Litchfield enquirer., 1878-10-17
Harwinton.


 Hubbard of Newington, and Mir. tS Mrs Wil- Der Bouge, of Norfolk, were in town, last week. E
 SCHOOL Nellie Burr opened the first district school on Monday.
 PURCHAsE Postmaster Andrews has bought the blacksmith shop of Mrs. Harriet Hayes.
 SUSPECTED. Mir. Middin2s, a Dnichman living ia Orville Barber's tenement house, IS suspected of poisoning four horses of Leonard Bradley's, and also of an attempt to polson ms (Bradley's) whole family. Two years ago ne ouarreed with Mir. k. E. Hinman; soon a1ter one of Hinnlan's horses died in mysterious manner. It is now believed that he poisoned that also MT. Barber warned him ont, recent ly, and he had moved part of his furniture. Last Saturday night, a mob went to his house intending to tar and feather him, but he had 'dusted" on that particular night, leaving his wife and son at home. The mob went again on Sunday night, but Mir. Middlings had agaln skedadled. They removed the rest ot hls furniture, tore down the house and fired 1t, leaving nothing but ashes. They then depart ed after telling Mrs. M that if they could find her husband within forty miles they wouldhang him to the nearest tree. Public opinion here sanctions their doings. It is said that MT. Middlings boasts of having killed one man some time ago.
 CATTLE SHow.-The twenty sixth annual Cattle Show and Fair of Harwinton was held on the 9th of Oct, on the grounds of Hon. Abijah Catlin, the free use of which he gener- ously gave us. The day and the weather were perfect, and an accommodating shower the night before had laid the dust, for which every one was deeply thankful. This was the great est show that Harwfpton has ever known, and is acknowledged as such by our 'oldest inhabi- tant" Over 1000 vehicles were on the ground and strung along the highways for fully mile, and probably nearly 10000 people visited the Fair during the day. One old lady living on l the fork of tive roads in the south part of the town says that she counted over 200 teams ge- ing to the Fair and, to give some idea of the density of this crowd which mo man could number, many instances were cited where members of the same family who were there never met at all during the day, though con- stantly looking for each other A cattle dealer who has visited all the Fairs around here and in Massachusetts, says that ours was by far the | largest and the crowd larger than that at the State Fair on the day that he visited it. Turner was there with seven tents, and sev- eral loads of provisions, but for once he was ''out" in his calculations, for his victuals gave out at noon He then sent for another load of crackers and, by scrimping little, he manag- ed to have one quart of oysters left. Mr. Turner bought the right to feed the crowd for $100, but gave us BIO more, as he was unable to furnish supper for the military company as he had agreed Turner also had his six tly- ing horses on the ground, to the great delight of the little folks who patronized them con- stantly, all day, getting five minutes ride for | ten cents.
 The young men found amusement at a tar | get shoot which was on the ground, and by base ball playing. Several clubs were present and playing went on all day, with what result we have not learned.
 The parading and drilling of the Litchfield Military Company was also an interesting fea- ture of the day. They were fine, manly look ing fellows, and marched we'll. They also went through the movements of the drill most admirably. We paid them $40 for furnishing their share of the entertainment. They also marched in the cavalcade made by our Raga- mullins, who were a most comical- looking set, at the head of which was an antiquated looking vehicle, probably made in Noah's time, and occupied by couple of dafkies.
 The Dowd Printing Company was there with press and gave away greenback adver- tizements as fast as their devil could strike them off-at the rate of one a second. Theft style and price of work is too we'll known tO need puff here.
 The Bakerville Brass Band furnished us with excellent music for $50. John Chinaman Lee An My, of New Haven, was there and made ''lots of money'' (so he said) by selling his curiosities, and greatly amused the crowd by his charming mixture of English and Chi nese That funny man-J. l.. Tatro was there selling all the paraphernalia of horse goods, cracking his side-splitting jokes and singing his songs, doing his share with will, to furnish amusement for the people. We counted about fifty babies on the ground, and probably didn't see half of them We tried hard to pick out the ''pretties5 one," and appealed to several of the mothers to help us out of the dilemma, but invariably met with the response from each one that &se thought 'Mers was, of course. ' However they all had some points of beauty and looked sweet and kissable. They were all under twelve months old and the youngest was but two weeks. The twin babies of Milo Cleveland were among them.
 1 Our ''Bonny blue flag" fioated in the breeze on the hill. The young man who was to rep. resent ''Young America" in the blowing match forgot to bring his blow and blowing tackle and was not public spirited enough to go bacl after them. Then it was discovered that tn, Chinaman had not muscle enough to hold the 'unwieldy Chinese blow; so, with a bogus Chi naman, we concluded to use this part as Bar mum did his woolly horse-to humbug the crowd. The greased pig did his best, buttht crowd was too many for him. However ht ran we'll till he was caught. A man named Sharpe Brightly named) from Welcottville wa the lucky chap, and was rewarded with bow of oysters. Some minor parts of the show, a the greased pole, sack and foot races. were lief to the boys, who failed to carry them out.
 Harwinton exhibited IDA yoke ofcattle; oth
 CT towns, 56 yoke, making tstal of l6Oy yoke
 Dan. Merrells, of New Hartford, brought hi 6 fat Durhams. There were also a number c COWS, bulls, calves, pigs, with about ten colt n and horses on exhibition, and one fine tear