Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-07-08
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE FOURTH OF JULY AT JUNCTION ClrY.-The
celebration at Junction City was tolerably well
attended from abroad and the following pro.
gramme was carried outi The crowd assembled
in front of the Carter House at 10 o'clock A. NJ ;
Major A. G. Price and Ellis Flowers, Esq, were
selected to preside. The meeting was called to
order by Major Price then singing, next read
ing of the Declaration of Independence by H. L.
Potter, ESQ.,; singing again. and oraton by G.
E. Williams, Esq; the exercises closing with
another song at half-past IL o o'clock A. M This
part of the day was uncomfortably warm the
Chairman presided with dignity; the singing
was pronounced by all hands to be good. Mr.
Potter read distinctly and with feeling, and
Judge Williams delivered an excellent grafton,
framed in classical language and truly eloquent
in many of the conceptions it embodied The
Judges address we candidly think will compare
favorably with any effort similar in purpose
made in this State on that day; but we are not
sure that it was not liable to criticism in one
respect. To use homely expression it came
very near containing " a stump speech in its
belly" Democratic of course Not enough,
however, to hurt, and we won't quarrel about
it. The next important occurrence was, of
course, dinner at the Carter House. Thede &
Baumgartner had multiplied themselves all the
forenoon, and we don't know how long before
that time, in providing for the rush that was
bound to come, and nothing was lacking We
took look at the dining room before hand, and
upon remarkng to our friend Thede that the
dining table was long one and would seat at
least eighty persons, our mpusive landlord of
Teutonic decent then and there proposed to
wager that it would be filed three times. We
declined the proffered banter but took care to
be on hand for the first table, Thede afterwards
told us that we would have lost if we had taken
him up. This is perhaps the proper place for us
to state that in the evening we tried the fourth
table, in the hope that the kitchen supplies had
short and that we would therefore have
chance to blackguard "mine host" little.
Truth compels us to state that we could per-
ceive no difference in the quantity and quality
of the kitchen supplies. After dinner came Wig
orous button-holing, there being several candi-
dates present; also volunteer singing, winding up
with Die Yacht am Rhein by Messrs. Stiller, Bar
nickel, Paulsen, Early, Peters, Junkans Kuper
and divers Others About the middle of the
afternoon everybody made their way through
the heat and dust to the race track, to behold
trial of speed between George Yohe's &C Com
anche " and the Hank Wilt horse belonging to
Louis Raab-stakes $50 The betting was not
lively, Raabs horse being the favorte. The
spectators enjoyed themselves standing around
in the sun hugely-over the left. At last the
cry is raised, and the riders are up and the COM
peting nags fly through the track, " Comanche "
winning the race by eleven feet. We are not
prepared to express an opinion to VIII ch is
the fastest nag, but this much we can say: Mr.
]. F. Gross is a superb rider. He rode Yohe's
horse, and there having been some talk that
Pompey' would be on hand, Gross brought
out the " Old Cow and proposed to any
horse in the county for FIVE hundred dollars in
fifteen minutes. Everybody realized that the
proposition was made in good earnest and no
body said a word No other races were made.
Next in order came the drawing of the school
rattle, at o'clock P. NJ, in the school house.