Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-04
Tennessee at Louisville.
Courier. Journal, 8.

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Hon. A. j. McWhirter returned
from Nashville yesterday morning in
cheerful spirits over the outlook for
"Tennessoe Day." II the weather is
not so utterly outrageous,an Tennes
seeans come up"-as they rarely, il
ever, fail to do-there will be a rep
resentation Of the same old brave men
and beautiful (younR) ladies enough
to give ArkaDsaw, Georgia, Texas,
Michigan, Kentucky, Indiana and
Illinois the Tennessee immigration
fever of the tertian type.
George s. Quarles, Of Murfreesboro,
has presented fine specimen Of red
clover seed which, 10 Guild says, must
be of the same variety that made the
little dog so supremely happy that,
like the dying swan, was singing the
swt ct song Of life-the song which in,
formed the public that
"When he lived he lived in clover,
And whsn he died he died all over"
or words to that effect.
Colonel McWhirter reports that the
county Of Davidson yesterday granted
to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Company the right Of way through
that county, and also voted the com
'pany 100000 with which to build its
bridge across the Cumberland river.
He thinks Davidson alone will yet
vote the y, and o. $500,00O
j X 2. Wallace, of Andersonville,
Tenn and correspondent OF the
Southern World, Atlanta, put in his
genial presence yesterday to help out
on Tennessee Day" and ediiy the
readers Of his paper with sketches Of
the Great Southern Exposition.
Tom Lyman, Esq an old time
Louisville boy, but Tor the past twen>
ty years past a residentof Clarksville,
Tenn, says he begins to comprehend
what Byron means by saying that
happiness was born a twin" He is
happy over the splendid Tennessee
exhibit, and also that the city of his
birth has developed such wonderful
enterprise, which makes him feel good
on both sides at once. He will remain
in Louisville till October 8, the day
when the commodious building on
Fourth street, near Main, Of the Pra>
gof tate, will be sold at public auc-
tiOn.
" Heaven forbid" earnestly pro.
tested 10. Q. Guild, Esq, yesterday
morning, from the lofty perch in the
Tennessee exhibit which he at once
honors and adorns. Heaven for
bid"
Angels and ministers of grace de.
fend US, rejoined DR.. G. Y. Wood.
ward. who sits (like Marius amid the
ruins of Csrthage) across the little
box Of Bermuda grass which repre-
sents the majesty Of Mississippi.
Amen and ali men shouted the
genial and accomplished Maj Downie,
Of Arkansaw, whose honest thumb
regulates the flow Of Adam improved
ale, fresh from the hallowed springs, in
which old PythagOras was bathing
when he jumped out and suddenly
cried, eureka Eureka This beats
DR.. Jim Kellar's hobby, by JehOsa-
phat."
But oexplain. Our handsome young
friend, Joseph y. Guild, jr,, had been
reading to the assembled pulchritude
the article in yesterdays Courier,
Journal, 10 which DR.. Leber sug>
gests another "School Children's
DAY" at the Exposition. Fourteen
thousand small boys" turned loose on
that community, all in one day. The
way they ratified the machinery and
rode round on the great COrliss engine
wheel twenty six feet in diameter, and
it was bad day for small boys at that.
Oftentimes an exhibitors attention
would be called to FIVE or six of then
crawling on and under and over his
machinery, which he would have to
stop suddenly and yank 'em out
by the heels TO keep them
from being ground into sausage meat.
Cool as the day was the icecream was
all out by 10 o'clock m. Mr.. Guild
says four of the scholars" got astride
OF Colonel Folks pneumatic automa.
ton and rode it out the Sixth. street
entrance bareback. DR., Woodward
lost fifty Of his trade mark boxes-the
little yahoOs leaving not a rack (it was
all racket nor a penny behind. Ev
erybody had to stand from under.
The fire alarm was sounded three
times. Major Downie unbuckled the
spigot from his Eureka hogsheld,
locked it up securely and went out
into the park TO climb a tree. The
Exposition was never so patronized
and demoralizedl The l4,OO0 got into
every crack and corner and Granny
into which they could jump, climb or
crawl Such an
INVASION or THE G0THs AND VAN
DALS
was never before Witnessed but once
And yet DR.. Leber is asking for one
day more, with the consoling sugges
ton that he can bring out %, 600 next
timel An ounce Of oivet, good apoth-
ecary, to sweeten our Imagination
The servants have been sweeping and
securing the exposition ever since, and
yet DR.. Lober threatens to come down
on US with 10000 fresh troops. To
this proposition, say all the exhibitors,
we gladly seize the negative end.
Bring one at a time. aud have him
cabled, blindiolded, aud ball.and-
chained before you start, and may the
Lord have mercy on your soul.