Notwithstanding the heavy rain Monday night and the gloomy outlook Tuesday morning, a large crowd of persons assembled at Morgan’s Grove to witness the opening of the third annual agricultural exhibition. The entries of horses, colts, hogs and cattle of all kinds were more numerous than last year, and very fine. A large amount of machinery of every description, ladies’ handiwork, mechanics’ ware, organs, pianos, fruits, vegetables, &c., is on exhibition. Senator C. J. Faulkner delivered an excellent address. — Baltimore Sun.
We visited Morgan’s Grove on Wednesday. The attendance, as compared with the day before when the inclement weather deterred the people from turning out, was as six to one. — The crowd was variously estimated from three to seven thousand. Anyway, it was the best looking aggregation of intelligent, well-dressed folk we have before seen, and good order, good cheer and everyway cheerful and pleasant expression and hospitality abounded and abided. We were late in getting upon the ground and our time for viewing the exhibits was limited. We were told that the display was an improvement and an enlargement on previous occasions. We saw many fine horses; we viewed with admiration Mr. Henry Shepherd’s herd of Jerseys. They were so well groomed, so sleek and clean and caparisoned,– almost pretty enough for pets and a place on the parlor rug. Everything Mr. Shepherd displayed or put his stamp on demonstrated his ability to have the best and betokened his liberality and public spirit. We saw also the fine display of fruits–exhibitions and product of Mr. Geo. T. Licklider. Even in this season of general failure of orchard products, Mr. L. was able to exhibit twenty-five varieties of apples, and it made the mouth water to look upon them.
After dinner a beautiful gold-mounted whip was presented to Miss Lucy Taylor who richly merited it to the equestrienne contest of the day. She had seven competitors. Mr. Jno. O. Aglionby in a felicitous address made the presentation on behalf of the Society.
Senator Kenna did not reach the grounds until after two o’clock. Immediately after lunching at the hospitable home of Col. W. A. Morgan, he was conducted to the stand, the procession preceded by two fine bands of music, a contribution from Maryland. Senator Kenna was introduced by Dr. Reynolds, Jr., President of the Society. He made an address of thirty minutes. It was the speech of a statesman to an audience–a very large audience, that gave him a listening ear. It was a non-partisan view of the just complaints of the farmer and of their legislative needs– put in a clear, compact, concise form, and must have been approved by every hearer. Senator K. is a strong speaker, –fluent, and all the way through intensely practical and interesting in his remarks of yesterday. We have never known a public speaker on a like occasion to have a better audience or so rapt and approving attention.
He was followed by Col. H. Kyd Douglass, who arrived just at the close of Senator Kenna’s speech. Col. D. made, as is customary with him, an exceedingly agreeable–acceptable speech. Among other things he said: Though he had not heard the remarks of Senator K. he was prepared to say upon his knowledge of the Senator, his character, position and politics, he would endorse every word uttered by him.
Senator K. left on the 5p.m. train for Washington. We are limited in time and space and cannot make other reference to Morgan’s Grove to-day. To friends too numerous to mention now we are grateful for courtesies.
