The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-11-15

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CLOSE OF TIE FAIR.-The Fair Of the
Agricultural and Mechanical Society
closed yesterday afternoon, having been
in session since Tuesday. Considering
the financial pressure which prevails, it
may be regarded as decided success, in
the entries that were made, in the in.
terest manifested, and in the numbers
who attended. The weather was de-
lightful, and general satisfaction felt in
the proceedings and result. Good order
and good feeling characterized this
meeting from the beginning to the close.
At IL NJ, yesterday, the premiums we're
awarded, and the successful competitors
were OF cor-se pleased, and others not
80 fortunate scquiesced gracefully in
the result. The racing was spirited, and
attracted unusual interest.
Several meetings of the State Grange
were held on Thursday and Friday.
Great enthusiasm and harmony pre-
vailed in its councils. The grange was
favored with visit from T. A. Thomp-
son, Esq, distinguished lecturer from
| Minnesota, Who gave most interesting
and entertaining account of the opera.
tions and triumphs Of the order in the
Northwest. He was we'll pleased with
| the condition and promise of the grange
in this State; and the representative
members = one hundred and fifty in
number-were highly cheered with his
good reports. and buoyed up in their
work. by his confident prediction of like
success to be achieved by it here. There
are one hundred and eighty oranges in
the State. We expect them to increase
largely in the next twelve months, and
should not be surprised if they reached
the number OF $4,000 or 80. OOo;by that
time. Col. Aiken and his associates are
doing good work in the State. He
hardly knows what fatigue is in this
cause. He has our best wishes.
IRwIS's HA1L.-LaBt appearance of
Rose and Harry Watkins, whose repre-
sentations during the present week have
constituted one of the chief attractions
of our Fair, not only to the strangers
who have visited the city. but to our
citizens, for OF all the artists that visit
us, there are none 80 popular as Rose
and Harry Watkins. who are undonbt-
edly the greatest of Southern favoritea.
The plays they present are not only
calculated to please all Glasses. but they
are such as to win the highest com.
mendation from the most exacting
critics and the unqualified approval OF
the fastidious and refined. A lifelong
experience has given them q thorough
knowledge Of Southern tastes in all that
pertains to the dramatic art, and this.
coupled with their enviabls social posi-
ton, enables them to cater 30 success
fully for the crowds who always attend
their performances. They bid adieu to
us for the present in one of the very
best plays in their repertoire, .Kath.
leen Mavourneen," justly termed the
"ladies' favorite play" Who that has
ever seen Rose Watkins as the heroine
of this beautiful dramatic play, can for.
get the charming simplicity of the
artless peasant girl, whose giddy brain
ls turned with wanting to be ga fine
lndy?" It is one of those perfect rustic
portraits which, once witnessed, dwells
ever afterwards in the memory as q
pleasant recollection of the paat. Harry
Watkins, as Terrence O'Moore. pre-
sents IN agreeable companion picture to
'his own Kathleen Ms7ourneen; while
together they form dramatic treat sci.
dom offered. It is hardly necessary to
tell our readers to go on suoh an occa.
sion as this The mere announcement
that our favorites make their final ap.
penrance tonight, and tho presentation
Of snoh snperb play, is sufficient to
test the capacity of Irwin's Hall.