Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-07-09

all VIII glide smoothly over the troubled waters
of public affairs.
Hence, my friends friends, let us unite ia
one accord ofrejoicing over our condition a.
people and common brotherhood of states
deriving our powers from the voice of the
people, and exercising them, even though
sometimes we may feel oppressed with a
patrlouc resignation worthy of free people,
and let US show TO the world that our acts
are worthy OF emulation by all civilized ma
tons of the earth.
Mr.. Orion received frequent plau.
dts from the assembly during the de.
livery OF his Grafton and closed amid
deafening applause. Hon. ]. Allen
Barber being present was called upon
for speech. After some preliminary
remarks, Mr.. Barber said he came to
hear Charley Orton's address aud had
listened to it with greatpleasure. He
did not know that he could add any
thing to the force of the speech al
ready made. He did, however, feel
that general view OF the causes that
lead To our freedom and independence
as nation might be taken, and right
well did be portray the wrongs infiic-
ted upon our fathers by the mother
country and their struggles to free the
people from bondage. During the af-
terno0n, and evening to O'Clock, the
assembly was amused with dancing
on platform prepared for the pur-
pose, also music both vocal and in
strumental. Mr.. w. II. Johnson rem
dered several comic songs in the Ger
man and Irish brogue in his inimita-
BILE style. The days proceedings
were on the whole instructive and
amusing and were orderly conducted.
Private picnic parties, were also
held in different parts of the town.
Capt. r. E. Mccoy took command Of
host of young folks, and marched
them off to Barber's grove, where a
basket picnic was enjoyed. Mr.. Fred
Durand talked abou the glorious flag,
and j. W. Mills read the Declaration.
Toasts were read and responded to,
and there were music and games.
The affair passed off pleasantly end
Ing with a grand display of fireworks,
and then-"Home Sweet Home"
Another picnic in which the older of
both sexes to the number of half a
hundred participated came off at the
grove near Mrs. Cox's residence south
of the the village This was likewise
an enjoyable occasion, until the pleas
ures of the day were marred by an
unfortunate occurrence: About half
of the party had partaken of cheese
that contained poisonous matter, the
sickening effects of which were not
felt till late in the day. All was done
for the sufferers that human aid could
offer, and the long agony passed
away happily without any fatal results.
AT BosCoBEL
TIE celebration exercises are report
ed to us to have been the grandest
everheld at that place. AT 10 o'clockA.
M, procession was formed on Wiscon-
sin Avenue headed by the city cornet
band, and followed by the officers of
the day, the various civic societies and
citizens, and marched to the beautiful
grove south OF the city. Hon. b. M.
Coates povided over the vast assembly
The important feature Of the occasion
was the Grafton delivered by Hon.
Geo. g. Hazeton which is pronounced
to have been one of his ablest and
happiest efforts, and received the
rapt attention of the audience to the
close. Accounts agree that the as
sembly numbered from six to seven
thousand people, from Grant, Craw-
ford and Richland counties. In the
evening a grand display of fire. works,
was held on the plain outside of the
city limits.
AT PATCH GROVE
The programme announced hereto
fore was carried out. Col. Clark de-
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