National Republican., 1883-10-15
A FAIR AND A FOX HUNT.
CsTi@ Pacss, StespleChascS, and a Brilliant
ECCtliC Illumination.
- AaS~etio"s offered by the Washington
County Fair Association.
Specir, Disp1ich.


ltAGERsrowN, MD, Oct. 1i.--The demo-
costc mass meeting held hero on Saturday
wi,1 d failure, only few hundred persons
bcigg in attendance. Hon. Robert NJ Nc
Lano, candidate for governor; Hon. Charles
Roh.rls, candidate for attorney generali j.,
Frank Turner, esq, candidate for comptroller,
and others addressed the meeting. Gov,
Hsuiltun, although called for by tho people,
l...,d &ud refused TO speak or ho pacllud.
Tho indications now are that no ana mis-
friends will holt tho ticket, ns they did when
Gov. Carroll was Il candidate. lfso look out
for tremendous republican majority, not
only in this couu:y but In the state.
Another novelty has beon socurod for our
fair, which opens on Tuesday, twill consist
OF n chario, race, with thu drivers in armor.
Three chariots that were used at the l}ali-
more OriOlc have bcou secured. Tho horses
used will he Immense lerchorpns, driven four
abreast. These horses belong to the Mc5srs.
Ripple and the Nicssrs. S.onebrakor, celebrated
breeders of this stock. Up to last evening
some 1000 entries had been made, and as the
books do not close until Monday
evonlnE, IL is thought that tho en-
tries will exceed 5000. Thoro are
on the grounds some five hundred horse and
cattle STALLS all Of which have been taken,
aud the association Is now erecting thirty
more TO meet the demand. These Will be
finished Monday night by tho aid at electric
lights, which hnvo bpcn provided iu light up
the grounds for tho night races by traction
engines, and for the night fON chase Nearly
two hundred registered cattle have already
entered for competition. Tho corn aud flour
exchange of Baltimore will visit the fair on
Thursday. Tho party will comprise about
ninety members, and viii come in cars
specially provided by tho Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad company, Tho town In already filled
with strangers. who have arrived with stock
and machinery, q great deal OF which Is al
ready on tho grounds.
Among those who have secured space for
exhibition and sale are some prominent inn
porters and breeders of registered Jerseys
among them Seth Il Watts John Il. Phillips,
r. A. Seth, Robert Moore, Andrew Banks,
John G. Clark, and F. Won Kappf, of lialti-
more city and county; A. S. Mullen, Geo. Il.
Dykeman, of Pennsylvania, and breeders of
this county. Among the exhibits of Seth IL
Watts will be "Volne H." raised by MI
Taggart, of this county, who is recorded rs
producing twenty-five pounds of butter i'll
one week, and for whom the present owners
have refused $4,000, Registered Guernseys
have been entered by Messrs, John s.
Ripple, of Baltimore; short horns, by DIR. Il.
s. Tanner, of Virginia; Mr.. 5. w. Sollen-
berger. Pennsylvania, and Schnebly Bros,
and others, of this county; Dutch fresians,
by DR.. r. w. Patterson, of Baltimore, and B.
ID hcubShI Va tNS'oNN'NN ''S''''"i
by Mr.. Frank Brown, of Baltimore county,
and Gen. Il. +. Kelley Oakland, Md regis
tered polled Angus, by w. II. Whitridge,
Baltimore; registered Herefords, by L. q.
Merryman, Cockeysvlle, Md.
The entries of imported and registered
horses arc larger than ever before, and COM
prise animals owned by j. N. Ripple and Jesse
Tyson, of Baltimore; William Keefer, OF
Pennsylvania; Dolman & Bro, New York,
and others, of this county.
For each day there will be trottinGy and
feet races, hurdle races, steeplechases for gen
tlemen riders, for purses of various. Amounts
Thursday will be sales day, whe, Al stock and
agricultural implements will be disposed of at
public sale.
In addition, there on Wednesday and FRI
day, live foxes will be stsfted in front of the
grand stand, followed ,ttshrough the grounds
and open country, 9Ter fences, hurdles, and
water courses by the5hounds, horses, and riders,
in full view of the assembled audience.
The display and attendance promise to be
tho largest<sver held in the state, not except
ing the S,sate fair. Fair weather is only re-
quire9fto render ii decided success.