The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-07-22
LITTER FaOM THE SOUTH.
Celebratton Of the Fourtl,eInteresting
EXereiGes.

coming on Sunday, the patriotic citi-
zens Of Greeusburg selected this day
for the festivities due the occasion.
! The old fashioned style Of having a
Fourth of July Grafton having gone
out OF date, the day was observed By a
Sunday School picnic aud procession.
At an early hour in the day, the schol-
ars and teachers, numbering some over
a hundred, met at the residence Of the
Superintendent, Gen. Spencer. From
there they marched in procession to tho
Baptist church. Here the singers in
the school, numbering forty young Ia;
dies and gentlemen, and many sweet
little girls, sang some very beautiful
pieces from work called the "New
Laurel" accompanied by an organ.
The girls were all dressed in white,
with sash and rosettes of blue ribbon
and, arranged around the organ at the
end of the church in front of the pull
rit, formed one of the most delightful
visions I have ever seen. It was a
sight shall long remember. But the
music from 50 many young hearts JOY
GUS and buoyaEt, rang out like the
warbling of SO many birds Of beautiful
plumage in the spring time.
The fathers aud mothers of the chill
dren were delighted spectators of the
exercises, and with the school and 9TH
cr citizens, the old church was crowd
ed.
After the singing, the Superintend-
ent made brief address, when all ad-
journed to the Court House to partake
Of sumptuous dinner. The tables
we're arranged in the second story, load
ed with the best fruits of the season.
Among other things, cherries and ripe
June apples particularly attracted 10Y
attention. Here the children had the
first table, and such a merry hum of
voices is not often heard in this world
of sorrow and sin. Having finished
their repast, they retired to the lower
ROOMS Of the building, and the cold
folks" sat down and did justice to the
truly rich and cl&gant dinner provid-
ed by the ladies' OF the town, for all of
all ages, denominations and political
creeds.
All the rocms of the old stone build
ing were filled with pleased and deeply
interested men, women and children,
passing the time in conversation aud So
clal greetings till five, when they dis
persed to meet again at the church at
seven in the evening to listen to short
appropriate addresses.
Contrary to expectation, after writ
ing the above, about six o'clock the
street leading to the Green River Hotel
presented an attractive appearance.
From our window in the second story.
were seen, Aitting dow1 towards the ho-
tel, bevies Of pretty girls, great and lit
tie, in white, croyred with wreatts of
natural flowers and evergrcens. As
they came along, I could not help the
idea Of being some how or other BY
some mysterious way in the land vf
fairies. But at six the pavement and
the parlors were filled with scholars and
teachers, and soon forming line, all
moved from here to the Baptist church.
A large number, not members of the
school, fell in line, which extended
from the hotel to the public square.
As I predicted, the cid brick church
was crowded at an early hour.
Various songs were sung BY the en-
tire school children-all singers here
to the great deligh! of the audience.
But one feature in this part Of the pro-
gramme particularly pleased me. As
many little girls as there are letters in
the sentence, "Feed my lambs" were
arranged in line before the organ, look
ing to the audience Each little girl
wore on her neck, suspended by a blue
ribb:n, card with ono of the letters
found in the words ".teed my zambs'
printed the one standing at the right
bearing the large capital F; the next
E; the third E, and 20 on, spelling the
words through-consequently there
were eleven little girls. They had Sc
lectc hymn of eleven verses-and
each little girl, commencing at the
right, sang one verse alone, in company
with the organ. So soon as she had
sung the verso, she turned her card
with the letter represented by her to
the audience; tho next took up the
second verse, as she closed, turning her
card in the same way ;and SO on to the
last little gill, when, with cards all
turned reading in large letters "Feed
my lan.bs"-the eleven Joined voices
and chanted "Glory to God in the
highest" &c. The effect was grand,
aud during the execution of the piece,
there was breathless attention through
out the house. You may have seen
this done; I never had, aud I own I
was quite carried away with it.
Hon. VIM. Chelf, of the bar here
and State Senator, delivered short ad-
dress to the Sunday School scholars.
he was followed by a young man of