Litchfield enquirer., 1870-09-22

The branch. railroad from Waterbury to Watertown. six miles, will be in operation ID fortnight. Watertown, as corporar tion and by its citizens, builds the braucl1, and 1t is leased by the Naugatuck for. five years. a THE WooDBURY FAIR.-The Annual Fair at WoodburY took place on Wednesday and Thursday of last week.. The first day was the Cattle Show proper. This, owing to the drought, was not as fine as usual, though very good. The fruit was remark ably good. Capt. Eli Sperrey and Mrs. N. Allen exhibited variety of excellent grapes A. c. Strong showed some fine pears. and eighty varieties of apples. The attendance was fair, but the dust was stifiing beyond anything of the kind ever before experienced. The Hose show was on Thursday. Ex.Gov. Hawley delivered the adddress, an excellent. off-hand af. fair, during which the following incident occurred,as related by the American:
 "While in California" said Gov. Hawley, "last year,he had been told many large stories, and he went expecting to hear such, although he could not vouch for the truth of them. He had been told that one Connecticut boy owned single wheat field of 25, 900 acres" Here the General was interrupted by gentleman in the ! audience, who said: 'That's true; that man used to live right over there pointing to house directly opposite the speaker stand and not more than two hundred yards distant. It turned out that the very individual to whom the General referred was John Mitchell, formerly of Woodbury, now owning an immense tract of land ln california, and worth more than million dollars.
 The trotting was the great feature of the day, of course, but the dust was worse even than that of Wednesday, and the delays were even longer than customary at enter tainments of this kind. The first trot was by double teams. Two entered, owned by w. H. Barnum, M. C., and Alanson War ren. Barnums won, closely followed though, 2:43, 2:5311s and 2:4914. For the second race. open to horses that have never beaten 255, best three in five, there were four entries. This turned out an exciting affair. . The first two heats were won by O. B. Kings Dick Parsons, from Water town, in 3:9 and 3:O114. In the third heat a little black mare, Abbie, owned by J. Camp of Birmingham, distanced the field in 2:52 and took the purse! The second money was presented to Dick Parsons. The secret of Abbie's success was a change of drivers. The third race, open to all corners, was won by the old trotter Panic from Bridgeport in 2:45 and 2:4S
 WooDBURY. .-TheAmerican gives further account of the finding of mans body near Quassipaug Lake, recently. A jury of in- quest was called and it appeared that the deceased was an Irish ''tramp" who had been seen about, miserably dressed, in June. He disappeared about the first of July, and evidently wandered in the woods for time. living on berries. He was ! probably insane, as when found the body had on no clothes whatsoever, and died at last of exhaustion.
 Litchfeld county suffers greatly from the drought. Many brooks are entirely dry for the first time in any mans recollec- tion. The Naugatuck river is very feeble stream. It is said that even as far down as
 French's dam at Seymour, all the water could be discharged through four or six inch pipe under very moderate pressure.