The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-09-10
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,,,,, harrison County Fair Cor
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cLARKsurRG, September $,

tLAkhsHt h'I 9Nf'S''' -
r. Ninth Annual Fair Of the West
nj, central Agricultural and Me-
Iii ; ,ciety commenced yesterday,
Ter part u the day was occupied
-,sipg entries, and the exhibition was
t.rmslly opened until this morning.
.hat | can learn from the very
1,r,rly managers Of the Association,
lie 10 ,ay that the Fair OF this year,
lac r,.pett', is better than any that
.,..r.r been held before. This Ia GER
Y.rIy aging a good deal
NM r,uBrTloS OF LIVE STOCK,
,,,I,of blooded cattle, is as good as
ia H. nund anywhere. Harrison
''.' /. far ahead Of the majority OF the
''- 4 the state in the business OF
..E r,i,ins and she is likely to hold
''. -',rr tr wear. to come. All Of the
..rr. trra.tlr, horses, sheep and swine,
egrIr,I and cighly.iive in number,
, NV, engaged by the middle OF the alter.
,,-terlay, and late in the evening !
.,me oi the officials sorFowtully
hing about, engaged in the almost
-. undertaking OF trying to make
!, MON There il always a vast deal
r..,J, and confusion preiacing such
.,.isu.p., aud il is almost like manu-
,,,,grtpt uricr out oil chaos to get things
,.,lne., ior them. After seeing the
rrr nj labor involved in making a
J,iycn IN the conclusion that
s6rlIn'I make a good officer in such
ta Institution.
TIE ATTENDANCE
r..l,y va. very large-a great deal
.,,,sr the President Of tho Society in
,',7,. me- than ever before on any one
I1y Uirri.on county turned ont almost
rr,r,m.g.Iy, and there was large rep
,.lnr,,iar iran the counties adjoining.
m, ,r,tber hl. been very fair so far,
tg, iptrn.ey hot and there was enough
.la.r alyat to-day to supply Wheeling
.ramunth. You can imagine now what
r,i.leprt /, at the present time on the
C,ark.burg Far Grounds;
There /, certainly ludicrons side to
county fair, no matter how solemn a
thing the managers may try to make H.
l.l.eauagh to At least provoke u smile
d. .er the intensity Of interest manifested
ly , .urgins crowd Ci eager sight-seers
made up from all the ranks Of society.
l.i,a chance Tor viewing contrasts.
While .aunrcring about the grounds this
n,rnin. seeing what could see, ! no
need
nm ISEyIrAHLE SWING MAN,
With hi, yilIain0us circular machine.
IIeuuyhtt to he abolished by special legis-
Iti,n. II he can not he reached by the
existing temperance laws. lie Is u de-
m,taIiling influence in u community, Tor
I .aw two countrymGn who were limo
renlIy looking at that swing rs It was
nhlfiin. around, and it had such YER
iiyinou, effect upon them that they got
clear nut u the perpendicular. | know
It VA. the swing that did 1t, because
there i. nolicense for selling intoxicating
hull. in Clarkshurg.
The man with the museum, and fat
womlu aud snakes, suppose, Is also on
hand. lie generally i, lie delivered
an "oraiipn" from hi' pedestal at the
mouth oi hi- ten, that lasted all day, II
Wa. principally culogi.lic Of the highly
moral aud entertaining character Of the
show which he had generously opened
iur the qualification Of the public. lie Is
4 ,li.intcrc. ted rascal himself, and Ia cv-
cryihing Ia fair. lie gives tone to 1t,
and II would he almost impossible to get
along without him.
THE FLORAL HALL
!. pretty we'll filled with the handiwork
1t lair hands, but there is nothing very
Aorcry about it. The fruit department
!, sad failure, for the extremely plansi-
bic reason that there is no fruit in the
country to exhibit; and there !, not much
Of a showing Of agricultural products.
| noticed that our friend General North.
colt was on hand with fine assortment
Of vegetables. The General Ia n scientific
aud successful tiller Of garden soil
There Is not much machinery on OK.
hibiliOn.
THE MECHANICS HALL
is comfortably full, but 1t Is rather small
and wont accommodate very mnCh. Mr..
Joseph Bell, Of Wheeling, has an array
Of wares from his foundry which has at.
ttactcd no little attention. Ills Arlington
stove /. 50 popular in this section Of the
country that the people are naming their
children in honor Of it. At least that Is
what man with n mirlhful CountenanCe
told me, and suppose II Is 80.
There has not been much wearying OF
horse flesh yet. There was but one race
to-day Of any Importance. That was be.
tween chrOmalic combination OF noble
red men FROM tue Seneca nation, John
Rdeye, Blue Wing, Yellow Bear and II
small boy, and the aeetest horses on the
ground that wanted TO run against them.
Tue Indians we're to run five miles, reliev.
log each other every sixth Of a mile, and
The horses ten miles with relief every
third Of a mile. The Indians Travelled
fourteen and hve.eighths rounds while the
horses ran thirty rounds and we're Conse.
quently defeated. The track Is One.thlrd
Of a mile in length. The race was for a
80 purse.
! shall take an inventory of the live
took tO.morrow-espccially the fine cat.
tie, swine aud sheep, and give you a short
aetcant Of my observations in my report.
Tie sweepstakes trOtting race will occur
tomorrow afternoon. Only three entries
have been made, but II ls anticipated that