The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-10-31
THE FIRST OF THE FAIR.
THIS Is THE BEST DAY TO zee WHAT
Is ON EXHIBITION.
Throe Races ON To-Day's Programme,
The Military Display 10 Take
Place ON Tomorrow.

The Military Display 10 Take
Place ON Tomorrow.
| The twenty-third annual exhibition OF
| the Virginia State Agricultural Society
will begin at their grounds, half mile
west OF the corporate limits (old Camp
| Lee), at ~ O'Clock this morning.
The exhibition will be very good one,
and TODAY will certainly be the best for
looking at the horses, cows. sheep, hogs,
poultry, machinery, and bandiwork Of
artsts-ladies and others.
FUTURE DAYS.
+ Tomorrow the competitive drill Of mill
tary companies takes place.
Next day friday there will be the big
gest races OF any of the thee days races,
and at night there will be grand display
OF fireworks in the city.
Visitors are already here in large num-
bers. The city will, 1t Is believed, be
crowded rs it has not been before for years
and years the great military display Is re-
lied upon to draw the people.
PIcKPOCKETs-cARs.
Pickpockets VIII be here by the dozen.
Gold watches and fat pocket-books, to be
had from innocent souls wherever there Is
O Jam, will pay them wei. Vendors OF
cheap jewelry and patent medicines and
vociferous side-showmen will also help to
demonetize the public.
Price considered, the best way to reach
the fairgrounds is on the stcam-cars OF the
| Richmond, Fredericksb and Potomac
Railroad Company. They will leave Broad
and Eighth streets half-hourly. But those
who prefer carriages, omnibuses, and wag-
ons will find them in great abundance
starting from the Theatre-corner.
PIANCING PEOPLE.
1t Is hoped that the people who are al
lowed in the FAIRGROUNDS on horseback
or in vehicles VIII be little moro conside-
rate than they have been in past years.
Oitentimes their prancing around has been
to the imminent peril OF the great unhorsed
multitude.
Gentlemen, be considerate.
TOMORROW.
Tomorrow business generally will be
suspended in the city. The banks, public
offices, wholesale merchants, exchanges,
railroad offices, &C., &C., will close-most
of them all dav, the others for the greater
part Of the day. The public schools will
Tomorrow is going to be great big
day. There Is no use talking; business
people must let of their employees.
Milifary.Men Arrived.
Yesterday the IIarrisorburg Guards. OF
the Second Virginia regiment, arrived in
the city on the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
road $3.50 o'clock train. The company
numbers twenty-six men, and is the only
one from the Second regiment that will
participate in the competitive drill at the
State Agricultural Fair. 1t is commanded
by Captain w. w. Roller, who is perhaps
the Youngest captain in the State, being
only twenty-thrce years old. The only
other commissioned officer with the COM
pany is Lieutenant f. w. Sullivan. IL is
very fine-looking body OF men, and wears
the Confederate gray uniform. The COM
pany will be the guests OF the Richmond
Ligh1 Infantry Blues during their stay
here, which company. in full uniform,
under the command of Captain Andrew
Pizzini. met and escorted the Guards from
the depot to the Blues armory. Voelker's
band. OF this city, and Sarah Zane's band,
Of Winchester, made martial music for the
soldiers to march by. At the armory the
Blues had collation. for the visitors, aud
they were soon so comfortably entertained
that they felt perfectly at home.
The Reidsyile (N. C.) Light Infantry,
under the command OF Captain \. j. FL
| lingtoi, were expected at $3.50 O'Clock, but
did not arrive Owing to delay Of the train,
and Captain Elicit and his company came
back from the depot without meeting them.
| About o'clock the company, numbering
thirty-fye men, came in over the Rich
mond and Danyile road. Captain A. L..
I Dargamin and Lieutenant Cary, OF "F"
| Company. met tie command and welcomed
/ them to Richmond. The company formed
and marched fIon the depot to Singer
Hall, where they lunched and were In
! troduced to their brother-soldiers OF the
! First Virginia regiment. They were
then escorted TO their quarters, in
the Armory. and made welcome.
| Only two commissioned officers are with
the company. Lieutenants K. NJ Ellington
and j. ii. Womack. Colonel James ID.
Glenn, Captain j. II. Redd, surgeon, and
! Captain j. Il. Smith, quartermaster OF the
! Third North Carolina regiment, accompa-
MED the Light Infantry. To-day the most
of the military will arrive, and tonight the
officers. including three United States ofli-
GERS from Old Point Comfort invited to act
rs judges, will be banqueted at Sanger Hall,
and spend pleasant time in becoming ac-
quainted.
THE GLOUCESTER CAVALRY.
This excellent body OF h0rsemen, under
the command OF Captain John n. Tabb,
and otherwise oflicered by Lieutenants j.
Hairston Seawell and T. +. Dabney, took
up the line OF march in Gloucester county
last Sunday, and after fatiguing trip
reached the city yesterday about O'Clock
and took up quarters at the Fair-Grounds.
They could not be given stables for their
horses, but were furnished lettering ropes,