Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-10-10
Addison County Fair.

MldQleDury on tuesday, Wednesday, anu
Thursday last. The first day was chilly
and forbidding, yet the number OF entries
were large. The programme was fully
carried out, and much fine trotting took
place, but it being the arranging day
there was little of interest to report. On
the second day the attendance was large
and the weather fine. There was much
disappointment in not hearing the dis.
tlnguished son of Massachusetts, DR..
Geo. B. Loring of Salem, who was to
have delivered the annual address, but
he was unable to be present. The dis
play of horses was good, in trottng
horses, very fine. While we were pre-
sent no time OF Importance was made.
or cattle there was fair show. In
sheep the display was large and excel
lent. AS no premiums were offered, the
only rivalry was to exhibit the finest
points in each animal. And certainly
there were as fine pens OF sheep on exhi-
bition as the most intelligent and care
full breeders could wish to examine.
Floral and Mechanics halls were well
filled with q great variety OF articles and
mass OF people, while or the grounds
outside could be seen the famous Brat
tleboro Fire Extinguisher, by Amos
Douglas, which on Wednesday tested its
ability by extinguishing the fire kindled
in small structure erected on the
grounds for that purpose. The Fire
Committee regarded 1t as a success.
There was the Tubular Evaporator by
R. W. Hodges, indispensable to maple
sugar makers; Granite Mowers In abun-
dance by Middlebury dealers; Bradford
Flows by G. H. Bartlett, Bristol, and a
variety of other useful articles.
The Floral Hall was trimmed in ex-
cellent taste, for which much credit is
due to Charles E. Cardell OF Middlebury.
Upon the cross-beams, over head were the
names of Fsrragut, Grant, Sheridan,
Lincoln, Union, &c,
The case OF millinery by e r Clay was
highly creditable; Belden Falls, fine
painting, by @ l. Heyde; Mrs Brown, N.
Haven, Lizzie Robbins, Miss E Ellis
worth, Mrs G Wellington, had superb
or specimens Of pansies, flower collect
ions, and boQuets; Mrs E R Clay a
novel flower basket made of paper Mrs
Jas. Piper a boquet Of feather flowers;
Misses E Meacham and A Rockwell q
life size doll superbly dressed, negligent
ly seated in a chair Miss Abbie A
Currier, a unique chamber set complete
evensto the towel rack, composed of
spruce twigs-greatly admired Mrs G
Nelson, an elegant case Of hair work;
case of silver plated ware, E S Dickin-
SOM; pretty worsted wreath, Mrs. Geo
sprigg, Addison; a very large collection
of useful and beautiful articles were
placed on exhibition by Mrs. Ira Clark,
Middlebury, and among them were en-
broidered pillow cases. slips and patch
work quilts, q novelty in the shape of
coral fruit basket, and variety of other
ornaments A F Styles had variety of
Photographic specimens of superior
quality; we noticed an exquisite hair
wreath by a lady aged so years Mrs H
W Hammond contributed very material
ly to the display of fine taste as exhi-
bited in worsted work, pillow case, en-
broidered skirt, &c; child's saque, by
Miss 0 Sheldon, Salisbury; superior and
substantial pieces of checked and white
domestic flannel, Mrs A P Burdick,
Cornwall worsted sofa cushion, Libby
s Seymour; Mrs G F Kimball, Yer
gennes, bead toilet cushion, watch case,
cornucopia, &C.. elegantly emb. corner
brackets, Mrs E. R Clay Mrs I NJ Trip,
N Haven, worsted tidy; "a knots stock
ing yarn, by lady SO years of age, en-
tered by Mrs S Brown, N Haven. Fl
Goodrich had on exhibition q pair of
cotton hose knit by lady So years old
Mrs B Stewart, Bristol very fine rag
carpet Mrs U D Twitchell, Middlebury.
had child's dress and cape richly en-
broidered and a suit OF boys clothing
good enough for prince, pieces of rag
carpet by Mrs E Wales, Weybridge; Mrs
E Benedict, fine pair of linen hose and
Miss Sarah E Sanford toilet cushion and
pen wiper. Floral Hall appeared to good
advantage It's general arrangement dis
played taste and care and the whole was
credit to the people of Middlebuay and
the Society.
In the Fruit department the display
was as large as at any Fair this season
and better than we have seen st any
time. The Burroughs Nursery at Wal
than was as usual represented in
superior display of apples, pears, plums,
&C., in all 30 varieties we understood
L. L. Wright, Cornwall, had the largest
and best display of Delaware grapes ex-
hibited this season,-they were from his
vineyard, the only regular vineyard we