Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-10-17
TENNESSEE VALLEY FAIR.
The Sixth Annual Exhibition ut Rhea
Springs.

RHEA SPRINGS, TENN, Oct. IA, 1880.
Mr.. EDITOR: To day ends the third,
and so far the most important day Of the
Tennessee Valley fair. To speak briefly,
the fair has been a success financially,
even were the receipts at the gate to close
to-day, but in regard to the articles on
exhibition it is scarcely up to previous
years. An exception, however, may be
noted in the exhibition of horses, as this
department is represented by many fine
animals.
q The Jones Bros, of Monroe county, are
on hand with their excellent steed OF race
horses, also Sylvester of Louden county.
Thomas Brown, of Polk county, A. G.
Bleyins, of this place, and James Martin,
of Kingston. The entries in cattle were
small in number, but includes some very
fine animals. Mr.. Robt. Cook, not long
since student at the University of Tenn.
essee, but now thriving farmer of Tenn
essee Valley, has on exhibition some first
class Durhams. The Deyons were well
represented by number of choice ami
mails. This breed is always well repre-
sented here as thsy are favo ties III this
section especially in the mountain coun-
ties as they do eXcellently on the natural
pasture of the Cumberland mountains.
They are good mixers and as beef cattle
they have no superiors. The exhibition
of sheep is confined to some very good
specimens of merinos, south downs, and
cottswooIs. The exhibit of hogs, poultry,
ETC., are small in number and nothing to
boast of in quality. This is rather sur
prising as there is plenty of good stock Of
every variety in this county.
THE HOUSE SHOW.
The most noticeable feature of the house
show is the large amount of p eserves,
jelleys, canned fruits, etc. In this line
the exhibition would do credit 10 any
community. In the department of needle
work, home made blankets, quilts, mats,
carpets, and such like articles, the num-
Der and quality are very good, better
l perhaps than are generally seen at fairs,
and not so good as might have been, fol-
the ladies of this county are no,ed fOl
their skill in this department. They have
abundance of these things of the most ex
cellent make, for we saw them here last
year. In fruit and vegetables, the display
is small. There are some very good
apples, however, of several different varie
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interest, especially on the table lands in
the vicinity There is creditable eX.
hibition of musical instruments from
CINCINNATI, and fine collection of native
minerals by Grassy Cove exhibitor.
The feature that overshadoWs all others
however, in this fair is the races. Here is
one Ofthe best race tracks in the state |
is perfectly level and smooth, and a rise o
ground on one side of the ring
and gives most excellent view
of the entire track AT two o'clocl
the whole crowd assembled at the rae
course and the interest was very great
To-day there were three exciting anC
closely contested races. The first was
one mile dash open 10 all ages, for a purs
of $500, entered by Mr.. j. g. Hall, TO
his horse "Mabry." Mr. S. Brady
"Bushwhacker', Mr.. ]. r. Jones
"Gritts." The horses got an even start
but 'Mabry" soon took the lead, and wa
closely followed by Gritts." They wei
twice around the track nearly side b
side" Mabry," however, kept the lead an
calne III hall length ahead. The trot
ting race, one mile heat, open to all ages
was won by VIM. Crabtree's Frank" i
1872. As GA .-a
The half mile dash for the purse Of SIC
was won by Robert Wilson IRE
E Cloud, there being two other entries
POLK Co.'' owned by Thos. Brown, an
"Blue Arrow" owned by A. c. Bleven
The great race for $1OO. will come Q
tomorrow.
= The express train from CINCINNATI o
: the = Jincinnatti Southern r r., ran off
missed placed switch this morning mes
lockwood. The engine turned over Blu
no other serious damage.