Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-09-24

entries in the various departments wer,
rapidly made, so that by night they
exceeded the number made at any pre-
vious Fair.
THE FLORAL HALL
Which was the great centre of attrac
tion, especially for the ladies, was ar
ranged more artistically than ever be.
fore. The only difficulty seemed to be
that the Hall was not halt large enough
to display the many handsome articles
on exhibition. Too much credit cannot
be awarded to the Chief of this Division,
J. T. Mellor, Esq, for his ceaseless and
well directed efforts, ,and to his Marshals
Jas. Irwin, Esq, and DicOn Bailey,
Esq, who were host in themselves in
perfecting the beautiful and attractive
display. We are authorized here, by
the Marshal of this department, to ex.
tend thanks to several ladies to whose
assistance he owes much Of the har.
mOny of arrangement and classification
and especially to Miss Lizzie Nieswan-
ger, Miss Sadie Patton, Mrs. w. A.
Hunt and Mrs. ]. d. Vail, for their
valuable aid.
One side Of the Hall was entirely set
apart for the display of Fruit, which
was noticeably fine. "The numerous
shelves fairly groaned under the weight
of delicious grapes, highly colored tenn
pting pears, large luscious peaches,
mammoth apples and plums of every
variety, clustered together in groups
more beautiful than ever the brush of
artist portrayed. Some of the pears
and peaches were of unusual size, many
weighing as much as eight and nine
ounces. Prominent among the ex-
hibitors of fruit were Messrs. Bundy,
McMonies, Jackson, Sutton and Nc
Kelvey.v Mr.. David Bundy, of Coler-
ain, hal on exhibition some beautiful
grapes two varieties, the Martina and
'Salem,' were especially noticeable, on
account of their delicious flavor. The
Concords were beautiful and the
Union Village" were monsters, being
the largest variety of grape raised out
doors in this country. His plums, ap-
pies and ounces were large and fine.
Mr.. w. L. Clark, the man who had
the champion onion, weighing Id and
6 ounces, in the Agricultural Hall, had
eight varieties of very fine peaches,
pears and four of apples of the choicest
fruit on exhibition. The Floral designs
by J. & J. L. Mellor, excel in taste any,
thing of the kind which they have had
on exhibition, years past. Among the
objection we noticed some eight or
nine varieties OF Begonias, two or three
of which are entirely new. They ex-
hibted several varieties of that pretty
little plant, Lycapodium. Also some
fine specimen plants of Geranium,
Fuchsia, Ivy, Smilax and other green
house and bedding plants. Among
the cut flowers we uoticed quite fine
collection of Geraniums, Dahlias and
VerbeDas. These cut flowers were in
great variety and artistically arranged
in baskets, .boquetts, wreaths, anchors,
&c. Mr.. Jesee MCGEE had ON exhibi-
ton some beautiful plants and floral
designs. Miss Gay Sailor also had a
display of fine plants: one fine BegoaiaI
is deserving of especial notice. Among
the CufiOsities was a case of rare worth
on exhibition by Miss Sallie johnson.
There was Granite, Alabaster, &C.,
from Old Tyre; silver cross, bought
from priest of Osiout, Egypt ; pottery
from Mile Mud > wood from the pet
ritied forest near Cairo, Upper Egypt II
coral and shells from the Bay of Abou-
ka, MEDITERRANEAN Sea writer's ink
horn from Egypt; Scorpion, caught in
DR.. JohnsOn's house, in OsiOut, Egypt,
BRIDES shoe of wood and pearl; dried
of wild honey; f1y-blush
made of ivory and palm leaf, from
Egypt; woman's head
covering, from Damascus, and other
curiOsities. This case attracted much
notice. Among the minerals was a
beautiful pyramid of crystals collected
in Licking county, and placed in the
Hall by Col. w. R. Ritts; and also a
nice collection of minerals from Shaw's
garden, st. Louis, exhibited by Mrs.
Maj. NeiswangeI. The isplay of air,
needle and fancy work of all kinds, was
very fine and would have amply filled
a hall of twice the dimensions.
AGRICULTURAL HALL.
The grand display of farm products
in this hall drew hundreds of people in
that direction. The extraordinary ears
Of corn, 13 inches in length, geurds A IT.
long, onions weighing l ID. and or.
and mammoth potatoes were among
the greatest attractions at the show.
The exhibition here was unprecedently
fine.
Agricultural implements in sbupd-
auce were upon the grounds. among
which were the Buckeye. Acme
Smith, Wood and Superior machines
and their merits were descanted on
glibily by interested agents.
Eighteen coOps of as fine chickens as
ever graced a Fair Ground, were
among the attractions. Bundy of Cole
rain, and Harrah of Cadiz, were the
exhibitors.
The Stock Departments were much
fuller than usual, comprising Is pens of
choice sheep, exhibited by Samuel
Campbell, Jesse Wilkinson, Oliver
Watkins and Others.
Quite number of fine cattle were in
the pens, among which we noticed a
fine bull owned by T. J. Thomson.
and a Shorthorn Cow by ID Brown. ESQ
In the Horse Department there were
nearly 300 entries. The speed-ring on
Wednesday and Thursday was espe.
cielly attractive To fanciers of fast
horses.
III ere were three entries for the
swe' pstakes purse in pacing. A gen.
eral shaking up of PAGERS was expected,
but the victory was apparently easily