Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-22
CAMP GROUND,

CAMP GROUND, ]
 PLA1Nv1LLE, Conn. Aug. 21.
 The Plainville camp meeting, as many of your readers are aware and as many may not know, begins to-day, Monday, Aug, Fist, in earnest, but many families in anticipation have already had their tents brought to the grounds and erected, and have established themselves on the ground within the past week. On Sunday, by actual count, fifty four family and church tents were up and occupied.
 Among the society tents occupied we mo- ticed the Plainville Tabernacle and the For restville, Bloomfield, .Middleield, New Brit ain, Woodbury, Southington, St. John street, New Haven. First church, Hartford and Meriden.
 The preachers tent is we'll supplied with good spring beds for the accommodation of preachers, free. The grounds are in good con- dition and furnished with about five hundred Folding Chair company.
 Sunday forenoon, it being the quarterly meeting of the Pennington and Plainville churches, and in the afternoon of the Union vile and Burlington charges, there was quite large attendance at the grounds. Elder G. A. Hubbell preached at 1O:3O o'clock and Rev. Mir. Griffin at ? o'clock. Between 800 and 1000 people were present. The day was all that could be desired, cool clear and invigorating. The buzz of the insects, the ! songs of the katydds at night, the churr-r-r-r of the squirrel and the rustling of i the leaves overhead bring a restful feeling. o1o1 of ba ] shipers show that their hearts are in accord ] with the day and the place. Tho large at l tendance thus early indicates unusual inter- est in the Plainville camp meeting for 1882. The opening services were to day at 2:3O ! o'clock p. m by the Rev. Joseph Vinton, and 1 at 7:3O p. n. by the Rev. E. l.. Bray. There was large number of arrivals on the | grounds w. F. D. ! The Coming Races at Charter Oak Park 1 Among the famous horses that are booked | to show up at the Hartford races, at Charter Oak Park, August %, 30, 3l and September 1, are the celebrated Indiana pacing mare Flora Belle and Captain Lewis the '.plough ] horse."
 ! Flora Belle has a record of 2:164, and l Jimmy Golddust who now handles her, says she can pace in 2:1O, and proposes to prove it before the season closes.-lSportsnaon. 1 This mare will go ln the free-for all at I Charter Oak Park.
 Captain Lewis, better known as the "plough horse, " was doing duty on the 26tE 1 of last May as 8 farm horse for Captain | Lewis, near Lyons, N. Y. In that month he ] was sold for $500, and in June he was en l tered in a race at Rochester, where he made 1 a record of 2:334. He was afterwards l trotted in three races, but did not lower his record. About three weeks ago he was solo 1 for $6, GOO, and in his at Buffalo wor jn straight heats in 2:224, 2:254, 2:224. He is Clay, being sired by Spink, he by Andy Johnson and he by Henry Clay; dam un 1 known. He is seven years old and sixteer i hands high.
 The liberal premiums of $22, 900 have called out one hundred and eight entries ir the different classes, including the sever 1 great pacers. The grand stallion race witI | Black Cloud, the winner at Buffalo and Chi cago, Von Arnim, the winner of the stallion race at Chicago, also J. B. Thomas, record 2:181, Young Fullerton and Fred Douglass The great race between Clingstone and Ed win Thorne and others will be the event o1 I the season.