The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-13
KANAWHA COUNTY.
The State Fair-Insufficiency of Agri-
cultural Premiums-Local News and
Gossip.

The State F'air-Insufficiency of Agri-
cultural Premiums-Local News and
Gossip.
Editors of the Register.
Our State Fair opens this year on the
26th of September, or at least so we are
informed. We suppose it will continue five
DAYS as it has heretofore done, and we
sincerely hope that there will be marked
! improvements in the 'premium list III
the way of offering larger inducements to
farmers and mechanics for the bringing
! together Of their products and competing
for prizes The nOn-succcSs OF last year :
exhibition was owing largely to the i'll
liberality of the premiums offered, fault
which should be, this year, rcmcdied and
removed; fit be true that experience Is
a.good teacher" While the premiums offer
ed are so small. we need never hope to see
our commercial and agricultural interests
fully represented, or any effort made to-
ward improvement; perhaps some may
say. the premium is not what the advo-
cate for improvement should look ut, and
perhaps to a certain measure this Is true,
but only to II certain measure, for We're
there no inducements offered to the one
who excels, there would be but few, or
none who would go to the trouble of
even trying to excel; in the fruit and
grain department, also in the departments
of tinery and fancy work the muniticent
sum of "Sl0O' is offered as premium on
most articles TO be found in each of these
departments and the astounding offer OF
..SInnn'' j. mad. 70 tho who
raise the largest and best field of corn or
wheat. We might say Il great deal more
on this subject, but it would take more
space than the REGISTER could conve-
niently spare, so we will say no more,
hoping that in the future the West Vir-
ginia State Agricultural Society will not
disgrace itself by giving the larger
amount Of its premiums for horse racing
instead of for the advancement of agri-
cultural affairs.
Our city was seemingly as quiet
on the Fourth as it usually is,
there being no celebration unless
some two or three pic-nics could bc so
called, which were held near the city's
limits.
We were about to forget the screnading
which our city received on the evening
of the Fourth, at the hands of some three
or four 'culled gemcn,' followed by some
twelve or fifteen young yelping Afri-
cans, who made the air hideouSiwiht their
yclping, to the great discontinue of all
nervous people.
The matrimonial market in this city
seems TO be- ut Il pretty low cbb just now,
notwithstanding the fact that Charleston
is celebrated for her pretty girls-n"
marriage license being issued since week
before last; not single pair ION en-.
The wicked "Old Bachcs,' know very
well that "all that glistcns is not gold;
hence the drug in the market of the fair
ones" it Is too plainly written in their
looks that "he who chooscth me must
give and hazard all he hath
= There has been no rain in this section
since the first of June.
Oats and hay harvest is
ut its height, wheat harvest being entirely
over.
We forgot to mention last week that
there were II couple of graduates at the
Young Ladies Institute of this city the
present year, Misses Goshorn and Nc
Chcsncy.
The thermometer stands at present at
900. What splendid time it would be
for fellow to cremate his mothcr-in-
law. A half dozen seasoned white oak
rails and "parlor match" judiciously
handled. would in a remarkable short
time do that loving and loveable rcla-
tive cup brown" Oh, if some "cuss
who is blessed with 50 near and dear II
relative would just do it, we would be 5"
clad items are SO scarce.
The accomplished wife and daughter
of DR.. Tom Camden, of Weston, are
visiting relatives in this place.
ADDISON.