The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1884-09-13
SOUTHERN EXPOSITION.

The success of the present Southern Ex-
position at Louisville, KY, has surpassed
the most sanguine expectations. This great
exhibition has been open to the public only
TWO weeks, yet the attendance has been
twenty-five thousand greater than the cor
responding period of last season, when the
total attendance for seventy>one days was
seven hundred and seventy thousand.
It is a fact spoken with enthusiasm by
all who visited the Southern Exposition Of
1884, that its exhibits, must, and pyrotech>
MICS, as we'll as other special features, are
far superior 10 any ever attempted previ-
ously by any enterprise of similar pur>
pose.
It is thus referred to by David A. Murphy
of the Danvile Tribune; "The great LOUIS
willie Exposition is delightful surprise to
me. I had expected much, but the half had
not been told me. 1t is wonderful and in
tructive in all its parts, and must be seen
to be fully appreciated. Icould not dcscrbr
| it if j would heartily wish that every
man, woman, and child in Kentucky couIu
| be persuaded to visitit. Long live its mod
Ell President, Colonel Bennett H. Young"
| Encouraged by the tremendous audiences
and their enthusiasm, presentat the $5O0O
competition drill Of last week, the program
me committee have resolved to add special
attractions for the future, among them a
| base ball tournament between league and
association mines, on the largest and hands
| soonest grounds in America. A pigeon
shooting tournament begins September l5,
and thon will follow exhibitions oflive
stock, including running and troting hor-
ses, short horn, and other fine cattle, hogs,
sheep, etc Bees and honey, horticulture,
flowers wheat, etc., will be shown rs the
Exposition moves on. On September 23
Gilmore's world>famous band will succeed
the Cappa and his corps of splendid musi
clans, whose programmes have caused un-
bounded enthusiasm since the beginning OF
this season.
The following description will enable
the reader to form fair idea Of the char
acter of entertainment offered at the South
ern Exposition of evenings, it being set as
the programme for the of Tuesday Septem,
ber 9th.
A grand Baden, Baden Concert and illu'
minated Evening Fete, will be produced
at an immense expense, in the Park ad'
Joining the Exposition Building The beau
tiful grounds will be illuminated by ten
thousand of PAINS patent, prismatic lamps
and numerous Japanse lanterns artistically
arranged among the trees over the entire
Park, and in various selected positions
utiful:devices, notices, and other fen.
lures Of beauty will be placed, the whole
effect being charming beyond description,
and hitherto only to be witnessed in the
far-famed Europeanresert, Baden Baden.
The effect will be Fairy Land reproduced
delighting the eye and charming the im'
Imagination.
| The expense will be considerable, a spec.
ia corps Of assistants having been ordered
from New York to assist Mr. Pain for the
occasion, which will be the most novel, eff
fective, and beautiful ever witnessed in
America.
Myriads Of yariegated lights, enchant.
ing fcstooned groves prismaticfFairy Foun.
tains, Turkish Kicsks, all in one blaze Of
light, will change the Park into magical
scene of beauty.
A grand promenade concert will be per-
formed by Cappa's band The Blacksmi u
in the Forest, and the celebrated battle
| piece, with chorus Of one hundred voices
and pyroiechnical effects will further en-
hanoe the interest. The Forest on Fire,
pronounced by George A. Sala, in the New
York Times, as the greatest sight OF The
] kind ever witnessed and given only once
before in London, receiving the praise O
4 press and public, will be introduced BY
4 Mr.. Paine, the celebrate pyrotechnist g