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The Grape Cultnrist. 



a greater malefactor than the thief who 

 picks the pockets of strangers? Why 

 is he not held amenable to the law, and 

 punished as he deserves? Let drunk- 

 enness be made, before the law, what it 

 really is — a crime. Let it be punished 

 as such, and we will see less of it. But 

 let not the innocent suffer with the 



guilty ; let us not trample our liberties 

 under foot because vice has transformed 

 the blessing into a curse. 



These are our views. We think 

 that our correspondents both entertain 

 the same ideas, and have only misun- 

 derstood each other. — Editor. 



THE FAIR AT HERMANN, ON THE 13TH AND 14TH OF SEPT. 



Although orei'burdened with work, 

 we attended this exhibition, and can 

 truly say of it that we never saw a 

 finer exhibition of grapes any where, 

 both in variety of the collections ex- 

 hibited, and in the excellence of single 

 specimens. We give below a list of 

 the premiums given to grapes : 



Best collection of grapes (60 varie- 

 ties), first premium Bluffton Wine Co. ; 

 second, Aug. Loehnig. 



Best six bunches of one variety. 



Best six bunches Catawba, 1st prem- 

 ium Mrs. Theodore Poeschel ; 2d, John 

 Mueller. 



Best six bunches Concord, 1st prem- 

 ium Poeschel & Scherer; 2d, Bluffton 

 Wine Co. 



Best six bunches Noi tons', 1st prem- 

 ium Mrs. Theodore Poeschel ; 2d, John 

 G. Mueller. 



Best six bunches Herbemont, 1st 

 premium Mrs. Theodore Poeschel ; 2d, 

 Poeschel & Scherer. 



Best six bunches Cynthiana, 1st 

 premium Michael Romeiser ; 2d, Chas. 

 Roemer. 



Best six bunches Martha, 1st prem- 

 ium F. Langondoerfer ; 2d, Jacob Kuhn. 



Best six bunches Goethe, 1st premium 

 Jacob Kuhn. 



Best six bunches Perkins, 1st prem- 

 ium Henry Ilenge. 



Best six bunches Ives, 1st premium 

 Henry Henge. 



Best six bunches Delaware, 1st prem- 

 ium Henry Henge ; 2d, Poeschel <fe 

 Scherer. 



Best six bunches Maxatawne}', 1st 

 premium Charles Roemer ; 2d, F. Lan- 

 gendoerfer. 



Best six bunches Rulander, 1st prem- 

 ium Poeschel & Scherer ; 2d, J. G. 

 Mueller. 



Best six bunches Taylor, 1st premium 

 Aug. Loehnig; 2d, John Mueller. 



Best six bunches Hermann, 1st prem- 

 ium F. Langendoerfer. 



Best six bunches Cunningham, 1st 

 premium Aug. Loehnig; 2d, Charles 

 Beckmann. 



Best six bunches Minor's Seedling, 

 1st premium H. Henge : 2d, Poeschel 

 & Scherer. 



Best six bunches Clinton,lst premium 

 H. Henge. 



BEST BEARING CANE, ONE VARIETY. 



Catawba, 1st premium H. Henge ; 

 2d, B. Petrus. 



Concord, 1st premium J. Rommoll ; 

 2d, Poeschel & Scherer. 



