The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-10

the building cake. The varieties ex-
hibited are numerous and strange and
various. They are displayed intwo of the
handsome new show cases lately made
| for the ladies' department, and may be
designated as follows: Sponge, chocolate,
gold, silver, cup, walnut, fruit, pound,
| sponge jelly, gum drop, orange, pistach
nut, ice-cream, cOcoanut, neopolitan.
minnehaha and ginger. Bread, rolls,
rusks, biscuits, jumbles, Dutch loaf, cream
puffs, and cookies, stand arranged in all
their glory in one case, and in an adjoip-
ing one appears pies; preserved cherries,
peaches, ounces, green tomatoes, pears,
cherries. &c, in the same case ap
pears, peach butter, vanilla candy, cream
chocolate and caramels. Beyond these
cases few feet another division of the
great exhibition is reached, containing
the finer and richer specimens of fancy
work. This department never was more
complete northe specimens displayed of
more handsome kind. Everything, from
a handsome satin and plush crazy work
partierre, SO fine and rich as to resemble
Oriental work, to an humble red flannel
pin cushion can befound within the cases
containing the display, or upon the lines
stretched from side to side of the great
building. Viewed thus in its entirety the
contents of the main hall stand forth in
the full light of their numbers and mag
nificence, and we venture to state that no
other fair at another place has or ever
will quite equal this display of the Sixth
Annual Exhibition of the Cecil County
Agricultural Society. Directly across
from the main hall, after one has passed
safely through the eloquence of the side
Snowman, the pathos of the pop corn
girls and the wall of the gentle hand
organ, the exhibition room of the poul-
try and vegetables is reached. Both dis
plays here are large and noticeable. The
pigeons, turkeys game and domestic
chickens, pea fowls, game bantams,
ducks, geese, guineas, dogs, cats and
squirrels, appear in every imagin-
able variety of breed, color and size.
Altogether the exhibit of poultry is
very large, the liberal premiums offered
having brought many fanciers from a
distance. A number of pigeons on exhi-
bition, included several lots exhibited by
Elkton lads. There is much competition
among Cecil farmers for the premiums
for heavy weight turkeys, and number
of them have from one to ten coops in
this department. In the cat department.
adjoining the poultry exhibit there are
black and white ones, large ones and kit
tens, some of which are very pretty. The
farm produce department is very full.
There are 65 baskets of potatoes on exhi-
bition and 43 bags of grain. From the
mammoth us pound pumpkin to the tt
NEST pea everything in this department
will be found in perfect order, full and
complete. Passing out from this build
ing, moving down past the grand stand
and through the long noisy avenue of
impromptu fortune makers, the cattle
and blooded horse exhibits are reached.
The exhibit Of cattle is very large, there
being over 200 stalls, all of which are
filled. E. X. Knight, of Philadelphia.
exhibits his Collingswood herd of IA
registered Jerseys; Mr.. Moore, of Balti-
more county, exhibits ~ registered Jer-
seys; Henry Wood, of Elkton, 8 REGISTERED
Jerseys; William Robinson, Rising Sun,
registered Jerseys: William H. Ohler
of Hartford county, 3 registered Jerseys;
VIM. Holden. Elkton, 3 registered Jer-
seys; Arnold Naudin, Christiana, Del. 5
registered Jerseys; Morris Dunbar, Elk
ton, 3 registered Jerseys; John f. Jack
ton, Principle, 5 registered Jerseys, 7
thoroughbred Devons and fine yoke of
large oxen, weighing $4,000 pounds; r.
II. Hodson, New London, Pa, 10 head
of registered Guernseys; X. w. Wilson.
Chrome, Pa, ~ registered Guernseys; T.
S. Stephens, Rising Sun, Cecil county,
3 registered Guernseys; G. G Merryman,
Baltimore county, 10 registered Here
fords; w. Homewood, Newark, Del, 10
registered ShoI thorns; Judge Stump,
registered Shorthorns; John Mckane, 4
Holsteins; Boyd Mccoy, Summit, Del, 4
Jerseys John R.Moke, Newark, : Jerseys.
This wonderful collection of valuabl,
animals proves to be one of the prin-
ciples attractions of the fair, and farmers
and townspeople who view it invariably
begin to change their minds about the
lack of agricultural wealth and resources
in the county of old Cecil. This, her
sixth annual exhibition, comes to close
today under more favorable auspices of
unseen that have ever attended it in pre-
vious years. Throughout the entire pro-
gram of the great exhibition nothing has
happened but the weather to mar its
brilliancy, and even the weather had not
the detrimental effect a gloomy day gen.
orally has. The police discipline on the
grounds was faultless. Remarkably good
order prevailed, the races were all that
coulu DC desired, tne eXnlOltS could not
have been more perfect and complete,
the visitors delight was unbounded, and
the whole scene in all its pastor al
beauty. framed about by the autumn
woodland on the north and the towers
and roofs of mills and stores on the south,
has not, as we said before, been equaled
or surpassed by any fair since the
palmy days Of the Frederick City cattle
show.