Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-07-12


The procession was imposing in appearance
and numbers, and the amount and character of
the music was its leading feature. Upon re-
turning to the park, whore. the pagoda had
been finely decorated with evergreens, and
platforms for the several bands and guests,
and seats for portion of the listeners to The
Grafton had been provided the exercises were
as follows:
Air by the Orwell Band
Prayer by the Pastor of the PRESBYTERIAN
church.
Air by the LpnoX Band
Reading of the Declaration by Wm. II.
Hubbard, Esq. .E. f. 'f.
The Star Spanglcd Banner-by the Ashta-
bula Band.
Grafton by Hon. L. S. Sherman, concluding
with an air by the Geneva Band.
The park was filed 20 its full capacity.
Aside from the swapping of fire crackers, the
order was good, and the rcading--which was
very commtndabe--and the Grafton were lis
tened to with marked attention. The speaker,
as he never fails to do, acquitted himself well.
He made many good and telling points. Tho
fitting and proper observance of the day, the
cost of the liberties ,njoyed-the Struggle
with foreign foe, and again with our own
countrymen-the superiority OF our own as
compared with the next best government of
the globe-the Magma Charter OF Eng land, the
sources of our liberties-the Reformation and
John Milton, the outcropping and natural re-
suit OF Professionalism, and the purity and pat
rOtism Of Washngt0nianism in the early
days of the Republic as compared with some
of the developments of the present day--tle
salary grahbers &C., were all forciGle and well
put, and calculated To point wholesome les
son. The oralion showed research, and its
course of thought and delivery were such us
to command attention and admiration.
The programme at the stand being closed,
the multitude was relieved from any purticu-
lar routine of entertainment and were left to
seek their enjoyment in THEN own way. The
tables, covering nearly half of the green, were
filed and every place where refreshments
could be obtained were drawn upon TO thcil
full capacity, The OK was nicely roasted and
distributed amm g the crowd until disposed Of
The afternoon afforded some entertainment
in the display of the power and capacity o
| the several engines in throwing water, and
the base balers had a game upon the fair
grounds Large numbers embraced The facili.
ties for going 10 the Harbor aud found amuse-
ments in aquatic sports and in surveying the
numerous and radical changes that have taken
place about that locality. ,
The Modocs, perhaps, afforded more real
| nj iI,un 9TH a.,
of the day Indeed. ii WIS the provoking
cause of the most boiserous mrlhlulness
Late in the afternoon. n cayacade of some II
horsemen iricked out in q style that woult
out Indian any Former idea Of Indian orna
meDis and extrayagance, burst upon Mair
street under tull specd-excrpt that donkey
filling the welkin with yclls and gihbcrisl
that would have answered for good imia
ton of Indian, Figi, or almost anything else
| The diversity of their dress and war-pain
rendered it an easy matter, with a tolerabl,
quaptum OF. imagination, 10 have selected from
the number, either Capt. Jack, Shack Nasty
dim, ,sEllen's Man, Shonchin, Steamboat jim
ur amy other distinguished member of tha
historic Lava Bed tribe. They rode once o
twice through the streets and about the will
age, everywhere greeted with the shouts o
the beholders.
AT snndown national salute was fired AM
at S.o'cloek, the multitude much Trimmed ou
bu, vet of formidable proportions, gathered i
the Booth lot, on the bank of the creek. I
witness the display of fireworks. Two stand
had been erected for this purpose, and stead
labor was required until about IL O'clock /
dispose of the quantity that had been p,ovid
ed. Some Of the pieces were ingenius an
snowy, and many. of them new 10 most g
those present The criticism more commo
than any other, wins thai there were too man
of them. and we doubt not that il the quanii
ty had been less by about one-lhrd, of III
more common duplicate pieces, il would hav
been a relief.
Thus far, We haye heaSl Of no accident I
speak OF, and this ia not a little remarkable,
Some disappointment, however, was occa
soion.d by trains running off the track, nea
the lIarhor. at : point, where. from the pres
eace ofquick sands, the road had settled ou
of line.
The day was pleasantly enjoyed by the pee
} pie, and many expressed their satisfaction an
happiness at the thoroughness and eomplet,
Dsss Of ibs sJrsngemeps for shs enjoyment