Litchfield enquirer., 1871-11-02
The Amenia Fair.


 The Eastern Duchess County Fair at Amenia, last week, was well attended and successfully carried out. The grounds on which the fair was held, little north of the village, are admirably adapted for the uses of 8 fair and for trotting park. Per- manent and commodious buildings and stalls have been built for the purposes of an annual exhibition.
 The show of cattle on Tuesday. the first day of the fair, was not large, and did not compare favorably, especially in working oxen, with the show at Litchfeld. last month. The display of fruits and flowers. the indoor exhibition generally, and the show of horses on Wednesday, were very fine. Among the latter, Daniel B. Haight of Washington, exhibited his horse, Gold smith, with several of his colts. They made very creditable appearance, the colts not only showing good action but higher breeding than is usually seen in the Hambletonian trotting stock The year. ling colt, Lothair, by Goldsmith, dam by Kemble Jackson, owned by Robert Knapp, which Mir. Haight showed at the New York d1-A-----'.sTi-at Alhanu L4-1.1--~t-x Amenia, MT. Knapp having taken home the colt from MT. Knights the week be- fore. This colt was bred by MT. Thomas H. Faile of New York, the late president of the New York State Agricultural Socie- ty, who with characteristic generosity made present of him to Mir. Haight. When he was few months old MT. Haight sold him to MT. Knapp for $5OO, which seemed good price for so young thing, but which proved cheap, as MT. Knapp was offered for him, at Albany, $4, 500. The colt has already developed remarka- ble trotting action, and probably attracted more attention from the crowd of horse fanciers. at Albany, than any other animal exhibited there.
 The horse, Thornedale, by Alexanders Abdallah, dam by Mambrino Chief, own ed by Edwin Thorne, and which took the first premium in his class, at Albany, was shown at Amenia. His fine trotting action was much admired, but though of good form in other respects, his short neck and rather heavy head causes him to lack what is called style in harness, and the elegance and finish usually attained from high breeding. Blood-ike and refined charac- teristics in our road horses, it is to be hoped, will soon be accounted more desi- rable than they have lately been. The coarse Abdallah head inherited by Rvs dyk's Hambletonian, the sluggish blood of the dam of Mambrino Chief, and of the dams of the Clays, have imparted more or less ugliness of appearance to nearly all the fashionable trotting stock of the day, and in some cases stolid dispositions as we'll
 The agricultural horse-trots" at Ame- mia appeared not to excite very much in- terest except the match of Wm. H. Bar num's horses with pair owned by MT. Nabbett, of Dover Plains, in which the latter won best time, 2:41.
 There was considerable attendance at fair from the western towns of this county. The chilly weather of the two last days prevented what would otherwise have been a much larger attendance.
 The village of Amenia is attractive from it's neatness and the beauty of the sur rounding landscape. It has 8 tasteful marble bank building, and Presbyterian church and manse connected with it, which are gems of beauty. ***
 ORIGIN OF THE FRANCo-GERMAN WAR. Count Benedetti, for many years impe- fial ambassador at Berlin, has published a volume regarding the negotiations that preceded the French and German War. He asserts that his action was directed by imperative instructions from Paris, and that he himself held that the declination by the Prince of Honzellern of the Span- ish crown should have been satisfactory, without requiring the King of Pressia to promise never to sanctson such project in the future. The Imperial government based it's sction on the alleged pressure of public opinion. This book adds further proof of the fact that Prussia was desirous of avoiding war, and that it was pressed on her by Napoleon with the hope of strengthening his tottering dynasty. The legitimist or Bourbon party in the French Assembly has made the frightful political blunder of publishing an address to the Pope in which they concede all his extreme claims of sovereignty over the temporal as we'll as the spiritual interests I of Catholic Christendom. It is little queer that while the Papal authority is being so roughly shaken in imperial Ger many it is receiving support from repub- lican France.
 The ceremony of laying the corner stone of the American National Life and Trust Company's Building in New Haven took place on Saturday. Gov, Jewell, ex-Gov. English and eighteen members of the Ma tional Insurance Convention were present. But to us the presence of MT. Benjamin Moves, assenting, seems the most memo riable feature of the occasion. We doubt whether he was ever at public meeting before. without opposing the objects of that meeting.
 The City Council propose to place an elevator in the City Hall, at an expense of S10, 800. .-Bos- ton Jsu7tdl.
 An invention of that kind in the New York City Hall, on which honest men could "elevate" all Tweed's aldermen and common councilmen would meet the present emergency beautifully.
 Our or PLAcE PA One thousand ladies recently attended . political meeting in stecton, Cal. Can any opponent of female suffrage give any reason for their presence, there. that will not be 2 rssson for their going to the polls7
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