Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1875-10-23


OUR FAIR-''IT MUsT AND SHALL SIC
cERD. The evidences thicken that our
Fair next week will be 4 grand success.
The grounds have been put in thorough
order, and the speed ringis really thing
of beauty, over which well trained cour-
ssrs may fly like shooting stars without
danger Of Inishap or cfSssipn. :.
Capt. Tfos. Clark, the efficient Secrcta-
ny, has labOred assideOusly to mako ours
the big Fair Of West Tennessee, and we
think his well directed efforts will achieve
their merited recognition. As we now
write We note the appearance of many
visitors in Jackson, who come from afar,
TO attend the Fair, and to mingle in the
enjoymcuts Of the occasion. Among the
number we recognize several prominent
Gtock-raisers Of sister States, who have
brought with them fine horses, celebra-
ted either as PAGERS or trotters, and who
have taken premiums at other Fairs
Indeed, there is but one thing lacking to
make the Fair of 1875 outstrip all of its
predecessors, and it humilidtes US to
mention it. Soma few of our people
having been laggards in the fray-they
have neither contributed time nor money
to build up this Representatives institution,
and although the day of action is nearly
gone, we still hope they will come up to
the rescue of Capt. Keith and his indom-
liable board of Directors, aad push on
the column
To our country cousins" allow us to
say that if you have been sick, and We
almost feel safe in putting you in that
category, be sure and come to the Jack
son Fair and laugh all your ills away
A day of recreation spent at the Fair will
prove more efficaceous than all the rene
dies that doctors ever invented. 1t will
restore you to perfect health and renew
. the flower of your youth. If you are
single individual, come here and make
arrangements to splice for life" Wen
give you handsome notice in our coli
umns, when the event eliminates into a
marriage, something like this:
Two souls with but single thought,
! Two hearts that beat As one"
Or, we might change it thusly:
81 saw too clouds at MORN"
Hinged with the rising sun, &c.
| \ Fair is q. great social reunion, eve
/ rybOdy is drawn to it, from the clergy
man to the clown, and within the amphi-
| theatcr blends the various phases OF our
/ peculiarly American life.
| "'Where multitude of virtues crowd along
| Each pressing foremost in the throng,
/ Then giving away and making room,
/ For greater virtues that are to come
They are typical, too, of country's
progress and development, and show how
far modern thought has removed the cru
! dities of the past. The man who encoUr-
/ ages them is 1 benefactor, he makes not
! blade, but tufts of grass, to spring up a
/ round him in the old John Bunyan will
! derness of this world, and when he dies
| his disembOdied part ought to go straight
! way to the communion of the ',just men
! made perfect and we only wish that our
/ reading of the scriptures was varied G.
/ nough to embalm him as he deserves
/ Let our readers remember, that posterity
! at least will bless you for interest in the
! jackson Fair, and we are not sure that the
/ selfishness of the present Will quite for
1 get you. We say again, our Fair must be
| a gucpesS