St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-07-12

one was hurt. or even hit. Later III
the day, the Ragmutfian Brigade came
ont, and looked as cOmical as they
could. The sack race came off as adj
vertiSed also the address by +. X.
Gleed, Esq. In the evening there was
IL small display of fireworks.
An excursion train from theiS place
took over IL good many people to tins
celebration III the morning, and the
evening mail train took a. many more.
The st. Johnsbury Band accompanied
the evening excursion liScourSing sweet
music by the way. There were ut least
il thousand people who came away on
the train after the fireworks. and quite
il number remained over night and
took the morning mail train.
The Hardwickets feel little proud
that 50 large Il company should meet
on such IN occasion with 50 little row
dvism and other visible effects of rum.
Although there were double the num-
Der of people to feed expected. the
Drcnan Brothers accomplished the diff
ticult task of giving them all Il good
square meal in very good shape. con-
sidering all the circumstances.
At MONTPELIER.
There was quite an elaborate celehra-
ton of the Fourth ut the Capital. The
principal features were Il balloon aScen-
sion and trial of fire engines. The Bur
linytom Free Press reported this cele-
bration very fully, and We copy mainly
from its report.
BALLOON ASCENSION.
After dinner until tw" o'clock the in
tere>t of the crowd ccmtcred in the bal
loon which lay upon the grass III the
Capitol grounds like Il huge soap hub-
bic. On arriving in the morning our
reporter applied to Mr. II. VI. Spencer.
the .Eromaut. tnr permission I" accom-
pamy him. which was checrtully given.
At halt-paSt two Mr.. Spencer and your
reporter stepped into the basket with
three bags of ballast and the ropes
were slowly let go: but the balloon re
fused To rise. y hay of ballast wa>
thrown out but still She would not
move. When the remaining two bags
were thrown ont. 1t became evident
that the balloon could not lift two men.
and we reporter stepped m"nntullH
from he basket. Ii WAS Il bitter dis
appointment, not To Ice compensated
for 10y the view of the splendid aSccm-
sion the balloon made with but one To
carry. She arose slowly and gracefully
and tioItcd away almost due east. At
Il height of about 5000 feet the para
chute with kitten in the basket Wa>
cut loose and descended slowly making
Il pretty sight. About five o'clock u
dispatch WAS received from Mr.. Spcm
rci announcing hi safe landing III Mon
roe. New Hampshire. tW" mile, from
Barnet. He was fifty five minutes in
the air and travelled about Thirty five
miles.
IEIAl on MINES.
Immediately after the balloon ;t>c"n
SION the trial of engines took place on
State House common. he order "i
PLAY ing WAS determined hl lot. Each
~
'"'li,'n\ vas "i''"'' t." n''h,'''N III
"' =" P'' anu lay ,''
Wv f'II' f '',i',' ,''' ~ LIZ ~,
ANY other. Zach engine To dIaught IT.
own water. and PLAYING through :Hn
feet of ho>,. throw i horizontal stream
va - ~. i'' III '"''' ''' ''l''' Pun
NE i,,'''"l.'S i Il summary :" ;!'
-. ~ Tue ''|-'' '''' '"' "'N' r''N'
w., N.;l >,t,..,I ,-,n
~ W',,,,, W',,''I',,', I-t,, a. ~,
,.,I ,It' p'.,i;,,'' -,
W, ,',,' It,.,t,i,L,,i, i,; :, ~,
U..,.n,,,. I,I,,nm II Ir5n
m. Western. v,.,,. L,.,.I.,r,d ,L,. win
NOR. ,t. ria. ,;rs, ,,il,. I,,,..J from, f,n..
,I,..,. ,i.,, and ,I,. ,L,,,n;,,,, fn, ,I..
,I ;,. ..,nn L,, /, ,,I,.l .
t,II,n.
W',,..,. I,-;,..I. I-t,,
S.tL W,rn,, 10 :,
Film, IIl.r I-1tt ~ il,
N,.rnm, Lu,,t her h,.,. and vithIr,,y
winners. and retired. The company
and ,,.,,. ,,uttiu,, IN ,L.i, L,..t ;,u,,.
in this PLAY. when their host. burst.