Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-26

body was happy and the pleasures OF the day,
were net marred save by some slight &C
cidents caused by team running away.
We have net space TO enter into minute
description of all the exhibits, but must con
tent ourselves by giving the number entered
In the principal claasea. In all the departments
there were nearly 1900 entries. The following
are some of the entries: Horses SO; Speed
Ring "a; Mules Z; Cattle 61;- Sheep, II pens;
Hogs, Is pens; Poultry, Al coops; Farm i'm
plements and machinery, %; Harness S; Do
mestic manufactures, &c, So; Needle, Shell
and fancy work, Sl3; Dairy and Domestic
products, 64;sFruits 1877; Farm and Garden
products 145; Ara &c, 20; Flowers "a Pre-
serves. &C, 576; Sumner Fruits and Flow
ers, II.
FIeRAL HALL, ~
= The displayin in Floral Hall surpassed that
of any previous exhibition. A number of our
citizens who have been in attendance upon
the expositions at Chicago and Pittsburgh, az
sert that our display was propOrtionately
greater than either. A new feature was the
exhibit of some of our leading merchants and
manufacturers, as for instance, Jepson's beau
tiful Queensware made at Liverpool, Ohio,
and far superior in both finish and design, to
the English ware; Faweett's elegant case of
Jeselry; Shepherd & Kinks Boots and Shoes;
q. Trolls costly Silks; +. Trolls Notions; and
Seidwitz's and Butler's richly mounted har-
ness. The two large pyramids at the western
entrance were literally burdened with fruit z:
Birny Boyd, of Wheeling creek, had beauti
full rosy-cheeked Pippins that measured l5
inches in circumference, and HubbardstOn
None-suc apples, that were never surpassed.
A. G. Downing showed Waldowers that
weighed 20 ounces; and Messrs. Riley and
Henderson each filled several shelves with a
fine variety of fruit; Samuel McMonies had
% varieties of apples and a large exhibit of
other fruit, A. T. McKelvey presented Is va
rieties of apples, IL varieties of beautiful
pears, plates of grapes, and peaches, plums
and quinces;sJ. & j. T. Mellors' exhibit OF
fruit consisted Of 6 or 2 varieties OF highly
colored pears, arsistically arranged on q
handsome stand; Messrs. Schumacher, Woriey
and Yost exhibited tempting clusters of
grapes, but we cannot enumerate farther. The
fancy work far surpasses that of past years,
and under the management of +. ID. Bailey,
was displayed to the best advantage. The
ladies fingered for hours over the rich en-
hroideries and beautiful crocheting. Mellors'
floral designs were new and unique, bells,
crosses, crowns and bouquets of every hue en-
Iivened the hall with their beauty and filled
the air with their fragrance. Capt. Danfords
.AdministFators of the Government at the
beginning Of the Second Century, excited
much interest. The Crayons and Paintings
of Miss Lulu Brown and VIM. Neiswanger
were the subject of great admiration aud IA
vorable criticism-Miss Browns "Injured
Innocence caused much merriment. The
Relics and Curiosities of Miss johnson, Mis-
sionary TO Egypt, and the Curiosities and Ge-
of Alovondor W
W. McMonies and Prof. Emerson, drew
large and interested groups during. the en-
tire three days. The showing of preserved
Fruits and Jellies was enormous-there were
over 200. entries in this department. Mrs.
Clipp, Mr.. Lawrence, of Guernsey county.
and Mrs. Christy were the principal exhib.
itors. s ~ - ~
L AGRICULTURAL HALL ~ -
The display in this Hall was larger than for
several years though not as large as it should
have been-embrscing variety of farm pro
ducts and Domestic Manufactures All of
the exhibitors had good displays and much
interest was taken in the exhibits. We
make mention of one curiesity-a stock of
Newton's wonder beans from NJ Overbaugh's
garden with 243 pods, which attracted much
attention. "A little fnire interest should be
taken in this department, more liberal premi
ums should he offered and display will then
be brought out which cannot be excclled. We
have the products, If they can be coaxed out.
: srucK. - 'r
The display of stock was larger than usual,
and attracted more notice. u II Close
exhibited Spanish Merino Sheep; John s Close
Iincolnshires; Oliver Watkins, Merinos-ail
finely bred. The Hog pens were well filled
Campbell Rankin, Shan Faggart, B BShields,
Hiram Watkins and A Y Henderson, we're
the chief exhibitions. The,Gattle display was
far ahead of previous years. James Patter-
sou carried off several ribbons with his 10
head OF Dnrhams and grades. John S Close
had pen Of fine thnrohghbred Shorthorrs;
Joshua Pryor. showed some beautiful DevOns
and l2 head of Durhams and grades. Geo
Coffiand d pen of fine Durhanis, and \ e Dan
ford some handsome Alderney cows.
The poultry. show was, larger than usual;
among the principal exhibits was that of
B Shields, who showed some very handsome
golden and silver penciled Hamburgs, beautiful
white Leghorns, II ctnp of Plymouth Rock
fowls, rare and fine, Mr. 4 is new exhIbi-
tor but made most creditahle display of 80
specimen, Ebinezer BuffiIgtOn exhibited some
white Ducks and several cOops of fine Spanish
game chickens, and Jacob Martin had a good
exhibit. Ii was d good lot of birds. 4 Is
THE RACES.
ThezIlorse show was up to the Usual stand
ard ard the racing was especially exciting and
attractive, being closely CO testei'. Below is a
summary:
COUNTY PAos-wEDSEsDAY.
In this class there were only two entrIes-
Wm Frater's 'sWild Billy and James B
Ritchie's b m, Ritchie is,a first class rider
and did all in his power to get his mare to
the front first, but Nild Billy appeared to
have both foot and sbottom,' and took the
race in three straight heats Time suppressed
A new rider was put 0n the bay mare the last
heat, but it was very evident that friend
Ritchie had not sold the race
COUNTY TRsTT-HEDNEsDAY.
TT Close entered 4 Yankee Sam,' =
Hinkle bay mare, David Majors IN Heck
endorn,' VIM Butler III. Il was claimed
that Yankee Sam was ''ringer" and only al
lowed TO go, under protest. Three heats
were trotted, and each resulted as follows:
Yankee Sam 1st, hinkle's mare I'd, Estep's
Dolly Sd, Buffers Bay 4th. We have not
learned the action Of the Board relative |,
the protest. - -
INTERMEDIATES PACE--THURsDAY.
VIM Frater entered Sleepy Jim, VIM V
Kilgore, wild Billy VIM Frater, 'Rhody.
The contest in this race was between Sleepy
Jim and Wild Billy, Rhody being distanceo
on .he first heat. Jim took the first and
fourth heat and the race. Billy second. No
time. q
INrERMEDIATR TRor-THURsDAY.
John W. Hill entered George H., Alex. G.
Darrah Jim Dafrah,, W v Kilgore Kitty
Wells, John Bernard b b HAY Bill, VIM
Hoge Glencoe Golddust. Geurge H took the
race in three straight heats; Jim Darrah I'd.
Kitty Sd, Hazy Bill 4th, Glencoe Golddust 9th.
SWEEPSTAKES TROT-FRIDAY.yer-. r-.r
Geo II Smith entered Harker, Cleveland;
- Clancy Black Frank, Marietta; -
Johns Jake Underwood, Pittsburgh; T j
Close Yankee Sam, st Clairsville. After
several Intellectual scohngs the four were
sent of in fine style. The hottest OF the con.
test settled between Black Frank and Harker,
although all trotted closely together. AS a