Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-07-14
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The Fourth in Orange.
Mr.. EDITOR -

Inc glorious fourth, with all Its
hilarities, mirthfulness, gingerbread and
fire-crackors, has gone entirely past our
little town the excitement has died away,
and things again follow their old monoto-
nous course, and now, we, thinking it might
be interesting to some of your readers,
have concluded to pen you a few lines by
way of letting you know how the esprit of
the fourth" actuatcd some of the good pco
pie of our town. Young .America" in
particular.
Long ere the day, which, as a nation,
we celebrate with the highest honors, dawn
ed, a careful observer might easily have
known that there was to be something 60
ing on by the OMNIBUS mods of the heads of
some of the boys while the ''be Sure TO be
reaciy" which broke from their lips in some
ungarded moment, told plainly enough
that there acas something in the wind but
what that something was, was the mys-
terry.
But when "ue Jourth' at last arrived,
VIC were not long in finding out what was
going to be the order of the day. At about
ten clock, the male portion of our rising
generation, dcckod in all the odd forms
which fancy could plan, made their ap-
pcaraucc in the form of "Ftntos,ic Com
pany' and such u company. First in
order came the "Band Wagon formed
and trimmed after the widest fashion,
with musicians whose co tn he, were among
the most awful, Then followed in order
the "peIcstin''s," representing nearly cv-
cry class of man, from the cunning and
merciless savage, down to the "Iaclty.'-
Even the GODDESS of crinolinc was repro
scntcd.
Next in order came the clown, with his
good oil clame sitting as close to him as Il
Clean tick to nig.er's shin;' while on
the hind part of his wagon (Which, by the
way, was grand thing generally, inclu-
ding the horse which drew it sat the old
music grinder, looking for all the world
like live baboon. Next came &C Ohl
N,HS,' with his lager, who of himself was
a "sho,r,' to say nothing of the appear.
anca of hi. moving ''t"gcr Sh p." But |
am forgetting to notice ''Sam Slick" i" the
riding clown aud his fair lady. Conceive,
if you can, of all the odd and funny things
you have ever seen, stcwed up i'll a ''mus,
and the whole seasoned with as much awk-
wardness as was ever displayed bya coun-
try boor, and you will then have better
picture Of their appearance before your
mind eye, than can give you with my
pen.
Last, but not lca-t, tue captain with his
stove pipe shaped hat and CANDY uniform,
figures conspicuously in the motley crew.
Bat am growing tedious Suffice it to
say, that after parading through the town
several times, they proceeded to the grove
where, judging from their mrthtuluess
they had Il good time generally.
Night at length put stop to their fun
and the company di'porsod fully tired, and
We hope, well satisfied with their sports o.
the ',.j0yo"s Jo"JM." Thanks to the boy,
for their enterprise, They served to amuse
US and drive "dull care away for one day
at least.
But | must close. Should anything new
or interesting ever occur again in our sec.
ton, you may expect to hear from us.
Yours truly,