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Fourth Day .—The heavens are propitious and finer weather than that pro¬ 
vided for the great day of the fair could not be imagined. 
The crowd, which by the way yesterday afternoon must have been swelled 
to some 8,000, bids fair to-day to be beyond all precedent. The road from 
the city to the Fair Grounds is a'constant procession of wagons and carriages, 
and only those who were there early this forenoon can have any very good 
opportunity of inspecting the contents of the halls. 
During the early part of the forenoon there was a magnificent display, 
which would do credit even to the famous “Blue Grass” stock region of 
Kentucky, on the track and within its circle near the grand stand. 
ARRIVAL OF GEN. SHERIDAN ON THE GROUNDS. 
At 10 o’clock Secretary Hoyt brought Lieut. Gen. Sheridan on to the 
grounds. He was received with music by the band at the gate, and escorted 
to the executive office, where he was introduced to the officers of the soci¬ 
ety, and then taken to see different parts of the exhibition. Crowds gath¬ 
ered around the gallant general, and hailed his presence with delight 
wherever he went. 
By 11 o’clock the fast coming crowd, which kept the ticket sellers busy all 
the morning, was thronging all over the grounds and surging through build¬ 
ings, where it was almost impossible to see anything, though the superin¬ 
tendents arranged to facilitate ingress and egress, as much as possible, and 
at noon there we)‘e over 20,000 people on the ground. 
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ladies’ riding. 
The display of female equestrianism, on which the crowd looks with more 
interest than on almost any feature of the state fair, came off at 11.40 A. M., 
and ladies never had an opportunity to show their skill in horseback riding 
before such a crowd of spectators. On the grand stand were the gallant Phil. 
Sheridan, Lt. General of the armies of the United StUes, Maj. Gen. Wes¬ 
ley Merritt, and Brig. Gen. Forsythe, Gov. Lucius Fairchild, and Col. Chas. 
D. Robinson, the rival candidates for governor, Gen. Allen, secretary of state, 
Gen. Rusk, bank comptroller, Mayor Proudfit, President Hinkley and Secre¬ 
tary Hoyt of the state agricultural society. President Chadbourne of the 
State University, and Mr. Flint, of Massachusetts, Hon. Geo. B. Smith and 
others. The seats opposite, and the eminence around the hall of fine arts, 
were crowded with people from all parts of the state, while all along the 
western part of the track was crowded with people in carriages and on foot. 
Just as the riding commenced the children from the orphans’ home, preceded 
by an independent baud of music, and escorted by Secretary Hoyt of the 
society, and Superintendent Towers, of the home, filed over the hill from the 
entrance beyond the track, presenting one of the most beautiful and touch¬ 
ing spectacles we ever witnessed, and producing a decided.impression upon 
the minds of the multitude. 
