Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-08
JACKSON.
Fair Of the West Tennessee Agricul-
tural and Mechanical Association.

SWeetness-The Reporter is Presen-
ted with a Bottle OF Wine that APP
| peaIed to Every Sense and Entered
Through Every Avenue of Frame and
SOul-HOnOr TO Whom Honor is Due
Madison County Hospitality.
TO the Editors of the Union and American:
| Nov. 6, 1S71.-The delay and uncertain
! ty of the mails have made it necessary for
your correspondent to condense the report
| Of the last three days of the Fair into one.
It's burning disgrace to any government
to have agents so careless and inefficient as
some Of these between Nashville and
Jackson Your reporter started a
letter from Jackson on Tuesday evening
and 1t was delayed one day only in going to
| Nashville, but the paper containing il had
not made its appearance in Jackson up to
| Saturday night, though the second letter
came in Saturdays paper by Saturday noon.
A bundle of papers was started from Nash
| vile on Tuesday, and your correspondent
| was highly gratitied to find them in the
| postoffice Saturday. How long wilt thou
continue to abuse our patience, Gen. Grant,
| by putting men in place and power who are
| ignorant of and Indifferent to public conve-
nience and public justice? Either the rail-
roads or the postmaSters, or bOth ought to
be held to strict accountability for malfea-
| sance.
LARGE ATTENDANCE.
The third day opened beautifully. The
sun which had yeiled its splendor during
the first two days came forth with unusual
brilliancy. By eleven o'clock the amphi-
theatre was a perfect jam, forming bou-
quet of animated life, futtering with every
color of the rainbow, while on each side of
the amphitheatre 1Or great distance were
stretched out wings of human beings.
Fully five thousand persons were on the
ground each day during the last three days
of the fair. The amount and excellence of
the stock exhibited equalled that shown at
the Nashville Fair and every part of the
State was represented.
SADDLE STOCK.
The entries in the rings for harness stock
and saddle stock were full and complete.
The finest trotters and best PAGERS were ex-
hibited. Nothing was more surprising than
TO see the amount of stock on exhibition.
Cotton growing districts are not usually so
well represented in that department. In
this case it was doubtless owing to the lib
erality of the directors in allowing all stock
to be shown free of any charge for entry.
And this is right. Those who make the
show should not be charged for doing so.
COL. KILLEBREw's ADDRESS.
At II o'clock on Thursday, your agricul-
tural editor, j. B. Killebrew, spoke to an
immense assemblage, and was listened TO
throughout with flattering attention. The
editor of the Wing and Tribune thus speaks
of the effort ''Five thousand people lis
tened with rapt attention, for one hour and
a half to this incompatible production.
We never saw a crowd more highly enter
tanned or more enthusiastic. The Colonel's
speech was full of logic, practical thought,
home-thrusts, eloquence and forcible Illus
tratiOns. At its close, bouquets, the work
of as fair and noble women as ever adorned
any land or age, were presented the orator,
whose bright thoughts have sunk so deep
into the hearts as well as the minds of his
audience. The COlonels reply to this de-
lightful testimonial Of appreciation was as
chaste and beautiful in sentiment as the
pure waters of Tempe Vice President r.
b. Hurt rendered the distinguished orator
the thanks of the vast crowd for his able,
eloquent and inspiring address, whose sen
timent was enthusiastically applauded.'
The Board Of Directors passed a resolu-
ton to have the address published.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
The agricultural hall was well filed with
implements, many of them of great excel
lence. Among others We observed a har-
row, by D. A. Parkman, of Union CITY,
that is exceedingly valuable, combining, as
it does, the advantages of the harrow
and the roller. 1t is called the Bumper
Harrow, description Of which was given
a short while ago insthe UNION AND AAIE-
RICAN. Corn planters and cotton planters
of new designs, and of great excellence,
were on exhibition. Plows of every form
and fashion were seen, as well as reapers
and mowers, garden cultivators and cotton
presses. The display was highly creditable
and many of the implements were looked
at with great interest by the farmers.
BRILLIANT DISPLAY IN FLORAL HALL.
The Floral Hall continued to receive ae-
cessiOns up to the last day and at the close
Of the exhibition it was by far the most
interesting part of the Fair. Ladies and ]
gentlemen crowded the building and were
amused, interested and instructed by the
articles. One of the most singular was a
clock inclosed in glass case which repre-
sented a wooded scene, in which bird flew
from tree to tree, and another was busted
in drinking from a pond of water. This
piece of mechanism was much admi' ed.
Mrs. TOmlin took the premium in fruit
cake. Its delightful flavor and rich a'Jpear-
ance could only be eXcelled by the dignity,
tine worth, the accomplishments end the
destinations of the maker. The jelly cake
made by Mrs. Jackson was awarded the
premium and well did it deserve it, for its
melting sweetness charmed the palate and
diffused a fragrance more delic ate than the
blushing flowers of morning.
Mrs. Binford showed fine specimens of
hand writing TO your report er. There were
only two entries, but both were excellent,
Mrs. Binford, it will be remembered, is the
mother of that child of genius, Mary Alber-
ia Binford, whose works of art, so superior
for child, charmed all visitors, Her affiic-
tions have given supernatU raj power to
her Imagination and all her senses have
been strengthened and spiritu allied by them.
Bright child of misfortune! may the world
of thought and beauty in which you roam,
atone for these ailments that deform the
body, but beautify, and enlarge, and inten-
sity the jr[ltellect.
WINE THAT CHEERS.
Yrs. Andrews, the versatility of whose
C-enius was the subject of remark by all Wis
/ itcrs, bore off the prize for the best wine.
| She presented your reporter with a bottle,
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the contents of which appealed to every
sense and entered through every avenue of
frame and soul, and filed the utmost ca
pacities of each with cOpious benignities.
| In the words of another, it sparkled to the
! eye with the light of gems and stars; it raw
ished the ear with the musical cadenceS of
its stream beyond the melody of falling
brooks; it glided with soft, oily flow over the
sensitive tongue and gave to the palate the
nectarous felicity of the Immortals. Even
now while writing we can feel its glowing
influences through all the realm of thought
and feeling. 1t would make clownish lips
eloquent, open the secret stores of wit,
clear the wrinkles from the forehead,s sweep
away the clouds of the future, arm the i'm
agination with visions more gorgeous than
the Arabian Nights, and Clothe ones hopes
with the splendOrs of the crepuscular light.
THE FAIR A SUCCESS.
We can assure our readers that the Fair
at jackson was in every particular a srium-
plant success, and for this success the peo-
| Die are indebted to the Vice President, r.
B. Hurt, and to the Secretary, G. w.
| Greene, whose untiring energy, constancy