Year: 1860



 other articles of county workmanship, which should have been seen to be appreciated.

 There were also one of Bolles' Stone Dig gers and Wall Layers" on the ground, and Ly- on's Patent Stone and Stump Extractor" both of which did the work for which they were de- signed admirably, and with dispatch and con- pleteness that called forth loud praises from the spectators of their workings. Their merits will be found fully expressed in our advertising col umns. -. -~- .,e

 We regret that fine pair of matched iron grey horses, owned and driven by MT. Willis Mer- rills of Waterbury, arrived too late on the ground to compete for the premiums. They took first prize the day before at Cheshire, and certainly presented splendid appearance.

 Altogether as we have said the Exhibition was proud and complete success and confer- red honor enough for.taco days, upon the mana gers and exhibitors at the Fair, and will do much, we trust, toward making these annual County gatherings, popular among those whose interest it certainly is to render them successful and paying institutions

 In this latter respect, the Fair this year was also, we understand, Q success. Over five hun dred dollars were taken at the gates the first day, and between three and four hundred. the second. So that the Society will be in ample funds, we hope, both for paying up the premi- ums awarded this year, and have a handsome surplus left, with which to extend their means of usefulness and benefit to the agricultural and mechanical community

 One word more. In order to accomplish the most desirable results, it is a plain and evident fact, that the Society should oarn bete, grounds. A most eligible site for these, where the ground should be always at least passably dry, and where good halfnile track could be made with hardly grade, might be selected near the town and purchased for at least the money that the present grounds would sell for. We wish most heartily that this might be done at once for a more miserable spot, We are compelled to say, for pitching tent for the display of articles of Industry, and poorer apology for track, than the present one does not disgrace another show ground in the State

 We gay this in all candor, and with the greater cheerfulness at the close of one of the most successful exhibitions ever held in this County as tho Society can never be in better funds than now, to accomplish this most desirable and necessary change, and we urge it's movement upon the attention of the Executive Committee at their first meeting, to secure if possible broad and ample, and comfortable enclosure sonewhere else, HI which, next year to celebrate the twenty-frst Exhibition, and "cominp of age' of the LIrcHFIELD COUNTY AGR1crLT,-R.1 SOCIETY.

 We have reserved for the last. as it was one of the most satisfactory and brilliant features of the day, the address of Ex-Goy. Holley, of Sails bury. His theme was agriculture, and the best means of attaining the best ends in the noblest of all sciences.

 In elegant phrase and with eloquent voice, Ee gave many plain practical directions to his in tently interested audience and he enforced his teachings with a multitude of curious statistics and convincing illustrations, drawn fromsa wide range of reading, observation and personal cxne- ricnce, that could not fail to have made all abi- ding impression upon all who heard him as it won the hearty assent and aprrohation of all, as 1t fell from his lips. The lest thing we can say of the address is. that though it was somewhat long, the orator held the unAacgine attention of his large audience from first to last tho many were standing through the whole of it, and tho the threatening clouds, and the chilly wind betokencd the approach of cold rain storm.

 After the address came the horseback riding by the ladies, which we did not have the pleas ure of witnessing. Ourreaders will find the opin- ions of the judges as to who managed their steeds best in the calvacade, by referring again to the List of Premiums on the first page. We observe they were mostly Misses, which, if it is at all an indication of the power they shall wield hereaf- ter, over tro legged animals, we shall prefer to look out of the county, some time hence, for something that cant manage us!

 And so, we close our lengthy but nasty re- port, though still reluctantly, as we are conscious of emitting mary things of which we might speak, and of which We would speak, did the col umns of our newspaper possess the expanding power of the influence our county society is sure to attain, if all of it's exhibitions improve upon one another as this upon the last few years or if they are hereafter as we'll arranged and success fully carried out as this present Cattle Show and Fair of 1860.

 That advertised concert for Wednesday night, for some reason or other did not come off Why, we don't know, unless the New Milford Glee Club" which it was supposed would make their debut on that occasion, were suddenly caugAt by the prevailing influenza.

 The " Wide Awake Club came out on Wednesday evening, and paraded the streets with their torches, preceded by the Plymouth Brass Band-providentiall with us. They pre- sented fine appearance-were addressed from the balcony of the Mansion House by Vim. K. Peck, Esq, of Norfolk-and gave hearty. wide awake cheers for Lincoln and Hamln, as they marched and counter-marched through the streets.

 -The ladies of the St. Paul (AIilton) Society held Fair in the Town Room, during the pro- gress of the Cattle Show. Hwas largely attend