The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-07-02
Green he the turf above thee,
Friend Of my better days!
None knew thee but to love thee.
None named thee but 70 praise y

None knew thee but to love thee,
None named thee but 10 praise
We also give one of Whittier's beautiful poems
and some half dozen that are anonymous, but
good, including a German version of "Yankes
Doodle" with literal English translation. IL
prose, there will be found legend of the death
of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who bott
died ON the 4th of July, 1926, exactly fifty years
after the signing of the Declaration of Independ
ence. This was written by the late George Lip
pard, in his peculiar and attractive style. His
Legends of the Revolution were the best and
most stirring articles on the subject ever writ
ten; and his mind seemed to have particular
bent for describing events of that era in our his
tory. There will also be found description of
how Tories were treated in the Revolution, writ
ten from q British standpoint: the celebrated
Vision of Joseh HOeg, at the beginning of the
present century, which was originally published
many years ago, and which has bad a remarka-
ble fulfillment in the war of the Rebellion, and
the events preceding and leading to it; an ad-
dress by Kossuth, on the subject of the first mar
fyrs of the Revolution, at Lexington; Letters of
Washington and Lafayette; an article written
- John Quincy Adams, relative to the religious
and other opinions of Thomas jefferson; together
with several minor articles of interest. Taken
all in all, we think we have given our readers
good Fourth of July paper
The first Fourth of July we ever spent ia Kan
sas, was a stirring day. 1t was in 1857, and came
on Saturday, as it does this year. There was
grand barbecue at White Cloud, and the first
great sale of lots in the new town. Large pits
were dug, and oxen, sheep and hogs were roasted
whole. The chief cooks were Uncle Zeke Hobbs
and Uncle Wills. Peter-the first white man,
the latter black. Long tables were set in the
grove in the lower paft of town, what is now
known as "Black Cloud" There were steam
boat excursions, two or three boats coming up
the river from st. Joe, and one down the river.
A crowd assembled to the number of several
Thousand persons. Gen. James Craig then men,
her of Congress from the st. Joe District, was
one of the head men in officiating, and number
ofother celebrities of the time were present. After
dinner, the lot sales took place. Many of the
lots, in what was intended for the business part
of the town, sold at enormous figures-fgures
that none of them have commanded since. The
prospects of the town were then brilliant; and
we have ever thought that if some of the leading
men had pursued different and more liberal
policy than they did, White Cloud would
have been one of the leading towns in Kansas.
But they strangled it in in its infancy, and have
never made any profit ont of it for themselves.
At that time, Doniphau County, with the ex-
ception of here and there a spot, was one green,
uDbroken prairie. Now it is thickly dotted over
with farms, houses, and delightful orchards and
artificial groves, and is the best County in the
State. We trust that we may all live to see sew
enteen more Fourths of July, and to compare the
progress aud improvements with the last seven
teen years.