The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-07-09
THE FOURTH.

WASHINGTON, July 5.-The only pub
lie celebration of the day was by the
Sunday School colored children, who
paraded the streets with bands and mu-
sic, and afterwards amused themselves
in the Presidents house and grounds.
Many persons left the city for pleasure.
The city was remarkably quiet, with
the exception of general ringing of
bells for a short time in the morning,
and the shooting of crackers during the
day by Juveniles, in contempt of the
mayors proclamation.
New YORK, July 6.-The Fourth was
celebrated here yesterday, in a very
patriotic manner. In the morRing there
was grand parade of the First division
of the military. In the evening there
was the usual display of fireworks. All
public places were decorated with flags,
and every one seemed bent on celebrat-
ing the day. There were twenty casu-
alties in this city from pyrOtechnies,
and ten in brooklyn, one of the latter
being the accidental killing of a young
lady by the premature explosion of a
gun. There were twenty-one small
fires in this city, and nineteen in Brook
Ign.
at Boston the day was celebrated in
true New England style. The usual
Grafton before the city authorities was
delivered by Hon. ID. w. Morton. The
city was thronged. The Coliseum was
thronged all day by children, and late
i'll the afternoon a grand concert was
given under Gilmore. The rowing race
came Off Gavorably, the Harvard crew
beating i'll the four-oared race. Time,
-. % IL; distance, three miles. The
Star bali club, of New York, beat the
LowelIs, in Il game of base ball. The
Of Hart II FRIGHT
drowned i'll Boston harbor, but no other
accidents are reported.
In Albany, the day was fineley cele-
bratcd. But very few accidents occur
red. One or two small fires took place.
Some fifty arrests were made for firing
pistols, early in the day.
The day was duly celebrated in Rich
mond, Charleston and other Southern
cities.
In Buffalo there was a grand process
sion of military and school children, a
balloon ascension, and the day wound
up with grand strawberry festival and
fireworks by the Grand Army of the
Republic.
At Ithaca there was a long process
sion, including trades-uniOn. No &C
cidents.
at Rhincbeck the Good Templars
had large procession and a temperance
jubilee. A meeting of the labor reform
agitators was held i'll the old Harmony
Grove.
at birmingham, Mass, yesterday,
numerous speeches were made, and res
olutions were adopted denouncing the
Republican party and the Massachusetts
Legislature, and faVoring the immedi-
ate payment of the national debt by
direct taxation.
ST. LOUIS, July 6.-The national an
niversary was almost universally cele-
brated here yesterday. The Merchants
Exchange, courts and public offices were
closed, and business was generally sus-
pended. Picnics, railroad and steam
boat excursions were very numerous,
and large proportion of the people
of the city went to the country. The
most notable feature of the day was a
picnic at the fair grounds, for the bene-
fit of the orphans, at which the dcclara-
ton of independence was read, and an
address was delivered by John IL.
O'Neal. In the evening there was fine
public exhibition of 1irew orks.