The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-07
ST. LOUIS NOTES.
THE SEASON OF ENTERTAINMENTS Ew
THE FUTURE GREAT CITY.

THE FUTURE GREAT CITY.
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| Especial Correspondence Of the Democrat.l
| ST. LOUIS, Thursday. October 3, 1878.
Tails is the season Of entertainments In st.
| Louis.
| THE EXPOSITION
| is now In Its fourth week, and will be followed
| next week by the regular annual fair of the st..
Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Associa-
| tton. The fall trotting races of the Bt. Louis
Jockey and Trotting Club commenced the first
OF last week and closed only yesterday. A floral
and horticultural fair Is being held by the for
lists and horticulturists OF the State. The thea-
tres are oil open, Joe Jefferson being at the
Olympic. and concerts for the bon ton of society
are given almost nightly. All these entertain
ments, together with the political meetings held
now every day and night, make things un-
usually lively In ST. Louis. And next week we
are to have several visiting base ball clubs and
circus or two, In addition to the fair, and
lastly, but not leastly, the grand parade through
the streets by
THE YELLED PROPHETS"
followed by O ball at the Merchants Exchange
Ihe parade and ball are announced for next
tuesday night and they are expected to eclipse
anything Of the kind ever witnessed In New
Orleans during Mardi Gras. The paraphernalia
comes, as I told you In former letter. from
New Orleans. Il he military prizes given by the
Exposition were awarded: The prizes for
company drilling to q Chicago company; the
Chickasaw Guards. of Memphis. Tenn, and
Capt. Bulls company of the st. Louis Police
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to the St. Louis Police Reserves the st. Louis
National Guards and the Second Regiment Of
Illinois National Guards. from Chicago. Mill
tary companies from Nashville. Tenn; Spring.
field. Ill. Indianapolis Ind. and Beleville
ILL.,, also competed for the prizes. The decisions
OF tho judges gave general satisfaction with
perhaps one exception. Had the awarding Of
the tzss for conn mphny drilling been left to the
people, the CbfckasaW Guards would have re-
ceived the first prize instead of the second. The
"Chicks' are !atill ,encamped at the Fair
the yellow fever dies out at Memphis. THE
musical contest at the Exposition were confined
70 70, local organizations; The $500 prize for reed
band music was won by
THE NEW ORLEANS ORCHESTRA.
Smaller prizes for the same kind of music
were Carl led off by the military band from the
Arsenal 4 pos,lewait. s band ban and Voges band
and the New Orleans band. The Exposition
los. has been very well attended all along. much
Detter tnan would be supposed when the num-
Der and charac er Of tho attractions elsewhere
are considered, Unlike tho managers ef the
cultural and Mechanical ASS citation open their
gaies to the people Sundays a. we'll as week
days and also reduce the Sunday price Of ad-
mission to twenty-five cents The result is that
their show is attended Oh Sunday by more than
twice as many people rs visit 1t week days.
Ihe races did not PROVE to be so much Of q sue
HnanGlAilY DtAArwiSp aKr tad
RARUs AND HOPEFUL
were both Eere. but bad weather and bad man
agenhent on the paHt Of the association more
than oounterbalanced the good effect which the
attendance. The price of admission to the
grounds, was kept at 81 from the opening to the
sabmitted to the extortion one day only, and. as
the attendance vas never SO large again. except
on the closing day. when the gates were thrown
open to the public free of charge; Rarus trotted
the spe tators, who hoped to see him lower his
own record His time was 2:2e, 2:l516 and 2:17h
Every dhy SfterWnrds 1t was announced tnat he
would trot she following day. but for some rea-
son or other the promis SO was always broken.
About the. only redeeming feature of the race
bic record Of 2:15k. 2s15 and 2:15K. Rarus is
still he and is to be- exhibited at the fair next
week.
THE INDIAN COMMISSION
appointed by Congress to consider the propo-
sition OF transferring the Indian Bureau from
the Department of the Interior to the War De-
part mont was in session here several days last
week and this week. Some thirty odd witnesses
were examined mostly clergymen in charge Of
Indian agencies, army officers, old steamboat
men on the upper Missouri, and Indian tra-
ders. The clergymen were all sanguine that
the Indians could be better managed by civil
cpa cnan sr Dy taay an,h9T,ty ~ ana the army 2
while the balance Of the witnesses were divided
On TIE question. There seeps to be very little
change. Either more rigid rules must be
adopted by the agents now In charge to prevent
sWinding IN the purchase and disbursement Of
supplies, or they must give uD their posts to
the military. The commissioners who attended
the meetings rere were Senators Saunders and
McCreery, and Representatives Hooker Boone
and Stewart. They left st. Louis yesterday
morning for the Indian Territory, but expect |
to return here again next week and take more
testimony.
AN ELECTION FOR TEN MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL
was held last Tuesday. The Democrats elected
four Of their candidates. the Republicans three.
the successful candidates is a Democrat but
ran as an Independent. The result Of the cleo
ton gives the board one Republican less and
one Socialist more. but makes no other change
in the political ompexion Of the board. The
principal ISSUE involved in the election was on
man in the public schools. The English news
papers supported only candidates known to be
against the teaching of German, and the
to be In favor Of it, but as there were
several candidates In every ward and as polt-
ical Issues as well as personal preferences were
also involved the line between the friends and
opponents Of German teaching could not be dis
tinctly drawn. The four Democrats and the
Independent elected are all opposed to it. and
the rest favor it, and as the school directors
whom they are to succeed in the school board
are also equally divided, Mother side can claim
a victory. The board Is composed Of twenty
eight members. one from each ward, and the
vote. on the German question will stand the
coming year as it has the past-16 to y in favor
Of retaining the language.
THE JOHN NJ. CHAMBERS,
the steamboat fitted out under the authority OF
towns between Memphis and Vicksburg. is to
start from st. Louis Tonight on its voyage Of
mercy. Gov, Shepherd has been busy making
arrangements for the trip ever since bis arrival
from Washington last Monday, and the arrange
ments are now all completed satisfactorily. The
contributions of the government and individual
cittes and organizations have enabled the COM
mittee in charge to fill the boat. one Of 800 tons
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