The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-06-29

with medallions which. represent the
medals won by this great company for
the excellence of their goods in various
parts of the world. The counters are
of polished black marble, and on them
are costly cases filled with the choicest
and whitest of their goods. The view
from the front is especially beautiful, a
costly railing encloses the space and in
side is one of the most delightful little
rockeries to be found anywhere; it is
filled with rare and choice plants, and as
unique ornament cannot be excelled.
Directly in front is table or framework
richly frescoed, and on it revolve four
figures of the seasons, around which great
crowds gather from morning till night;
no spot in Agricultural Hall concentrates
greater interest than this beautiful build
ing, which is the exhibit of the Glen
Cove Starch Co., and cost, I am afraid to
say how many thousand dollars. Right
back of it on his perch as stately as he
can be, sits Old Abe, the great war Eagle
of wisconsin he was once the pet of
the eighth Wisconsin regiment, and went
with them all through the war, and on
his return was adopted by the State,
which has now allowed him to visit the
great Centennial Exhibition, in charge
of the veteran who bore him through the
smoke of twenty-five battles. Passing
along, the one thing that strikes you be-
yond all others, is the exquisite taste dis
played by most of the exhibitors in the
arrangement of their goods. One exhibit
is of pals of apple butter, not very prom
ising material to exercise taste on, yet
here they are things of positive beauty.
One of the most interesting features in
the building is the exhibit of Tobacco;
don't turn up your nose and say filthy
weed; why, if you could only get pho
tograph of that tobacco show, you'd hang
it in your parlor to look at Sunday after
moons, when you come home from church.
What jawbreaking sign is that over
there, just let us stop and spell it out,
malthop-tonic, ma-thop-on ic, Nal, NAL.
"Oh," 1 said to myself, "it's Greek"
So turning to a gentlemanly fellow at
my elbow, said: "My friend, I have
slight attack of neuralgia, an incipient
erysipelas, and have not been able to
translate Greek in consequence; and
would you be kind enough to translate
that sign for me-" The fellow burst out
into gufaw. I mentally ruminated,
che is drunk" When he recovered,
however, he said: "That amt no Greek,
that's English-malt-hop tonic" I gave
him quarter, and told him to bestow it
in charity on the first deserving poor
person he met. He placed it in his own
pocket. Malthop tonic; I was anxious
to find out what it was for, so fingered
around the stand; above it was the sign
of E. G. Hazard & Co., of New York,
whom not to know is to be yourself un-
known. The great speciality of this house
is canned fruits and vegetables, busi-
ness the magnitude of which has in
creased so within the last few years, that
from small beginnings it now amounts to
many millions of dollars. I often think
that among the many kinds of business
which have been created as it were, there
are few to which we are more indebted
than to this very business of canning and
preserving fruits and vegetables, which
enables us in season and out of season to
load our tables with all sorts of delicacies
which, without their aid, we could not do.
At the very head of this business is
Messrs. Hazard & Co., the introducers to
this country of the Malthop tonic, which
is one of the finest stimulants for inyalids
that have ever seen. understand that
the row has all been settled beween the
Commission and the Board of Finance,
so that we shall have peace till the Fourth
of July. The past week has been marked
by the meetings of o number of great
Temperance organizations, as an Offset to
the Brewers the week before. I am
sorry to confess it, but the Brewers were
much the jolliest looking chaps; and, on
the whole, think they can double dis
count the temperance people in having a
bully time.
The attendance is steadily improving,
and here LET me record wonderful fact.
In six weeks these Centennial Grounds
have been visited by nearly one million
and half of people, all out on holiday
spree, all bound to have good time, and
I have not seen one person intoxicated
in all that period within the Centennial
Grounds; nor has there been g case of
disorderly conduct worth mentioning
since the opening of the Exhibition
match that in any part of the world if
you can.
BROADBRIM.
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