Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1876-10-19

Fair -.na.iow
all 0 .ees OF siailar
Icharat which are ventured on
this year, that l had almost Ell
iirely overlooked an Exhibition
which is now going on In our own
city, and which in the absence of
its monster rival would be consid
cred an important one. | refer TO
an annual Fair of the American
Institute; the present beiCg the
forty fifth consecutive one The
display is actually large one,
Cling a building an eighth Of a
mile long by over two hundred
feet broad and yet, af er one has
become used to the huge propor-
tions of the Centennial, it is curl
tous to note ones own feeling OF
confinement .and Limitation in this
comparatively miniature exhibl'
ton.
While Tweed, with the aid of
the U. S. Frigate Franklin" is
speeding Ger the main toward the
outstretched arms of his eager
couutrymen, news reaches US that
from the opposite direction an.
other long sought New Yorker is
fastening hither to meet his old
companion and BrSs. The name
of this party is Woodward. and
his journey hltberward from Chi
cago il lot so much because he
wishes to revisit his old haunts as
because the deputy sheriff who
bears the requlsltion from the
| Governor of this State Is SO press
ing in his invitation that he Teiu
lses TO take no for an answer.
Woodward was clerk Of the Board
of Supervisors during the palmy
days of the Ring, and was the Of
fetal who had cuarge OF the dIvIs-
ion of the spoils, appointing the
shares of pIunder of each of that
noble band OF patriots, Tweed,
Sweeny, Connolly and their col
leagues The jnyiuI meeting OF
the long separated friends in the
prisoner box of the Court they
were won't to control, may be bet.
ter imagined than described.
After repeated retirements from
the amusement field, Barnum
once more yields to his irrepressl'
ble instincts and announces Cen.
iennidI Season in Glimore's Gar
den, Gilmore and his tuueiul com.
pany being ousted for the purpose,
aud the Garden retIanslormed
into the ''HrppodrOme. To
show how his native mUdesty
gains on the old man with advanc'
ing years, | will quote a little
from his preliminary announce
ment. He bashfully tells us that
ne will exhibit ''The Tropics
Transplanledl A Vast and Veri-
table Geological Garden Embow-
ering The R,rest OF Exotic Great
uresl The Jungle Mouarchs in a
Vernal Wilderness OF Bloom and
B-auty!' He proceeds to enlarge
considerably under the above
heads and then, fearful lest these
simple Statements should be un'
sufficient to attract the twenty
five centses, blushingly admits
that he has "a Brilliant and Va
ried Centennial of Circus Tri.
umphs Without Parallel in Me-
tropoli an Annals, presenting IN
a Rapid succession OF Sensational
Surprises the Greatest Heroes and
Hetoines of the Arenar' also
-Four FroIicsume and Vocal
Fools" After this latter an
nuuncement Mr.. Barnum evident
ly feels that be hasn't therein Of
tered any great novelty, the same
description being applicable 20
thousands of ladies and gentle
men in our first society, and there
fore plucks up courage 10 Intorm
the public that 'Mnre than Ten
Times the Price of Admission III
Wonder aud Instruction, Delight
aud Insp ration, Excitement and
Anus mint is returned by the
Gu eatest Show on Earth"
The great question now Is what
are the Other poor CIRCUS men go
ing 10 say in their advertisements?
B4ruum has evidently got up a
corner ON a,dj clIvrs--In act COB
bled up the whole dictionary, and
it remains to be seen what the
rest of the fraternity are going to
do .bout it. RADIx.