EIGHTY-FIRST 



Annual Cattle Show and Fair. 



Owing to the inclemency of the weather and the 

 national calamity that cast a gloom over the whole coun- 

 try, the Fair this year was decidedly unsuccessful in a 

 financial view. 



The exhibits on the grounds were fully up to the 

 standard, and there has not been so good an exhibit of 

 cattle for many years, if ever, as this year, and all very 

 high bred stock. 



In the Hall the entries were large in every department 

 except fruit, which, as every one expected, was dimin- 

 ished, but what fruit there was was of a very superior 

 quality. 



The street parade was a success and made a fine dis- 

 play when we consider it had to be postponed one day, 

 and many people that had intended to take part, owing to 

 circumstances unavoidable, had to abandon the enterprise. 



The annual dinner of the society was served in the 

 vestiy of the South church, Friday, with a large atten- 

 <.lance. After dinner President Appleton called the 

 assemblage to order, and called upon several gentlemen 

 for remarks, among whom C H. Goulding, Esq., responded 

 for the town of Peabody, Hon. John F. Hurley for the city 

 of Salem, Hon. Samuel Cole foi- the city of Beverly, W. 

 Scott Peters for the county of Essex, W. S. Nevins for 

 the Press, Hon. A. P. Gardner, and others. 



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