provide for us; in permitting us to
collect your revenues through your
refusal of not going into reconstruc-
ton" Outside of the display of this
stock there is comparatively nothing
creditable exhibited at the fair, with
the exception of about a dozen head
of fine cattle and hogs, nearly all of
which are thoroughbred and not to
the ''manor born," but come from q
distance.
The only real genuine Arkansas
cattle exhibited at the fair are those
head exhibited by mine hostess of
the Haynes House, and would be
creditable as ''home productions"
in any latitude of any Of the older |
States. Take il "alI in ALL" the dis |
play of articles at the first days exhi-
bition was a complete failure, though
there r quite a number OF articles
exhibited in the class of do
mestic manufactures and in the
mechanical department, that are
beautiful and chaste, and also
quite a display of groceries
and fancy goods by two rival grocery
firms, but they exhibit nothing of Ar
kansas production. 1t is simply sam
pies of what they have to sell. In
class A, over which our good friend
DR.. Mask presides, there is a half doz-
en- or more articles that deserve more
than a passing notice. Among
the most meritorious is q
couple of silk bed quilts, made
and woven more than fifty year ago
by Grandmother Mrs. Maria Steven
son, who is yet living, and one of the
few remaining matrOns of the Olden
time of this "neck of the woods"
when this region was all a Wilderness,
and inha oited only by the ''red men
Of the Forest" except the few white
settlers at this then Indian agency
long before the first sprig of this
beautiful ''City of Roses" was planted,
which so many beautiful and1
blossoms of humanity have
been plucked to deck the sepulchre of
long eternity, since its first Inception
a trading post, and afterward the
of which will be the empire
State west of the Mississippi before
another decadal enumeration of the
great southwest, Texas not excepted.
Amt we heavy on +!
BRAG? I:
Speaking OF brag reminds us of the !
incident of last nights fire,
md the the destruction of the oldest :
louise west of the-Quapaw line, not j
f the ''great father of waters" Z
About eleven o'clock last night this !
was startled with the clang (
( the Notwithstanding unusual in \
his misregulated and misgOverned V
Fires and the alarm of fires y
re frequent under the manage '
lent of the present rulers, and will ;
e until we obtain a wholesome city =
Overnment again, il we ever do. e
he fire originated-no doubt the E
Tork of an incendiary-in the oldest L
anne building in the city, a small 81
ne-story wooden building attached v
the Pacific hotel, corner of Mark
am and Scott streets, which was one
the old landmarks of a past genera
on, The loss Of the building is COM 81
aratively trifing in itself, but its as
,ciatiOn with a past age, the first no.
1 ever built in this city, under whose
'of and board such men as the elder
ritteDden, James s. Conway, Joe UI
-ay, A. ID. Sewer, Judge Ben John
n, Chester Ashley, and other nota= j
es Of the early days of Arkansas
ere sheltered and entertained, men
note in their day, in the earliest Y,
Iys Of the territory, endeared this IA
. and venerable building in the as "
and recollection of the of nc
ring of these early pioneers OF the se,
lderness with almUst a patriarchial w
verence, in which their fathers Were IA,
filtered from the storms, and the in ow
r man refreshed and fed with the ~!
DIST wholesome food and viands of -!
at day by Nick Peay the elder, mi
son, Major John G. Peay, a n,
lp OF the old block, has been busily tn,
gagged in renovating the Pacific for ]
past month, preparatory to the The
NAL opening of this, what was the gr5s
Anthony house previous to ante msS
'o1" LILIES. n iorinai opening OF del
new mouse Will take place about wa
first of November next, under the thr
me of the Southern Pacific. More fro
IN. Yours truly, TOP. fro
" MOI
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