The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-06-01


according TO tradition, did service
before the name of Cesar was known
to the world.
RIDING ON A oHAIR.
The rolling chair brigade has be-
gun a propitious campaign. Up and
down the nave and across the tran.
septs of both the Main Building and
Machinery Hall move scores of these
mongrel vehicles, laden with fat
people, thin people, long people and
short people, and pushed by decidly
light built people in aashy uniforms.
The cost of riding in one of these
oontrivanoes is twenty five cents per
hour. The latter are presumed to be
walking encyclopedias of the exhibin
tion--at least by ponderous old ladies
from the rural district, whose modus
oporandi, in riding around, is to
thrust huge sun umbrella over their
shoulders, prodding the pusher in the
neck, and thereby calling his atten.
ton to a stuffed llama, and asking
how it is that elephants are not the
same in reality as they are in pic
ture books. The people congregase
about every attractive object, and, if
they don't know the name of it. and
all about it, sorely tax the patience Of
exhibitors, who are, however, gem
orally willing to invest any amount
of chat, knowing that there are moro
modes of advertising than by print
ers' ink.
MROHINERY HALL.
The place which, but two weeks
ago, gave promise of being for at
least month after the opening the
dullest part Of the Exhibition, con.
tains now, next to the Main Building,
the most impressive display. The
number of visitors here yesterday
was at all times larger than in the
Main Building, and their attention
was wrspt in the gigantic engine and
it's eight miles of shafting running at
full steam, in the spinning of cotton
and wool, the weaving of cloth, the
printing presses turning off per min
ute from 500 &c 400 complete copies
Of newspapers containing full parti
culars of the preceding gala day aud
it's solemnities, the papers being disc
tributed gratis among the spectators;
the blowing of glass, and hundreds
of other processes representing all
industries that call in the aid of ma
chinery. Meanwhile their ears we're
treated 70 the olatterinG of spindles,
the humming Of sewing machines
and the almost deafening din of the
more ponderous machinery.
vIsrroRs FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
After the opening exercises were
over, and the crowd had dispersed
through the immense buildings, leav-
ing the grouuds comparatively open
and clear, one Of the Turkish exhi~
bitors clad in the flowing silk gown
peculiar to his country, and accom-
panied by a beautiful young woman,
who seemed to be his wife, and who
was magnificently attired in the ma
tional costume and brilliant with
many gems, passed through tho ayen
ue loading from Machinery Hall to
the Main Building. Tho couple at.
tracted groat deal Of attention and
much innocent comment. Whom
they had just reached tho doors of
the grand gallery they were met by
o certain we'll known negro member
of Congress from South Carolina,
who was accompanied by two of those
peculiarly beautiful colored women
who are 30 often met with in the Pal
metto State. As the parties APP
proach each other the Congressman,
who was swolled out in all the dig.
nifty of dress coat and white kid
gloves, exclaimed, looking fxedly at
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