The Russellville Democrat., 1876-07-27

suspended festoons of bunting radiating in every direction and caught up just above the upper windows. This bunting is Tn different colors, such as red and blue, blue and white, and blue dotted over with little white stars. The posts supporting the roof and | the cornice are also trimmed with blnting. In addition to the Ex- hibition Hall, the building con tains two rooms. One of them is a reception room for ladies. The ceiling is covered with a canopy of blue and white, and the room is prettily furnished with neat mating, lace curtains, an upright piano, Roman mosaic table, and handsome card receiver of mar ble. On the walls hang DOT trait of Colonel s. c. Faulkner, the original Arkansas Traveller" and a photograph of an old style Southern mansion in Little Rock.
 The other room is occupied US an office by the Centennial Com mlssioners from Arkansas and the representatives of the State Board of Managers. It contains among other things large map of Arkansas, executed with great care by hand. There are exhib- ited the silver medal given by Washington to the celebrated In dian Chief Red Jacket, and cross of stone found in an Indian mound and supposed to have been placed there by one of the early Catholic missionaries. The silver medal is much tarnished, but the figures of Washington and Red Jacket which arc en- graved upon it may be easily dis tinguished.
 The exhibition in the hall com prises a valuable and highly in teresting collection of the agricul tural and mineral resources of the State. In the centre of the hall IS very pretty fountain of iron, bronzed, contributed by the ladies of Arkansas. It is sur rounded by large octagonal res ervoir of iron into winch the water flows, and at whose angles are vases of richly colored verbe- mas, fuchsias, gcraniums, green mosses and trailing vines. The base is circular in form, and from it rises column covered with leaves and plants, from which peep out little frogs. Surround ing two sections of the column, one above the other, are storks from whose mouths issue jets of water. The column supports three basins placed at intervals, and at its top is series of jets.
 On the east and west of the en- trance, arranged against the wall, are sheaves of wheat and oats, bundles of millet, timothy and red-top grass, and stalks of corn measuring sixteen feet in height. The grains are well formed and of good weight, while the hay and grass IS really luxuriant. There are also sections of trees showing immense growth of timber, speci- mems of petrified wood, md large bales of cotton, very white and soft in texture. Near these are two counters containing various exhibits. They are both made of different kinds of Arkansas woods, beautifully inlaid, and handsome specimens of carpen- ter's work. One of them contains gigan tic ears of corn, beans, bar ley, oats, dried grass, wheat and oat straw, raw cotton, leather, brooms, specimens of work by the pupils of the State Institution for the Blind, wines and feathers.
 Standing on the floor behind the counter is box containing cotton bush, with bolls of cotton growing on it. On the other counter is exhibited great vari- ety of archaeological remains, such as tomahawks, stone pestles, darts, and other Indian relics, some of them evidently of great antiquity. There are also specimens of jew