Middletown transcript., 1874-10-03
In those countries, the greatest ma

g the crops, and in our own country, tb,
J. rates of exchanges in Wall street ar,
!, regulated almost entirely by the amour
IS of cotton and grain going forward t.
/ Europe, and the most extensive railroac
! and canal systems in the world ex
: tending in almost every direction
# throughout our great western country
g and other regions of nearer approach
e are based almost entirely upon the
J. enormous quantities of grain and other
e agricultural commodities, with scarcely =
! any intermission, which are in transit
$ to the sea board.
The subject Of agriculture is illim.
9 table in its Importance, but | have NOT
| tirae nor is it necessary to pursue it.
e This subject has attracted the great
est attention from some of the gaeates,
. minds, and many men who have heen
t most distinguished in civil and military
life have been equally distinguished as
. tillers of the soil, and he, WHO was first
in peace and first in war was also first
in agriculture.
Among the most noted men this
country has produced, especially in the
early period of our history as nation,
were to be found those who had receiv-
ed their educations, and whose tastes
and habits had been formed in their
rural homes constant communing
with nature seems to have inculcated
more refined virtue and impaired a
more practical and useful knowledge
than were to be found in other walks of
life. at period. when such qualifca-
tions were of the most vital consequence
to this country, at the time Of the or
ganization and establishment of our.
government.
They were men whose great virtue
and wisdom. with devotion to the OBJ
jects for which we struggled, we're in
delibly imprinted on our institutions,
who would have been an honor in any
age to any country, and who were, an
honor to their own age, their country
and humanity itself, and we may proud.
ly claim them as having been of our
own occupation, comforting honor upon
us.
A liberal and generous rivalry in all
enterprises is the greatest incentive to
all human developments.
1t is this spirit of emulation which
has brought out our skill, in the great
art of shipbuilding. and has established
John Roach as the greatest constructor
In America, and rivaling any in the
world, and it has also placed our loco
motive builders in the front ranks of
all mechanics, whether they be in this
country or Europe, and has rendered
that branch of American skill and in
dusty more extensive and profitable
than probably any other And not less
striking is this great lever of human
movement manifested, than in the pro-
duction and improvement constantly in
process, in agricultural and all other
machinery and also in manufactures
generally and the fine arts.
These thoughts and reflections are
suggestive. and go.to show by analogy,
the laudability and even necessity Of
this most important movement of ours,
whereby concentration of ideas and
action may bring out greater degree
of improvement and perfection in the
treatment and cultivation of our farms
and develop a higher degree of excel
lence in all orr productions, whether
they be grain, fruit, flowers, horses, I
cattle, sheep or swine = q '-.i''
These are the prominent features by
which our interests are to be promoted,
and scaacely less important will be the !
cultivation of kindly feelings and I
courteous departments in an intercourse
made most agreeable in our association,
by the advancement of our material g
interests, and in making our social rela- Y
tions more general and fraternal and by ,
a reciprocity of ideas, freely inter-
changed, each will know what either
or others will think or know, and l i
will here remark, that man rarely
ever has an interchange of views with Z
any one on any subject however great
or trivial even, though he may be great
ly his superior in general information
without learning something he did not !
know, on the whole subject, or some
branch of it, and it is friction that men
need nationally, which metal requires v
physically in polishing to bring out its n
beautiful an valuable qualities saa y
Ladies and gentlemen, in the name n
Of the association which have the hon |.
Or and pleasure, on this occasion, to 0
represent. have to thank you for the =
and support you have i
extended to us by your presence, aud it "
S source Of the greatest pleasure to v
behold in this assemblage so large a
humber of ladies who have been pleased =
% grace this occasion, and who have
specimens of their exquis-
te and valuable handiwork, and beau
iful floral productions to the Ladies'
department..
Without their influence in some form
10 human enterprise can attain any I,
considerable degree of success, but with N
t we are afforded the greatest hope and A
@ 3,
With the highest anticipations for .,
he future welfare Of our enterprise, re-
ying on the hearty cooperation of all !
,ood citizens, we now inaugurate this,
he first annual exhibition of the Pc =.
insula Agricultural and Pathological =, =
association, and may we not indulge p
he hope that it will advance the inter-
SITS, moral, intellectual and pecuniary,
t all, who are or may be either direct D
y or indirectly, within the sphere of ., =
IS Influence. ~ ~
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Two BOYS AND GUN-REsULT, ONE Sc
'oY AND GUN-While Oscar King an
nd Guerscy Willard, aged eight and I
inc years, were playing with gun at r
burlington, N, j., September 25, Os- \