Litchfield enquirer., 1863-10-08

THE GREENw WOODS CATTLE SHOW AND FAIR was held on Tuesday of this week. We had the pleasure of attending it for few mo- ments, and were very agreeably disappointed in noticing many features of it. The show of cattle was, indeed slim enough when com pared with the County Society,two weeks ago, there being but about l50 yoke of oxen on the ground, at the highest computation, against over 600 at the Show in Litchfeld. Of these the single town of New Hartford, we were told, contributed over 60 yoke. Some of the specimens exhibited were good ,and a very few of a superior class, but the general display was far below mediocrity. In fact, many of the poor animals we saw on the track were SO the dumb animals, and wished them safely housed, instead of being left to endure the winds that appeared to blow through their very sides.
 Of stocks of cattle buttwe exhibitions were made, and but two pens filled, and each of these was present at our County Fair fort night since-one of them belonging to Lemuel Hurlburt, Esq.,, the President of the County Society, and the other to the Messrs. Griswold of Torrington. Of course these stocks took all the premiums that were offered. MT. Hurlburt also showed some fine Cotswold sheep thorough breds, the only ones of the kind on the ground.
 In the School house building, used during
 
 the Fair for the exhibition of articles of do- mestic and general manufacture, and of fruits and flowers, there was really very credtable display The ladies, as they always do when they interest themselves in a Fair. did admi. rably. We recognized many of the bed-quilts with their branching flower pots, affghans, &c., which appeared aforetime at the County Fair, but the general display in this depart ment was certainly fully equal if not superior to that made in Ltchfeld this Fall.
 Of the general manufactures, which very properly count in the samples of the labor and wealth of the County, we observed show case or two of cutlery, musket of about An no Domiui, 1776, which curiously enough found it's way from the County to the plains of Saratoga during the Revolution, and was there picked up and brought back (not carried there) by an early member of the Clarke fam fly. These and another musket of later date, were about all the specimens in this de- pertinent.
 Of the fruits of the field and orchard there was really 8 very excellent display. Norfolk sent some very fine specimens of hot-house and out-of-door grapes, which needed only to be seen-and tasted-to be appreciated. There was also display of soda water (domestic msnufacture) at six cents per glass, which seemed to be very popular, and, we trust, proved source of revenue to the society. There was also sCirculator' (a general man ufacture) used for hoisting people up into sudden supereminence above their fellows ,and as suddenly letting them down again from their dizzy height, thus intoxicating a moral lesson to the patronizers (for ten cents) of the sin and folly of pride, which we trust was not lost upon those who iudulged, though we observed none such during our brief visit.
 This was about all but taking into con- sideration the excellent state of the weather, and the notoriously slim performances of the SC Greenwoods" institution hitherto, the affair was, on the whole, very creditable. To be sure it did not equal,in either department, the Fairs recently held of the other branches of the County Society, at New Milford, Falls Vil- lage and Harwinton, but, as we have said, it was so vastly superior to the exhibitions of the same branch of previous years. that it de- l serves creditable mention.
 Such being the ease we were sorry that 1t