Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-01-25
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/ sOuhiUIt'o UItdb OlIUiIGes2
p. Green" furnishes to the Soma
Messenger for January highly official
account OF 2. S. Gilmore's forthcoming
International Peace Jubilee. Some of
the features. are thus stated:
The Coliseum is to be as remarkable
| LOT helght as for length and breadth.
LIS paylllons and things are to tower
upward like Caliph Vathek's famous
observatory. 1t is proposed to continue
them aloft, | believe, until thew rim
against the sky, or until an Injunction
for trespass is sued out by the Clerk of
the Weather. Above the topmost hin.
nacles is to float, according to GiImore,s
prospectus, the Banner of Universal
Peace What sort of bunting this
is am not prepared to say +: but. as II
will doubtless hang SO high as to be in.
visible, that doesn't matter much. From
the Banner of Universal Peace down.
ward, until the vicinity of the earth is
reached, the flags of all nations. from
Dan to Alaska, are to be ranged, in a
bright, Tapping series, upon a grand
international clothes-line made of Rus.
sian knouts, the main sheet of the pirate
Alabama, and the rope with which Jeff.
Davis should have been hung to that
sour apple tree
AS one of the most interesting exer-
cises of the Jubilee emblematic Of uni.
versal peace, the members of the Joint
High Commission of Washington. will
at high noon on the 18th of June. climb
this cord, and, from the topmost cross
trees, execute simultaneously the fol.
lowing hymn:
say can you see our noble Queen
Long live the dawn's early light,
What SO proudly we hailed with a
-, !, God saVethe Queen
CT Inc land OF the free and the home Of the brave
The scene will be rendered addition
ally impressive by the blowing up of
eighteen buildings on Beacon street.
The tempo will be gwen to the noble
chorlsters by an electric apparatus at
tached to the leg of each Commissioner.
and worked by Gilmore, several thou,
sand feet below. 1t is evident that the
Commission will then and there indi-
cate, In most signal manner. its claim
to be called a Joint High Commission.
Not even Wachtel himself ever sang so
high as Messrs. Schenck, DeGrey, and
others will then do.
Another interesting performance
will be the grand fou de joie of national
melodies, by representative choirs and
sololsts from the various Kingdoms and
Prlncipalities of the earth. President
Grant has been asked to sing Yankee
Doodle, with Horace Greeley to play
second fiddle; O'Donovan Rosa viii
sing Pat Malloy in behalf of the
Senate and House of Representatives of
the great Irish Republic; and delega-
ton OF full-blooded Germans from
Bremen Cook county, ILL., will sing
: Ich babe mein strumpf verloren,' with
the Tyrolean howl for an interlude.
Perhaps the most hear 'rending of
all the performances at the Jubilee will
be that mathematical of the recent
Franco Prussian war. Gilmore is to
have, by special arrangement with EN-
peror William and NJ Theirs. 10000
French troops of the line, and an equal
number of German infantry and artiI-
lery, to blaze away at each other, in side
the Coliseum, with shotted cannon and
muskets-the chorus Of 10000 and or
chestra of 1000 uniting simultaneously
IN the 'Marseillaise and Del Wacbt
am Rhein,' and reinforced for the occa-
sion by 800 locomotives placed On the
track of the grand elevated corridor IF
the Coliseum. The audience will be
placed between the two contending
armies, so that the movements Of both
may be watched with ease. Eight thou.
sand hearses will be in waiting, so that
any of the audience who are killed
during the performance may be carried
promptly to their hotels. 1t IS believed
that, aside from the thrilling interest
which this performance will excite, es-
peclally to those under fire, 1t will en-
force, in most impressive manner, the
beauties Of peace. The troops, if any
survive, will be treated to Cochituate
water, and a look at Bunker Hill Monu-
ment, at the expense of the Common
wealth.
For the purpose of irrigating the
10000 schoolma' ans who participate in
-he choruses, Charles river will be turned
directly through the Coliseum. The
Jubilee will not, however, as a general
'ule, 60 by water. 1t will go by wind.
To give additional ecIat to the affair.
t has been arranged to have the calen-
lar for 1872 SO altered that Christmas.
Thanksgiving Day and the Fourth of
July shall all come within the week of
he Jubilee. The Chicago Board of
Trade has promised to pass resolution
% that effect.