The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-11-06

ed with the lubberly system of French
Post Offices, the exhibit of the Yale
Lock Co., must be quite revelation.
"It's not as deep as a we'll nor as
wide as church door, but it's
enough" it illustrates on a minor
scale, to be sure, the splendid work
ing of the American Post Office sys-
TEN. The building itself is unique
little affair and looks as though it
night have been gotten up for some
lady's son or gentleman's daughter to
play post Office in; the boxes are all OF
beautiful brouzed metal now in such
general use in America, and it is al
most laughable TO see the curious eyes
with which the crowd survey the
miniature Yankee Post Office. In
this particular the American Depart
meut is ahead of every other. The
letters of British exhibition are re-
ceived at the British commission, aud
the letters addressed to the different
nationalities are received in their re-
spective departments !; but in the
American department alone is a regu.
lar organized system with the same
class of lock boxes and all other postal
couveniences that can be found in all
the cities of the United States. To a
newspaper man in the receipt, each
week, of hundreds and hundreds Of
papers, this has been a most inesti-
mable boon, and the Yale Lock Com
pany, when they selected Mr.. Charles
E. Manning as their representative,
put the right man in the right place !;
and when he, in turn, selected Mr..
Grenfell Williamson as his assistant,
he showed discrimination which does
honor to his judgment and he has
laid the exhibitors Of the American
department under a lasting obllga-
ton.
The Agricultural display is the best
and strongest portion Of the American
exhibit, and has had the good
fortune to be under tie special super
vision of Dr.. William McMurtric, of
Washington, and in classification and
general arrangement he has succeeded
in making his department one of the
models of the Exposition. In no
class of goods has the rivalry been
more keen than in the manufacture of
agricultural machines. France and
Belgium have splendid exhibits of ag-
ricultural machines of every class, and
both of them have evidently found
American ideas not only pleasant, but
profitable.
The English exhibit Of agricultural
machines and tools is simply appall-
ing. An immense annex to the main
department is literally crammed with
implements Of every class and Of a
workmanship as fine as is usually be-
slowed upon lady's watch. There
are shovels FURNISHED to a crocus pol
ish and spades that look like shining
silver. Lawn mowers and reapers,
hay forks and feed cutters, threshers
that look as though they could thrash
any man or anything; in fact, genius
seems to have exhausted itself in per-
fecting some of these remarkable In
ventions; but, Notwithstanding the
immense competition in agricultural
machinery the United States have
been awarded a number Of gold med
ais, and the articles exhibited in the
Agricultural Department have re-
ceiyed the highest commentator.
The exhibit of Sewing Machines.
the very point in which the United
States were supposed to excel is un'
worthy of a county fair, and is sur
passed by exhibits made all over IN
the United States from Maine to Min
nesota.
Rumors are current that the Ex'
hibition is to be kept open till No
vember 10th. There has been row
in the direction and NJ. Krantz has
rendered his resignation.
The presence of the Russian Crane
Duke with the splendid black horse
on which he rode into Constantlnople
has been one of the sensations Of tht
week. His imperial Highness brough
on half dozen Russian couriers ane
his Imperial Highness' Royal droska
The monster balloon is now the alb
sorbing topic. It is the largest bal
loon that has ever been made in th'
world and is capable of carrying ul
twenty persons. The ascents ar
made from the Place du Carrouse
and back of the ruined palace OF tn
Tuileries. Twenty asceots are made
q d,7 OF O ooct of fonr dollars ne