Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-09-18
The State Fair,


we take the following from the Burlington pa
pers;
The State Fair,
FIRST DAY.-The Fair can hardly he said tt
b. fairly under way as yet, so far as an exhihi
ton is concerned, to-day being the day for en-.
terng articles. But already the ground begin
to look black with people, the air to be flled
with bialtiHg' lowing, ncighs, ard grunts OF
stock and shouts of men; and the halls to bc
too small for their contents. Up 70 two o'clock,
the entries in Floral Hall was 1913, VI FLOWERS.
Embroidery, Pictures, &c, several articles fire.
quently coming under one number. In Ne
chanics Hall the entries were 1856 of farming
and other tools, hardware, butter, cheese and
vegetables of all sorts. Under each entry there
were from one TO ten dhercntarticles. Ofstock
the entries were as follows Cattle 1870, Dur
ham, Devon and mixed blood; of Sheep II,
Cotswolds French and Spanish Merinoes of
Swine, Poultry &c, a fair proportion, we did
not learn how mdny of Horses 800, clnssed as
follows: Sherman Morgans, Stations and Colts,
50; Matched Horses 80 pairs; Mares and Fill
lies ls; Woodbury. Morgans 80, mares : Bull
rush Morgans 10 Hamiltonians and others 43
Geldings and Mares 81 Foreign Horses 81.
We might fill columns of our paper with the
bare enumeration of the articles of interest in
the Fair. A brief mention of what most struck
us in our hurried walk through the halls to-day
must suffice for the present.
In Mechanics Hall we noticed, particularly,
a great array of Stoves exhibited by g. S.
BLoDGETT & Co., and GILBERT Dow of this
placo-the variety of patterns was very great 1;
II beautiful case of Boots, Shoes and Caters
from MIIEs& HOWE; Saddles and Brides from
McKEEN " WRIGHT fine Willow Baskets from
G. J. Colby, of Waterbury; long table of fine
vegetables, of which were especially noticeable a
box containing 10 varieties of Potatoes exhibit
ed by +. ]. MEEcu, Of Shelburne; BRISsMA1p
& HILDRETHs beautiful show case of Jewelry
and Silver Ware; show case of goods from {.
+. STAMFORD and n. PECK s. Co. Outside
were Reapers, Movers, Flows, Corn Shelters
Huskers, &c. We especially noted as handsome
Pleasure Wagon as ever we saw, from J. W.
DANIELS, of Morrsville.
viii be exhibited the splendid gold Sword pre-
scented by the State of New York to the late
Gen. SAMUEL STRONG, of Nergennes, for his
services in the Battle of Plattsburg The Sword
is incharge of Messrs BRINsNAID& HILDRETH.
SECOND DAY.
In Floral Hall the first thing that caught our
eye as we entered, was floral design, reaching
nearly to the top of the Hail. exhibited by Pat
rick Ryder, gardener to D. d. HOWARD, Esq. :;
it is most beautiful piece of work. (Wewere
shown the list of articles exhibited by Mr. Ry-
der, boquets designs and vegetables of all kinds
filling whole page in double columns.) We
noted case of elegant Silk Embroidery by Miss
J. II. WILKINS, and Morning Dress by Mrs
c. MOVES. On the walls were hung Pictures
in Oil, Pastcls, &C., and the tables were rapidly
filing up with the works of delicate and taste
fl fingers. The crowd at the Secretaries desks
Of those making entries was very great
The entry books of the Society were closed
at - o'clock to-day, ard the l. libition is in
the main complete. 1t is marked by the pre-
ponderancc of horses over every other depart
ment, which has been, and probably will be for
years to come, the main feature o3 our State
Fairs. The display OF horses is very large and
fine but is not, in our opinion, equal to that OF
two years ago, either in the number of noted
animals, or in the average of beauty and merit
The occurrence of the National Horse Show al
Springfield, Mass, which has attracted the best
horses of the Southern part of the State, and o.
the Connecticut Valley, is the sufficient reas"-
for this Still the shn,r cs L.'os is one ot whlcn
Vermonters have no reason to be ashamed
There are many promising young horses, which
have yet their fame to make and will yet make
it,-and there are numerous fine and almost
faultess specimens of the various branches Of
Equine Aristocracy, whose name has spread
from Vermont all over the land, and to Foreign
Countries.
The show of CATTLE and of SHEEP, is very
large and fine, surprising, we presume, any pre-
vious fair ever held in the State, in the average
merit of the blooded stock.
The number of spectators present this fore
noon, was not very great but the people have
been pouring into town and into the FAN
grounds, all day, in large numbers, and if the
weather continues fair, we shall doubtless have
to chronicle very large attendance.